ANNOUNCING THE 2022 INSTITUTE
The 2022 Futures of American Studies Institute will begin on Monday, June 20th and conclude on Sunday, June 26th. The twenty-fourth year of the Institute will be organized around highlighted, special topic plenary sessions, seminars devoted to participant works-in-progress, group discussions with the editor of an academic journal, plus opportunities for other participant-organized activities.
Program Description:
The Institute is divided into plenary sessions that feature talks from Institute faculty, research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress, and participant-organized sessions. Each day of the institute begins with a morning session in which plenary speakers deliver presentations of no longer than thirty-minutes that contribute to our convoking topic. These presentations are followed by questions from the participants. After a lunch break, the Institute’s participants meet in intensive workshop groups (consisting of no more than 15 participants), each of which is led by an Institute co-director. These workshops offer those enrolled in the Institute—over one hundred scholars from a variety of disciplines and institutions—the opportunity for critical conversations about the central intellectual issues in their research.
The Institute was designed to provide a shared space of critical inquiry that brings the participants’ work-in-progress to the attention of a network of influential scholars. Over the past twenty years, plenary speakers have recommended participants’ work to the leading journals and university presses within the field of American Studies, and have provided participants with recommendations and support in an increasingly competitive job market.
The Futures of American Studies Institutes strives to create an open environment in which traditional disciplinary, institutional, and departmental boundaries are crossed. That said, the Institute is not an exception to the norms of professional behavior. The Institute sets as its goal the creation of a diverse and heterogeneous space in which seminarians are full participants in an ongoing conversation with Institute faculty. In order to facilitate this sense of collegiality, we expect all of our participants to adhere to the Institute’s core values of mutual respect for each other’s perspectives and identities. No unprofessional behavior, harassment, or abuse will be tolerated from any faculty member or seminarian.
Plenary Sesssions:
- Indigenous Resurgence: Unsettling Colonial Capitalism
- Interrogating Visuality: ‘The Black Gaze’
- Queering the Politics of Refusal
- Elimination Politics at the US-Mexico Border
- Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
- Unruly Sonic Practices
- The State of/and Asian-American Studies
- Racial Capitalism and Crises of Social Reproduction
- Cruel Pessimism
- Para-Ontologies of Terror
Special Sessions:
- Discussions with an Editor (American Literary History)
Plenary Faculty:
- Professor Melanie B. Taylor (Dartmouth College)
- Professor Emilie Connolly (Brandeis University
- Professor Sandy Alexandre (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Professor Kimberly Juanita Brown (Dartmouth College)
- Professor Jeffrey Santa Ana (Stony Brook University)
- Professor Lázaro Lima (Hunter College, CUNY)
- Professor Mary Pat Brady (Cornell University)
- Professor Licia Fiol-Matta ( New York University
- Professor William Cheng (Dartmouth College)
- Professor Jack Halberstam (Columbia University)
- Professor Roderick Ferguson (Yale University)
- Professor Patricia Stuelke (Dartmouth College)
- Professor Jarvis McInnis (Duke University)
- Professor Robyn Wiegman (Duke University
- Professor Calvin Warren (Emory University)
- Professor Selamawit D. Terrefe (Tulane University)
- Professor Anthony Barrymore Bogues (Brown University)
- Professor Hortense J. Spillers (Vanderbilt University)
- Professor RA Judy (University of Pittsburgh)
The Futures of American Studies Institute is made possible with the generous support of Dartmouth College and the Provost’s Office.
Further information: https://www.dartmouth.edu/futures/