Announcements

Announcing the inauguration of the “OASIS-Orientale American Studies International School,” a one-week school that will take place at Università Orientale’s conference center on the island of Procida, off the coast of Naples, May 21-27, 2012.
School Directors: Donatella Izzo (University of Naples "L'Orientale"), Giorgio Mariani (University of Rome "La Sapienza")

Confirmed speakers: Susan Andrade, University of Pittsburgh (USA), Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh (USA), Paola Boi, Università di Cagliari (Italy), Ira Dworkin, The American University in Cairo (Egypt), Alan M. Nadel, University of Kentucky (USA), Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College (USA), Stefano Rosso, Università di Bergamo (Italy), John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California (USA).

Seminar leaders: Alan M. Nadel, University of Kentucky (USA); Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College (USA); John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California (USA)

OASIS is a project inspired by the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College, and aiming to create a similarly vibrant and generative institutional venue for the younger generations of American Studies students and scholars. OASIS will be the first school of its kind in Italy; it will also be the first such school to be held in southern Europe, and it will be hosted by a university whose unique tradition of transnational dialogue with and focus on non-European cultures can be traced back to the eighteenth century. By establishing an American Studies school at “L’Orientale,” and by convening it in a Mediterranean island such as Procida, we hope to create a venue that is attractive to American Studies scholars and students not just from Italy but from the Mediterranean area at large. We especially hope that our school may prove attractive to Americanist students from the nearby Arabic countries of North Africa and the Middle East. By bringing together scholars from different areas of the world and at different stages of their career, we hope to create the conditions for a productive, truly global dialogue in American Studies.

The school will run from Monday to Sunday. Every day will feature 2 plenary 45-minutes lectures from distinguished scholars in the morning, each followed by discussion, and afternoon sessions, which will be devoted to two presentations of students’ individual research projects, followed by discussion. Students will be divided in seminar groups of about 10, each led by a scholar. The last day will be devoted to plenary presentation and discussion of students’ response papers. Lunch will be catered and consumed on site, followed by a short break for rest and group conversation: we thus hope to build a friendly intellectual atmosphere and constructive dialogue among the participants.
We invite applications from doctoral students and recent Ph.D.s in American Studies, English, Comparative Literature, and related fields.
The fee for the School (covering registration, tuition, housing, breakfast, and lunch) is € 480 for the whole week. Accommodation will be provided in residences and B&Bs in downtown Procida (in single/double rooms or shared apartments, depending on availability; the fee covers a maximum of 7 nights, starting May 20). Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements and expenses. Fees will be due on arrival or payable by national or international money order to the school administration. Depending on financial resources, one fellowship covering tuition and accommodation will be awarded. Preference will be given to applicants outside of Italy who are unable to get funding from their own institutions.
Applications will be accepted until March 30, 2012; successful applicants will be notified by April 15.
Applications should include: -a current CV; -a two-page abstract of applicant’s dissertation or book project, including a description of the section to be presented and discussed during seminars; -the name and contact of a referee; -information about the candidate’s eligibility/non eligibility for funding from own institution
Please send all of the above materials (PDF or Word format) to: oasis@unior.it For further information please contact oasis@unior.it and www.oasis.unior.it OASIS is generously supported by the U.S. Embassy in Italy and by Università di Napoli “L’Orientale.”

Dartmouth College announces a One Week Summer Institute "States of American Studies", which will be held from Monday, June 18 to Sunday, June 24, 2012.
The sixteenth year of the Institute is the third of a four-year focus on "State(s) of American Studies."  The term "state(s)" in the title is intended to refer at once to the "state" as an object of analysis, to the state as an imagined addressee and interlocutor for Americanist scholarship, as well as to the reconfigured state(s) of the fields and areas of inquiry in American Studies both inside and outside the United States. As such, we are inviting both scholars well known as "Americanists" internationally and those whose theoretical frameworks, objects of study, and disciplinary inclinations promise to transform the field's self-understanding.

The Institute is divided into plenary sessions that feature current work from Institute faculty (listed above) and research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress. Speakers in the plenary sessions will examine the relation between emergent and residual practices in the field of American Studies from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. The Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and who are interested in current critical debates in American Studies. 

The Institute was designed to provide a shared space of critical inquiry that brings the participants’ work-in-progress to the attention of a network of influential scholars. Over the past ten years, plenary speakers have recommended participants’ work to the leading journals and university presses within the field of American Studies, and have provided participants with recommendations and support in an increasingly competitive job market.

Fee: The fee for the Institute (covering registration, housing, and seminars) is $695.00.  The fee to attend only the Institute plenary sessions is $500.

Applications: Applications for the 2012 Institute will be accepted until all slots have been filled, but applications received by May 18, 2012 will be granted priority.  Applicants should send a brief description of their own projects (no more than 1 page) along with a current CV, a writing sample (10-15 pages) and a $10 application fee (please make checks payable to “Dartmouth College”).

Applications should be mailed to:
Alexander Corey
The Futures of American Studies Institute
Dartmouth College
116 Wentworth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755.

For further information, please contact: Alexander Corey
email: Futures.of.American.Studies.Institute@Dartmouth.edu
url: www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
phone:  603-646-3592

La newsletter n. 64 della European Association for American Studies è disponibile in rete all’indirizzo http: www.eaas.eu/images/stories/newsletter/eaas_nl_64_web.pdf.

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L'ultimo numero della Review of International American Studies - Vol. 5, 1-2, Winter-Spring 2011 è disponibile sul sito della rivista della IASA (International American Studies Association). Il numero, scaricabile gratuitamente, è reperibile all'indirizzo http://www.iasaweb.org/rias/RIAS_special_online.pdf

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