This is the 3rd e-bulletin of the academic year 2009-10
It contains 12 items, the first 11 of which relate directly to the TSA.
Please send items for inclusion in the next e-bulletin - March 2010 - to Tony McCulloch, Secretary of the TSA (tony.mcculloch@canterbury.ac.uk) by Friday 19 March 2010.
2. TSA ANNOUNCEMENTS
The registration form for the annual TSA conference at Durham University 12-15 July 2010 is now available on-line via the transatlantic studies website (see below). Please make every effort to register as soon as possible and no later than 30 April 2010.
The deadline for papers is 30 April as is the deadline for the annual DC Watt prize (see details below).
The deadline for securing accommodation at the conference venue is also 30 April.
If you have not yet submitted a paper proposal and would like to do so please contact Alan Dobson or one of the panel leaders listed below.
Some funding for the conference has now been received from the US Embassy and applications for other funding have been made to the Canadian High Commission in London, NATO, etc.
3. TSA WEBSITE AND DATABASE
The TSA website can be found at www.transatlanticstudies.com http://www.transatlanticstudies.com/> and is maintained by Michael Cullinane of University College Cork. It includes full details of the TSA annual conference in Durham, 12-15 July.
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.
4. TSA NEWSLETTER
A full TSA Newsletter was circulated earlier this term/semester.
Carl Hodge (University of British Columbia) and Sylvia Ellis (University of Northumbria) are the co-editors of the TSA Newsletter. Any announcements, members' news, notices of forthcoming events, etc should be sent to Sylvia.ellis@unn.ac.uk . If you would like to write a small article for inclusion in the next newsletter please contact Carl Hodge at chodge@shaw.ca.
5. CALL FOR PAPERS , TSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, DURHAM, 12-15 JULY 2010
The 2010 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference will be held at Durham University 12 - 15 July 2010
The Chairman of the TSA, Prof Alan Dobson (University of Dundee) and Conference Chair for 2010 Prof John Dumbrell (Durham University) would like to extend an invitation to all colleagues to attend.
The 2010 plenary speakers will be: Mitch Lerner (Ohio State University) & Rob Kroes (University of Amsterdam)
Plus a multi-disciplinary Roundtable on Vietnam and Transatlantic Relations chaired by John Dumbrell (Durham University)
Panel proposals and individual papers are welcome for any of the general or sub-panels. A 300 word abstract and brief CV should be submitted to panel leaders or to Alan Dobson by 30 April 2010.
The general panels, subpanels and panel leaders for 2010 are:
e. Multi-disciplinary Panel: "Special Relationships" in Transatlantic Studies - what makes a "special relationship" special? Tony McCulloch, tony.mcculloch@canterbury.ac.uk
6. NEW PANELS, TSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, DURHAM, 12-15 JULY 2010
Please note the additions to the call for papers above, i.e. 4 v) and 6.
In addition, Tony McCulloch would be interested to hear of any intelligence-related papers being given at the Durham conference, for the "special relationships" panel.
7. REGISTRATION FOR TSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, DURHAM, 12-15 JULY 2010
A registration form and further details about the conference are now available on the transatlantic studies web site. Please note that to secure accommodation at the conference venue you should register and pay no later than 30 April 2010.
8. D0NALD CAMERON WATT PRIZE
To be awarded annually by the Transatlantic Studies Association for the best paper at its annual conference by an early career scholar.
Judging will be based solely on the written versions of the papers submitted, which may not necessarily be the delivery versions. Entries should be submitted by 30 April, preceding the annual conference in July. This is the final deadline and no late entries can be accepted. The full version of the paper must be submitted by this date. 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 will be awarded at the conference dinner. In addition, the paper will automatically be 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.
Papers should be submitted to Tony McCulloch on or before 30 April 2010 for the annual conference in July 2010 tony.mcculloch@canterbury.ac.uk
9. CANADIAN PAPERS AT TSA CONFERENCE, DURHAM, 12-15 JULY 2010
If you are thinking of presenting a paper at the TSA conference that will have a Canadian dimension please inform Tony McCulloch (tony.mcculloch@canterbury.ac.uk) as soon as possible. I am applying for a grant from the Canadian Government on behalf of the conference and, if successful, will be able to meet some of the expenses of colleagues presenting papers that include substantial Canadian content, especially in the case of papers included in the "special relationships" panel. Some Canadian papers have already been received but if there are any more please let me know.
10. NORTH ATLANTIC TRIANGLE CONFERENCE, CANADA HOUSE, LONDON, 16 JULY 2010
The British Association for Canadian Studies is pleased to announce that the annual conference of the BACS History and Politics Group will take place on Friday 16 July 2010 to follow on from the TSA conference 12-15 July in Durham.
The one-day conference will begin at 10.30am and finish at 5.00pm and will take place at Canada House, situated next to Trafalgar Square, near Charing Cross station.
