Annual Conference

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The New York Metro American Studies Association has chosen the theme of “Memory” for our annual conference. Memory operates on a number of registers: What do we choose to remember? What do we chose to forget? Who is the “we” that is remembering or forgetting? How do public commemorations create, and transform our narratives of the past? What is the relationship between history, memory, and heritage? What is the role of “the public” is shaping the commemorative process, especially when trauma is involved? Are the contours of some events or memories untellable, unknowable? How does history gets used, even invented, as a narrative, to justify actions and to make history? How do personal memory and public memory merge and diverge?

For more information, contact the organizers at nymasamemory@gmail.com

NYMASA Newsletter

Three times a year NYMASA publishes a newsletter, The Metro. Download the latest issue.

NYMASA Email Discussion List

Our e-mail discussion list (NYMASA-L) is another way for members and others to share news of events in the area with one another. We urge people interested in American Studies in the New York area to subscribe to the NYMASA e-mail list (no charge). Go to https://lists.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/nymasa and follow the instructions to subscribe.

About NYMASA

NYMASA was revived in 1996. With over 400 members, NYMASA is dedicated to fostering a sense of community among American Studies scholars, inside and outside of the academy, from all disciplines, who live or work in the New York Area. NYMASA sponsors at least one general event each semester, and produces a newsletter, The Metro, which lists upcoming American Studies opportunities within the region. We also sponsor reading groups, writing groups, and field trips -- that is, visits to performances or exhibits, with a talk and/or discussion afterward.