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From: Jennifer Janofsky <jen@JANOFSKY.NET>
List Editor: Jennifer Janofsky <jen@JANOFSKY.NET>
Editor's Subject: CFP: SPACES: PERSONAL, CULTURAL, URBAN
Author's Subject: CFP: SPACES: PERSONAL, CULTURAL, URBAN
Date Written: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:25:56 -0500
Date Posted: Fri, 12 Nov 2009 08:25:56 -0500

> Call for Papers!
> The 2010 Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic American Studies
Association
>
> Theme: Spaces: Personal, Cultural, Urban
>
> Date: March 19-20, 2010
> Venue: La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
>
> The host of MAASA’s 2010 conference will be La Salle University.  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
>
> Simon J. Bronner, Ph.D.
> Distinguished University Professor of American Studies and Folklore
> Director, Doctoral Program in American Studies
> The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
> 777 West Harrisburg Pike
> Middletown, PA 17057-4898
> 717-948-6039 (o)
> 717-948-6724 (fax)
> sbronner@psu.edu
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/sjb2/blogs/bronner/
>
>
>

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