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Manju Jaidka
From: Kaur, Mandeep (Public Affairs) <Ka...@state.gov>
Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Subject: FW: BAAS mailbase: 2 items
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Mandeep Kaur
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From: British Association for American Studies [mailto:baas...@arts.gla.ac.uk]
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Subject: BAAS mailbase: 2 items
Dear all,
BAAS mailbase: 2 items
1. Postgraduate workshop: 'Languages of Power and Protest in the United States'
2. Journal of American History: recent publications
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1. Postgraduate workshop: 'Languages of Power and Protest in the United States'
Call for Papers:
‘Languages of Power and Protest in the United States’ is an interdisciplinary postgraduate-led workshop taking place at the University of Leeds on Thursday 17 March 2011. The workshop will bring together postgraduates and academics, across disciplines, to debate the ways in which language has shaped and informed discourses of power and protest in the United States, and to discuss how their own research is implicated in and complicated by these discourses. Accordingly, the workshop will raise questions about the way in which power and protest have worked in and through language at critical moments in the history of the United States. It will examine the role that language plays in our own research and the methodological approaches that we take to this research. With its interdisciplinary focus, the workshop welcomes researchers working on a broad range of topics, across a diverse range of social, cultural and political contexts. It will culminate in a keynote address by Dr. Stephen Tuck (Oxford University), a prominent scholar of race relations, racial protest, and white supremacy in the U.S. from the Civil War to the present.
Proposals are invited on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
Language and political and social movements in America
Protest and the media
Race, class, gender, sexuality and other languages of identity
Presidential and governmental rhetoric in the US
Patriotic language and competing interpretations of Americanism
Conflicting voices in American literature
Picturing protest in art, cinema and photography
Placard culture
The Tea Party and the Obama-Nation
Critical languages
Activism and the academy
These themes are only guidelines and we welcome all proposals, from any discipline and from both MA and PhD students, for twenty-minute papers on any topic related to languages of protest and power in twentieth century America. Please email proposals of 250 words to poweran...@gmail.com. The deadline for paper proposals is Friday 4 February 2011. See http://powerandprotest.wordpress.com/ for more details and news.
Additional information:
This workshop will provide an excellent opportunity for postgradutes to present their work to fellow students. The ultimate aim of the workshop is to establish a network of postgraduate researchers in the UK and provide an ongoing forum in which original work can be presented and discussed. We’d therefore like to warmly invite researchers interested in any topic within the field of American studies to attend – whether or not they wish to present a paper. Over the course of the day the workshop will include:
* Training Session on: ‘Developing and Sustaining Research Networks and Communities’
* Mini-Conference: speakers from Leeds and further afield will give brief, twenty-minute presentations addressing how language informs their own work as well as the current state of the field of scholarship in which they work (see above)
* A Roundtable Discussion
* A Keynote Address by Dr. Stephen Tuck (University of Oxford)
The workshop will run from 9:30am to 6:30pm and is free to attend. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided. To reserve a place or for any further information contact us at poweran...@gmail.com or visit our blog at http://powerandprotest.wordpress.com
2. Journal of American History: recent publications
A message from Celeste-Marie Bernier:
Happy New Year to you! As one of the Contributing Editors for the Journal of American History, I would be very grateful if you could please write to me at the email address below to provide me with information regarding your recent publications – I will then submit this so that this information will appear in the June issue.