Contents of the December 2011 e-bulletin are as follows:
3. TSA ANNOUNCEMENTS
4. TSA WEBSITE AND DATABASE
5. TSA ANNUAL NEWSLETTER
6. DONALD CAMERON WATT PRIZE
7. JTS NEWS
8. PUBLICATION NEWS
9. ATLANTIC COMMUNITY - INTERNET THINK TANK
10. NEW WEBSITE: TRANSATLANTIC ABOLITION IN 19TH CENTURY LEEDS
11. AMERICAN POLITICS GROUP CONFERENCE, MANCHESTER, 5-7 JANUARY 2012
12. IAAS AND BAAS POSTGRADUATE AND EARLY CAREER CONFERENCE, DUBLIN, 15-16 JANUARY 2012
13. US PRESIDENCY CONFERENCE, 23 FEBRUARY 2012
14. IRELAND AND AFRICAN-AMERICA CONFERENCE, 9-11 MARCH 2012
15. BACS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 2-4 APRIL 2012
16. BAAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 12-15 APRIL 2012
17. TSA CONFERENCE, CORK (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK) 9-12 JULY 2012 - CALL FOR PAPERS
18. WAR OF 1812 CONFERENCE, LONDON, 12-14 JULY 2012
19. TSA CONFERENCE, NEWCASTLE (NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY) 8-11 JULY 2013
20. MACKENZIE KING CONFERENCE, LONDON, 12 JULY 2013
3). TSA ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Elections for the TSA Management Committee, 2011-2012, were held at the TSA annual conference in Dundee in July 2011 and announced at the AGM on Wednesday July. A number of committee members stood down and other were elected in their place.
The TSA officers for July 2011-July 2012 are as follows:
The website also contains the TSA database. This provides basic information - name, affiliation, main publications and research interests - and is invaluable for colleagues seeking project partners, referees for journal articles and manuscripts, authors for book reviews, or simply looking to see what is happening at the cutting edge of research in our field. If you have not yet added your details to the database please contact Michael Cullinane via the TSA website.
5). TSA NEWSLETTER
The annual TSA Newsletter, including coverage of the very successful 10th anniversary conference in Dundee in July 2011, was circulated in early November. If you did not receive a copy and would like to do so please contact Louise Berry at louise.berry@canterbury.ac.uk
The DC Watt prize is awarded annually by the Transatlantic Studies Association for the best paper at its annual conference by an early career scholar.
Judging is based solely on the written versions of the papers submitted, which may not necessarily be the delivery versions. Entries are due by 30 April, preceding the annual conference in July. The delivery of the paper is not part of the assessment but candidates for the award must attend and deliver the paper at the conference.
The prize for the best paper is awarded at the conference dinner. In addition, the paper is automatically sent out for refereeing for publication in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies providing that it has not been submitted elsewhere.
Sum £250
Early career scholar is defined as:
a PhD student;
anyone within 3 years of having been awarded a PhD;
anyone who has a full-time appointment at a recognised higher education institution, but has not held the post for more than 3 years and does not fall into the doctoral category.
7). JTS NEWS
The articles included in the December issue of the JTS are as follows:
'The ideological equivalent of the atomic bomb'.The Netherlands, Atlanticism, and human rights in the early Cold War
Floribert H. Baudet, Netherlands Defence Academy
Mutual Interests? US Public Diplomacy in the 1980s and Nicolas Sarkozy's First Trip to the United States
Giles Scott-Smith, Roosevelt Study Center / Roosevelt AcademyMiddelburg,The Netherlands
The Public Images of Britain, Germany, and France in the United States
Kai Oppermann, University of Cologne
Neutral Switzerland and Western Security Governance from the Cold War to the Global Economic Crisis
Dr Daniel Möckli, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Exemplary 'friends and allies'? Unpacking UK-US relations in the early Twenty-First Century
Susan Murphy's new book, Le Canada anglais de Jacques Ferron (1960-1970). Formes, fonctions et representations, has been published (November 2011) by the Presses de l’Université Laval.
