The Ninth Tampere Conference on North American Studies
GREAT DIVIDES
The University of Tampere, Finland
May 3-5, 2001
The 2001 Tampere Conference will be the ninth biennial international
conference on American/ North American Studies organized by the North
American Studies Program at the University of Tampere. The theme of the
conference will be ‘Great Divides' referring to all kinds of divides within
the continent of North America.
Our conference has grown to become one of the biggest in the field in
Northern Europe, attracting between 250 and 400 participants. For the
previous conference in 1999, we expanded the definition of North America to
include Mexico in line with NAFTA, and we aim to continue and deepen this
initiative. We are hoping to make the 2001 conference once again truly
cross- disciplinary in the tradition of these conferences with speakers
from the fields of literature, linguistics, history, sociology, media
studies, politics, and anthropology among others, from North America,
including Mexico, and Europe.
The plenary speakers will be:
Glen Love (University of Oregon), and
William H. New (University of British Columbia)
The conference welcomes proposals of individual papers, panels, and
workshops on all aspects of the theme of the conference. We anticipate the
following three broad foci to emerge, but participants are encouraged to
interpret the theme as broadly as possible:
* divides within scholarship (questions of cross-disciplinary area studies
and cultural studies; the place of more traditional interpretive frameworks
in the humanities and social sciences)
* divides within and between cultures and societies, and within personhood
and nationhood (questions of identity; gender, race, class, nation,
language; self and society; the representations and manifestations of these
in literature, history and sociology; research across cultural boundaries;
North America in European social thought; North American societies in
comparison)
* divides involving regional and national borders and international
relations from the cold war to globalization (globalization processes; new
media flows; immigration and emigration; cold war reappraised; post-cold
war transatlantic relations; North American community after NAFTA; other
international political, economic, and social issues)
We would like to give a little more time than usual to the papers given at
competing parallel sessions, allowing them 30 minutes with 10 minutes for
questions. For the plenary sessions, papers might be 45 - 50 minutes plus
questions.
Please submit an abstract (1 page) of proposed papers to David Robertson,
Conference Chair, or Sari Pasto, Program Coordinator for North American
Studies, by October 31, 2000.
Welcome to Tampere!
David Robertson Sari Pasto
Chair of the Conference Program Coordinator
Professor of English North American Studies
Phone: +358-3-215 6151 Phone: +358-3-215 7154
Fax: +358-3-215 7146 Fax: +358-3-215 6980
Email: david.robertson@uta.fi Email: sari.pasto@uta.fi
Postal address: Center for North American Studies
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
FINLAND
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