Sheila and I will be chairing linked 90-minute sessions at this year's International American Studies Association meeting in Ottawa in a couple of weeks, on Thursday August 18. Sheila is chair of the roundtable from 16:00-17:30 and Julia is chair of the workshop directly afterwards, from 17:30-19:00.
Our plan is for the four participants of the roundtable to give short position papers (12 minutes or so); after each paper, the other three participants will comment, then move to the next paper. At the end of the session the four presenters will discuss all four papers together. At this point we imagine the order of speakers will be:
1. Lawrence Berg, Okanagan University College (Director, Centre for Human Rights, Diversity and Identity; editor of Canadian Geographer/Le Geographe Canadien; co-editor of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies)
2. Sheila Hones, University of Tokyo
3. Julia Leyda, Sophia University
4. Paul Giles, University of Oxford (Director, Rothermere American Institute; Associate Editor of Comparative American Studies; Vice President of IASA)
The workshop will then feed off those discussions, opening the floor to the audience at large.
UPDATE: What a great session! We had a good audience and most stayed for the workshop, which had a lively discussion and participants with all kinds of observations and contributions. Once again, our experience of IASA was almost entirely positive: sessions, events, and informal socializing were all very energizing. We had a chance to meet some new people and revisit some past acquaintances. Looking forward to the next IASA very much, which is said to be slated for Lisbon in September 2007.
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