The Norwegian Student Association of American Studies
We want to welcome you to the Expanding Horizons 2013 conference.
Our guests this year are Ambassador Barry White, Bjørn Hansen, Bård L. Thorheim, Nina Berglund, The Fulbright Foundation and Norge-Amerikaforeningen.
This is a great opportunity to hear new voices speak about our field, and you will learn about roads to take in further studies or career opportunities.
See you there!
Location: Vilhelm Bjerknes Hus, Auditorium 4, University of Oslo, Blindern.
Time: 10AM – 3PM
NORSAAS will host a Super Bowl Party on February 3rd.
We will provide the snacks, just bring your own drinks.
Time: Sunday, February 3 at 10:00pm
Facebook event: Super Bowl 2013
NORSAAS would like to invite you all to join us at Chateau Neuf Bokcafeen on Thursday January 24th for a Welcome Back to School Pub Night. See you there at 7 pm!
Time: Thursday, November 22, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: 12th floor, Niels Treschows Hus, UiO Blindern
Save the date!
This will, as always, be a potluck dinner, so all those attending will be responsible with bringing a food or dessert item.
Start thinking about what you might want to bring, and let us know.
NORSAAS is having an election party on November 6 (and into the night and early morning of November 7) to keep up with Election night in America. Bring what you wish to drink, we will take care of the rest.
Details will be updated on Facebook:
NORSAAS Election Party 2012
The agenda for the meeting is to welcome new members, inform about our plans for the semester, and to elect a new board for the coming year.
The meeting is open to everyone. if you want to know more about NORSAAS and what we do, this is a perfect opportunity. No strings attached. See you there!
Time: Monday, September 10, 2012, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Location: Seminar room 10 at PA Munchs Hus
The first and currently only peer-reviewed journal for American Studies in Europe! ASANOR and NORSAAS encourage our student members to submit work to this journal.
aspeers, the first and currently only MA-level peer-reviewed journal for American studies in Europe, will accept submissions by October 31, 2012.
In its sixth issue, aspeers will feature both a general section and a topical one. While the general section accepts submissions without topical restrictions (e.g. revised versions of term papers or chapters from theses), the topical section will bring academic and creative works into a dialogue on the theme of “American Memories,” calling for submissions that reflect on the diverse roles and meanings of memories in American culture.
Please find attached the three calls for submissions, which include additional details and guidelines. More information can also be found at www.aspeers.com/2013.
This is a great opportunity to get published early on in your career and to gain experience with the process of publishing academic work.
We’ve finally reached the end of semester and we want to celebrate with you at the lawn in front of Sophus Bugge! Bring your own food and beverage, we’ll fix “engangsgriller”.
Time: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 6 PM
In case of bad weather, we’ll meet at Glassbaren at Chateau Neuf. We’ll keep you updated on Facebook.
See you there!
If you would like to contribute, please read the following:
International Conference:
2012 Presidential Elections in the United States: challenges and expectations
Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland October 26-27, 2012
Call for papers
American presidency, the most important office in the U.S. political system, has long been considered as one of the most powerful political institutions in the world. Due to its enormous power and fact that its holder also symbolizes the United States as the country, the presidency gained a notion of an ‘elective kingship’. Therefore recruitment process for the office had become a very much sophisticated and time-consuming process, that led journalist Arthur T. Hadley to coin it as ‘irrational marathon’. Indeed, running a presidential campaign has nowadays been multivariable enterprise, which consumes vast amounts of time, energy and financial resources.
To appeal to voters, presidential candidates plan their operations years in advance, building huge campaign organizations that cost more and more money from electoral cycle to cycle. As media reporters and crews are assigned to each person creating their exploratory committee to run a campaign, the presidential election process gains more audience nationally and worldwide. In this environment, again to borrow from Arthur T. Hadley, ‘running for president has become a full-time profession’ for everyone interested: candidates and their families, political consultants and operatives, media people, scholars and ordinary citizens, etc.
Within this context, we would like to hold a discussion on the ongoing issue of 2012 Presidential Elections in the United States. What are the problems that the next president is going to be challenged by? How are candidates expected to appeal to voters and what challenges they must meet on the contemporary campaign trail? What are the challenges of the modern campaigning and how the U.S. political system is expected to deal with them?
To discuss the phenomenon, we welcome panel and paper proposals for wide range of issues, including, but not limited to, American electoral system, presidential nomination and general election process & outcomes, campaign finance, electoral turnout and voting behavior, the role of media and new media, political communication and campaign rhetoric, election and political parties, interests groups and grassroot movements in the electoral process, and others.
All those wishing to participate are encouraged to send their proposals either for 15-20 minute presentations or whole group panels (abstract of max. 300 words + brief CV) by May 31, 2012 to 2012electionsconference@gmail.com. Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by July 1, 2012 at the very the latest.
Conference fee, that covers conference materials, coffee breaks & refreshments, lunches, official banquet dinner, and publication of post-conference volume, is 450 PLN (about 100 EUR), paid until September 1st, 2012 or 650 PLN (about 150 EUR), if paid later.
The Conference will be held at the old buildings of the Jagiellonian University in the beautiful historical center of Krakow.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the conference organizers, Paweł Laidler, PhD, and Maciej Turek, PhD, at 2012electionsconference@gmail.com.
It is time again for the annual Expanding Horizons conference dedicated to showing students within our field what opportunities lies ahead.
The conference will include guest lecturers and information about scholarships and exchange programs available to us.
Time: 07 March 2012, 10:00 AM – 03:00 PM
Location: Helga Engs hus (UV-fakultetet, UiO, Blindern)
Program:
10.00: Opening and welcome by NORSAAS
10.15: Hilde Restad, NUPI: US Policy in the War on Terror
11.10: Renate Haugevik, Fulbright Foundation:
Funding opportunities for studying abroad.
11.45: Arild Eikeland, Norwegian Ministry of Defense:
International Relations: Norway and the US
12.30: Lunch
13.00: Anders Romarheim, IFS: The American Right After Super Tuesday
Show up and you might learn something new and find out about organizations who want to give you money to go study abroad (Organizations like that actually exist!)