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Monday, March 14, 2022

Canadian Review of American Studies (Winter 2021): Special Issue on New Perspectives on New Television

The latest issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies reflects on the fate of television in the wake of the diverse new technological platforms. Guest editor Daniel Adleman writes: "Over the last few decades, television (or at least some modalities of it) has evolved into one of the most sophisticated and nuanced narrative art... More

Friday, March 12, 2021

Sound and Fury: A Conversation about the Capitol Hill riot

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol was stormed by a mob of angry Donald Trump supporters. This insurgence was the most violent attack on the Capitol in centuries. Two months later, the repercussions of January 6 linger as we try to understand what led to such a dangerous and unsettling episode. This... More

Monday, February 22, 2021

Lacan in America: new Special Issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies

The lates issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies (vol. 51, no. 1, Spring 2021), the flagship journal of the Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS), has just been published. Chris Vanderwees edits a special issue on "Lacan in America," with contributions from a range of international Lacanian readers. Will Greenshields (Zhejiang... More

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Stuart MacKay Examines American Election Investigations in the Washington Post

History Alumnus Stuart MacKay, is a historian specializing in the American Republican Party and is currently working on a book about the party during the Civil War era. A short excerpt of the article he wrote for the Washington Post is included below. The full article, “Ted Cruz’s proposed election commission can only hurt... More

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Gender Discrimination, Equal Protection and the Equal Rights Amendment

Melissa Haussman (Political Science) was the focus of a story by Mary Giles on the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the century old struggle for an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). It can be found here on the Faculty of Public Affairs website here.... More

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Happy 105th birthday to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Happy 105th birthday to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom It’s a good time to reflect on the virtues of feminist internationalism It seems especially appropriate to mark today’s 105th anniversary of the Geneva-based Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, which met for the first time on April 28th, in 1915.... More

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Franny Nudelman publishes Fighting Sleep: The War for the Mind and the US Military (Verso, 2019)

How the military used sleep as a weapon—and how soldiers fought back On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme... More

Monday, October 1, 2018

An interview with Melissa Haussman on the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh

My colleague Melissa Haussman (Political Science) and I sat down—at our computers—and had a virtual conversation over the weekend about the Kavanaugh confirmation process. These are some of the answers she kindly provided to my questions. Andrew M. Johnston   AJ: There’s been a lot of apocalyptic language on both sides of the aisle... More

Friday, September 28, 2018

Melissa Haussman speaks to CBC about Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings

This morning, Melissa Haussman (Political Science) discussed Thursday's dramatic Senate Judiciary Hearings on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. To hear the entire interview, follow this link to CBC Ottawa-Morning: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/ottawa-morning/segment/15606279  ... More

Friday, September 21, 2018

American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 8-11, 2018, Atlanta, GA

While the date for conference proposals was many months ago, we thought it might be important to post a reminder of the upcoming annual meeting of the ASA in Atlanta. While the online program is not yet available, this is the original call for papers. For more information, visit the ASA website... More

Friday, September 21, 2018

Forms of Migration: An International Conference on Transnational Literature & Innovative Aesthetics American Studies, University of Graz (Graz, Austria)

CFP: Forms of Migration: An International Conference on Transnational Literature & Innovative Aesthetics May 2-4, 2019: University of Graz (Graz, Austria) The Department of American Studies and the Centre for Intermediality Studies at the University of Graz (Graz, Austria), in conjunction with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), announces a call... More

Friday, September 21, 2018

16th Annual Spring Academy Conference, Heidelberg Center for American Studies (Heidelberg, Germany)

The sixteenth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 18-22, 2019. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and... More

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