Roots and Renewals

September 11-14, 2000

The North American Studies Program at the University of Helsinki Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies is proud to organize the Inaugural of the 25th Bicentennial Professor of American Studies and the Eighth Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference.

We are now accepting short (max. one page) proposals for the following workshops:

• Progressivism and Its Legacy
• Patterns of Political and Social Change in Postwar America
• Gender, Race, and Rights in 20th Century America
• The New Cold War History
• Defining America: The Politics of National Identity
• African-American Leaders Confronting Africa and Christianity
• Teaching Nature
• Colonialism in Comparative Perspective
• Early American Botany
• Don DeLillo and Millenial Mediations
• Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Writers
• Mapping the Americas
• Cowboys and Colonials: Inventing a Mythic America

Participants are expected to prepare a lecture talk, not to read their papers.

Conference fee is 200/100 FMK.

Proposals accompanied by a short CV are to be e-mailed/sent to Dr. Mari-Anna Suurmunne by April 28, 2000.

For further information, please, contact

Dr. Mari-Anna Suurmunne,     or   Prof. Markku Henriksson
principal organizer,              president of the conference committee,
marianna.suurmunne@helsinki.fi    markku.henriksson@helsinki.fi
   
                      North American Studies
                      Renvall Institute
                      P.O. Box 59
                      00014 University of  Helsinki
                      Finland