Die künftige Stelleninhaberin/ der künftige Stelleninhaber soll in Forschung und Lehre den Bereich der Amerikanistik in seiner gesamten Breite vertreten. Das Arbeitsfeld umfasst die Literaturen und Kulturen der USA, insbesondere auch im Kontext transnationaler Dynamiken von Kolonialismus, Sklaverei, Migration und Kulturaustausch und schließt eine Perspektive auf die Karibik und/ oder Kanada mit ein. Des Weiteren ist ein Schwerpunkt in Forschung und Lehre in Diaspora Studies, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Law and Literature oder Kulturtheorie erwünscht.

Alle weiteren Informationen finden Sie unter folgendem link:

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Rektorat/Stellen/ausschreibungen/27042012_2_sh.html

http://www.uni-mainz.de/dgfa2012/ or directly  http://www.info-mainz.de/tourist/DGfA/

The field of masculinity studies has found its way into many academic disciplines. The social sciences as well as medical and psychological research have investigated many phenomena around the issue of masculinity. Moreover, there is a consensus that masculinity as the unmarked gender has remained invisible in many contexts. This, it has been argued, is particularly true for public spheres such as politics. Thus, it is not surprising that there is an increasing body of research in political science and related disciplines such as diplomatic history, exploring the interdependence of the construction of masculinities on the one hand and the emerging, maintenance, and modification of concepts such as citizenship, nationality, democracy, militarism, policing, and colonialism on the other. as a result, masculinity is being made visible in the domain of politics. Moreover, the mechanisms and functions of different types of masculinities in variable political contexts, past and present, are being examined with a special focus on the transformation of masculinities.

Please Send an abstract of ca. 350 words by 30 April, 2012. For further information please see the complete call for papers.

]]> http://blog.dgfa.de/blog/2012/03/13/cfp-political-masculinities-in-literature-and-culture-from-early-modernism-to-today-international-multidisciplinary-conference-university-of-koblenz-­landau/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ 0 http://blog.dgfa.de/blog/2012/02/27/eaas-travel-grants-2012/ http://blog.dgfa.de/blog/2012/02/27/eaas-travel-grants-2012/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:01:00 +0000 editor http://blog.dgfa.de/?p=940 The European Association for American Studies invites applications for the 2012 EAAS travel grants. Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university, and are members of an American Studies association may apply. Two kinds of grants are available: the Transatlantic Grant and the Intra-European Grant. It is expected that four scholarships will be available this year. The maximum single award granted may amount to EUR 2,000.

For further details please check http://www.eaas.eu/eaas-grants/travel-grants

Please remember that all speakers in the annual convention workshops have to be members of the DGfA/GAAS by the time of the convention. (Mitgliedschaft und Mitglied werden).

For more information on the convention, registration, and payment of the registration fee please check the following website:

http://www.uni-mainz.de/dgfa2012/

Ever since the publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s De la Democratie en Amerique (1835/40) scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have addressed American democracy as both a specific manifestation of US-American historical and political developments and as a model for others. In this context, the program of our summer academy addresses both historical and current debates about American democracy and democratic cultures in various discourses across the academic disciplines. The plural used in the title of our event refers not only to semantic changes in a diachronic perspective, but also to the synchronic pluralism of perspectives on democracy in national, subnational, and transnational contexts. Fields of interest include the role of the media and various forms of ‘representation’ and
ideological critique. Finally, we will discuss the contemporary rhetoric of crisis of democracy in the U.S. against the background of domestic and foreign political and social developments. Along those lines our summer academy seeks to address related issues in American history, politics, (popular) culture, and literature.

The deadline for application is March 1, 2012. For more information please see the complete call for applications.

For further information please visit the website.

Deadline for submission is March 1, 2012. All applicants will be notified by March 31, 2012. More information can be found in the complete call for applications.