The second of the biannual ExRe(y) conferences will be held in Lublin next May. The two-day international conference titled “ExRe(y) 2018.
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The New Languages of American Democracy
In the past twenty years, American democracy had to face a number of high impact events which have heavily affected its domestic scene, as well as the delicate balance of its world-wide political relations—from the final years of the Clinton administration to the election of George Bush and the tragedy of Ground Zero from the second Gulf War, to the election of an African American President like Barack Obama, to the emergence of a female candidate for the White House, to the recent election of the highly controversial President currently in charge, these are just a few of the crucial passages the U. S. democratic system has suffered in its recent past.
A Symposium on Three Continents: Australia • United States • Italy
- Living Transcultural Spaces – Melbourne: 5 – 7 April 2018 – Call For Papers Open
- Transnationalism and Questions of Identity – New York: 1-3 November 2018
- Between Immigration and Historical Amnesia – Genova: 27-29 June 2019
Black Lives and Liberation
Edited by Brandon R. Byrd, Zandria F. Robinson, and Christopher Cameron
Black Lives Matter. What began as a Twitter hashtag after the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin has since become a widely recognized rallying cry for black being and resistance.
CALL FOR PAPERS – NUOVE FRONTIERE DEGLI AMERICAN STUDIES
“Do I contradict myself? / Very well then, I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes)”. Così scriveva Walt Whitman in alcuni dei versi più celebri della sua Song of Myself, descrivendo un’esperienza personale che sembra dar voce all’anima stessa degli Stati Uniti d’America. Sin dal motto di fondazione, “E pluribus unum”, gli Stati Uniti mostrano la volontà di “contenere moltitudini”, cioè di accogliere sulla propria terra – e sulle pagine dei propri libri – esperienze umane plurali, capaci di raccontare una storia nazionale e globale insieme.
Siamo un folto gruppo di giovani americanisti (studenti di specialistica, dottorandi, independent scholar e ricercatori) affiliati all’AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani). I membri del forum provengono da numerosi atenei italiani e stranieri si stanno specializzando in diversi campi di ricerca nell’ambito degli studi americani: storia e politica, arte, lingua e letteratura, traduzione e … Read More “Welcome to AISNA Graduates!” »