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Description: Reprising its first edition, the conference will focus on how US American identities have been shaped, informed, configured, and challenged since the country’s foundation. It will look at the centrality of boundaries broadly intended and borderlands as... Call For Panels – 17th SAAS Conference: American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies In the last hundred years, the US has produced many new dreams, nightmares and fantasies that perpetuate or challenge the Foundational Dream. Examples of the wonders and... The purpose of this AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar is to provide doctoral students who are writing their thesis in English Studies a forum where they canj present and discuss their research work in workshop-type sessions. The protagonists will be the PhD students themselves, who will share and compare initiatives, problems, solutions, and other experiences related to their research. In addition, they will obtain valuable suggestions and feedback from experienced thesis supervisors and other participants. We invite scholars representing disciplines including, but not limited to, literary studies, cultural studies, international politics, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, religious studies, history, historiography, and cultural geography to contribute papers that explore the multifaceted nature of hospitality, both in the context of the US, but also in the context of hemispheric and transoceanic relations of the Americas. The conference is organized jointly by the John Morton Center for North American Studies (JMC) at the University of Turku and the Finnish American Studies Association (FASA), who designed the theme of the conference – ASPIRATIONS – with multiple goals in mind:
International conference “Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity”
17th SAAS Conference: American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies
AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar
American Hospitality, The Annual Conferences of the Polish Association for American Studies in conjunction with the International American Studies Association
The 28th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies
