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Mese: Gennaio 2022
American Art, the peer-reviewed journal co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press, seeks papers that explore the intersection of how matters related to copyright, or intellectual property more broadly, have been interrogated or otherwise problematized through the creative practices of American artists or artists active within the borders of the United States both historically and in the contemporary era.
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In his book Animals on Television (2017), Brett Mills states that “representations of animals often function to highlight cultural understandings about what it is to be human.” Nonhuman animals have been unwilling objects of the human gaze: humans have been exploiting animals (real and imagined) on the basis, and the attendant continued perpetuation, of self-assigned human superiority and centrality. This anthropocentrism is also why humans primarily define animals, their agency, their intelligence, their emotional lifeworlds, etc. by projecting onto them human ideas and discourses.
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For our next issue, The New Americanist is seeking submissions which consider the cultural and political conditions through which comics play a part in contemporary American life.
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Playing the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American Studies
November 17-19, 2022
Amerikahaus Munich, Germany
“Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” is the third conference organized by “Playing the Field,” a collaborative research initiative for the study of video games in American studies: https://playingthefieldeu.wordpress.com/.
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Science and technology have influenced American literary and cultural texts, as well as the visual arts, since colonial times. From Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Thomas Eakins’ painting The Gross Clinic, depicting Dr. Samuel D. Gross lecturing to a group of Jefferson Medical College students, to countless examples of literary and cultural texts, such as Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital series, scientific ideas and technological advances have enriched American authors’ and artists’oeuvres.
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