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206 Announcements Canadian Review of American Studies Revue canadienne d'etudes americaines Genealogies, Miscegenations, Missed Generations. Travelling exhibition and illustrated critical anthology about racial and sexual indeterminacy, fall 1999. Send slides, abstracts, resume or CV and SASE to Erin Valentino, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut, 875 Coventry Road U-99, Storrs, CT, USA 06269; Tel: (860) 486-3930; fax (860) 4863869 ; evalentino@ finearts.sfa. uconn.edu Callfor Proposals Crossing Borders/Crossing Centuries. Joint Annual Meeting of the ASACMS , Montreal, Quebec, 28-31 October, 1999. The 1999 ASA-CAAS Program Committee invites colleagues in American Studies and all related disciplines to submit proposals for individual papers, presentations, performances , films, roundtables, workshops, conversations, or entire sessions on any topic dealing with American cultures, including topics in disciplines that have been underrepresented in American Studies research and teaching. The ASAAnnual Meeting is open to anyone having an interdisciplinary interest in the study of American cultures. Meeting Theme The theme of the meeting is "Crossing Borders/Crossing Centuries." In choosing this theme, the Program Committee celebrates the fact that the American Studies Association is crossing United States national borders to hold its annual meeting in Montreal and meets for the fourth time in conjunction with the Canadian Association for American Studies. We also celebrate the tradition that has always distinguished American Studies scholarship: its willingness to cross disciplinary borders and to venture outside conventional definitions of scholarly practice. We note that the end of Canadian Review of American Studies Revuecanadienned'etudes americaines 207 a century invites retrospective thinking as we cross a temporal border. Finally, this title suggests our desire to encourage comparatist thinking of every sort: cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, cross-national, cross-temporal. We challenge participants to reflect on the significance of American Studies scholarly traditions and to project the directions our work, collectively and individually, will take in the next century. Since border crossing also implies responsibility to those whose borders we have crossed, we hope that this meeting will advance the discussion of the past few years about the public dimension of our scholarship, from engagement in local and national issues to cooperation with colleagues teaching in secondary schools. We invite reflections on the academy that address the increasingly tenuous situation of faculty who teach either as untenured or as adjunct faculty and that design strategies to insure more secure and equitable employment. And we hope that the meeting will afford an opportunity to cross generational borders within the academy, bringing senior scholars into dialogue with younger colleagues working in newer fields. We seek a broad variety of proposals, and will attempt in our selection to include sessions of very different sorts. We encourage sessions that bring humanities and social science disciplines together, sessions that feature the arts, including literature, visual art, architecture, material culture, music, drama, film, and popular arts; sessions that bring forward neglected perspectives either in subject or in methodology; sessions dealing with religion, sexualities, politics, environments; and sessions that explore expressive traditions from a variety of cultural and ethnic standpoints. We also encourage sessions that explore how the dynamics of global capitalism both foster and inhibit border crossings of various kinds, whether of countries, regions, classes, ethnicities, or genders. We especially invite sessions that will pay tribute to our physical crossing into Canada through comparative perspectives that go beyond the standard nation state comparisons to rethink conventional wisdom about historical and contemporary relations between the United States and its neighbours, north and south. Finally, we hope to encourage the diverse membership of ASA and CAAS to enter into discussion with each other, and hope that all conference participants will plan to attend sessions and meet scholars in fields they have not previously explored. Let this be the meeting in which every participant crosses some boundaries into new intellectual territory. 208 Canadian Review of American Studies Revue canadienne d'etudesarnericames Submission Requirements Proposals may be submitted for entire sessions, presentations, performances, films, roundtables, workshops, conversations, or individual papers on any topic dealing with American Studies. Proposed presentations should represent work in progress, rather than published work. Proposals for workshops, roundtables, and conversations should suggest the issues to be discussed and indicate the proposed...