UPDATE: America and Violence (6/15/05; 10/6/05-10/9/05)

The deadline for the receipt of proposals for papers has been changed to
June 15, 2005

The Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS) will be holding its
2005 Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 6-9. The theme will
be "America and Violence". "America", D. H. Lawrence once proclaimed,
"is tense with latent violence and resistance". This description has
rarely seemed more
appropriate than at the present moment, when the United States is tense
with the fear of terrorist violence inside its own borders, and strained

by the physical and emotional costs of a violent war it is waging on the

other side of the world. But the American experience has, in various
ways, been a violent one from its beginnings. Proposals for papers or
panels (max. 250 words) that deal with the topic of violence in American

history, culture, literature, and life from any point of view are
welcome. The deadline for receipt of proposals is June 15, 2005. Some
appropriate areas might include:

                    America at War
                    Terrorism and the Responses
                    Violence and Politics
                    Violent Crime and Punishment
                    Social Violence and/or Repression
                    "Gun Culture" or "Wound Culture" (Mark Seltzer)
                    Literary or Artistic Depictions of Violence
                    Violence as an Artistic Strategy
                    Violence and/or Crime in Popular Culture
                    Philosophical or Sociological Explanations of
Violence

Send proposals to:

David H. Evans
English Department
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 4P9
dhevans_at_dal.ca

or

David Howard
Historical and Critical Studies
NSCAD University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3J 3J6
david_at_nscad.ns.ca

For further information, visit the conference website at:
http://www.dal.ca/~dhevans/CAAS/conference.htm

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