[Discussion] CFP: Building Bridges - Crossing Borders: Transdisciplinarity and American Studies (Turkey) (2/1/06; 5/25/06-5/28/06)

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From: joshua parker <parkerjm71@hotmail.com>

American Culture and Literature and English Language and Literature Departments
Fatih University
Istanbul, Turkey

will host an international Humanities conference entitled

Building Bridges--Crossing Borders: Transdisciplinarity and American Studies on
25 - 28 May 2006

Keynote speakers: Bernard Mergen, Susan Curtis, and Guenter Lenz

American Studies as a discipline has surely moved beyond the borders (both
political and cultural) of the United States, going on to become more of a
method than a discipline, with a strong interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
emphasis with the intention, in part, to distance itself from the specter of
American exceptionalism, but also to speak with greater force and relevance to
an increasingly pluralistic classroom within. How this new curriculum and
(interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary) approach can - and whether it should - be
adopted by American Studies departments without the United States and
transdisciplinarity as a theory of knowledge and pedagogy that is between,
across, and beyond the disciplines will be the centerpiece of the conference.
The objective is a search for common ground in American Studies on more neutral
ground.


Proposed papers, panels or presentations on American literature and culture (in
a global context) may be submitted to:
Dr. Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.
Conference Organizer
clydeforsberg4@msn.com
and

Dr. Joshua Parker
jparker@fatih.tr.edu

Deadline 1 February 2006
(One page abstract & brief CV)



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