Via NEWSgrist We [smARThistory] are interested in delivering the narratives of art history using the read-write web’s interactivity and capacity for authoring and remixing. Publishers are adding multimedia to their textbooks, but unfortunately they are doing so in proprietary, password-protected adjunct websites. These are weak because they maintain an old model of closed and protected [...]
As of October 17, a new editorial team has begun to work on the second issue of aspeers, Europe’s first—and currently only—graduate-level peer-reviewed journal for American Studies. Between now and the Spring of 2009, Tanja Aho, Ingrid Betz, Franziska Böhme, Susan Büttner, Sebastian M. Herrmann, Benedikt Schäfer, and Isabel Simão will work to edit the [...]
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 [...]
My paper for the EAAS conference in Oslo last week dealt with icons and icon work, continuing a line of research I began about 5 years ago when I participated in a conference in Austria with the theme of US Icons. The convener of both the AAAS event in 2003 and of the Oslo workshop [...]
Tagged Journals and Publications, Photography, Popular Culture, Postmodern Culture, The 70sFor the times they are a-changin’ “Each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows of Harvard College permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. More specifically, each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and [...]