American Studies in the World

College of Arts and Humanities | American Studies Saturday, March 10, 2012 9:00 am - 8:00 pm Katzen Arts Center, American University

The 2012 meeting of Chesapeake American Studies Association will be hosted by the American Studies Program at American University.
This year’s meeting theme, “American Studies in the World,” focuses on transnational relations as well as on local resistance, community organizing and scholar activism.
This refers to scholarly investigations of current or historical transnational processes such as immigration, colonialism, tourism, trade, and other global interactions with the United States. It also invokes the political concerns of many American Studies scholars who study or engage in community activism within the region. American Studies has in the past also increasingly focused on everyday culture and quotidian ways in which we engage with the world and that define us as citizens and as embodied, sexual, gendered and racialized subjects. In discussing these ongoing major trends in American Studies, the symposium centers the perspectives of historically marginalized groups as it investigates where American Studies is currently situated and where it is heading.

The conference schedule is available here.

Online registration is free and open through March 3rd.

Add to Calendar 03/10/12 9:00 AM 03/10/12 8:00 PM America/New_York American Studies in the World The 2012 meeting of Chesapeake American Studies Association will be hosted by the American Studies Program at American University.
This year’s meeting theme, “American Studies in the World,” focuses on transnational relations as well as on local resistance, community organizing and scholar activism.
This refers to scholarly investigations of current or historical transnational processes such as immigration, colonialism, tourism, trade, and other global interactions with the United States. It also invokes the political concerns of many American Studies scholars who study or engage in community activism within the region. American Studies has in the past also increasingly focused on everyday culture and quotidian ways in which we engage with the world and that define us as citizens and as embodied, sexual, gendered and racialized subjects. In discussing these ongoing major trends in American Studies, the symposium centers the perspectives of historically marginalized groups as it investigates where American Studies is currently situated and where it is heading.

The conference schedule is available here.

Online registration is free and open through March 3rd.