Announcements

220 Canadian Review of Amencan Studies Announcements 21-23 November 1996. The American Studies Association of Texas invites papers or presentations, individual or group, for its meeting in Marshall, Texas. Conference theme is "America: Contrasts, Changes, and Challenges." For more information, contact Marvin Harris, English Department, East Texas Baptist University, Marshall, Texas, 75670. 26-28 November 1996. The 1996 meeting of the Israel Association of American Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will have as its theme the "Constitution of America. 11 The traditional focus of immigrant and minority American studies has been on how various racial, ethnic, and religious groups take on America. More recent scholarship has radically reversed this perspective. The current object of investigation is how America is constituted socially, legally, and culturally-by its minority groups and, even more critically, how, at various times and in various ways, America comes to acknowledge its pluralistic constitution. This meeting will examine the Americanization of American as a process of disclosure, wherry, m a variety of narrative forms (historical, fictional, journalistic) and in different social movements (in the courts and the classrooms and on the streets) America comes to express its multicultural heterogeneity. Contact: Professor Emily Budick, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, fax: 972 2322545; e-mail: budicke@hum.huji.ac. ii. 21-23 March 1997. The third international conference of the Hellenic Association of American Studies, in collaboration with the Department of American Literature, will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece. The conference will focus on American and/or Greek women's contribution to the development of the humanities, social or other sciences, the fine arts, folk art, and other forms of culture. For information contact: Professor Ekaterini Georgoudaki, School of English, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece, tel: (031)997451; fax: (031) 99 7432. Canadian Review of American Studies 221 21-23 March 1997: The Groupe de Recherche et d'Etudes NordAmericaines (G.R.E.N.A.) is holding a colloquium as part of its eighteenth annual meeting. The topic will be "Travels and Travellers." For information, contact the Institut de Recherche du Monde Anglophone (I.R.M.A.) Universite de Provence 29, avenue Robert-Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1 France. Tel: 42.20.43.79, fax: 42.64.19.08, e-mail irma@ aixup.univ -ax.fr. 25-27 June 1997. In recognition of the 150th anniversary of Thomas A. Edison's birth, the National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site, and the Organization of American Historians will cosponsor an international conference, "Interpreting Edison," in Newark, New Jersey, and at Edison NHS in West Orange, New Jersey. The conference will bring together educators, museum curators, interpreters, and scholars from a variety of disciplines for a critical examination of Edison's impact on innovation, manufacturing, business, and popular culture. The Edison Site plans to publish selections from the conference proceedings. Cpntact: Leonard DeGraaf, Edison National Historic Site, Main Street and Lakeside Avenue, West Orange, New Jersey 07052, tel: (201) 726-0550, or internet: edis_curatorial- @nps.gov. 13-17 August 1997. The Nordic Association for American Studies' (NAAS) 15th Biennial Conference, "After Consensus: Critical Challenge and Social Change in America, JI will be held in Goteborg, Sweden. The conference will focus on changes in American society, politics, and culture including American Studies itself-associated with the decline of "consensus, JI specifically topics such as "culture wars," the literary canon debate, multiculturalism and ethnicity, the New Historicism, Cultural Studies, the new aesthetics, gay studies, feminism, politics and race, political realignment, and globalization. 222 Canadian Revzew of Amencan Studies Call for Manuscripts Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. This journal is inviting submissions for its twentieth anniversary issues, to appear in 1997. Though articles on any theoretical, generic, historical, or cultural aspect of life-writing are welcome, the editors are especially interested in essays which extend the range of biography, autobiography, hagiography, oral and group history mto other fields and disciplines-film theory, social science, multicultural studies, science and technology, popular culture, marketing and media studies, medicine, law, or any other suitable frame. As part of our ongoing international emphasis, we would also like to see articles on life-writing outside the Anglo-American literary corridor. Though our planned...