Conference CFPs

XIII.
RENEGOTIATING AMERICAN IDENTITIES

13th Biennial Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies
(HAAS 13)

May 31−June 1, 2019

North American Department,
Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Debrecen

CALL FOR PAPERS

The organizers of the conference invite proposals for papers in any field of American Studies which contribute to our understanding of how American identities get (re)constructed and renegotiated in the face of fundamental political and social changes and challenges both in the United States and the Americas at large. While much of the renegotiation takes place at intersections of such major factors of identity construction as race, gender, ethnicity, class, politics, etc., American identities are also shaped by phenomena which have been in the focus of American Studies recently such as transatlantic and inter-American migration, transnationalism, or the new wave of American exceptionalism. Within this broader thematic framework, scholars from various fields including literature, history, social and cultural studies, the visual arts, film studies, politics, international studies, and cultural linguistics, etc. are encouraged to offer their critical insights on any aspect of the renegotiation of American identities through topics including, but not restricted to the following:

• constructing American national identity

• constructing American identities and subjects in literature and culture

• transatlantic and inter-American migration and the changing ethnic landscape

• America through the media

• American identities in popular culture

• images of America and American identities in visual and textual discourses

• transatlantic relations and global influences of / on America

• American exceptionalism: past and present

Please send abstracts of max 250 words and short professional bios of max 150 words to the organizers at the following email address: haas13deb@gmail.com
Panel proposals of max 450 words should also be sent to haas13deb@gmail.com
Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals: March 15, 2019.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out not later than March 31, 2019.

REGISTRATION FEES

The registration fee includes the cost of the conference folder, coffee and snacks during the breaks and the conference reception on May 31, Friday.
You can register for the conference here.

Early Bird registration fee before April 30, 2019:

• HAAS members: 8,000 HUF

• Non-HAAS members: 10,000 HUF

• Ph.D. students: 6,000 HUF

Regular registration fee from April 30, 2019:

• HAAS members: 10,000 HUF

• Non-HAAS members: 12,000 HUF

• Ph.D. students: 8,000 HUF

Registration at the conference site (cash only):

• HAAS members: 12, 000 HUF

• non-HAAS members: 15,000 HUF

• Ph.D. students: 10,000 HUF

OPTIONAL WINE TASTING TRIP

We are organizing an optional wine-tasting trip to the historic wine region of Tokaj at the scenic Degenfeld Winery (https://www.grofdegenfeld.com/en/) on Sunday, June 2, 2019. The price will be announced later and will cover the travel expenses, the lunch and the wine tasting. If you wish to join, please indicate so in the registration form

XII.

Understanding America in a Time of Change

12th Biennial Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS 12)

Budapest, Hungary, 25-26 May 2018

Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2018

Facing a variety of challenges both on the domestic and the international scene, America has witnessed significant cultural, social, economic, political, and environmental changes in the twenty-five years since the Hungarian Association for American Studies was founded. Cultural response has been overwhelming in the face of the divisions—geo-cultural, political, and social—that have become visible recently within American society. American studies at the beginning of the 21st century, more than ever, has the task to gauge the directions and trends and to respond to the changing political and cultural landscape, while still trying to assess and ascertain its place and mission within the rapidly changing academic environment.

We invite papers from all fields related to American Studies that contribute to any aspect or interpretation of our theme. The following list of topics is meant to be suggestive rather than restrictive.

• Transnationalist constructions of America

• Constructing American subjects in literature and culture

• Inter-American relations, migration trends and the changing ethnic landscape

• Images of America in Hungarian American studies

• Utopian and dystopian iconographies in the face of change

• Constructing vistas of America by framing culture

• Innovations in cultural practices and identity constructions in the Digital Era

• Constructing American national identity

• America’s role in globalization vs. global influences on America

• Images of America—visual and textual messages in identity politics

• Understanding digital cultures in America

• America through (news) media

• Popular Culture’s way to respond and reflect on change

• Constructing America in the Anthropocene Epoch

• Avoiding Anthropocentrism—constructing new perspectives

• Negotiations of ethical claims in contemporary American culture—reparation and justice

• Understanding America through language

• Understanding America in the classroom

Please send 250-300 word abstracts of proposed papers to: haaselte2018@gmail.com by January 31st, 2018. Participants will be notified of their acceptance by February 15th, 2018.

XI.
University of Pécs

11th Biennial Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS 11),

organized in association with the Hungarian Association for Ibero-American Studies

The Americas: Global Challenges and Responsibilities

12-14 May 2016

Convenors: Institute of English Studies, Institute of History, Institute of Romance Studies

Venue: Zsolnay cultural district and the University Library and Center for Learning Pécs

Working languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese

Call for Papers

The Hungarian Association for American Studies and the Hungarian Association for Ibero-American Studies jointly organize a tri-lingual conference that brings together specialists from the fields of North American and Ibero-American Studies in order to address issues related to the Americas in a way that transcends nation-based models of academic inquiry.