Serge Ricard (ed) The Blackwell Companion to Theodore Roosevelt was published by Wiley-Blackwell in September 2011.
Douglas Eden organised a very successful book launch for the Theodore Roosevelt Companion at the Institute for the Study of the Americas in November. The event was chaired by Iwan Morgan, Director of US Studies at the Institute, and included papers on TR by Douglas Eden, Tony McCulloch and Simon Rofe.
9). ATLANTIC COMMUNITY INTERNET THINK TANK
Atlantic-community.org, the online think tank with over 6,000 members, is looking for student submissions.
Joerg Wolf , the Editor-in-Chief of atlantic-community.org, the open think tank for foreign policy, would like to call attention to an opportunity for students to have articles published on this platform and to become part of a growing community of over 6000 policymakers, analysts, students, and young professionals who debate the important issues in transatlantic relations and global politics.
This is an opportunity for students in the fields of political science and international relations to have their work published and their ideas debated by the greater policy community. Atlantic Community is an open think tank; anyone can become a member and have their policy ideas published alongside the opinions of established experts and debated by the community of policy makers, researchers, students, and young professionals. The best of these ideas are then featured in the Atlantic Memo, a policy paper that reaches top decision makers from the US and Europe.
To students -
This is an excellent opportunity for you to have your work published and seen by the wider foreign policy community. To submit your articles, you must register as a member. Registration is entirely free and only takes seconds. You can register here: http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/users/register
10). NEW WEBSITE: TRANSATLANTIC ABOLITION IN 19TH CENTURY LEEDS
A new website has been launched that draws attention to transatlantic abolitionist activity in Leeds in the 19th century. It is aimed towards the general public, including children. There are some short films on it and links to a census page which shows that William and Ellen Craft stayed in Leeds are were each registered as a fugitive slave. We also have an exhibition going on until the end of the month at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds.
11). AMERICAN POLITICS GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 5-7 JANUARY, 2012, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
The 2012 American Politics Group Annual Conference, Europe's leading meeting of scholars of U.S. Politics, will be focused on the theme of 'reform and recovery' with the John D Lees Memorial Lecture to be given by Professor Richard Pious of Columbia University.
The conference is hosted by the Department of Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, with delegate accommodation provided by the prestigious and historic four star Midland Hotel which is in the heart of the city centre only a short walk from the conference location. Manchester is easily accessible by rail, road and air. Attendance and accommodation costs are as follows:
12). IAAS AND BAAS POSTGRADUATE AND EARLY CAREER CONFERENCE, DUBLIN, 15-16 JANUARY 2012
The forthcoming inaugural IAAS and BAAS Postgraduate and Early Career Scholar Conference entitled Transgressive and Transgression will be held in Trinity College Dublin on the 15-16 of January, 2012. Please note that the deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday 16 December, 2011. Plenary speakers include Philip McGowan (Queen's University Belfast), Chair of the IAAS and Martin Halliwell (University of Leicester) Chair of BAAS.
IAAS and BAAS Postgraduate and Early Career Scholar Conference
January 15-16 2012
Trinity College, Dublin
Transgressive and Transgression
Discourses of American Exceptionalism pivot effortlessly around the fulcrum of America's position as an idealised other to the normative standard: the 'city on the hill' as disjointed from the normative valley below. However, contemporary American scholarship has been so bold as to tackle the 'othered' identities and constructs considered anti-social or nihilistic (as opposed to 'exceptional') by virtue of their disconnect which have long peopled the American narrative. Such demarcations beg the question as to what exactly denotes 'exception', and what denotes 'deviance' or even 'eccentricity'. What does it mean to be 'transgressive' in the context of an America which privileges the concept of 'exception'? And at what point does 'exception' translate into 'transgression'? Is America 'exceptional' or 'transgressive'? In a broader sense, as America's international interests see an increased American military presence appear on the international stage, what does 'transgression' now mean in relation to America's own borders, and the borders of others? And within American borders, how has recent legislation transgressed the boundaries of America's 'exceptional' ideas of itself? This conference seeks to examine notions of transgression in all aspects of the American narrative.
