Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies. Deadline: March 2, 2012
Binghamton University is hosting a graduate student conference in transnational American Studies on April 20-21, 2012. The conference is titled "Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies," and the keynote speakers include Donald Pease, Dartmouth College and Daniel T. O’Hara, Temple University. William V. Spanos, Binghamton University, will present the closing address. Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference dedicated to exploring the changing contours of the field of American Studies. This year’s conference focuses on “Re-Imagining the New World(s),” an interrogation of the role of a variety of empires, most specifically the American and British empires, in the construction of culture, expression, and subjectivity. This conference will focus on the comparison of the imaginaries produced by empire(s), with a focus on cultural empire. It seeks to examine individual world empires