“Pedagogies of Dissent” emphasizes the conjuncture of education, politics, and intellectual work that has long been and remains central to the vibrancy of American studies. While pedagogy invokes the role education plays as a cornerstone of democracy, dissent is arguably at the heart of not just...
The Program Committee for the California American Studies Association invites proposals for our annual meeting, to be held Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29, 2017, at California State University, Long Beach. While focusing on California, we also welcome panels and individual papers addressing...
Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association (KTASA) Biennial Conference
May 16 & 17, 2014 in Murfreesboro, TN
At the Heritage Center of Murfreesboro & Rutherford County
In partnership with the Center for Historic Preservation, MTSU
The papers in this...
“Home/Not Home” invites explorations on how where we are shapes and shakes up the grounding and grounded-ness of the work we imagine, make, perceive, and do. American studies has an underdeveloped but vital relationship to indigeneity and the prior claims of Indigenous peoples in the Americans...
This interdisciplinary American Studies conference will explore interactive flows of ideas, discourses, bodies, and objects across cultures, populations, periods, and geographies. These movements span a gamut of involvement: some promoting generative transculturation and entrepreneurial...
On Friday November 4, NYMASA is co-sponsoring a one-day symposium on CLR James with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean at the CUNY Graduate Center.
CLR James’s life spanned almost the entire 20th century. He was part of Trotsky’s circle in...
The annual conference of the Chesapeake American Studies Association (CHASA) will be held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) on Saturday, March 28 (plenary panel discussion on Friday evening March 27).
The 2015 meeting theme “Urban Places, Digital Spaces” will...
