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Early American Matters Caucus
Since the mid-1990s, the Early American Matters Caucus has been addressing pre-1900 American studies topics, broadly understood. We’re a collegial, friendly group, and we do our best both to cultivate a sense of community among pre-1900 Americanists and to bridge early...
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September 15, 2017
Posted for Science, Technology, and Medicine Caucus in Annual Meeting
September 11, 2017
CFP: Transpacific Overtures, The Black Atlantic, and Dynamics of Settler Colonialism
Posted for ASA-JAAS Committee, International Committee in Opportunities
July 25, 2017
Minority and Indigenous Graduate Student Travel Grant
Posted for Critical Ethnic Studies in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
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September 24, 2017
Critical Disability Studies Caucus Graduate Student Paper Award
Posted by in Deadline
October 15, 2017
Deadline: Critical Disability Studies Caucus Graduate Student Paper Awards
Posted by Critical Disability Studies Caucus in Deadline
2017 Annual Meeting
Pedagogies of Dissent
November 9-12 // Chicago, Illinois
"Pedagogies of Dissent" invites inquiry into the intellectual, political, historical, and social genealogies of critical and transformative thought and praxis in the classroom, and in other material and virtual spaces where teaching and learning happen outside relationships as "teachers" and "students." The theme echoes Chandra Mohanty's use of "pedagogies of dissent” to refer to the project of oppositional pedagogies. How are such pedagogies constructed? What are the exigent conditions giving rise to their emergence? What allows them to flourish, or diminishes their effectiveness?
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Resources from the 2016 Annual Meeting // Denver, Colorado
American Quarterly
September 2017
Volume 69, Number 3
The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies
Editors Chih-ming Wang and Yu-Fang Cho
This special issue presents a wide range of critical scholarship that considers the importance of the “Chinese factor” in the global imaginaries of American studies. It extends American studies to concern with distant frontiers and borderlands in Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific, and with the undercurrents of competition and collusion between empires, past and present. Whereas the forums provide a rich set of conversations on topics ranging from transwar and transpacific history and politics, to the imagination of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the roles of the Chinese students and China in US-China contention, the articles articulate a diverse array of methodologies and practices for reorienting American studies to the rise of China as both an opportunity and threat, informed by the complex and intersected history of imperialism, Orientalism, and neoliberalism. The film review puts a nice touch on the special issue by introducing the genre of “going abroad” films that challenge the “America in Chinese hearts.”
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