Julia has organized a session at the 2006 ASA in Oakland "Do You Know What It Means?: Post-Katrina New Orleans," with papers by David Berriss, Helen A. Regis, and Julia, chaired by Jolie Preau, comments by Don Mitchell.
UPDATE: Well, the online format was a kind of a bust, as Julia was the only one to post. But for your reading pleasure, here is her paper in blog form. "Now I know I'm gonna get in trouble," she says.
Sheila is participating in the roundtable on "Transcultural American Studies and Transdisciplinarity: Paradigms and Case Studies" with Gesa Mackenthun (University of Rostock), Guenter H. Lenz (Humboldt University, Berlin), Antonis Balasopoulos (University of Cyprus), Markus Heide (Humboldt University, Berlin), Liam Kennedy (University College, Dublin) and Rob Wilson (University of California, Santa Cruz). UPDATE: Sheila's comment is now available here.
Sunday
RIAS -- new journal from IASA
Sheila has an article in the September 2006 issue of RIAS (Review of International American Studies), the new online journal of the International American Studies Association, IASA: "All Together Now," 1,1 (September 2006) pp. 18-25.
Michael Boyden (editor-in-chief) and Paweł Jędrzejko (associate editor) write:
We are pleased to inform you that the inaugural issue of IASA is now available entirely free of charge. The issue contains interesting and provocative contributions by Djelal Kadir, Kousar J. Azam, Sonja Torres, Jane Desmond, Sheila Hones, Helmbrecht Breinig, Manju Jaidka, Giorgio Mariani, Tatsushi Narita, Gönül Pultar, Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, Stephen Shapiro, and Paulo Knauss.
Michael Boyden (editor-in-chief) and Paweł Jędrzejko (associate editor) write:
We are pleased to inform you that the inaugural issue of IASA is now available entirely free of charge. The issue contains interesting and provocative contributions by Djelal Kadir, Kousar J. Azam, Sonja Torres, Jane Desmond, Sheila Hones, Helmbrecht Breinig, Manju Jaidka, Giorgio Mariani, Tatsushi Narita, Gönül Pultar, Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, Stephen Shapiro, and Paulo Knauss.
European Journal of American Studies
Sheila has been drafted on to the editorial advisory board of the European Journal of American Studies (despite not being sure she has a "European view" on anything).
"EJAS is the official, peer-reviewed academic journal of the European Association for American Studies, a federation of national and joint-national associations of specialists of the United States European Association for American Studies gathering approximately 4,000 scholars from 26 European countries.
EJAS aims to foster European views on the society, culture, history, and politics of the United States, and how the US interacts with other countries in these fields. In doing so the journal places itself firmly within the continuing discussion amongst Europeans on the nature, history, importance, impact and problems of US civilization. As part of this task, EJAS wants to contribute to enriching the contents, broadening the scope, and documenting the critical examination of "American Studies" in and outside of the United States. EJAS welcomes contributions from Europe and elsewhere and endeavors to make available reliable information and state-of-the-art research on all topics within its broad field of interest. As a matter of policy, the journal will pay particular attention to objects, phenomena and issues less documented or less often debated in the United States, as well as to innovative cultural modes and the diversity of reception of United States culture abroad. Associated with this outlook, it welcomes submissions that elaborate and renew critical approaches, paradigms and methodologies, and that express varied and pluralist views.
While intended for the entire American Studies community, EJAS aims in particular to provide space for the rapid publication of quality scholarship by doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. The journal hopes to constitute a genuine forum for European Americanists of all generations, national origins and disciplinary affiliations."
"EJAS is the official, peer-reviewed academic journal of the European Association for American Studies, a federation of national and joint-national associations of specialists of the United States European Association for American Studies gathering approximately 4,000 scholars from 26 European countries.
EJAS aims to foster European views on the society, culture, history, and politics of the United States, and how the US interacts with other countries in these fields. In doing so the journal places itself firmly within the continuing discussion amongst Europeans on the nature, history, importance, impact and problems of US civilization. As part of this task, EJAS wants to contribute to enriching the contents, broadening the scope, and documenting the critical examination of "American Studies" in and outside of the United States. EJAS welcomes contributions from Europe and elsewhere and endeavors to make available reliable information and state-of-the-art research on all topics within its broad field of interest. As a matter of policy, the journal will pay particular attention to objects, phenomena and issues less documented or less often debated in the United States, as well as to innovative cultural modes and the diversity of reception of United States culture abroad. Associated with this outlook, it welcomes submissions that elaborate and renew critical approaches, paradigms and methodologies, and that express varied and pluralist views.
While intended for the entire American Studies community, EJAS aims in particular to provide space for the rapid publication of quality scholarship by doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. The journal hopes to constitute a genuine forum for European Americanists of all generations, national origins and disciplinary affiliations."