[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: IASA/LISBON

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Danielle Rich <danielle-rich at uiowa.edu>

Call for papers
International American Studies Association
IASA

3rd World Congress

September
20-23, 2007

Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon

Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation
http://www.iasa2007.eu/presentation.html

If 1492 marks the advent of modernity, this congress 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 congress 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 congress 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 and
workshops that address these and related questions in the context of
analyses of cultural, historical, political, and theoretical material.


Deadlines
» 300-word abstracts and proposals for thematic workshops to be
submitted no later than 31 December 2006.
» Notifications of acceptance will be sent out no later than 28 February
2007.

Official languages of the congress
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Contacts
Address
Faculdade de Letras
Alameda da Universidade
1600-214 Lisboa
Portugal
E-mail
mail at iasa2007.eu
Phone
+351 21 792 00 85
Fax
+351 21 796 00 63

Local Organizing Committee
» João Ferreira Duarte
» Helena C. Buescu
» Maria Teresa Alves
» Maria Teresa Cid
» Alexandra Assis Rosa

Danielle Rich
International Forum for U.S. Studies
The University of Iowa
<danielle-rich at uiowa.edu>