Welcome back from a long, much needed summer holiday. Unfortunately, I’ve had some admin/site maintenance problems with the site for several months which I’ve ignored until now. I believe I’ve finally worked them out. I have hardly had any time for blogging for over a year now, and certainly don’t have any to spare for [...]
Tagged BloggingAlthough we’ve rather recently upgraded WordPress and changed america adrift’s template, I am looking for something else. I think the feedback on the current template has been positive overall. What’s your take? I quite like the clean simple feel of this skin, but the editing functions have tormented me. I don’t know if it’s WordPress [...]
Tagged Blogging nightmaresAs Americans prepare to vote, historian Eric Foner speaks to SPIEGEL about the current crisis of confidence in the United States, the roots of US exceptionalism and the country’s ever-changing concept of freedom.
As you all must be aware, the great Paul Newman recently passed on. Katie McFarlane, a graduate student? at UEA has just joined the CM blog as their first contributer with a tribute to Mr. Newman, News: Remembering Paul Newman. Drop by and visit our friends across the North Sea “little pond.” They’re just a [...]
LATINO/A USA: TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES / IDENTIDADES TRANSNACIONALES Seminar at University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Friday-Saturday, November 14-15, 2008 We are inviting 30-minute presentations addressing any aspect of the interdisciplinary field of Latino/a studies. We welcome traditional research papers as well as methodological considerations from multiple disciplinary, theoretical, historical, and geographic perspectives. All proposals are [...]
aspeers: emerging voices in american studies calls for submissions by 31 October 2008 American Studies has always been interested in different notions of migration. Publications and course catalogs around the world testify to the role it has played and continues to play in both scholarly research and academic teaching. Recent concepts of ‘mobility’ can contribute [...]
If you found Bent’s recent post on American Post-9/11 fiction interesting you may want to check out the Cafe discussion on Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland.
I’ve just upgraded WordPress, again. There’s been some problems with the comments so please bear with us. I know that David for example left a comment which was waiting moderation. Now it has disappeared. Sorry David. I’ve installed the Askimet spam blocking plugin so hopefully all the spam showing up in the comments will be [...]
“Will Race Survive in the US? The Possibilities and Impossibilities of the Obama Phenomena” By Professor David Roediger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, Copenhagen Center for American Studies University of Southern Denmark, Odense Thursday, September 25, 2008 14:15-16:00, Room 100 This lecture, based on David Roediger’s shortly [...]
NPR.org, June 2, 2008 – One of the fathers of rock ‘n’ roll died Monday at the age of 79. Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates in Mississippi and grew up in Chicago, where he played guitar on street corners before being discovered by Chess Records. He leaves behind a sound that helped build a [...]