The 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
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MONDAY JUNE 19, 2017 – SUNDAY JUNE 25, 2017.
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
CO-DIRECTORS: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert
(Georgetown University), Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University), Winfried Fluck (Freie Universität, Berlin), Donatella Izzo (Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,”), Cindi Katz (CUNY Graduate Center), Eng-Beng Lim (Dartmouth College), Eric W. Lott (CUNY Graduate Center)
The twentieth year of the Institute is the third of a five-year focus on “Questions Worth Asking.” The speakers at the 2017 Futures Institute are invited to address questions concerned with emergent, residual, and dominant formations within the field of American Studies. Each of the following questions will serve as the basis for a plenary session:
* “What explains the enduring power of (under)commons democracy?”
* “Does Digital Humanities have a method?”
* “Does the recent U.S. election call for a significant alteration of the research analytics of Asian/American culture?”
* “How has the ‘new materialism’ affected your research project?”
* “What can European Americanists teach U.S. scholars about American fascism?”
* “How can critique take hold in ‘post-truth’ U.S. culture?”
* “Why has whiteness become a (dis)possessive agency of the working class at this historical conjuncture?”
* “Why has ‘Black Freedom’ become so precarious (yet again!) at this historical conjuncture?”
* “Do spectres of colonial settler capitalism haunt contemporary US novels?”
* “Capitalocene/Anthropocene: how can the end of human exceptionalism become imaginable?”
INSTITUTE PLENARY FACULTY:
* Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh)
* Branka Arsić (Columbia University)
* Anthony Barrymore Bogues (Brown)
* Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds)
* Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
* James E. Dobson (Dartmouth)
* David L. Eng (University of Pennsylvania)
* David Golumbia (Virginia Commonwealth University)
* Christian Haines (Dartmouth)
* Ronald Trent Judy (University of Pittsburgh)
* Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin)
* Lisa Lowe (Tufts)
* Dana Luciano (Georgetown)
* Annie McClanahan (UC Irvine)
* Timothy Melley (Miami University)
* Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky)
* Dana Nelson (Vanderbilt)
* Heike Paul (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
* John Carlos Rowe (USC)
* Hortense J. Spillers (Vanderbilt)
* Susan Strehle (Binghamton University, State University of New York)
* Patricia R. Stuelke (Dartmouth)
* Cary Wolfe (Rice)
* Lynda M. Zwinger (University of Arizona)
The Institute is divided into plenary sessions that feature talks from Institute faculty and research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress. Each day of the institute begins with a morning session in which plenary speakers deliver presentations of no longer than thirty-minutes that contribute to our convoking topic. These presentations are followed by questions from the participants. After a lunch break, the Institute’s participants meet in intensive workshop groups (consisting of no more than 15 participants), each of which is led by a Co-Director of the Institute. These workshops offer those enrolled in the Institute—over one hundred scholars from a variety of disciplines and institutions—the opportunity for critical conversations about the central intellectual issues in their research.
The Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary interests. Their research need not be restricted to the questions organizing the plenary sessions. The Institute was designed to provide a shared space of critical inquiry that brings the participants’ work-in-progress to the attention of a network of influential scholars. Over the past nineteen years, plenary speakers have recommended participants’ work to the leading journals and university presses within the field of American Studies, and have provided participants with recommendations and support in an increasingly competitive job market.
APPLYING TO THE INSTITUTE: Applications for the 2017 Institute will be accepted until all slots have been filled, but applications received by May 19th, 2017 will be granted priority. Applicants should send a brief description of their own projects (no more than 1 page) along with a current CV, a writing sample (10-15 pages), and a $10 application fee (please make checks payable to “Dartmouth College”). Acceptances will be sent via email, so please make sure to include your email address in your CV.
Applications should be mailed to:
The Futures of American Studies Institute
Dartmouth College
116 Wentworth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Fee: The fee for the Institute (covering registration, housing, and seminars) is $695.00. The fee to attend only the Institute plenary sessions is $500.
For further information, please contact:
Futures of American Studies
email: Futures.of.American.Studies@Dartmouth.EDU
url: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures/
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/futures.of.american.studies
phone: 603-646-3592
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