The Americas are not only a geographical entity but also a region sharing a history of coloniality, anti-colonial revolutions and imperialist interventions. South, Central and North America exist in a state of economic, political and cultural interdependence. Recent interdisciplinary approaches to the history, economics, as well as the cultures and literatures of the Americas resist normative definitions that reflect European political epistemologies and/or national models. International scholars of the 20th and 21st century like Fernando Henrique Cardoso (development and dependency), Immanuel Wallerstein (world systems), Anibal Quijano and Walter Mignolo (colonial semiosis and the coloniality of power), Marie Louise Pratt and Gayatri Spivak (planetary consciousness, planetarity), Emma Perez (the decolonial imaginary), Wai-Chee Dimock (literatures of the Americas and deep time), Eric Cheyfitz and Donald E. Pease (Americas Cultural Studies) have opened new perspectives in the study of the North American, Ibero-American, and Afro-Caribbean regions. In the context of US Studies, the New American Studies, the Borders School in American Studies, and Inter-American Studies have moved towards transnationality, postnationality and globality in the study of forms of knowledge and expression.

The organizers of the conference invite presentations and panel proposals addressing themes and issues related to the study of “the Americas” in hemispheric, global and planetary contexts. Contributions should address, but are not restricted to, one or more of the following issues related to the general, economic, diplomatic, political and legal history, as well as to the literatures and cultures of “the Americas”:

Geographic, economic and political formations

• • contextualization of the Americas in national, regional and global frames of reference

  • travel and contact between continents, regions and polities

  • circulation and traffic of goods and ideologies

  • political, economic, cultural borders; borderlands and  frontiers

  • class and race, Creole elites and indigenous populations

Coloniality and diasporic cultures

• intersections between North, Central, and South American history

• decolonization and nation building

• Latin-American diasporic cultures in North America

• “chronological time” vs. “deep time” in measuring vs. sensing history

• imperial hegemony and deep history

• colonial expansion and ethnic/racial subalternity

Intersections of the epistemic, the economic and the aesthetic

• economy, religion, politics and the aesthetic subjective

• orality and literacy, cultural translation in the colonial episteme

• ethnic, racial and cultural heterogeneity vs. homogenizing political, social and cultural discourses

• historical memory and cultural heritage in literature, the arts and the media

• commercial or independent audiovisual media, audiences, and the global marketplace

Language and linguistics

• translation and cultural negotiation

• plurilinguality, code-switching and translation

• native languages in the Americas and problems related to their classification

• debating the issue of official language(s) in the USA

• ongoing changes in US-American English

• the role of US-American English outside the USA/the Americas

Abstracts

For both presentations and panel proposals, an abstract of around 250 words (in English, Spanish or Portuguese) and a short bio should be sent to the organizers at the following email address: americasconference2016@pte.hu

Registration

Please fill in the online Registration Form at http://haashungary.btk.pte.hu/americasconference2016/

Bilingual (or trilingual) scholars are encouraged to give their presentations in Spanish or Portuguese as well, in the Ibero-American sections. Please fill in the Registration Form accordingly.

Contact

In matters other than registration, abstract submission and information provided on the conference website please contact the organizing team via email at americasconference2016@pte.hu

Also, feel free to contact members of the organizing team, Dr. Gabriella Vöő at voo.gabriella@pte.hu or Dr. Mónika Fodor atfodor.monika@pte.hu

Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts: 31 January 2016.

Acceptance notifications will be issued by 15 February 2016.

Registration fees

The registration fee includes the cost of the conference folder, coffee and small snacks during the breaks and the reception. Participants are also welcome to the conference dinner on Friday evening (13 May). The cost of the conference dinner (between 3,000 and 4,000 HUF) is to be paid separately and in cash upon registration at the conference site. Further details about the cost, location and the menu will be provided in a circular at a later time.

“Early Bird” registration fee, before 31 March 2016 (bank transfer):

HAAS members:                9,000 HUF

Non-HAAS members:       14,000 HUF

Ph.D. students:                      5,000 HUF

Grace period: The registration fee must be in the HAAS bank account by 23 March; otherwise regular registration rate applies.

“Regular” registration fee, after 1 April:

HAAS members:               11,000 HUF

Non-HAAS members:            16,000 HUF

Ph.D. students:                  7,000 HUF

Regular registration fee transfer closes: 17 March (there is no grace period in this case)

At the conference site (cash only):

HAAS members:               12,000 HUF

Non-HAAS members:           17,000 HUF

Ph.D. students:                      8,000 HUF

Please transfer your payment to the account of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS) with your name and“HAAS 2016 conference” clearly indicated in the “notice” box.

Name and address of bank:   OTP BANK HUNGARY H-1077 Budapest, Király u. 49.

Bank account number:                       11707024-20400268-00000000

BIC (SWIFT) CODE:                        OTPVHUHB

IBAN code:                                        HU09 1170 7024 2040 0268 0000 0000

Bank account holder:                         Amerikanisták Magyarországi Társasága (HAAS) H-4032 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1.

Please note that the cost of the bank transfer is at your side. If registration is cancelled not later than a month before the conference (by 9 April 2016), 90% minus bank charge of the paid registration fee is refunded.

HAAS Membership Dues for 2016

Individual:                         5,000 HUF

Students:                         3,000 HUF

HAAS membership automatically includes membership in EAAS, the European Association for American Studies. Members can participate at international conferences organized by member associations.

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