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Researchers, teachers, students, writers, activists, curators, community organizers, and activists from around the world who are dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. culture and history in a global context.
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2022 Annual Meeting
The Roof is on Fire
November 3-6 // New Orleans, Louisiana
The 2022 Annual Meeting invites strategies that draw our attention to and command a multisensory, multiregister engagement with the world as it is and as we want it to be. Something is broken. Whether or not it can be repaired may not be the right question. This is an homage to the cultures and knowledges too often dismissed or taken. Touch the beat, move without instruction, abandon your isolation. We come together to continue the creation of something else altogether.
Resources from the 2021 Annual Meeting // Held virtually
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American Studies Departments, Programs, and Centers
The Committee on Departments, Programs and Centers keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional concerns of American Studies departments, programs, and centers.
Community Announcements
August 30, 2022
CFP: ASA-JAAS Japan Residencies for 2023
Posted for ASA-JAAS Committee in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
August 3, 2022
Call for Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award Nominations
Posted for Minority Scholars' Committee in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
July 26, 2022
2022 Critical Ethnic Studies Prize Nominations Open
Posted for Critical Ethnic Studies in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
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American Quarterly
September 2022
Volume 74, Number 3
From Anarchy to Chaos: Generations of Empire
Editors Chris Lee and Melani McAlister
In late spring of 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the broad mobilization of the BlackLivesMatter movement against police violence around the world we received the devastating news of Amy Kaplan's passing. We felt that the best way for American Quarterly to pay tribute to Kaplan's immense contribution to the field was to do a special issue revisiting the core questions of empire addressed by the body of her work. We are honored to have Christopher Lee and Melani McAlister, whose areas of expertise complement each other while both being closely connected to Kaplan's oeuvre, take on this important work.
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