Konferencja pt. „Homeliness, Domesticity and Security in American Culture″

W dniach 23-25 września 2015 r. w warszawskiej siedzibie Uniwersytetu SWPS odbędzie się międzynarodowa konferencja Polskiego Towarzystwa Studiów Amerykanistycznych współorganizowana przez Katedrę Kultur i Literatur Anglojęzycznych pt. „Homeliness, Domesticity  and  Security in American Culture″. Konferencja otrzymała grant organizacyjny od Ambasady USA w Polsce, a wykłady wygłoszą m.in. prof. Bridget Bennett, University of Leeds, prof. Nancy Cott, Harvard University i prof. Arthur F. Redding, York University.

Szczegółowe informacje dotyczące wydarzenia i program wystąpień znaleźć można na stronie internetowej konferencji » 

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Recent academic interests and explorations within the field of broadly understood American Studies have been largely concentrating on the unusual and exceptional aspects of American literature, art and life, such as wildness, transgression, excess, violence, sublimity, greatness, intemperance, extraordinariness. The questions which the conference is going to address will focus on the constructions and the place of the „ordinary″ viewed from the perspective of various „home″ – inspired discourses, from housing to domestic policy, through questions of family values, ethics of modesty, simplicity of living, unpretentiousness, individual and domestic security, American communities, localities and neighborhoods. The homely, unlike the sublime and the beautiful, seems to be a category which has slipped from the critical horizon of the humanities as unaesthetic and too obvious, which obviousness we hope to problematize during the conference. Perhaps Walt Whitman's „twenty-ninth bather″ from Song of Myself, the woman to whom the homeliest of the twenty eight young and friendly bathing men was beautiful („Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her″) could be also inquired in this respect?  
 
We invite papers coming from the possibly broadest range of academic perspectives (Literary Criticism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist and Gender Studies, Translation Studies, Queer Theory, Philosophy, Sociology, History of Ideas, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies ..., fully realizing that a strictly single-disciplinary approach is nowadays hardly thinkable), so as to show the complexity of the seeming simplicity of „home″ (along with the wide range of its metaphors and metonymies) and its safekeeping in the context of American culture at whose beginnings the New World was also the original promise of a new home.

We suggest the following, broad, thematic areas only as a topographically drafted chart of the conference:

Keynote speakers confirmed to date include:

• Professor Bridget Bennett, University of Leeds, UK
• Professor Nancy Cott, Harvard University, USA
• Professor Arthur F. Redding, York University, Canada

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The conference program is available on the conference website »

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Abstracts (250 words) should be sent to Ten adres pocztowy jest chroniony przed spamowaniem. Aby go zobaczyć, konieczne jest włączenie w przeglądarce obsługi JavaScript. by June 15, 2015. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 30, 2015. The deadline for registration and payment of the conference fee: July 30, 2015.

The conference fee of 450 PLN | 125 USD | 110 Euro includes conference materials, coffee breaks and conference dinner. Costs of accommodation are not included in the conference fee and must be arranged separately.  

We are happy to announce that thanks to the support of the Embassy of the United States of America in Warsaw, we will be able to award up to four conference grants to non-EU Eastern European participants.

Additionally, we can offer ten partial fee waivers for PhD and/or graduate students.
 
Please apply via e-mail (Ten adres pocztowy jest chroniony przed spamowaniem. Aby go zobaczyć, konieczne jest włączenie w przeglądarce obsługi JavaScript..p) before July 10. The recipients of the grants will be informed by July 15.

In order to register, please visit the conference website »

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SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Polish Association for American Studies

Prof. Tadeusz Rachwał
Prof. Piotr Skurowski
Dr. Agnieszka Pantuchowicz
Dr. Anna Warso

The conference is supported by the Embassy of the United States of American in Warsaw.

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• 23-25 września 2015 r.
• Uniwersytet SWPS
  ul. Chodakowska 19/31, Warszawa

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