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EAAS-L INFO: Call for Applications: Master of Arts in American Studies at Heidelberg University

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its preeminent Master of Arts in American Studies (MAS) program

The MAS is an interdisciplinary program taught in English and aimed at qualified graduate students from around the world. It offers inside knowledge of the United States from an outside perspective. Admission is competitive and depends on quality and academic merits of the candidates. MAS participants benefit both from excellent academic teaching by internationally renowned scholars and from an interdisciplinary approach which meets the needs of future leaders. The MAS is a three semester program, with a performance-related, two-semester fast track option available.

We would like to ask for your help in making the MAS known to students in your department who might be interested in a graduate program at Germany’s oldest university.
We would be grateful if you could forward the attached flyer to students who might be interested in the program and/or display it in a prominent location in your department or institute.

Further information on the HCA and its MAS program, as well as application forms are available at:
http://www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de or http://www.mas.uni-hd.de .

Katia Rostetter, M.A.
MAS Coordinator/Spring Academy Coordinator

Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)
Hauptstr. 120
69117 Heidelberg
Germany

Fon: +49 6221 54 3875
Fax: +49 6221 54 3719
krostetter@hca.uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:krostetter@hca.uni-heidelberg.de>

SUISS 2013

The Scottish Universities’ International Summer School (SUISS) was founded as a non-profit organisation by Professor David Daiches in 1947 in the spirit of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Each summer, SUISS run courses in British and Irish literature and culture from 1900 to the present, as well as a creative writing programme.
Undergraduates, postgraduates, teachers and lecturers from all over the world are welcome to apply.
The School presents a wonderful opportunity for visiting Scotland, combining excellent educational facilities with the incomparable surroundings of Scotland’s capital city.
SUISS runs for a total of six weeks, and offers a continuous programme of study throughout that period. Students may choose to come for the full programme, or attend either the first, the second or the third two-week term, or a combination of the modules. SUISS also offers several scholarship schemes to help with tuition fees.
For more on the programme, application procedure, fees and scholarship, go to SUISS homepage.
For additional information, contact Iva Polak by email or during office hours.

Great Anglo-American Narrators of Our Time

Sonja Bašić. Veliki anglo-američki pripovjedači našeg doba. Biblioteka književna smotra, ur. Irena Lukšić, Zagreb: Hrvatsko filološko društvo, 2012.

Student Conference on Inter-American Studies

Student Conference on Inter-American Studies

Dear all,
Students of the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, in conjunction with the Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the Student Conference on Inter-American Studies.
The conference will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, from 15-16 February 2013.
The aim of the conference is to introduce a new field of studies that is developing in Europe as well as in the states of the Americas. The conference offers a platform for students from international universities to contribute to the new academic field of Inter-American Studies with interdisciplinary and intercultural analyses of the Americas in the area of globalization. This year’s edition will introduce a new concept of the conference when the first conference day will be devoted to the analysis of a particular American country and its relations with others in any field. The first day of the conference offers a platform for the examination and discussion of Canada and her historical, cultural, economic and political links with other countries of the Western Hemisphere. The second conference day will welcome papers dedicated to the interdisciplinary analysis of America’s countries and their interaction in the area of culture, economy, etc.
Please, find attached call_for_papers. The conference registration form, along with an abstract of the proposed paper (maximum 250 words) and a one-paragraph CV for those planning to deliver a paper, should be submitted by e-mail to the organizers (interamericanconference@yahoo.com) by 30 November 2012.
On behalf of the organization team,
Jana Hulová interamericanconference.webnode.sk

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Feigning Subject: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Their Transtextual Frames

Ivan Lupić. Prijetvorni subjekt: transtekstualni okviri Shakespeareovih Soneta, Zagreb: L biblioteka Zavoda za znanost o književnosti Filozofskoga fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2007.

Shakespeare between performance and the book

Ivan Lupić. Shakespeare između izvedbe i knjige. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus, 2010.

Other Contact Zones

Jason Ensor, Iva Polak and Peter Van Der Merwe (eds). Other Contact Zones, NT21C 7, Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth: Network Books, 2007.

