Cartea Presedintele Obama: Drumul catre Casa Alba lansata la Bucuresti
Editura PuzzleWorks si Centrul Cultural American lanseaza marti, 20
ianuarie, o carte-eveniment: “Presedintele Obama: Drumul catre Casa
Alba”. Evenimentul editorial de la Bucuresti are loc cu ocazia
investirii oficiale a lui Barack Obama ca Presedinte al SUA. La lansare
vor vorbi Julie O’Reagan, atasatul cultural al Ambasadei Statelor
Unite, si Rodica Mihaila, directorul Centrului de Studii Americane,
Universitatea Bucuresti.
Traseul lui Barack Obama, de la o
copilarie modesta in Hawaii si Indonezia pana la victoria sa in
alegeri, reprezinta una dintre cele mai imprevizibile si fascinante
calatorii din istoria politica a Statelor Unite. Prin aceasta carte,
publicata in intreaga lume in peste 1 milion de exemplare si devenita
instantaneu obiect de colectie, TIME si PuzzleWorks va relateaza
povestea ascensiunii lui Obama intr-un volum ilustrat de 96 de pagini,
continand reportajele si analizele jurnalistilor politici ai revistei
TIME. Cartea prezinta fotografii memorabile din culisele campaniei si
din viata intima a primului Presedinte de culoare al SUA, realizate de
Callie Shell, care a documentat vizual parcursul lui Obama inca de la
inceputul cursei sale pentru presedintie. Cititorii se vor bucura de o
descriere colorata si concisa a felului in care Obama a ajuns un mare
lider – din anii copilariei, trecand prin perioada de la Chicago, pana
in momentul izbucnirii sale ca fenomen politic.
Fondata in
Bucuresti la sfarsitul anului 2008, PuzzleWorks este cea mai recenta
editura de pe piata de carte din Romania. PuzzleWorks publica volume
ilustrate de inalta calitate, din domenii diverse (subiecte
contemporane, arta, arhitectura, design, ilustratie, turism, medicina,
culinar). PuzzleWorks publica nu doar co-editii si traduceri, ci si
colectii originale menite sa reprezinte diverse zone de creativitate
din contextul romanesc.
“Preşedintele Obama: Drumul către Casa Albă”
Foto: Ed. PuzzleWorks
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The new deadline for the Fulbright Senior (Postdoctoral) Award to the US is now November 17, 2008. For more information on how to apply, please click the link below.
The first Fulbright Commission Newsletter is available here.
Invitatie Centrul Cultural American
Avem placerea sa va invitam la Centrul Cultural American miercuri, 15 octombrie, orele 11:00, cu prilejul lansarii in Romania a concursului international “DEMOCRACY VIDEO CHALLENGE”. Cetatenii din intreaga lume sunt invitati sa creeze scurt metraje care sa continue ideea “Democratia este …” intr-un efort de a promova dialogul global despre democratie.
Participantii la concurs trebuie sa aiba cel putin 18 ani, sa creeze un film (documentar de fictiune, actiune, animatie, muzical) care sa nu depaseasca 3 minute, sa fie in limba engleza sau sa fie subtitrat in limba engleza si sa-l incarce pe YouTube (www.youtube.com/democracychallenge) pana la data de 31 ianuarie 2009. Castigatorii vor beneficia de o vizita in S.U.A. platita integral de catre organizatori, vor participa la spectacole de gala organizate la Hollywood, New York si Washington, D.C. si gazduite de Directors Guild of America si Motion Picture Association of America.
Jurizarea filmelor create de participantii romani si selectarea a 3 filme semifinaliste se va efectua in perioada februarie – martie 2009 de catre reprezentanti din Consiliul National al Audiovizualului, Centrul pentru Jurnalism Independent, Asociatia Pro Democratia, Asociatia pentru Educatie Civica si Comisia Fulbright. Detalii despre regulamentul concursului sunt disponibile la http://www.videochallenge.america.gov/
Intrarea la Centrul Cultural American (str. Dumbrava Rosie nr. 10, Sector 2, Bucuresti) se va face be baza unui act de identitate incepand cu orele 10:00 am, pentru a permite controlul de securitate.
Va rugam sa confirmati acceptul dumneavoastra la e-mail office@fulbright.ro sau telefon 021 230 77 19.
ACORD CU ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, PHOENIX
Centrul nostru de Studii Americane a incheiat de curand un acord de schimburi universitare cu Arizona State University, Phoenix, mai precis, cu Romanian and Central Europe Collaborative, School of International Letters and Cultures. Prof.Ileana Orlich, director al sectiei, conduce cel mai mare program de Studii romanesti din Statele Unite si incurajeaza schimburile culturale cu Romania. Va vom da curand mai multe amanunte despre schimburile cu ASU si posibilitatile studentilor sectiei noastre de a stabili legaturi directe cu studentii americani.
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR A LIST OF EXCITING EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS IN THE FIELD OF AMERICAN STUDIES.
