American Studies in Europe

AMERICAN STUDIES IN EUROPE Newsletter • Issue No. 59 • Nov 2007 • ISSN 1359-4923 In This Issue ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT Address of the President 1 EAAS Board Members 3 2008 Biennial EAAS Conference: Dear members of EAAS, Workshop Overview 5 Workshop Guidelines 22 This fall, the organizers of our next con- Parallel Lectures 23 ference in Oslo are busy making sure it Conference Schedule 24 will be, as everything at this early stage EAAS on the Web 25 indicates, an enjoyable and memorable gathering. The EAAS The American Studies Network 26 Board in Wittenberg had an ample set of workshop proposals to select from and, after remarkably consensual evaluations The ASN Members 27 and discussions, could constitute what will be a solid, schol- Constituent Associations of EAAS 28 arly contribution to American Studies. Constituent Associations: News 34 We apologize to those colleagues whose proposals, although Calls for Papers 35 made squarely within the framework of the Conference theme EAAS Book Reviews 37 and favoring specifically European views, could not be re- Editorial Notes 37 tained. At the same time, we rejoice over the abundance of riches that made such choices necessary lest the conference format become in every respect unwieldy. It may not, at this stage, be entirely useless to reiterate a number of remarks: our Editor: association developed its own set of rules for conferences, Martin Heusser available on the EAAS website, the purpose of which is to en- Englisches Seminar, sure a regular turnover of workshop proposals (priority being Universität Zürich, Switzerland given, for example, to colleagues who have not so far had the E-mail: [email protected] chance to organize a workshop), and the wished-for diversity of participants. One such rule requires that no more than two speakers from the same country take part in one workshop, an- other encourages a dual direction of workshops by colleagues Webmaster: from two different countries. It would be a good thing if, in Hans-Jürgen Grabbe future, such rules were kept in mind from the start, thus cut- Zentrum für USA-Studien ting down on the mass of emails our Secretary-General and Martin-Luther-Universität the Conference organizers have to engage in to make sure the international nature of the debates we aim to foster becomes Halle-Wittenberg, Germany real under the most favorable conditions. There is little point E-mail: [email protected] in organizing workshops around speakers who could just as easily meet under other auspices on their home ground to dis- cuss their special subjects. Your officers, having international Website: exchange and fairness at heart, have made sure this would not be the case in Oslo. http://www.eaas.eu This coming year, for reasons of latitude and climate, our conference will take place in May (instead of April), a month traditionally filled with national conferences and other col- loquia. I therefore wish to take this opportunity to thank the associations who took our needs into consideration and were gracious enough to alter their own traditional meeting dates. Their good will is much appreciated and seen as a token of their attachment to our joint, continental commitment. Appre- ciation and thanks are also due the national associa- and availability of persons for positions of responsi- tions that have declared themselves prepared to pro- bility; too infrequent and we risk making it difficult vide some financial help to post-graduates who wish to to get a sense of the evolution and richness of asso- attend post-graduate meetings in countries other than ciations due to an apparent lack of responsive repre- their own. Coordinating such offers is the backbone of sentation. In effect, making sure representation is fair, our crucial endeavor to promote the work of younger rotating and varied among the Officers of EAAS re- generations of European Americanists and provide quires a mid- to long-term view of the constitution of opportunities for them to meet. This is made possible the Board (unless we were to think of a different sys- with the help EAAS is prepared to provide for regional tem - one other associations, for example ESSE, have meetings organized on a variety of subjects by special- adopted - wherein one could apply for executive office ized European groups of young scholars – financial from outside the Board, with no voting rights at Board help from outside our community having once more Meetings; difficulties of a different nature necessarily proven itself to be the “Arlésienne” (always heard of, inherent in each system). I would therefore ask with but never there) that previous officers had also sadly some insistence that national and joint-national asso- discovered... On October 6, 2007 the French associa- ciations use what time remains until the Oslo Board tion declared itself ready to make good