The California American Studies Association (CASA) invites proposals for its upcoming conference. Part of an effort to revive our Association, which has not held a conference since 2003, this conference draws its theme from the title of John McPhee’s Assembling California and will emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to California’s cultural landscape—past, present, and future. Special attention will be given to proposals that consider California as the nexus for study on a wide range of topics including but not limited to immigration, ethnicity, borderlands, imagined space, ecology and the built environment. Proposals reflecting multidisciplinary and collaborative inquiry into local, regional, transnational, and global issues are welcomed from community scholars, faculty, artists, activists, and students at all levels of study, from within California and other regions. CASA encourages panels that focus on how activists participate in "assembling” and “reassembling” California, especially mixed panels of scholars and activists that encourage dialogue and explicitly connect theory and praxis. In addition, at least one panel will be dedicated to undergraduates and one panel to secondary school educators.

In the spirit of CASA's mission to promote collegial dialogue, disseminate current research, and stimulate further study, we invite submissions in all relevant fields, particularly but not restricted to the following themes (or any combination of them):

*Global, pacific, and transnational perspectives on California
*Narratives of California
*Ethnicity and race
*Scholar activism and/or public intellectuals
*Sexuality and gender
*Peace, non-violence, and anti-war movements
*Labor and working class cultures in California
*Immigration
*Marginalized voices in California Cultures
*Comparative colonialism
*Social ecology
*Human geography
*Early and contemporary historical periods

In addition to the fields and disciplines that are often the constituency of American Studies programs, approaches to the theme may include but are not limited to

*Visual arts
*Music
*Dance
*Performance

Deadline for submissions: Dec. 15 2007