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2004 Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association
Conference
University of Auckland, New Zealand
14-17 July 2004
[Photo Credit: Tourism Auckland]
‘The City of Sails’ serves as host for
the 2004 Australian and New Zealand American Studies conference,
which marks the 40th anniversary of ANZASA. Inspired by both our
location and by the ‘paradigmatic shift’ occurring within
the field of American Studies toward examining U.S. society and
culture within a global framework, this year’s theme is ‘Borders
and Boundaries’. Our five keynote speakers promise to be dynamic
and stimulating:
James Belich, author of the two-volume history
of New Zealand, Making Peoples (1996) and Paradise
Reforged (2001).
Bruce Fehn, social historian, history educator,
and coordinator of Social Studies Education at University of Iowa,
will speak and run workshops on teaching and learning American
Studies.
Chris Laidlaw, popular New Zealand columnist,
Radio New Zealand host, former All-Black rugby player, and author
of Rights of Passage (1999).
David R. Roediger, a founder of ‘whiteness
studies’ and author of The Wages of Whiteness: Race
and the Making of the American Working Class (1991) and Colored
White: Transcending the Racial Past (2002).
Robyn Wiegman, author of American Anatomies:
Theorizing Race and Gender (1995) and The Futures of
American Studies (2002).
Plenary addresses and sessions on a range of topics
from the Native American ‘middle ground’, the USA as
‘borderland’, the creation of ‘racial landscapes’
to literary cultural collisions and globalising American Studies
from ‘the inside out’, raise questions and offer ideas
about the direction of the field of American Studies and the role
that ‘borders and boundaries’ will play in its future.
SPONSORED BY:
FULBRIGHT NEW ZEALAND
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND HISTORY DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND FACULTY OF ARTS
For more information, please contact: Jennifer Frost
(j.frost@auckland.ac.nz)
or Paul Taillon (p.taillon@auckland.ac.nz). |