its promise to Meeting to meditate upon these issues and make sure favor the participation of European post-graduates in Board members are prepared to pass on the views of its next “doctoriales” (to take place in Montpellier in their respective associations on this subject. Thus all late May 2008; the secretary-general can be reached at national and joint-national associations can feel equal- [email protected]). ly and regularly called upon to shoulder the tasks be- The EAAS Board in Oslo will hear a report on the falling EAAS officers. situation and progress of our European Journal of As for the other members of the present team who are American Studies (http://ejas.revues.org/). The second a delight to work with, my gratitude is extreme. “accretive” issue for 2007 should be available on line From the small village where I have now retired, in momentarily. And, on this occasion, a reminder that a region where every stone and memory bespeak the this publication is yours and open to contributions from wonderful convergence of European cultures, my all members of EAAS will, I hope, make sure a larger greetings go out to all. number of proposals reach the Editorial Committee, particularly in the fields of history and social sciences, Marc Chénetier, where articles have so far been fewer and slower to President, EAAS come than those in the literary area. Proposals for the- matic issues are also welcome. The Board will review the results of the generous and selfless work done by the members of the Editorial Committee and will do all it can to make sure the rich contributions of Euro- pean Americanists are thus given still more visibility. With the same goal in mind, the printed proceedings of the Nicosia Conference should be available by the time we meet in Oslo. In my previous note, I underlined the necessity of consultations within the national associations on the subject of the changes which will doubtless be necessary at some future point to the representational modes of member associations. The possibility of fewer representatives on the board through the organization of ad hoc joint regional associations has been suggested. So as to inform its reflexion on this matter of such importance for the future of EAAS, the Board needs the views of our membership on the organization and duration of mandates for Board members (staggered rather than synchronic, etc...) as well as on the number of mandates (successive or not…) local associations can give their representatives. Too rapid a turnover of Board representatives stands in the way of experience 2 EAAS BOARD MEMBERS OFFICERS: Isabel Caldeira (APEAA), Instituto de Estudos Norte-Americanos Faculdade de letras, Universidade President: Marc Chénetier, Université de Paris VII, de Coimbra, 3000-447 Coimbra, Portugal Institut Charles V, 10 Rue Charles V, 75004 Paris, Phone: +351 239 859982 Fax: +351 239 836733 France E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +33 1 57 27 58 79 Fax: +33 1 5727 58 01 E-mail: [email protected] Catherine Collomp (AFEA), Université Paris VII – Denis Diderot, 10 rue Charles V, 75004 Paris, France Vice President and Board Member for SANAS: Phone: + 33 1 47252656 Fax: 33 1 57275801 Martin Heusser, Englisches Seminar, Universität E-Mail: [email protected] Zürich, Plattenstrasse 47, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 634 3551 Fax: +41 44 634 4908 Philip John Davies (BAAS), Eccles Centre for Amer- E-mail: [email protected] ican Studies, The British Library 96, Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, Great Britain Treasurer and Board Member for DGfA: Hans- Phone: +44 (0) 20 7412 7551 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7412 Jürgen Grabbe, Zentrum für USA-Studien, Martin- 7792 Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, E-mail: [email protected] Germany Phone: +49 345 552 3520 Fax: +49 345 552 7272 Gilbert Debusscher (BLASA), Faculté de Philoso- E-mail: [email protected] phie et Lettres, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Secretary General: Jenel Virden, American Stud- Phone: +32 2 650 24 02 Fax: +32 2 650 49 20 ies Department, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, E-mail: [email protected] United Kingdom Phone: +44 1482 652 87 Fax: +44 1482 466 107 Jerzy Durczak (PAAS), Department of American Lit- E-mail: [email protected] erature and Culture, Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univer- sity, Pl. Marii Curie Skłodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland BOARD MEMBERS: Phone: +48 81 5339 689 Fax: +48 81 5375 279 E-mail: [email protected] Marcel Arbeit (CSAA), Department of English and American Studies, Palacky University, Křížkovského Tony Emmerson (IAAS), School of History and In- 10, 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic ternational Affairs, University of Ulster, Coleraine

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