The second conference of the International American Studies Association will be this coming August in Ottawa. The program is posted as a Word document that you can download by clicking a link on the official conference web site, and here's the link to the official visitors' web site for the city of Ottawa (French site also available). I'm looking forward to visiting that part of the world and seeing some familiar faces from Leiden, Oxford, and of course Hartford and Atlanta.
On Thursday afternoon, we're doing a linked session (too ambitious?) combining a round table discussion and a workshop for brainstorming new ideas and solutions for networking American studies around the world. We are hoping to make (and also hear) some concrete, practical suggestions for how to foster networking across boundaries of language, location, and even discipline. Any ideas or suggestions before the conference are extremely welcome! Please just click the comments button or send one of us an e-mail. If you don't know our e-mails, please request them as a comment; we are a little protective of them because of spambots, etc.
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free articles!
Hey everybody, you can go to the web site of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and download the free stuff on globalization: just go to the Blackwell journals home here, then go to the journal home which I can't link to directly because they use servlets. You can select the journal title from the alphabetical pulldown "Quick Link" menu on the right. These papers were originally presentations delivered at the International Geographical Union 2004 meeting, now in a special issue called "Geography: Making a Difference in a Globalizing World." Although the authors are all geographers, I think Americanists can find some interesting ideas in there, especially regarding power relations that exist in processes and moments of globalization. Clearly, those of us looking to theorize international or global American studies have a lot in common with geographers hammering out theories of globalization, so check out these articles while they are still free at Blackwell.
