[Bilimsel Haber] 2007 IASA WORLD CONGRESS AT UNIVERSITY OF LISBON

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*2007 IASA WORLD CONGRESS AT UNIVERSITY OF LISBON
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*IASA INTERNATINAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSION PROPOSALS*

**DATE:* September 20-23, 2007

**CONGRESS PLACE: *University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

**"Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation" *
If 1492 marks the advent of modernity, this conference will investigate
the implications of the Columbian exchange on the development of culture
and identity in the Americas. As a result of the exchange of seeds,
plants, animals, the exchange of languages and transplantation of
peoples, particularly  the extraordinary reach of the African slave
trade, the subsequent arrival of peoples from Asia, and the impact of
violence against Native peoples in the New World, the Americas have been
a particularly fruitful site for exploring the meaning of modernity.

We welcome comparative papers apropos of the conference title that
explore themes across national geographies in the Americas, across the
Atlantic and Pacific spaces of intercontinental contact, or across
language traditions in the Americas. We also welcome papers focused on
particular nationalities, including the United States, that help to
illuminate the effects and ramifications of a modernity fostered by
exploration, conquest, settlement, and globalization. The aim of the
conference is to address, among others, the following questions: What
kind of entity called "America" is it we study when approached across
national, oceanic, or language boundaries? How do we reconcile the
liberating potential of hybridity, creolization, or other forms of
transculturation in light of the  histories of forced transplantation
and migration and oppression that characterize much American experience?
What are the future prospects for an American culture considered in this
broad context? What is the role of a globalized American culture
produced by the United States thwarting or unwittingly enabling the
emergence of new cultural forms? How have the modern media, modern means
of transportation, and other means of intercultural communication
shifted the meaning of "America" since early colonial contacts? What
characterizes sites of resistance to the homogenizing effects of a
globalized American culture?

As an interdisciplinary organization, IASA welcomes papers that address
these and related questions in the context of analyses of cultural,
historical, political, and theoretical material.

*Deadlines* for (1) Individual Papers (no more than 300 words) and (2)
Pre-Arranged Sessions:
- 31 December 2006 for sending in paper proposals and session proposals;
- 28 February 2007 for sending out notifications of acceptance.

*Selected Proceedings*
-Scheduled to be published.

*Plenary speakers*:
-Details to be announced.

*Congress URL*
www.fl.ul.pt/eventos/IASA2007 <http://www.fl.ul.pt/eventos/IASA2007>
(webpage under construction)

*E-mail address*:
IASA2007 at fl.ul.pt

*Phone*: +351 217920085
*Fax*: +351 217960063

*Local Organizing Committee*:
Joao Ferreira Duarte
Helena C. Buescu
Maria Teresa Alves
Maria Teresa Cid
Alexandra Assis Rosa