Funding for Duke Graduate Students -- 2010 Futures of American Studies Summer Institute
Graduate Students at any stage of their Duke course of study are invited to apply for funding to attend the 2010 Dartmouth Futures of American Studies Summer Institute (description below). At least two fellowships will be provided, which will cover the cost of airfare and the Institute stipend (which includes housing). Meals and other incidental costs will not be supported.
To apply for Duke funding, submit a letter of application outlining the significance of Institute participation to your course of study. Include information about your research focus and your history of funding, along with a fully updated cv.
Applications should be delivered to Robyn Wiegman, Women's Studies Program, Box 90760, or by email attachment torwiegman@duke.edu by April 1, 2010. Please direct all inquires to R. Wiegman at the email address above.
Funding for this opportunity has been provided by English, History, Literature, Women’s Studies, Latino Studies, the Dean of the Faculty of Trinity College, and the Franklin Humanities Institute.http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures/
The 2010 Futures of American Studies Institute
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ANNOUNCES A ONE WEEK SUMMER INSTITUTE
STATE(S) OF AMERICAN STUDIES
MONDAY, JUNE 21 - SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
CO-DIRECTORS: Elizabeth Dillon (Northeastern University), Winfried Fluck (Freie Universitt, Berlin), Eric W. Lott (University of Virginia)
INSTITUTE FACULTY:
Sandy Alexandre (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Aimee Bahng (Dartmouth College) Ali Behdad (University of California at Los Angeles), Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Barrymore Anthony Bogues (Brown University), Daphne Brooks (Princeton University), Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds), Mario Corona (University of Bergamo) Michael Chaney (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Dartmouth College), John Ernest (University of West Virginia), J. Martin Favor (Dartmouth College), Danuta Fjellestad (Uppsala University), Donatella Izzo (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples), Cindi Katz (City University of New York), Lzaro Lima (Bryn Mawr College), John Michael (University of Rochester), Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois), Klaus Milich (Dartmouth College), Paula Moya (Stanford University), Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky), Dana Nelson (Vanderbilt University), Samuel Otter (University of California at Berkeley), John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California), Ramon Saldvar (Stanford University), Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa), Maurice Stevens (Ohio State University), Kenneth Warren (University of Chicago), Robyn Wiegman (Duke University), Juliet Williams (University of California at Los Angeles), Christina Zwarg (Haverford College)
DESCRIPTION:
The fifteenth year of the Institute is the first of a four-year focus on "State(s) of American Studies." The term "state(s)" in the title is intended to refer at once to the "state" as an object of analysis, to the state as an imagined addressee and interlocutor for Americanist scholarship, as well as to the reconfigured state(s) of the fields and areas of inquiry in American Studies both inside and outside the United States. As such, we are inviting both scholars well known as "Americanists" internationally and those whose theoretical frameworks, objects of study, and disciplinary inclinations promise to transform the field's self-understanding.
The Institute is divided into plenary sessions that feature current work from Institute faculty (listed above) and research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress. Speakers in the plenary sessions will examine the relation between emergent and residual practices in the field of American Studies from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. The Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and who are interested in current critical debates in American Studies.
The Institute was designed to provide a shared space of critical inquiry that brings the participants work-in-progress to the attention of a network of influential scholars. Over the past ten years, plenary speakers have recommended participants work to the leading journals and university presses within the field of American Studies, and have provided participants with recommendations and support in an increasingly competitive job market.
