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Polish Association for American Studies

2010 Annual Conference

University of Lodz, Poland

October 20-23, 2010

 

American Diversity:

Identities, Narratives, Politics.

 

I am large. I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

The 2010 Annual Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS) conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Association’s foundation will be hosted by the Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies, University of Lodz. Both individual scholars and panels of minimum three presenters are welcome to submit proposals from a wide range of areas pertaining to American Studies:

  • Culture and the arts: new realism, post-humanism, post-secularism, post-colonialism, feminisms
  • Narratives: literary representation, oral histories, (auto)biographies, (inter) textualities
  • Society: cities and communities, ethnic and migratory patterns, multiculturalism and intersectionality, trans-cultural approaches
  • Media: media production and ideology, de-massification of the media in the Digital Age, the new media aesthetics, praxes of representation, visions of the post-media communication, political communication
  • Politics and history: brands of citizenships, economic crisis, glocalisation of power, terror and terrorism, the post-Obama effect on US domestic and international politics
  • Technologies: biopolitics, network society, technoscapes of communication, surveillance, technological citizenship, zones of the virtual

 

The organizers plan to publish a volume of selected papers.

Deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2010

Please submit a proposal of up to 250 words for each individual presentation. For panels, include an abstract for each presentation. Please specify in your abstract the title of your paper or panel, your name and affiliation and any requirements for technology that you anticipate to use. Please send your abstracts and all queries to the following e-mail:
paas2010@gmail.com

Conference Convener:Prof. Elzbieta H. Oleksy, Professor and Chair, Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies, University of Lodz, Poland
Conference Secretaries: Dr. Grazyna Zygadlo, Dr Marek M. Wojtaszek

 

FINANCIAL AND LOGISTIC INFORMATION

The conference venue
University of Lodz Conference Center
ul. Kopcinskiego 16/18
90-232 Lodz
email: csk@uni.lodz.pl

The conference fee is 350 PLN or 90 Euros or 120 USD (all VAT inclusive) - the fee covers the conference expenses and all meals for 3 days.
The conference fee can be either paid during the conference registration (cash only - no checks) or by bank transfer to the account below:

 

Bank account information:

Account holder: Uniwersytet Lodzki
Name of the bank: Pekao S.A. O. Lodz
Bank address: Lodz, ul. Piotrkowska 270
IBAN: PL 87 1240 3028 1111 0010 2942 9504
BIC/SWIFT: PKOPPLPW

The transfer MUST BE ANNOTATED WITH THE INFORMATION: “PAAS 2010″ and your name
to facilitate the identification of your transfer

The bank transfer can only be made until September 15th, 2010.

 

The full conference fee is payable regardless of how long participants are staying at the conference.

 

The accommodation is ONLY payable by the conference participants at the Conference Center

 110 PLN (25 Euros or 35 USD) in a double shared room (VAT and breakfast inclusive)
120 PLN (30 Euros or 40 USD) in a single room (VAT and breakfast inclusive)
140 PLN (35 Euros or 47 USD) in a double room for single use

Other hotels:

http://www.hotelscombined.com/City/Lodz.htm

 

Please, do not transfer the accommodation fee to the university account.