The inaugural IAAS and BAAS postgraduate and early career scholar conference collaboration invites proposals for 20-minute presentations and welcomes papers from across American Studies. Suggestions for topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
- Transgressions of federal and state law
- Changing notions of family and community
- (Alternative) articulations of transgression in the American context
- American Studies as a transgressive area of inquiry (?)
- Revising or integrating transgression(s) into the American narrative
- Transgressive Subjects: Thinking class, gender, race, sexuality and disability
Plenary speakers: Philip McGowan (Queen's University Belfast) Chair of IAAS
Martin Halliwell (University of Leicester) Chair BAAS
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday the 16th of December, 2011. Proposals should be emailed to baas.iaas@gmail.com and marked for the attention of Louise Walsh, Kate Kirwan and Zalfa Feghali.
13). SYMPOSIUM: "RANKING AMERICAN PRESIDENTS", NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY, 23 FEBRUARY 2012
Northumbria University
Department of Humanities
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
February 23, 2012
Americans love to rank things. In business there is the Fortune 500; in crime the FBI's Most Wanted; and David Letterman made his name by composing a daily Top Ten List. It is no surprise that presidents are treated to the same scrutiny. For the very first time in 2010, UK scholars of American history have composed their own rankings organized by Professor Iwan Morgan (Institute for the Study of the America's). Northumbria University is hosting a symposium to further dissect these rankings and discuss the legacy of America's presidents.
Featured speakers include:
Professor Iwan Morgan (Institute for the Study of the Americas)
Professor John Dumbrell (Durham University)
Dr. Niall Palmer (Brunel University)
Professor David Haglund (Queen's University - Ontario)
14). IRELAND AND AFRICAN-AMERICA CONFERENCE, 9-11 MARCH 2012
The forthcoming Clinton Institute for American Studies conference entitled Ireland and African-America will take place in UCD on the 9-11 March, 2012. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 16 December, 2011.
The Clinton Institute for American Studies is pleased to announce the confirmed keynote speaker will be Ishmael Reed, the pre-eminent African-American author who has controversially satirized American political and cultural life in a range of literary forms. Additional plenary speakers will include: Maurice Bric (UCD), Luke Gibbons (NUI Maynooth), Eric Lott (University of Virginia), and Diane Negra (UCD).
Please note that abstracts and enquiries should be directed to walsh.lou@gmail.com.
Ireland and African-America
9-11 March 2012
Clinton Institute for American Studies
University College Dublin, Ireland
Call for Papers
From Fredrick Douglass' sojurn in Ireland as part of his abolitionist tour in 1845 to Barack Obama's visit as president of the United States of America in 2011 there exists a multi-layered history of Irish and African-American interactions. Whether conceived in terms of geography or ideology, Ireland and African-America are bound together in a historiography of transatlantic exchanges and (post)colonial experiences of migration, urbanization and contestation. This conference will explore a range of ways in which Irish and African-American cultures and histories have interacted, from the slave trade to contemporary popular culture. It also seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and a transatlantic exchange of ideas among scholars in the field.
Conference themes will include, though not be limited to:
* The role of Ireland and the Irish in histories of Atlantic slavery and emancipation
* The racialising of Irish culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
* The intersections of radical political histories and of issues of civil and human rights
* The relations between Irish and African-American urban communities
* The comparison of histories of diaspora and migration, and of Pan-Africanism and Pan-Celticism
* The influences on each other of Irish and African-American literature, music and popular culture
* The comparison of paradigms of racial and ethnic identity formation
We are pleased to announce the confirmed keynote speaker will be Ishmael Reed, the pre-eminent African-American author who has controversially satirized American political and cultural life in a range of literary forms. Additional plenary speakers will include: Maurice Bric (UCD), Luke Gibbons (NUI Maynooth), Eric Lott (University of Virginia), and Diane Negra (UCD).
