[Bilimsel Haber] FIFTH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, JULY 27-29, 2011, Rio de Janiero

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FIFTH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Rio de Janiero, Brazil,JULY 27th through 29th, 2011 (Wed., Thurs., Fri.)
THEME: “AMERICAN CONFIGURATIONS”

America with its multiple narratives, landscapes, languages, and 
experiences, of cartographies imagined over time and travelers and 
scientists, in fiction and poetry, in the
discourses of politicians and filmmakers. debating how different 
communities form senses of Americanness, originating from places of 
knowledge, politics, art, memory, and wher
a possible "America" may be configured.


lived experience,

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5th IASA World Conference proposes to be a space for debating how 
different communities form senses of Americanness, originating from 
places of knowledge, politics, art, memory, and lived experience, where  
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– imagination and images

– memory and community

– geographies of power

- time and Americanness

- routes and ´scapes´

– traditions in perspective

– possible modernities

Full instructions for submitting proposals will be posted soon on the
official IASA website at: www.iasaweb.org

Please help us spread the word by posting this announcement widely 
onlistserves and distributing to your colleagues. We look forward to seeing
you there!

Conference Chair:  IASA Executive Director Sonia Torres (Brazil), Local
Organizing Committee:  Profs. Ana Mauad and Paulo Knauss, Universidad
Federale Fulminense, and Prof. Limoncic (UniRio).

International Program Committee:  Drs. Theo D’Haen (Belgium), Keiko Ikeda
(Japan), Djelal Kadir (U.S.) Esra Korpez (Turkey), Amanda Lagerkvist
(Sweden), Don Pease (U.S.), Ricardo Salvatore (Argentina)

IASA Officers (2009-2011):  Jane Desmond, President; Giorgio Mariani, Vice
President; Manuel Broncano, Treasurer, Sonia Torres, Executive Director.

IASA is the only world-wide, independent, non-governmental association 
for Americanists. Furthering the international exchange of ideas and
information among scholars from all nations and various disciplines who 
study and teach America regionally, hemispherically, nationally, and
transnationally, IASA is registered in The Netherlands as a non-profit, 
international, educational organization with members in more than forty
countries around the world.