美国路易斯克拉克大学教授、四川大学历史学院富布赖特高级访问教授Jane Hunter博士，应四川大学美国研究中心邀请，将于2012年11月至2013年1月期间开办“美国研究研讨班”，就美国研究的相关课题组织学习和讨论。研讨班为期5次，每次研讨课程持续一个半小时，上课地点设在外国语学院研究生教室。为保证研讨班效果，原则上将招收不超过25位学员。现公布Hunter教授的邀请函及研讨会时间与话题安排表，以便广大师生查阅、申请。申请人须是美国研究相关领域的川大教师和研究生，具备流畅的英文表达能力，且必须保证能参加全部5次研讨课程。研讨班学费、资料费全免。四川大学美国研究中心将为成功修完研讨课全部课程的学员颁发结业证书。请有意参加研讨班的师生下载并填写《美国研究研讨班申请表》（见附件），并于10月31日前发送至美国研究中心邮箱（ascscu@163.com）。
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American Studies Workshop
I invite graduate students and teachers at Chuanda from any department to join me in an American Studies Workshop this semester. The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to interesting current work in American Studies that might serve as useful models for research projects conducted in China.
I expect this to be a workshop, rather than a lecture, and will therefore limit participants to twenty. I will ask everyone (perhaps in groups of four) to take turns being “lead discussants” for each workshop. I’ll explain what that means when we first meet. I expect everyone to commit to doing the reading, and participating. I will of course also help lead, but I will not be performing! To that end, I promise to present no more than 15-20 pages of reading for each two-week segment of the workshop. I will try to find work that is both accessible and inspiring, and I hope we will have fun! Many thanks to the American Studies program who will provide us all with hard copies of the readings, which will be available to all participants the session before we meet. Those who complete the workshop will receive a certificate of completion.
The workshop will take place every two weeks on Tuesdays from 7:00-8:30 p.m., in the Foreign Language’s seminar room. We will take a short break in the middle. We will begin on November 6. I expect that we will meet five times, which has us ending on January 3.
If you are interested in participating, please download the application form, fill it, and send it to the email of American Studies Center office (ascscu@163.com). In the application, you are supposed to write down your name, department, status as teacher or student, email address and phone number, and also a paragraph in English introducing yourself, and explaining your areas of special interest within the broad field of American Studies.
Tentative Schedule for American Studies Seminar
(This set of readings and topics may change as we go along.)
November 6: Setting an Agenda
Challenges and Opportunities: “Highlights from American Studies Presidential Addresses”
November 20: A Global Reading Community?
Wai Chee Dimock, Introduction and Chapter 8: “Ecology Across the Pacific: Coyote in Sanskrit, Monkey in China,” in Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (2006)
December 4: Global Markets
Matthew Frye Jacobson, “Export Markets: The World’s Peoples as Consumers,” from Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad (2000)
December 18: Global Migrants
Julie Y. Chu, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (2010)
January 1: Visual Culture
David Lubin, Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images (2003)
Jane Hunter
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Fulbright Lecturer Department of History
Department of World History Lewis & Clark College
Sichuan University Portland, Oregon 97219
Chengdu, Sichuan U.S.A.
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