[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
September
28: AMST Colloquiums: Presenting Our Work: A series following up our most
recent NEASA Colloquium kicks off with the three presenters featured at our
inaugural 2011 event.
September
29: AMST Colloquiums: Studying Salem: The series continues with one more
layer to our 2012 analyses of a crucial New England and American city.
September
30: AMST Colloquiums: Defining the Field: Three big questions raised at our
2013 Colloquium, as the series rolls on.
October
1: AMST Colloquiums: The Digital Turn: Two impressive forms of digital
humanities scholarship shared at our 2014 Colloquium, and one more I’d add into
that mix.
October
2: AMST Colloquiums: Advice for AmericanStudiers: The series concludes with
a few key pieces of advice for grad students from our latest Colloquium.
October
3-4: AMST in 2015: A special weekend post highlighting three examples of
the best of AmericanStudies in our 21st century moment.
October
5: Before the Revolution: The French & Indian War: A series inspired by
the anniversary of the Stamp Act Congress kicks off with contextualizing a
globally significant conflict.
October
6: Before the Revolution: Governor Hutchinson: The series continues with
two complex and crucial ways to remember a tragic figure.
October
7: Before the Revolution: The Stamp Act Congress: How the 1765 gathering
anticipated the Continental Congress and how it didn’t, as the series rolls on.
October
8: Before the Revolution: Wheatley to the Earl of Dartmouth: The poetic
letter that both anticipates the Revolution and helps us remember a vital
historical figure.
October
9: Before the Revolution: Crispus Attucks: The series concludes with three
telling details about one of the Revolution’s first casualties.
October
10-11: (Pre-)Revolutionary Scholarship: A special post highlighting a
handful of scholarly sources through which to continue the pre-Revolutionary conversation.
October
12: Early American Writers: las Casas and de Vaca: A series on early
American writing kicks off with two of the first truly American voices.
October
13: Early American Writers: Bradstreet and Taylor: The series continues
with two expert practitioners of the Puritan confessional poem.
October
14: Early American Writers: Jonathan Edwards: The problem of associating a
writer with only one work and how to get beyond it, as the series rolls on.
October
15: Early American Writers: John Woolman: The autobiographer who traced his
own wanderings and can help inspire and guide ours.
October
16: Early American Writers: Annis Boudinot Stockton: The series concludes
with three layers to the case for remembering the Revolutionary writer and
poet.
October
17-18: Siobhan Senier’s Guest Post on Dawnland
Voices: My latest Guest Post, with the great Siobhan Senier on her
anthology of New England Native American writing.
October
19: UN Histories: The League of Nations: A series inspired by the UN’s
anniversary starts with the failures and successes of the organization’s
predessor.
October
20: UN Histories: World War II: The series continues with why it’s
important to remember the UN’s wartime origins.
October
21: UN Histories: Muir Woods: A potent 1945 symbolic expression of memory
and community, as the series rolls on.
October
22: UN Histories: Secretary Generals: AmericanStudying the careers of three
complex, telling Secretary Generals.
October
23: UN Histories: Peacekeeping: The series concludes with what we can learn
from the longest-running and newest UN peacekeeping missions.
October
24-25: The US and the UN: A special weekend post on the broad spectrum that
is the US-UN relationship, and where we go from here.
October
26: 21st Century Villains: Jigsaw: A Halloween series on
villains begins with the Saw series
and differing visions of morality in horror films.
October
27: 21st Century Villains: The Newest Hannibal: The series
continues with what the most recent version of Hannibal Lecter adds to the
iconic villain.
October
28: 21st Century Villains: Richmond Valentine: The supervillain
who combines a familiar British plot and a unique American performance, as the
series rolls on.
October
29: 21st Century Villains: Wilson Fisk: How Vincent D’Onofrio’s
portrayal of the comic book villain takes the genre to complex new places.
October
30: 21st Century Villains: Scarlet Overkill: The series
concludes by AmericanStudying the Anglophilia of Minions’ central villain.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics or
themes you’d like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to
write? Lemme know!
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