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) and
Joy Kogawa
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, by the extended deadline of November 30, 2000.
Welcome to Tampere!
David Robertson
Chair of the Conference Program Coordinator
Professor of English
Phone: +358-3-215 6151
Fax: +358-3-215 7146
Email: david.robertson@uta.fi
Postal address: Center for North American Studies
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
FINLAND
Accepted papers so far include the following:
Session: Gender Issues
Tiina Parke-Sutherland (Stephens College), Where Angels Fear to Tread:
The Ideological Limits of 19th-
Century Domestic Feminism
Nicholas F. Radel (Furman University), The Transnational Gay Utopia: A
Streetcar Named Desire, "My Polish Waiter," and the Internationalization of
American Gay Identities after the Fall of the Wall
Session: Nature Writing
Marlene Broemer (Fulbright Professor, University of Helsinki), The Great
Divide in the Bear-Shit School of Poetry: Men ans Women in Different Caves
Greg Jacob (Portland State University), Monologic vs Dialogic Voice in
Nature Writing
Session: Academic Divides
Michael Coleman (University of Jyväskylä), From the Great Divide: A
Historian's Critique of Postmodernist Critiques of History
David K. Heckerl (Concordia University), The Insult of Beneficence:
Lionel Trilling and Edward Said on Politics, Modernism, and Intellectual
Freedom
Jane Weiss (Hunter College of CUNY), Imperialism in the English Department
Session: Indian Affairs
Roger L. Nichols (University of Arizona), The Border as Divide: 19th
Century Indian Experiences in the US and Canada
Pauliina Raento (Academy of Finland) & Kate A. Berry (University of
Nevada, Reno), Rewriting the Legacies of Conquest: Indian Gaming in the
United States
Session: National Identity
Elizabeth Galway (University of Exeter), Dissent in the Nursery:
Competing Ideologies of National Identity in 19th Century Canada
Stefano Luconi (University of Florence), Overcoming Ethnic Divisions: The
Transformation of the Italian-American Identity in the United States
Richard J. Schneider (Wartburg College), Thoreau and the Irish: The
Racial Divide and Science in 19th-Century America
Session: Border Lives
David H. Evans (Dalhousie University), Representations on the Line in
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy
Jonathan Fairbanks (American University in Bulgaria), Bridging Divides
Suzanne M. Sinke (Clemson University), Transnational Lives: International
Migration and Marriage Patterns
Session: Politics I
Melvin Holli (University of Illinois at Chicago), Emil Hurja and the
Origins of Presidential Public Opinion Polling
Tiina Kivinen (University of Tampere), Divides Done in Words: Woodrow
Wilson's Uses of History
Alexander Sedelmaier (Technische Universität Berlin), Democracy versus
Autocracy: Secretary of State Robert Lansing and Wilsonian World Views
Session: Politics II
Anne Ruggles Gere (University of Michigan), Divided Citizens: The
Struggle for Statehood in Utah
Keith Olson (University of Maryland at College Park), Eisenhower on Civil
Rights
Session: American World Politics
Mary Montgomery (University of Maryland), Anglo-American Relations and
Decolonization in Ghana 1957-1963
Anatoli Utkin (International Studies Center, Moscow) , America in the
World: Hegemon or Not?
Session: Literature and (Post)Modern Society
Gary Blohm (University of Exeter), Self, Class and Society: Social
Isolation in Raymond Carter
Barry Lewis (University of Sunderland), "Hacking the Worm": Great Divides
in Mason & Dixon
Reet Sool (University of Tartu), "Listen, Reckless America": Henrik
Visnapuu in NYC
Session: Representing American Divides
Maria Kozyreva (Kazan State University), America Seen by Dickens and
Chesterton
Barbara Krauth (University of Colorado at Boulder), Crossing the
"Desolate Divide": Mark Twain's Representation of Racial Otherness
Elvira Osipova (St. Petersburg University), The Great Divide within
American Romanticism
Session: Representations of Maximilian's Empire
John Bratzel (Michigan State University), History and Romance in
Harding's Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico (1934)
Gary Hoppenstand (Michigan State University), Hollywood Cowboys and
Confederates in Mexico: An Analysis of Andrew V. McLagen's The Undefeated
(1969)
Douglas A. Noverr (Michigan State University), History, Romance, and
Historical Fiction in Norman Zollinger's Chapultepec (1995)
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