Activities

An integral part of the 'Images of America' project has concerned the sharing and disseminating of ideas, from the theoretical framework which underpins the project to the research outcomes and interpretations arising from each case-study.

To this end, the project-members attended weekly seminars to discuss our theoretical and methodological approach during the first six months of the project. This aspect of the project will also be expanded through an international workshop to be held in Spring 2008 and the publication of an edited collection which will comparatively address the various themes and 'images' arising from our research.

In addition, all the project members will indepenently present and discuss their case-studies at conferences and seminars over the course of the 4-year span of the project and beyond.

An indication of our past and forthcoming activities can be found below:

Internal seminar programme, Autumn 2005

Individual papers and seminars:

Dr Nicola Miller
Dr Axel Körner
Kate Ferris
Dr Adam Smith
Maike Thier
Natalia Bas

Internal seminar programme, Autumn 2005

• History and Imagination
Michel de Certeau The Writing of History. New York: Columbia university press 1988, pp. 35-49.
Reinhard Koselleck “’Spaces of experience’ and ‘Horizons of expectation’: Two historical categories” in idem. Futures Past. On the Semantics of Historical Time. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT press, 1985, pp. 267-288.

• Culture and the construction of the historical world
Erwin Panofsky, “The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline” in idem. Meaning in the Arts. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955, pp. 23-50.
Georg Simmel “The Conflict in Modern Culture” in David Frisby & Mike Featherstone eds. Simmel on Culture. Selected Writings. London; Sage, 1997, pp. 76-90.

• Discourse
Michel Foucault “The Order of Discourse” [1970] translated in Robert Young ed. Untying the Text: A Post-Structuralist Reader. Boston & London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981 pp. 58-78.
Mikhail Bakhtin: extract from Michael Holquist ed. The Dialogic Imagination. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981, pp. 275-282.

• Images and semiophores
Krzysztof Pomian Collectors and Curiosities. Paris and Venice, 1500-1800 Cambridge: Polity, 1990, pp. 34-37.
Roland Barthes “Rhetoric of the Image” in idem. (trans. Stephen Heath) Image Music Text. London: Fontana, 1977, pp. 32-51.
Walter Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” [1936] in Hannah Arendt ed. Illuminations. London: Fontana, 1992.

• Theories of reception
Hans Robert Jauss “Literary Hitory as a Challenge to Literary Theory” in New Literary History vol. 2.1, 1970, pp. 7-37.
Michel de Certeau The Practice of Everyday Life Berkeley & LA: University of California Press, 1984, Introduction and Chapter xii, ‘Reading as Poaching’.

• Identity and authenticity
Stuart Hall ‘Identity’ in Stuart Hll & Paul du Gay eds. Questions of Cultural Identity. London: Sage, 1996.
Edward Said Culture and Imperialism London: Chatto and Windus, 1993, pp. 35-70.

• Transculturation and hybridity
Nestor García Canclini Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity London: University of Minnisota Press, 1995 pp. 107-9; 135-44.
Angel Rama “Processes of Transculturation in Latin American Narrative” in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies vol. 6.2, 1997, pp. 155-171.
Silviano Santiago “Latin American Discourse: The Space In-Between” in idem. The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture London: Duke University Press, 2001 pp. 25-38.

• Moments of US history
Gary Gerstle “Liberty, Coercion and the Making of Americans” in Journal of American History, vol. 84.2, 1997, pp. 524-558.
Ian Tyrrell “American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History” in the American Historical Review vol. 96.4, 1991, pp. 1031-1055.
Paul A Kramer “Empires, Exceptions and Anglo-Saxons: Race and Rule between the British and United States Empires 1880-1910” in Journal of American History vol. 88.4, 2001.

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Individual papers and seminars:

Dr Axel Körner

November 2006
Paper: "The American Way of Life. Images of the United States in nineteenth-century Europe and Latin America"
Conference: Comparative History in/on Europe. The State of Art. Central European University, Budapest

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Dr Kate Ferris

March 2007
Paper: “Models of abolition: the United States in Spanish political culture and the question of the abolition of slavery in Cuba 1868-1874".
Confernce: A workshop on Nineteenth Century Spain to be held at the Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, University of Warwick, Venice.

April 2007
Paper: “Models of abolition: the United States in Spanish political culture and the question of the abolition of slavery in Cuba 1868-1874".
Conference: Abolitions, 1807-2007, University of York.

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Natalia Bas

June 2006: “Brazilian Images of the United States, 1861-1898”,
Researching Cultural Spaces, Queen Mary, University of London,

September 2007: The United States as a paradigm for Brazilian higher education: An emphasis on applied science”,
Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada

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