Colóquio: "America Where? Transatlantic Scholarship in Search of the United States of America in the Twenty-first Century"

Publication date: 15-05-2009 11:18

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12-13 June 2009

Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra, Portugal

The aim of the colloquium designated as “America Where?” is to probe deeper into the spaces and times of the American nation in the twenty-first century. While continuing to pay close attention to the geopolitical, social, and cultural fabric of the United States in its multicultural, cross-border time-spaces, the colloquium further wishes to ask a genuine question about the location of “America” in our time. “America,” between inverted commas, to point, as well, to the Bercovitchian concept of a usurped name signifying the ideological consensus of a nation self-defined as exceptional and charged with a mission. Under what shapes does this “America,” regarding itself both as real and mythical, secular and sacred, material and spiritual, present itself today in the Western and Eastern Hemispheres?

Keynote speakers: Amy Kaplan (U. Penn), Ana Manzanas (U. Salamanca), George Hutchinson (University of Indiana Bloomington), Heinz Ickstadt (Kennedy Institute, Berlin), Jonathan Auerbach (U. Maryland), Liam Kennedy (Clinton Institute, Dublin), Margo Crawford (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Rob Kroes (U. Amsterdam), Ruth Gilmore (U. Southern California), Teresa Alves (U. Lisbon).

Registration Fee:

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  • 15 € - Students
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