Academic Autobiography, Intellectual History, *
*and Cultural Memory in the 20^th Century: *
*An Interdisciplinary Conference*
March 26-28, 2009, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain)
Plenary Speakers:
Ihab Hassan, University of Winconsin-Milwaukee Shirley Geok-lin Lim, University of California-Santa Barbara
Nancy K. Miller, City University of New York
Alun Munslow, University of Chichester
Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology
Proposals are sought for an Interdisciplinary Conference entitled "Academic
Autobiography, Intellectual History, and
Cultural Memory in the 20^th Century" to be held at the University of
Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) on the 26-28 of March,
2009. This conference aims to engage the current paradigms of the debate on
autobiographical writing by academics
(historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and sociologists, among
others) and analyze these in the interdisciplinary c
ontext of the consciousness of the ways intellectual history and cultural
memory may be developed, articulated, and
promoted in the twentieth century. Autobiographies by academics who have
played important public roles and whose
scholarship have shaped the ways we think about disciplines, society,
culture, or politics-such as Nancy K. Miller, Eric Hobsbawm, Clifford Geertz, Leila Ahmed, Edward Said, Jill Ker Conway,
Ihab Hassan, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Yi-Fu Tuan, among others-may be explored as new approaches to the discourses
of intellectual history and culture
in our age. We invite proposals that offer new ways to read these
autobiographies and analyze their discursive
possibilities in the historical, cultural, and academic contexts in which
they were written.
Specific topics may include, but are not limited to: the academic as
author/historian; academic life writing as
history or cultural discourse; academic autobiography as intellectual
history; life writing and the definitions of
academic disciplines; the intersection between private and public lives in
academic autobiographies; academic
autobiography as a literary or historical genre; the ways in which the
notion of literary or historical discourse
may be rethought in the context of this form of writing; the ways academic
autobiographies challenge our
notions of historiography or literary analysis.
500-word abstracts and a 1-page CV must be submitted (email submissions
preferred) before October 15, 2008 to the Conference Organizers at this
address:
The _Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses_ (_RCEI_) is now accepting
original submissions of essays for publication in the 2011 April issue.
The deadline is November 15, 2010. Please see http://webpages.ull.es/users/rceing/Submissions.html for submission. As
editor of this _RCEI_ special issue on "Little Magazines of American
Poetry in the Period 1970-2000", I would welcome contributions from
scholars around the world, and any others who have a stake in the
understanding of this phenomenon
For more information contact Manuel Brito, mbrito@ull.es.
Papers, but not limited to, focusing on these issues are invited: - What
role/s little magazines played in changing poetry and social
perspectives in the period 1970-2000?
- How academy subsumed innovations and creative research pusblished in
little magaziones?
- Market vs. individual position in the making of little magazines.
- The role of the editors as trademakers, practitioners, and creative
researchers.
- What are the benefits of these little magazines considered as 'high'
culture? Were they useful?
- How technological production affected potential readers of these
little magazines?
- Historical view on this kind of literary proudction.
Completed papers should be no more than 7,000 words.
Deadline: November 15, 2010
The _Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses_ is a peer-reviewed academic
journal auspiced by the University of La Laguna (Spain) focusing on English studies.
The University of Richmond invites applications for the Tyler and Alice Haynes Professorship in American Studies, a tenured position at the associate or full level. We seek candidates who will contribute to the further development of a recently revitalized undergraduate American Studies curriculum that encourages students to examine United States society from racial, ethnic, cultural, and transnational/diasporic perspectives. The University of Richmond is committed to developing a diverse faculty and student body and to supporting an inclusive campus community, which values the expression of differences in ways that promote excellence in research, teaching, and learning. Teaching responsibilities will be divided between required courses and advanced electives within the American Studies Program and courses in an allied department to which the candidate will be jointly appointed. Nominations and applications will be considered beginning October 1, 2008. Applicants should email a curriculum vitae, a research plan, and a statement of American Studies teaching interests to Douglas Winiarski, Coordinator, Program in American Studies, at dwiniars@richmond.edu. For more information on the program and the Haynes Professorship, see http://americanstudies.richmond.edu/ and http://provost.richmond.edu/facresources/Haynes_AmerStud.htm.
aspeers: emerging voices in american studies
calls for submissions by 31 october 2008
American Studies has always been interested in different notions of
migration. Publications and course catalogs around the world testify to
the
role it has played and continues to play in both scholarly research and
academic teaching. Recent concepts of 'mobility' can contribute to a new
and
richer understanding of the movement of people. Thus, we are calling for
submissions scrutinizing migration and mobility, their relation to
cultures
and identities, and the narratives, fictions, and plots they generate.
We
invite contributors to engage areas such as old and new groups of
migrants,
the various directions and scopes of 'mobility,' different spaces of
migration, or any other theme relating to the topic.
Permanent migration has long been established as a site of exciting
scholarship. Focusing on more recent phenomena, temporary migration
(tourism, student exchanges, internships, and up-scale labor migration)
is a
field deserving more attention; as is the emergence of 'the mobility
class'-a global elite of high-skilled workers and artist cosmopolitans
who
are equally at home in metropolises around the world. How do these new
forms
of mobility challenge (or complement) familiar notions of migration?
Secondly, inquiries into transatlantic migration, certainly a core
interest
of European American Studies, can meaningfully be expanded by looking at
transpacific, intra-continental, and even regional movements of people:
What
are the different factors shaping them? How do economic or ecological push
and pull factors vary between individual kinds of migration?
Thirdly, we are interested in the spaces of migration and mobility.
American
Studies has always been attentive to spaces of arrival and 'borders' as
places of cultural encounters. This interest prompts us to ask for close
readings also of places of departure, of transit spaces, and contact
zones.
What narratives do such transit spaces (as, for example, the airport
lobby)
accommodate in contemporary fiction?
aspeers, the first and currently only graduate-level peer-reviewed
journal
for European American Studies, invites fellow graduate students to
reflect
on these issues. We welcome contributions by students in European MA
(and
MA-equivalent) programs by October 31st.
Please check out our submission guidelines, an editorial timetable, as
well
as some additional tips, and a list of possible topics at http://www.aspeers.com/2009
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