http://upcoming.yahoo.com/search/?search_placeid=pdMQtoubAZw70yLc2w All events in Szeged, Hungary on Upcoming. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:28:11 -0700 Upcoming 60 en-us Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS) at the University of Szeged, Hungary

OCTOBER 17-18, 2008

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The American Studies Department of the University of Szeged is proud to host the 2008 conference of HAAS, and we are pleased to invite proposals for papers and workshops in all areas, corners and niches of American Studies. The event is offered to document and celebrate the diversity of American Studies as a field of intellectual and political adventure in a world going global, at the same time surveying the current state of the profession in Hungary and beyond.

The broad thematic frame of the conference is offered by the current historical context in Hungary and all over Europe, with higher education undergoing radical changes, affecting liberal arts and the humanities. All that, coupled with requirements for the new American Studies BA and MA programs have set the boundaries of teaching and research activity nationwide. This new situation generates several questions for the present and the future:

What is the current state of American Studies in a changing national and international environment? How do individual contributions to the field shape the contours of American Studies as well as its position within disciplinary boundaries? What is it that we can/should achieve within the new boundaries in response to demands in view of teaching and research concerns?
We believe that questions like these can be best investigated through the individual and institutional practices of American Studies. Papers are invited in fields ranging from cultural studies, literature, history through linguistics or media and visual culture.

Any presentation format will be welcome, including individual papers, roundtable discussions, or workshops (with proposed time frame and number of participants).

Please send your proposal with title and abstract of 150-200 words to:

* Dr. György Novák at gnovak@lit.u-szeged.hu
by March 30, 2008.

Proposals should contain the following information:
Participant’s name and affiliation, title of paper/workshop.

Anticipated conference fee for

* HAAS members: HUF 5000; PhD students: HUF 3000;
* non-members: HUF 6000; PhD students: HUF 4000.

An edited proceedings of the papers presented will be published.
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