The conference theme will be "The North Atlantic Triangle - a Canadian myth?" examining the debate over the nature of the role played by Canada in relations between Britain and the USA. The conference has already attracted leading scholars from Canada, Britain and the USA. Funding is being sought for the travel, accommodation and registration costs of speakers and chairs. It is hoped that this funding will cover transport for delegates from Durham (if required)and accommodation for 2 nights in London (Thursday 15 and Friday 16 July) . If you are interested in attending or giving a paper please contact Tony McCulloch (tony.mcculloch@canterbury.ac.uk).
It is intended that some or all of the conference papers will be included in a collection of essays about the North Atlantic Triangle to be published as a book or as a journal special issue in 2011 or 2012.
11. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANADIAN STUDIES, SPECIAL ISSUE, SEPTEMBER 2010
A selection of papers from the Canada House conference on 17 July 2009 and the TSA conference in Canterbury 13-16 July 2009 is being published as a special issue of the British Journal of Canadian Studies in September 2010, being edited by Tony McCulloch. The theme of the special issue is "100 Years of Canadian Foreign Policy, 1909-2009". All of the papers for the special issue have now been received or agreed in principle. For further information please contact Tony McCulloch at tony.mcculloch@canterbury.ac.uk.
The Transatlantic Studies Association is a charitable body. The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator: Charity Number SC039378
12. AFROMODERNISMS CONFERENCE, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY, 15-17 APRIL 2010
Keynotes:
Professor David Scott, Columbia University, NY.
Professor Demetrius Eudell, Wesleyan University, CT.
Prof Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
In the context provided by Paul Gilroy's configuration of the black Atlantic as a counterculture to modernity, this symposium is the first in a series seeking to re-examine the Atlantic as a locale for the emergence of modernism. Over the period 2010-13, we hope to consider the centrality of black folk, artists, writers, intellectuals, social scientists, musicians, as core members of the modernist avant-garde, and of "blackness" as a key representative and political category in the work of other modernists. We begin from a formulation of modernism as a heterogenous cluster of responses to locally specific experiences of modernity, rather than as a qualitative set of aesthetic indicators privileging formal innovation over political rhetoric. In doing so, we hope to enable further discussion of a widening spectrum of modernist languages in which the experience of modernity is delineated and inscribed.
The symposium addresses the interactions, exchanges, conflicts, and collaborations occurring across the French and Anglo Atlantic, and within experienced and imagined spaces of blackness, in the period 1907-61. We begin therefore with Picasso's masked Demoiselles, and end with the publication of Fanon's radical rejection of western colonialism in Les damnés.
Individual papers and proposals, in English, for panels addressing any aspect of the interrelationship between Afromodernism and the French and Anglo-Atlantic worlds are invited from, but not limited to, the disciplines of literature, anthropology, history, art history, philosophy, music, or combinations of these; and concerning regions including but not limited to: Africa, the Caribbean, insular and continental Europe, Canada, the United States, Latin America.
Teaching or curating panels and papers are also welcomed, as are expressions of interest from colleagues wishing to act as chairs or respondants. The English Subject Centre at Royal Holloway has also provided some support for the travel expenses of colleagues wishing to give teaching-related papers.
Topics might include:
The Harlem Renaissance/New Negro; Performance and/of blackness; Expressionism; fascism; exoticism; the tropics; ethnographic fieldwork narratives/collections; the WPA; négritude; negrophilia; World War 1; configurations of the Black Atlantic; masking; marxism and modernity; World War 2; primitivism; folk and established religious expression; jazz; blues; surrealism; Boasian anthropology; tragedy; Windrush; aesthetic politics; drumming; new histories; revisionist historiography; beauty; comedy; revolution and anticolonialism; myth; reaction; gender and modernity; nationalism; the metropole(s); psychoanalysis; science and relativism; positivism; migration and/or displacement; civilization; degeneration.
Proposal for panels should contain a panel title, working titles for individual papers, with individual abstracts of 250 words each, and brief biographical notes on the chair and/or speakers.
For individual papers, please send a working title, abstract of 250-350 words, and a biographical note to: Fionnghuala Sweeney: fsweeney@liv.ac.uk or Kate Marsh: clmarsh@liv.ac.uk
Afromodernism 1 occurs against the backdrop of the exhibition, Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, January - May 2010, curated by Tate Liverpool <http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/> , and placing work by American, Caribbean, African and European artists in relation to one another and the Atlantic context in which they worked. Delegates will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition during the course of the symposium.
Fionnghuala Sweeney
Kate Marsh
Dr Fionnghuala Sweeney
ILAS
University of Liverpool
L69 7WW
UK.
+44 151 7943325 +44 151 7943325
The Transatlantic Studies Association is a charitable body. Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator: Charity Number SC039378
