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"Spaces: Personal, Cultural, Urban"
2010 Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association
| Location: | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2010-01-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-10-28 |
| Announcement ID: |
171585 |
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The host of MAASA’s 2010 conference will be La Salle University (March 19-20, 2010). On the La Salle campus, one finds a cultural site of interest to all students of American culture: Belfield, the one-time estate of Charles Willson Peale. As a painter, civic leader, inventor, educator, taxidermist, museum curator, military commander, paleontologist, naturalist, and landscape gardener, Peale embodied the interdisciplinary ideal that continues to shape the field of American Studies. Fittingly, it is the spirit of Peale that inspires this conference theme. In the American Studies tradition, we seek interdisciplinary papers that explore multiple and varied concepts of space: transnational or intercultural spaces; public spaces; intellectual spaces; imaginary or fantastical landscapes; rural, suburban, and urban America; retail and shopping venues; religious spaces; city planning and architecture; artistic spaces; ethnic spaces; tourism; spaces shaped by memory and nostalgia; and spaces of food creation and consumption. Undergraduates interested in presenting their work in the Undergraduate Roundtable should select a mentor and then contact Dr. Francis J. Ryan (ryan@lasalle.edu). Accepted graduate students will be encouraged to submit their work electronically several weeks prior to the conference so as to be considered for our award – Most Outstanding Graduate Paper. Deadline for Proposals is January 15, 2010. Please send a one-page abstract and one-page CV to John R. Haddad either electronically (jrh36@psu.edu ) or by mail:
John Haddad
American Studies
School of Humanities
Penn State Harrisburg University
777 West Harrisburg Pike
Middletown, PA 17057
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