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New American Spaces
The 2010 meeting of the Chesapeake area chapter of the American Studies Association (CHASA) will be hosted by the American Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 26-27, 2010. The event is being held in conjunction with Georgetown’s annual Richardson Lecture in American Studies.
What might “new American spaces” look like? Spatial metaphors appear as characteristic American Studies concerns: groundwork, crossroads of culture, the local and the global, and crossing borders. We seek to extend this metaphor, calling for papers and panels from any disciplinary perspective that address what “new American spaces” have been, are, and might be.
We believe that American spaces in metaphor, representation, design, policy, and practice can be examined in a wide array of contexts. We invite papers that explore the origins, growth, change, or end of “American spaces” in any time period. Specific areas for examination might include, but certainly are not limited to: green, virtual/real, public/private, home/homelessness, museum, blogospheric, performative, informational, diasporic, material, educational/pedagogical, immersive/3-D, political, homefront/battlefront, catastrophic, and working-class/elite spaces.
Please send single-page panel proposals, 100-word individual paper proposals, or ideas for innovative panels, presentations or performances as MS Word attachments to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). We will also hold a poster session and welcome proposals from individuals or teams. Please include the words “panel,” “individual,” “innovative,” or “poster” in the subject line.
Speakers may be listed in the program for a maximum of two sessions. While we welcome a range of panel formats, all panels should take no more than 75 minutes with at least 15 minutes reserved for audience discussion.
The deadline for proposals is January 11, 2010.
Graduate students from a range of disciplinary perspectives are encouraged to attend and present papers. / Please direct any questions to Diana Owen and Michael Coventry, conference co-chairs, Communication, Culture & Technology and American Studies Programs, Georgetown University: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) will announce the speaker for the Richardson Lecture as soon as possible
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