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victorylee0516
(victoria lee) 41F
3081 posts
5/16/2008 1:24 pm
FYI -- Mongrel America

The American Studies Graduate Committee at the University of Texas at Austin calls for papers for its upcoming graduate conference, "Mongrel America," to be held in Austin on October 2-3, 2008. Our keynote speaker will be Dick Hebdige.

Constructions and representations of America and American identity are fluid and contested. Our conference theme, "Mongrel America," plays on ideas of hybridity and melange, boundaries and transgressions, authenticity and artificiality. In order to complicate the term "mongrel," we seek papers which look at ideas and aspects of America in the musical, literary, artistic, religious, political, visual, psychological, natural, built, social, and transnational realms, including work which looks beyond the political borders of the United States to the "Americas" and beyond. In addition to standard conference papers, we also invite other presentation formats and creative works, such as short films and poetry/fiction/drama readings.

As interdisciplinary work is at the core of American Studies, we encourage different methodological approaches and invite submissions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including but not limited to: African and African American Studies, American Studies, American Indian Studies, Anthropology, Architecture and Urban Planning, Art and Art History, Asian and Asian American Studies, Borderland Studies, Botany, Chicana/o Studies, Communication Studies, Education, English, Environmental Studies, History, Geography, Government, Journalism, Latin American Studies, Law, Mexican American Studies, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Public Affairs, Queer Studies, Radio-Television-Film, Religious Studies, Rhetoric, Sociology, Women's Studies, and Zoology.

victorylee0516
(victoria lee) 41F

5/19/2008 10:23 pm
    Quoting  :
Call yourself a community scholar and have an academic level paper worth discussing. I'm sure they will be interested.

For instance, they have widely defined the term 'Mongrel America" to mean almost everything under the sun. Also, America is defined as anything on the American continent. However, UTA has an extremely left leaning super liberal faculty who seem to be at war with anyone from Europe. There, you might not be considered "mongrel' enough.

Vicky