NeoAmericanist news
Added: July 24, 2010
4 June 2011
London, UK
The aim of this conference is to examine the relationship between cosmopolitanism and media in an increasingly fragmented, globalising world. A central focus of the conference is the potential role of the media in providing a cosmopolitanist outlook for its...
Added: July 24, 2010
14-16 January 2011
Nevada City, CA
The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is the largest festival of its kind in the US. We screen films that inspire people to re-examine their values and behaviors, providing a context to translate these individual commitments into social...
Added: July 24, 2010
October 2010 - April 2011
NYC
All seminars meet at Faculty House, Columbia University
*Note: The City Seminar is co-sponsoring the "Shrinking Cities, Smaller Cities" conference at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, September 30-October 1, 2010. More information will be...
Added: July 24, 2010
25 September 2010
Kent, UK
On Saturday, 25 September, in association with the "Art Histories, Cultural Studies, and the Cold War" conference (described below), the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (CCM -...
Added: July 16, 2010
Critical Studies in Expressive Culture is a consortium of scholars aimed at assessing the place of anthropology – especially the anthropology of music, dance, art, or other expressive media – in ameliorating social inequalities and contributing to cultural and ethical debates. As...
Added: July 16, 2010
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries now available online
The Newberry Library is pleased to announce the completion and release of its Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, a dataset that covers every day-to-day change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and...
Added: July 16, 2010
American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History
For the past two years a team of scholars -- listed below -- has been recruiting contributors for a five-volume encyclopedia called American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends That Made U.S. History, to be...
Added: July 16, 2010
20-23 April 2011
San Antonio, TX
The Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association annual conference will be held April 20 - April 23, 2011 in the Marriott Riverwalk and Rivercenter Hotels, San Antonio, Texas. Scholars from numerous disciplines will meet to share...
Added: July 16, 2010
7-9 September 2011
Stirling, UK
It is often said that contemporary liberal democracies such as Britain and the USA face a crisis of over-criminalization: too much conduct is criminalized, too hastily, without adequate thought about the aims it should serve. The result is a...
Added: July 16, 2010
17-18 June 2011
London, UK
This conference is organized by Heythrop College and the Institute of English Studies, University of London
Religion has always been part of Western literary traditions. Many canonical literary texts engage extensively with theology and...
