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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:08:48 -0500
From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP:  Making Spaces in the Americas
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fyi mapsters, this conference might interest some creative map folk,
Alice Hudson, Map Div., NYPL

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Subject: CFP:  Making Spaces in the Americas
Author:  Kevan Frazier <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date:    11/09/2000 9:19 AM


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Making Spaces: Travels, Tourism, Geographies, and the Construction of
Place in the Americas

The Spring 2001 conference of the New England American Studies
Association will be held at the University of New Hampshire, Manchester
on April 27-29, 2001. We invite proposals for individual papers and
panels that consider the multiple ways that spaces in the Americas have
been constructed, described, visited, represented, or imagined. To be
held in the restored grounds of the historic Amoskeag Millyard, the
conference will examine how American spaces, both real and imagined,
have been constructed and contested through time. Papers may address the
entire range of topographies including (but by no means limited to) such
topics as commemorative space; immigrant communities; ethnic spaces;
military compounds; expatriate communities; tourist sites; eco-tourism;
American spaces abroad; mapping and zoning; distinctions between public
and private space; cultural and educational exchange programs; utopias
and condemned space; virtual space; hangouts; and gendered space. Panels
may address any time frame or location.

As always, interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. We also welcome
proposals from educators, activists, and artists that will enrich the
conference by looking to alternative formats or that take specific
advantage of the location . Manchester, a city undergoing rapid economic
and physical transformation, is served by several major airlines and is
easily accessible from all parts of the country.

NEASA is happy to announce that the Mary  Kelley Prize will be awarded
at the conference to the best paper by a graduate student, independent
scholar, or non-tenure track faculty member. Please indicate in your
proposal your eligibility for the award.

Proposals of not more than 250 words and a one-page c.v. for each
presenter should be postmarked by January 10, 2001. Please note that
electronic submissions should not include attachments. Proposals should
be sent to: Adam Sweeting, NEASA Program Committee Chair, Boston
University, College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,
MA 02215. Requests for information should be directed to
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