Return to Society
of Early Americanists Announcements Page
CALL
FOR SUBMISSIONS
Beyond
Colonial Studies—An Inter-American Encounter
(
Providence
,
Rhode Island
,
November 4-6, 2004
)
Continuing the cross-disciplinary dialogue inaugurated at the First Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit in
Tucson
,
AZ
, in 2002,
this conference is intended to explore how comparative approaches may take colonial American studies beyond the terms that generally
define the discourse in the various disciplines (English, Spanish, History, etc.). We are particularly interested in the consequence of the
particular events, actors and institutions that are the usual focus of colonial studies, and therefore will give preference to submissions that
address, in a comparative manner, the ways in which these are remembered, imagined and used by others who follow. The regular sessions
and workshops will take place at the Providence Biltmore Hotel. Keynote addresses will be delivered at the reading room of the John Carter
Brown Library by Rolena Adorno (Yale) and David Shields (U South Carolina). Besides the sessions and workshops, there will be lunches,
receptions, and plenty of other opportunities in various locations in order to foster informal conversation among scholars from different
fields with an interest in the early
Americas
. The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS has been extended to
May 15, 2004
. Proposals for
papers to be given in the plenary sessions should be explicitly comparative and address one of the topics specified on the Program
(see http://www.mith2.umd.edu/summit/program2.htm). Proposals for a workshop should be designed to foster cross-disciplinary
dialogue (see http://www.mith2.umd.edu/summit/workshops.html
For
general information, see: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/summit/home.html
Application
procedure:
Applicants
should send a c.v. and a 1-page, single-spaced proposal as attachments in Word
for Windows to the Conference Directors
by
May 15th 2004
.
Conference
directors:
David A. Boruchoff, McGill University (david.boruchoff@mcgill.ca)
Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland (rb227@umail.umd.edu)
Program
Committee:
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, CUNY
Christopher Conway,
Brown
University
Leonard Tennenhouse,
Brown
University
Local
Arrangements Chair:
Nancy Armstrong, Brown.
Return to Society
of Early Americanists Announcements Page