Feb 15, '002 Initial Deadline: "REGIONALISMS IN THIS AGE OF GLOBALIZATION,"
the Southern American Studies Association's next biennial conference (Feb
7-9, '003, at Tallahassee, hosted by the Program in American and Florida
Studies, Florida State Univ.).
As we examine the various concepts of regionalism--–their status and their
interpretation--–within American Studies today, we seek panel and paper
proposals that address these and other issues:
What does regionalism mean for Americanists today, when broadcast and
cellular media, global corporations, and the Internet blur or erase
geophysical and geopolitical borders? What does regionalism mean in a
period of "war on terrorism," when enemy targets reside not only abroad but
within our own neighborhoods? What does regionalism mean in analysis of
visual culture, when the institutional agents that transmit, disseminate or
exhibit imagery are local, while the generally unseen creators and
organizers of this imagery are often multicentric in location? Do the
regional distinctions we as scholars and teachers often make to facilitate
research, networking, and curriculum development continue to make sense? As
participants in an interdisciplinary (and, yes, regional) association, are
there discipline-specific ways by which we define regionalism that we must
transcend for cogent discussion of the issues pertaining to the subject?
Submit proposals and address questions to both conference co-chairs,
please: Karen A. Bearor, Art History / FSU / Tallahassee 32306-1151,
kbearor@mailer.fsu.edu, and Dennis Moore, English / FSU / Tallahassee
32306-1580, dmoore@english.fsu.edu. For more info about the Program in
American and Florida Studies, go to http://www.fsu.edu/~ams/.
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The academy is not paradise. But learning
is a place where paradise can be created. -- bell hooks
Dr. DENNIS D. MOORE / dmoore@english.fsu.edu
Executive Coordinator, Society of Early Americanists
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Associate Professor / Department of English / (850) 644-1177
Florida State University / Tallahassee 32306-1580 U.S.A.
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