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The Canadian Association of American Studies will be holding its 2005 Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 6-9. The theme will be "America and Violence". "America", D. H. Lawrence once proclaimed, "is tense with latent violence and resistance". This description has rarely seemed more appropriate than at the present moment, when the United States is tense with the fear of terrorist violence inside its own borders, and strained by the physical and emotional costs of a violent war it is waging on the other side of the world. But the American experience has, in various ways, been a violent one from its beginning. Papers that deal with the topic of violence in American history, culture, literature, and life from any point of view are welcome. Some possible areas would be:
America at War
Terrorism and the Responses
Violence and Politics
Violent Crime and Punishment
Social Violence and/or Repression
"Gun Culture" or "Wound Culture" (Mark Seltzer)
Literary or Artistic Depictions of Violence
Violence as an Artistic Strategy
Violence and/or Crime in Popular Culture
Philosophical or Sociological Explanations of Violence
Proposals for papers or
panels (250 words max.) should be received by April 15, 2005.
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