Scholars and graduate students in humanities and social science fields (including history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, area studies, and media and visual studies) are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute papers. Paper proposals should be sent to Louise Walsh, walsh.lou@gmail.com, by 16 December 2011.
15). BACS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 2-4 APRIL 2012
BACS 37th Annual Conference
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
2-4 April 2012
The British Association for Canadian Studies' Literature Group is pleased to issue the following Call for Papers for the 2012 BACS conference. We encourage contributions on any facet of the topic of Sustaining Canada in relation to Canadian literary and cultural study. Proposals for 20-minute papers, to be presented in either English or French, would be particularly welcome in the following areas:
* Ecocriticism in a Canadian context
* Narratives and/or poetics of environmentalism and activism
* Indigenous literature and culture
* Regional literature and culture
* Border studies
* Urban studies
* Landscape
* Representations of animals in Canadian culture
* Settler-invader narratives
* Travel literature
* The impact of literature and culture upon the environment
* Canadian culture in relation to different kinds of 'environment', e.g. domestic environment, national/international environment, linguistic environments, publishing or production contexts, etc.
* Sustaining Canadian culture, materially and/or ideologically
* Sustaining the culture of specific communities in Canada
Proposals (panel and individual) and deadline:
Email abstract(s) of 200-300 words and brief CV (please do not exceed one page) which must include your title, institutional affiliation, email and mailing address by 20 November 2011.
Submissions will be acknowledged by email. Postgraduate students are especially welcome to submit a proposal and there will be a concessionary conference fee for students. BACS regrets that it is unable to assist participants with travel and accommodation costs.
16). BAAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, 12-15 APRIL 2012
Gaynor Johnson is organising the official TSA panel for the up-coming BAAS Conference.
Please contact Gaynor for further details.
17). TSA CONFERENCE, CORK (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK), 9-12 JULY 2012 - CALL FOR PAPERS
The Chairman of the TSA, Prof Alan Dobson (University of Dundee and St. Andrews University) and Professor David Ryan (UCC) would like to extend an invitation to the 2012 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference. Our outstanding 2012 plenary guests are:
Professor Constance Post (Iowa State University)
"Particles, Waves, and Fields: Momentum and the Transatlantic Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies"
AND
Professor Fredrik Logevall (Cornell University)
‘Same Bed, Different Dreams: France and America in Vietnam’
Panel proposals and individual papers are welcome for any of the general or sub-panels. A 300 word abstract of proposal and brief CV to panel leaders or to Alan Dobsona.p.dobson@dundee.ac.uk and David Ryan david.ryan@ucc.ie by 30 April 2012.
The general panels, subpanels and panel leaders for 2012 are:
18). WAR OF 1812 CONFERENCE, LONDON, 12-13 JULY 2012
The annual conference of the BACS History and Politics Group that follows the TSA annual conference will take place on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 July at Senate House, University of London. The theme of this year's conference is the War of 1812 and already over 60 papers have been confirmed for the two day conference, including several from TSA members. The conference will be a major event and will lead to a two volume collection of papers on the War of 1812. Thye conference organisers are Phillip Buckner phillipbuckner@hotmail.com ; Tony McCullochtony.mcculloch@canterbury.ac.uk ; and John McAleer JMcAleer@nmm.ac.uk
For further details and to attend the conference please contact Tony McCulloch.
19). TSA CONFERENCE, 8-11 JULY 2013. NEWCASTLE (NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY)
The 2013 annual TSA conference will be held in Newcastle at the University of Northumbria from Monday 8 to Thursday 11 July 2013 and will be organised by Sylvia Ellis. Further details will be available in due course.
20). MACKENZIE KING CONFERENCE, LONDON, 12 JULY 2013
The annual conference of the BACS History and Politics Group will be held on Friday 12 July 2013 at Senate House, University of London.
The theme of the conference will be the career of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's longest serving Prime Minister (1921-1930 and 1935-1948). The aim of the confrence will be to review and discuss recent scholarship on MacKenzie King with a view to producing a volume of essays to be edited by Tony McCulloch and Hector MacKenzie.
