NeoAmericanist, an online multi-disciplinary journal for the study of America, is issuing a CALL FOR PAPERS to interested Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting any academic PAPERS as well as REVIEWS of books from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level students on the topic of the United States of America. NeoAmericanist’s goal as a journal is to push the boundaries… Read more →
Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America Mark Solovey Rutgers UP, 2013 Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. Shaky Foundations provides the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the social sciences that emerged in the early Cold War years… Read more →
Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 From World War II to the early 1970s, American social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion. This volume offers fascinating perspectives on the rise of U.S. practitioners as global leaders in the field, exploring how, why, and with… Read more →
Treacherous Texts: U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946 Mary Chapman and Angela Mills, eds. Rutgers UP, 2011 Treacherous Texts collects more than sixty literary texts written by smart, savvy writers who experimented with genre, aesthetics, humor, and sex appeal in an effort to persuade American readers to support woman suffrage. Although the suffrage campaign is often associated in popular memory with oratory,… Read more →
EAAS 2014 The Hague, Netherlands, April 3-6, 2014 Workshop title: Street Justice: Activist Urban Cultures of the 21st Century In 1999, the “Battle in Seattle” secured a world audience for the so-called “anti-globalization” movement, as protestors at the meeting of World Trade Organization confronted city authorities. In the decade and a half since then, assemblies of immigrants, students, consumers, the… Read more →
Second international Culture and the Canada-US Border conference University of Nottingham, 20-22 June 2014 Keynote Speakers: Charles Acland, Danielle Fuller, and DeNel Rehberg Sedo Call for papers http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/nottingham.html The Leverhulme Trust-funded Culture and the Canada-US Border international research network is pleased to invite proposals for papers or panels addressing topics related to cultural production, consumption, and reception across… Read more →
The Cultures of the Suburbs International Research Network 2013 Symposium at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Out of Control Suburbs? Comparing Representations of Order, Disorder and Sprawl 27-28 June 2013, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Keynote Speaker Dolores Hayden Following the success of our 2011 Inaugural Symposium, our second meeting seeks to discuss the nature and representation of suburbs, suburban… Read more →
The Canadian Association for American Studies is announcing the opening of this year’s competition for the annual Robert K. Martin Prize for the best monograph written by a current member of CAAS. This year’s prize will be for books published with a copyright date of 2012. The postmark deadline for submission is 22 March 2013. All current members and those who join… Read more →
CALL FOR PAPERS OCTOBER 24 – 27, 2013 THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO WATERLOO, ONTARIO Sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies “Total Money Makeover”: Culture and the Economization of Everything (PDF version for printing and distribution) Economic models now occupy a central place in the analysis of American culture. The “hegemony of economic explanations of cultural practices” (Koritz 1999)… Read more →
CFP: Companion to American Gothic Deadline: Jan 31, 2013 Dr John Sears Call for contributors We are currently commissioning contributions to a proposed Companion to American Gothic, to be published in 2015 by a major UK academic publisher as part of a new series of Gothic companions. Proposals for chapters of 5500-6500 words (including notes) are invited. Early career researchers… Read more →