[AIW] International Summer School Global Flows: Literature, Media, and Ethnicity in the Americas," July 15-21, 2012

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American Studies at Bielefeld University invites MA and PhD students to
participate in the “International Summer School Global Flows: Literature,
Media, and Ethnicity in the Americas” on 15 – 21 July, 2012 (Catherine Leen,
Maynooth, Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld, Niamh Thornton, Belfast) Room
D3-121, July 15-21, 2012:

 

Parameters of the studies of national cultures, as important as they
continue to be for the understanding of fundamental mythologies and
ideologies of nation-states and their assumed imaginary community, need to
be complemented by parameters of progressive, overlapping, and intersecting
geopolitical and cultural spaces.

 

Critics like Arjun Appadurai view cultures as a complex systems of flows
that affect the whole globe (1996), and as a scholarly reaction to that
Ulfried Reichardt argues that a so-called “global turn” in the field of
cultural studies, literary and film studies is taking place (2010). We will
explore how literature, film, and media are shaped by global flows and how
they simultaneously express the dynamics, conflicts, and changes that emerge
from globalization. We will focus on ethnic/postethnic literatures, music,
film and new media in the Americas. The course will end with the
participation of all students in an international conference in conjunction
with the International Postgraduate Forum at Bielefeld University on “Global
Flows in the Americas” July 21st.  Speakers will include doctoral students
as well as leading scholars from the US, Mexico, and Ireland. The Summer
School is sponsored by the New Visiting Scholar Program at Bielefeld
University.

 

For enrollment and further information please contact the organizer:

wilfried.raussert at uni-bielefeld.de

 

Wilfried Raussert

Executive Director IAS

International Association of Inter-American Studies Professor /
Northamerican Literatures and Cultures Editor of fiar, Forum for
Inter-American Research Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Bielefeld Postfach 100 131, 33501 Bielefeld

 

Tel.: +49-521-106 3649

Fax.: +49-521-106 2996

 <http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/wraussert/>
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/wraussert/

 

 

 

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