BAAS Annual Conference 2012

British Association for American Studies, University of Manchester, April 12-15, 2012

Proposals for 20-minute presentations should be a maximum of 250 words and include at least a provisional title. Proposals by two or more people sharing a common theme are warmly invited and the conference organisers this year are especially keen to have a number of interdisciplinary panels that cross the boundaries of literary, historical, political, cinematic, cultural and theoretical work.

The fifty-seventh annual conference of the British Association for American Studies will be hosted by the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester from 12-15 April, 2012. While there is no over-arching theme to the conference, and papers and panel proposals are welcomed on any subject related to the United States and early America, we especially look forward to receiving approaches from those with interests in Sino-American and Canadian-American cultural, economic, and diplomatic relations this year as well as interests in commemorating the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. In addition we are very keen to encourage panel proposals from associations linked, or with close ties, to BAAS, such as the APG, BGEAH, BRANCH, and HOTCUS. We intend to feature work from as diverse a range of disciplines, departments, institutions and individuals as possible and we want to reiterate BAAS’s wish to encourage innovation and initiative in constructing panels, roundtable discussions, and specially scheduled sessions.