In the construction and acknowledgment of responsibility towards the Other, this edition of New Talents challenges the contradiction of a lucky country, Australia, sustained by processes of forgetting and, more critically, the processes of silencing. Beginning with Levinasian ethics applied to a scenario where the immediate physical presence of another human asks us to account for our enjoyment of life, Other Contact Zones explores mechanisms of responsibility and avoidance, including: the politics of gender representation, signs of sexual deviances written on the convict body, the invention of the white woman as an object of fantasy in captivity narratives of early colonial Australia, the creation of multicultural senses of belonging, and the complexities of identity construction in the face of mechanisms of silence and misrecognition.

Teaching Modern Languages to Young Learners

Marianne Nikolov, Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović, Gun Lundberg, Tanya Flanagan, and Marina Matheoudaki (eds). Teaching Modern Languages to Young Learners . Graz: ECML, 2007.

This book is targeted at modern languages teachers of primary school children and focuses on curricula and syllabi, as well as on teaching materials and methodology. The teaching of modern languages to young learners is widespread practice in Europe and beyond today. Although consensus has been achieved on the advantages, on the basic principles of teaching modern languages at an early age, and on the types of materials, tasks and assessment practices recommended, little attempt has been made to explore how effectively these findings are integrated into teacher training programmes and implemented in actual classroom practice.

The aim of this volume is therefore to provide insights into good practice, innovation and quality research selected by the authors from recent language pedagogy. The ten papers look into issues related to both pre- and in-service teacher education, innovative curriculum and syllabus design in tertiary education and lower primary schools, and how new ideas can be implemented at national and classroom levels.
The chapters in this volume are the edited versions of ten selected papers presented at the TeMoLaYoLe conference “Research into Teaching Modern Languages to Young Learners”, held in Pécs, Hungary, in February 2007, organised jointly by the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe and the University of Pécs. The first six papers focus on teacher education curricula and teacher development in pre-service and in-service programmes, whereas the last four papers examine curricula, teaching materials and projects in primary schools.

Syntax workbook for university students of English

Snježana Veselica-Majhut, Ivana Bašić i Marina Zubak. Syntax Workbook for University Students of English, Sveučilišni Priručnik. Zagreb: FF press, 2007.

Syntax workbook for university students of English
is designed for university students of English, as core or additional material for the courses in syntax. Divided into nine sections, the workbook covers the following topics: sentences and clauses, the simple and complex sentence, coordination and subordination, syntactic functions of subordinate clauses and postmodification in the noun phrase. The material used in the workbook has been selected from mainstream newspapers and magazines as well as contemporary literary texts and tailored to cover the points that native speakers of Croatian find most problematic.

Irish mirror for Croatian literature: postcolonial theory, literary comparisons and reception

Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan i Tihana Klepač (eds). Irsko ogledalo za hrvatsku književnost: teorijske pretpostavke, književne usporedbe, recepcija. Zagreb: Filozofski fakultet, 2007.

From Shadow to Presence

Jelena Šesnić. From Shadow to Presence: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2007.

This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US ethnic texts (from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s). Recognizing the growing salience of variously named ethnic, multicultural, and minority literatures as they are produced and circulated in the USA and worldwide nowadays, this work charts four broadly defined models of approaching such texts: cultural nationalism, ethnic feminism, borderlands and contact zones, and finally, the diasporic model. Drawing extensively on psychoanalytic theory, feminist/gender studies, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and its revision of ethnography, the book offers a fresh, engaged, theoretically, and analytically well-rehearsed overview of the distinctive and determining features of a rapidly expanding domain of contemporary US literary production, namely, ethnic literatures. Of potential interest to scholars of American/US literature, but also minority and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature, the book attempts an interethnic comparative approach to well- and lesser-known texts. Among the authors represented are Shawn Wong, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Denise Chávez, Rolando Hinojosa, Roberto Fernández and Edwidge Danticat.

A World Made Cunningly.Baroque in English Literature

Janja Ciglar Žanić. Domišljato stvoren svijet: Barok u engleskoj književnosti. Zagreb: Naklada Slap, 2008.