2010 Annual Conference American Diversity: Identities, Narratives, Politics

2010 Annual Conference American Diversity: Identities, Narratives, Politics

Tematyka: 

The 2010 Annual Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS) international conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Association’s foundation will be hosted by the Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies, University of Lodz. Both individual scholars and panels of minimum three presenters are welcomed to submit proposals from a wide range of areas pertaining to American Studies:

- Culture and the arts: new realism, post-humanism, post-secularism, post-colonialism, feminisms

- Narratives: literary representation, oral histories, (auto)biographies, (inter) textualities

- Society: cities and communities, ethnic and migratory patterns, multiculturalism and intersectionality, trans-cultural approaches

- Media: media production and ideology, de-massification of the media in the Digital Age, the new media aesthetics, praxes of representation, visions of the post-media communication, political communication

- Politics and history: brands of citizenships, economic crisis, glocalisation of power, terror and terrorism, the post-Obama effect on US domestic and international politics

- Technologies: biopolitics, network society, technoscapes of communication, surveillance, technological citizenship, zones of the virtual

Deadline for Abstracts: May 15, 2010.

Data: 

2010-10-20 do 2010-10-23

Miejsce: 

Centrum Szkoleniowo-Konferencyjne 

ul. Kopcińskiego nr 16/18 

90-232 Łódź e-mail: 

csk@uni.lodz.pl

Organizator: 

Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies

University of Lodz

Kontakt: 

e-mail: paas2010@gmail.com

Kierownik: 

Prof. Elżbieta H. Oleksy 

Professor and Chair 

Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies

University of Lodz, Poland

Sekretarz: 

Grazyna Zygadlo, Ph.D.

Marek M. Wojtaszek, Ph.D.