THE ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES

(RAAS)

Str. Pitar Mos 7-11, Bucharest 70151

THE SENSE OF AMERICA: HISTORIES INTO TEXT

Bucharest, 22 - 24 May, 2008

Organizers:

The Romanian Association for American Studies

The Romanian – U.S. Fulbright Commission

            The program committee invites proposals from all practitioners of American studies or related disciplines. The Conference theme, The Sense of America: Histories into Text invites participants to explore the many meanings of “America” from the perspectives of both “new” world and “old” world narratives and narrations of life histories that have been translated and transmuted into various registers of fictional and factual text and representation. Touching on the concept of  an “America” as a transcultural space shaped by globalization and modes of dislocation, the organizers encourage conference presentations that articulate, nuance, expand and challenge redefinitions of the “sense of America” beyond and across boundaries and that engage in debates about the place of the United States in the cultural dynamics of  Europe and the world. The conference focus is on questions of complex identity in a world marked by September 11^th – as well as on visions and responses to history issues and individual “histories” in and beyond America, shaped by interpretation, public and private memory from the colonial borderlands to the present.

            The committee invites papers, proposals for panels, round tables and performances onsite and offsite and from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary specializations representing the full diversity of RAAS membership.

Proposals must be submitted by January 31, 2008 to the following addresses:

Roxana Oltean,  Ilinca Anghelescu, Mihaela Precup

raas_fulbright_conference @yahoo.com

raas.fulbright.conference @gmail.com

All proposals must include:

-a complete mailing address, email, phone number and affiliation

-an abstract of no more than 300 words