{"id":30844,"date":"2018-01-19T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=30844"},"modified":"2018-01-19T16:09:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:09:59","slug":"cfp-6th-annual-caas-american-studies-workshop-zadar-croatia-15-16-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=30844","title":{"rendered":"CFP: 6th Annual CAAS American Studies Workshop, Zadar, Croatia (deadline: March 31, 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

6th Annual CAAS American Studies Workshop:<\/span>
\n Representations of Age and Ageing in American Culture<\/em><\/span>
\n (Zadar, Croatia, 15-16 June 2018)<\/span>
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\u00ba Organizers: Hrvatsko udru\u017eenje za ameri\u010dke studije\/Croatian Association for American Studies (CAAS) and Odjel za anglistiku Sveu\u010dili\u0161ta u Zadru\/ Department of English, University of Zadar.
\n \u00ba\u00a0Deadline for the submission of proposals is March 31, 2018.<\/strong>
\n \u00ba\u00a0Notification of acceptance will be sent out by April 15, 2018.<\/strong>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n CfP: Representations of Age and Ageing in American Culture <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Croatian Association for American Studies (CAAS) announces a Call for Papers for the 6th Annual Workshop in American Studies to be held in Zadar, Croatia, 15-16 June 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s topic of the CAAS American Studies workshop focuses on representations of age and ageing in American society and culture. Acknowledging trends such as the \u201cmassification of old age,\u201d \u201clongevity revolution\u201d (Butler), and the changing demographics of the Western societies, we ask the presenters to address a plethora of issues that encapsulate our society\u2019s attitudes to age, to ageing, to ages of man, to bodily and mental changes pertaining to different ages, and to cultural assumptions and misconceptions attending to different ages (young, middle, old). How do the humanities and social sciences, and literary and cultural texts in particular, address the transformations\u2014mental, social, bodily, health\/medical, cognitive, emotional, economic\u2014accompanying the processes of senescence?\u00a0 How do the race, class, and gender factors, separately or in conjunction, inflect the process of ageing? Welcoming comparatist approaches to the set topic, we hope to receive inquiries and research into cultural specificities of age and ageing in different societies.\u00a0 We conceive of the topic in broad interdisciplinary terms, working at the intersection of American studies, ageing studies, medical humanities, literary gerontology, the corporeal turn, studies of affect and emotions, and the like, and thus invite proposals touching on any of these fields. \u00a0In short, we pose the underlying question: how is \u201cage identity constructed in literature and in society, for both young and old\u201d (Maierhofer)?<\/span><\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce that our guest speaker is Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer<\/a> (University of Graz<\/a>), a renowned ageing studies and American studies scholar. <\/span><\/p>\n

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More particular concerns should address the following broadly devised topics, among others:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n