Categoria: CFPs
The 4th Postgraduate Seminar in Liminality Studies:
“The Limen in Upheaval”
The limen has been defined in previous editions of the PS[L]S seminar as a site of change, process, transition and (in)stability;
Call for Papers
Conference: Flyover Fictions
Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria
May 27-28, 2022
https://www.uibk.ac.at/amerikastudien/flyoverfictions.html
Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 16-18, 2022
AMERICAN POLITICS GROUP POLITICAL STUDIES
ASSOCIATION 48TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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Acquiring Editor: Dominique J. Moore
Series Editors: Jane Desmond and Virginia R. Dominguez
The University of Illinois Press and The International Forum for U.S. Studies (IFUSS) are pleased to sponsor the series Global Studies of the United States.
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Atlantis, pre-Columbian “Mound Builders,” cave men locked in combat with T. Rex — visions of ancient, ruined, or “lost” worlds on a spectrum between fact and fantasy have long fascinated American artists and producers of visual culture.
The institution of the university is at the heart of the culture wars raging in contemporary American society. The multifarious ideological and cultural antagonisms within U.S. culture are often discussed in terms that originated in academic debates on the political implications of canons, curricula and faculty structures before finding their way into broader public discourse: ‘Cancel culture’, ‘wokeness’, ‘political correctness’, ‘de-platforming’, ‘identity politics’, ‘cultural Marxism’ or ‘critical race studies’ have become buzzwords in an increasingly entrenched controversy in which one side claims that basic democratic values such as academic freedom and freedom of speech are under attack, while the other side views the current shifts as a long overdue abolition of the unchecked hegemony of white, male and heteronormative privilege and power.
ACLA 2022 Seminar: Taiwan as Island Borders: Nature, Natives, and Virus in Relational Comparisons
In recent years, borders have emerged as a critical terrain of power struggles and epistemic crises for engaging and rethinking the Post-Pandemic questions of race and multiculturalism, gender/sexuality, environmentalism, settler colonialism, and subjectivity, especially when these questions seem to be infinitely amplified and intermeshed by the vanishing and re-enforcement of borders due to the erosive COVID-19.
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