Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:41:01 +0200 (MSZ) From: Heikki Lempa <heikki.lempa@guest.uni-tuebingen.de> To: h-verkko@sara.cc.utu.fi Subject: International Forum for U.S. Studies (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 18:16:19 -0400 From: Sasha Welland <sasha-welland@uiowa.edu> Greetings H-Net list editors,
The Center for International and Comparative Studies at The University of Iowa has been chosen as a new Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Residency Site. We will have fellows in residence during the spring semester of 1997-1999 and are currently accepting applications for 1997. Please post the following description (or some version of it) of our "International Forum for U.S. Studies" program on the H-Net list for which you serve as an editor. However, as we are trying to reach non-U.S. scholars, if you know that your list has no international subscribers, feel free to disregard this message or to simply forward it to individuals you know who are eligible. Also, if I must be a subscriber to your list in order to post an announcement, please let me know. Finally, I would very much appreciate it if you would let me know whether or not you have received this message and have been able to post it on your list.
Thank you,
Sasha Welland Research Assistant
Center for International and Comparative Studies 226 International Center University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1802 (319)335-1433 fax (319)335-0280 sasha-welland@uiowa.edu
INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR U.S. STUDIES PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The International Forum for U.S. Studies seeks to promote scholarship by non-U.S. scholars on social and cultural issues shaping, or affecting the U.S. Conceptualized jointly by faculty members from the university's Center for International and Comparative Studies and the American Studies Program, the Forum takes contemporary U.S. discussions of cultural diversity, a new world order, and multiculturalism one step further by promoting culturally and nationally diverse research and writing on the United States. Five non-U.S. scholars outside the U.S. will be selected each year for concurrent 3 month residencies each spring semester. Projects may extend a scholar's current work by adding a comparative dimension that focuses on the U.S. or they may support the completion of a substantial piece of research or writing on the U.S. Fellows will participate in a faculty seminar every other week at which they and their U.S.-based colleagues will present and discuss works in progress. In addition, fellows will participate in public forums designed to bring Americanists and international studies scholars together. The University of Iowa will provide complimentary housing as well as the option to stay beyond the fellowship period and teach during the Summer Session. As its overarching theme, the Forum will focus on selective claims to difference(s) and sameness(es) and the values, effects, and material consequences attached to each. Specific themes for the three-year period will be (1) the public production of "American" culture (through institutions, practices, cultural policies, and events), (2) American "sameness-es" (both shared aspects and presumptions of sameness that are made, claimed, denied, or unnamed), and (3) critical discourses on American "exceptionalisms" as seen both from within and without.
Applications will be accepted from non-U.S. scholars living outside of the U.S. Preference will be given to those scholars who do not hold an advanced degree from a U.S. institution.
Application deadline: February 15, 1996
For application write to: Co-directors, Jane Desmond, Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies, and Virginia R. Dominguez, Director of the Center for International and Comparative Studies, The University of Iowa, Center for International and Comparative Studies, 226 International Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1802, (319)335-1433, fax (319)335-0280.
Or send e-mail to: Sasha Welland, Research Assistant sasha-welland@uiowa.edu