American, British and Canadian Studies, special issue: Changing Screen Cultures
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CFP: Theorising the Canada-US Border
CCUSB SYMPOSIUM: Theorising the Canada-US Border University of Kent at Paris, 15-16 May, 2015 Border theory tends to be associated with the multiple strands of mestizo/a lived experience in the Mexico-US borderlands. But how far can site-specific border theory travel, even within North America? To what extent do the insights of Mexico-US border theory—including notions of hybridity and the accommodating spaces of los… Read more →
CFP: Death in the Cityscape (Special Issue of CRAS)
CFP: Death in the Cityscape In contemporary literature, the intersection of the space of death and mourning within the confines of the city acts as a method of critiquing our understood modes of living. Since Plato’s Republic, the uneasy interplay of death and memorialization within the polis has been considered. Theorists like Gillian Rose in Mourning Becomes the Law and… Read more →
CFP: American Pickers: American Studies and Material Culture
Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS) Title: American Pickers: American Studies and Material Culture Organizer: Ross Bullen (OCAD University) What is the everyday “stuff” of American studies, and why does it matter? Even a cursory glance at the most popular programs on the History TV channel – shows like American Pickers, American Restoration, and Pawn Stars – reveals a fascination… Read more →
CFP: Stand Your Ground: Incarcerations, Lynchings, and Executions (ACCUTE 2015)
Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) Title: Stand Your Ground: Incarcerations, Lynchings, and Executions Organizer: Percy Walton (Carleton University) With 5% of the world’s population, the U.S. comprises 25% of the world’s prison population, or 724 prisoners per 100,000 people (Pleases, Vicky, BBC News, March 8, 2013); it is not surprising, therefore, that many American Studies scholars see the U.S…. Read more →
Reminder: Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception Across the U.S.-Canada Border
* Deadline approaching: November 1 2013 Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception across the Canada-US Border http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/nottingham.html 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: The Leverhulme Trust-funded Culture and the Canada-US Border international research network is pleased to invite proposals… Read more →
CFP: NeoAmericanist Issue 7.1
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 →
CFP: Street Justice: Activist Urban Cultures of the 21st Century (EAAS 2014)
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 →
CFP: Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception across the Canada-US Border
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 →
CFP: Out of Control Suburbs?
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 →