CFP for the 28th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS)
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DEADLINE EXTENSION - CFP for the 28th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS)
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Latest News And Events
Understanding American Politics, Third Edition by Stephen Brooks, Donald E. Abelson & Melissa Haussman
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University of Toronto Press Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States. Placing the study of American politics within a broader context of other western democracies, this textbook reinforces the idea that in order to understand the American system, students need to begin by understanding their own democracy. This balanced, comparative perspective is integrated throughout to better explain and highlight the ways in which American politics and government work in relation to other democracies.
Remembering Flannery O’Connor 100 Years after Her Birthday: Transnational, Intersectional and Multidisciplinary Approaches. Culture and Space Series
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Remembering Flannery O’Connor 100 Years after Her Birthday: Transnational, Intersectional and Multidisciplinary Approaches Culture and Space Series Toruń, 25-26 March 2025 Onsite and Online Sessions The year 2025 will mark the centenary of Flannery O’Connor’s birth (1925-1964). This widely acknowledged American author of Irish origin is part of not only American but also world literary heritage. For several decades, her novels, short stories, essays and letters have posed a challenge to critics, readers, editors and translators alike, not to mention common readership.
CFP / Book Publication: “Bridging Cultures: Transnational Travel Writing to, from (and in) the Americas”
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We invite scholars and researchers to submit papers exploring the theme of transnational travel writing to (and in) the Americas for publication by a reputable publishing house. This interdisciplinary panel aims to examine how international travel writers from around the world have represented and engaged with the Americas as a destination of travel and a place of longing. We encourage papers that explore the diverse and complex intersections of travel writing with issues such as race, gender, class, imperialism, globalization, and transnationalism.
The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion by Iván Chaar López
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Iván Chaar López argues that the United States uses a combination of drone, surveillance, and informational technologies to protect the US-Mexico border in ways that mark border crossers as racialized others that must be policed.
Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin by Sergio M. González
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Perceptive and original, Strangers No Longer reframes the history of Latinos in Wisconsin by revealing religion’s central role in the settlement experience of immigrants, migrants, and refugees.
The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics by James A. Tyner
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What America’s intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War reveals about Cold War–era U.S. national security strategy.
Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society by John Alekna
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Alekna weaves together both rural and urban history to tell the story of the rise of mass society through the lens of communication techniques and technology, showing how the news revolution fundamentally reordered the political geography of Chin
Sixth Biennial Women’s Network Symposium University of Karlstad, Sweden April 10-11, 2025
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The Gendered Anthropocene The Sixth Biennial Women's Network Symposium, to be held at Karlstad University, Sweden (April 10-11, 2025), will explore the theme of "The Gendered Anthropocene." This symposium will engage in a critical interrogation of feminist and gender theory within the context of the contemporary environmental crisis. By challenging traditional conceptualizations of “-nature,” the symposium seeks to illuminate the gendered dimensions of environmental issues.
CFP: 19th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English, May 21-23, 2025
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19th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English: "The Relational Turn in the Literary Anglosphere: Writing Connection and Interdependence" (University of Zaragoza, Spain, May 21-23, 2025). CFP is open until October 31, 2024. More information at https://limlit.unizar.es/about/
Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War by Simon Miles
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Cornell University Press
King Al: How Sharpton Took the Throne by Ron Howell
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The incredible story of the man and legend who has come to symbolize the continuing pursuit of justice for Blacks in the United States
Buffalo Bill and the Mormons by Brent M. Rogers
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Brent M. Rogers connects the histories of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and the Mormons, highlighting two pillars of the American West to better understand cultural and political perceptions, image-making, and performance from the 1840s through the early 1900s.
Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War by Michael De Groot
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Cornell University Press
“Under Western Eyes. Central and Eastern Europe(ans) in North American Literature, Culture, and History,” University of Wrocław, May 15-16, 2025
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The conference "Under Western Eyes. Central and Eastern Europe(ans) in North American Literature, Culture, and History" will focus on studying the various depictions of broadly-understood Central and Eastern Europe in works produced by émigré and diasporic authors and creators, as well as its mainstream representations. We are also interested in the changing historical and socio-political discourses regarding the place of Central and Eastern Europeans in North America.
Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Social Fears and Ideology in post-2010 Horror Cinema. Noelia Gregorio-Fernández and Carmen M. Méndez-García (eds). Palgrave MacMillan, 2024.
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In this volume, contributors explore the deep ideological polarization in US society as portrayed in horror narratives and tropes. By navigating this polarized society in their representation of social values, twenty[1]first-century horror films critically frame and engage conflicting and divisive ideological issues. Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Social Fears and Ideology in Post-2010 Horror Cinema analyses the ways in which these “culture wars” make their way into and through contemporary horror films, focusing on the post-2010 US context and its fundamental political divisions.
EAAS Officer Elections 2024
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Dear EAAS members I hope this message finds you well, and it was really great to see so many of you at our biennial conference in Munich. It is my great pleasure to share with you exciting news about the Officers of our association.
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