CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual Conference of the American Studies Association of Norway and
the Nordic Association of Canadian Studies
in cooperation with the
Department of English Philology, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
September 23-26, 2010
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
CULTURES, IDENTITIES, AND LANGUAGES IN NORTH-AMERICAN CONTEXTS
The population make-up of the New World represents a cultural melange with no precedent in history, which testifies to voluntary and coerced mass migration particularly to its Northern parts. The ensuing cultural encounters have forged new identities, whose concrete and symbolic expressions are evidence of ethnic, religious, linguistic, political, literary, artistic, gendered, and environmental transformations.
The physical translation that migration entails also subsumes translation issues, the influence of translated works on their new environment, and the differences between various literary, cultural, political manifestations in reception, interpretation, and public opinion. The beginning of the third millennium could be defined as the age of globalization and internationalization: Our conference would like to discuss their impact on human lives and on the structure and functioning of cultures in local communities and the society at large.
We invite papers that relate to any of the following themes:
- Quo vadis, American/Canadian Studies?
- Immigration and Adjustment among Baltic and Nordic Immigrants—Comparisons and Contrasts
- Relationships between Established and Recently Arrived Immigrant Groups
- Translating Languages, Translating Cultures
- Ethnicity, Cultural Identity, History—Where Are We Now?
- Popular Culture and Its (Dis)Contents
- Indigeneity and Indigenous Peoples: Identity, Language, Traditions
- Nordic and Baltic American Literatures
- The Politics and Poetics of Literature and Art at the Turn of the 20th Century
- American Government and Politics in and after 20th and & 21st Century Wars
- Culture, Literature, Politics: Gendering Identity/ Identifying Gender
- Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights
- Languages in Contact
- Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Language Variation
- Language Studies for Applied Purposes
- Social and Cultural Identities in Different Discourses
- Managing Diversity
- Literature and/or the Environment
- America and Globalization; Center or Supplicant?
Please send your proposals of 250 words to the conference organizers by 1 June 2010:
John Erik Fossum <j.e.fossum@arena.uio.no>
Željka Švrljuga <zeljka.svrljuga@if.uib.no>
Notification of acceptance will be sent you by 25 June.
