This
conference addresses scholars from the fields of history, art, musicology,
political science, international relations, cultural studies, and
anthropology. Scholars focusing on areas outside of Europe and North
America are particularly welcomed. We will advertise and market
the conference to prospective participants through the regional
academic internet groups, university flyers, as well as local research
networks in Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Culture and
International History III will be organized in partnership of the Zentrum für Nordamerikastudien at the University
of Frankfurt and the institute for cultural diplomacy.
It will take place in the University of Frankfurt's guest
facilities on Frauenlobstrasse near Bockenheimer Warte. The guesthouse,
a former residential home built in the 1920s, includes two large
conference rooms and is equipped with the most up-to-date technical
equipment. Frankfurt is
the home of continental Europe's most important airport and is also
easily accessible by train or car. Participants arriving from overseas
will fly directly to Rhein-Main Airport, then take the subway or
bus to the campus.
The conference
will last 2.5 days, from December 19 to December 21, 2005. Past
experience has shown that this period shortly before the seasonal
holidays is particularly attractive. In many universities, this
is the end or the break of the semester and allows international
participants to visit Germany during the Christmas period.
The purpose
of this convention is to further the research and expand the network
among the burgeoning group of cultural administrators, political
observers and scholars interested in the field of culture and international
relations. A conclusive session at the end of the convention will
field all topics discussed during the previous days and pave the
way for a publication. The twelve best papers will appear in the
series Explorations in Culture and International History,
edited by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht & Frank Schumacher with Berghahn Press in Oxford and New York.
 Organizational
Mission
The Zentrum für Nordamerika Forschung
at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
was founded in 1979. It represents the second-largest and second-oldest
interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to the study of North
America at a German university. ZENAF explicitly focuses on the
United States, Canada and Mexico. It is designed to bring together
representatives and resources from various fields including law,
economics, political sciences, history, geography, and American
studies. The mission of ZENAF is to disseminate information on North
American politics, culture and society in the Federal Republic.
Staff members are assistant professors, associates, full professors
and students.
For
more information about icd, please visit the
institute section.
Achievements
with Culture and International History I & II
Culture
and International History I and II both evoked a strong interest
among the community of researchers interested in international relations.
The first conference resulted in a volume published by Berghahn
Books which became so popular among readers on the college and upper
division level that the publisher, inundated with in-advance orders,
decided to come out with a paperback version right away.
Thanks
to this broad response on the part of students and academics, the
publisher then urged the editors to submit a second collection of
essays based on a new conference in December 2002. This conference
was attended by approximately 65 participants from Asia, Europe
and the Americas. The organizers selected the twelve best papers
and are currently preparing them for publication. Numerous scholars
have already contacted the organizers to see whether there will
be another conference dedicated to this topic in the near future.
Culture
and International History III
The conference’s
mission is to bring together scholars from all five continents in
order to discuss their research and identify new trends of investigation.
The purpose of this convention is to expand the network among the
burgeoning group of cultural administrators, political observers
and scholars interested in the field of culture and international
relations. A conclusive session at the end of the convention will
field all topics discussed during the previous days and pave the
way for a publication.
The
twelve best papers will appear in the series Explorations in
Culture and International History, published by Berghahn Press
in Oxford and New York. The conference will specifically address
the question of new directions in the study of culture and international
history. While areas such as the influence of NGOs, women, academics
and doctors has recently received scholarly interest, we still lack
a theory and a synthesis of these many co-existing approaches. We
will advertise and market the conference to prospective participants
through the regional academic internet groups, university flyers,
as well as local research networks in Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa
and the Americas.
Target
Population
This
conference addresses scholars from the fields of history, art, musicology,
political science, international relations, cultural studies, and
anthropology. Scholars from and focusing on areas outside of Europe
and North America are particularly welcomed. Contributions from
both senior and junior scholars are welcome as are papers from experts
working outside academia (politics, the media, think tanks.
Implementation
Conference: (2 Days)
We will begin the conference with an introductory session and a
keynote address outlining the challenges facing scholars of international
history today. The remainder of the conference will then be structured
in a total of 10 sessions, with each one consisting of three presentations.
Each section is independent from the other and will follow the model
presented below. The papers presented will not be final; indeed,
we hope that the discussions at the conference will contribute significantly
to the final shape of the individual presentations. We expect to
publish less than half of the papers presented However, if the authors
were interested, icd would be happy to publish all the papers
also on our website to give a wider audience access to this new
and exciting research.
We
assume
that it will take 20 months to publish the conference volume. Authors
will be asked to revise their presentation on the basis of the
conference
discussions and submit their papers three months later (March 2006).
The editors will the review the manuscripts and, if necessary,
ask
the authors to make revisions. The final version should be arriving
at Berghahn Book’s office no later than August 31, 2006.
Guidelines
from Berghahn state that it takes the press roughly 12 to 15 months
to publish a book (the press will first solicit one or two outside
reviews who possibly ask for more revisions before the manuscript
will copyedited and go to the printer.
Results
On the basis
of our previous two conference, we anticipate that the result of
this symposium will be twofold: first, it will yield a book for
a broader academic market as well as interested readers outside
of the university. Second, we hope to develop a network of researchers
interested in this subject complete with a website, newsgroup and,
if possible, more follow-up conventions.
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