"Community, Family, and Youth: `Growing' America, America Growing"

For its annual conference, the Great Lakes American Studies Association, in conjunction with the French American Studies Association, invites proposals for individual papers and presentations as well as panels exploring through interdisciplinary approaches any aspect of community, family, or youth in the United States. We are especially interested in work that shows interconnections among these topics. We extend a special invitation to our colleagues in Europe to join us in examining this theme. Possible topics include, but are hardly limited to:

-artistic and literary images of community, family, and/or youth

-historical experiences or historical changes in community, family, and/or
youth

-expressions of community, family, and/or youth in activities like
religion, education, sport, consumerism, music, labor, or other aspects of
popular culture

-gender roles in community, family, and/or youth

-ethnicity and race in community, family, and/or youth

-urban and rural perspectives on community, family, and/or youth

-impact of technology and environmental issue on these concepts

-changing definitions of these concepts

-new theoretical models for examining these concepts

-political and economic issues involving these concepts

-differences between American and European conceptions of community,
family, and/or youth

Proposals are due October 1, 2000. Please send a one page c.v. and three copies of your abstract. Individual abstracts should be 250 words, while panels should be 500 words. Send to Anthony O. Edmonds at address listed below.

The GLASA 2001 conference is co-sponsored by Ball State University, the Minnetrista Cultural Center, and the Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State.