Partner University Fund
Partner University Fund was established in May 2007 under the auspices of the FACE Foundation (French American Cultural Exchange) at the French Embassy in Washington D.C.
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French Association for American Studies
– 2013 Conference: Religion and Spirituality (May 22-26, University of Angers)
– AFEA Newletters (in French).
– The AFEA’s bibliographic database, still under construction, is accessible on the University of Le Mans’ website. Bibliography of Americanists in France
– French Review of American Studies
Latest issue – # 132 2012/2: Poetics of the Body in American Literature
Clinton Institute for American Studies
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 16-22 July 2007 The Clinton Institute Summer School will bring together scholars and graduate students from around the world to engage in wide-ranging discussion in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. The School is aimed at advanced graduate students and junior faculty in American Studies and its cognate fields (English, History, Cultural
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The Franco-American Commission
The French-American Commission offers several types of grants: – Doctoral Grants – Research Grants – Summer Seminars – Senior Specialist Grants (to invite an American colleague) For more information, visit our website.
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Call For Workshops
AFEA Conference 2010 — “From Nature to the Environment” Le thème central de ce congrès propose de s’interroger sur le passage de la notion de « nature » – historiquement construite et idéologiquement connotée – à celle d’« environnement », utilisée plus fréquemment de nos jours pour étudier les rapports entre l’humain et le non-humain
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Workshops
WORKSHOPS, July 21, 2009 Antoine CAZÉ (Université Denis-Diderot – Paris 7) Sites poétiques contemporains Dans une lettre adressée en 1955 à Ed Dorn, Charles Olson conseille au jeune poète de s’ancrer dans un site spécifique pour en transmuer la substance en langage : DOCUMENTS PRIMAIRES. Et s’ancrer à cet endroit représente toute une vie d’assiduité.
Call For Papers
AFEA Conference 2010 – « From Nature to Environment » Deadlines: – Panel proposals: 8 July 2009 (proposals to be sent to Yves Figueiredo, Michel Granger and Thomas Pughe ; – The definitive list of accepted panel topics will be published on the AFEA website by 20 July 2009) – Paper proposals : 25 October
2009 Graduate Student Symposium – Call for presentations
The French Association for American Studies invites doctoral students in American studies to take part in the symposium (“Doctoriales”) specifically organized on their behalf during its annual conference. This year’s workshops will be held on Wednesday May 27, 2009 (9.30 am to 6 pm.) at the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon. The conference itself will take
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List of Workshops and Call For Papers 2009
Organisateurs scientifiques : John Dean (UVSQ,), Marie Liénard (Ecole Polytechnique) et Marie-Claude Perrin-Chenour(Paris X Nanterre) Our workshops this year have been evenly divided into three sections: Civilization, Cultural Studies, and Literature. This was done both in response to participants who labeled their work as Cultural Studies and to the inherent growth of this area. Since
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The Fear Factor – an American Timeline
[accent on American Civilization (J.Dean)] “Fear needs no definition. It is a primal, and so to speak, a subpolitical emotion.” — Raymond Aron c. 1000-mid-19th Century: The dreaded ocean passage from Europe to America, from Leif Erickson through Columbus & beyond. 1607-1775: Colonial Period. – 1607 – Jamestown. . Jamestown Colony: “The Starving Time” and
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Call For Workshops
The Fear Factor 2009 Conference – American Studies Association of France : Marie-Claude Chenour – Paris X ; John Dean – Université de Versailles ; Marie Lienard – Ecole Polytechnique. Whether it be real or imaginary, fear haunts America. The sociologist Barry Glassner even speaks of the nation as a “culture of fear”. Idiomatic American
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