2014 Bavarian American Academy

The Center for the Study of the Southwest (CSSW) is hosting the Bavarian American Academy’s (BAA) 2014 program, “American Studies in Transatlantic Perspective: Critical Regionalism in Politics and Culture,” between June 1 and 9 on the campus of Texas State. The collaboration between the BAA, located in Munich, Germany, and Texas State’s CSSW is headed by Dr. Jessica Pliley of Texas State’s Department of History and Center director Dr. Jesús F. de la Teja.

The workshop is one of the Center’s activities in support of the university’s internationalization initiative. Its main purpose is to allow graduate-student participants to come in contact with scholarly work on the workshop’s theme and to present their work to critical examination by their peers. A number of Texas State faculty and staff whose work focuses on the Southwest in literature, history, the arts, and the environment will be major speakers. Presenters from other parts of the U.S. will address the concept of region from other perspectives, including the intersection geography with gender, politics, and race. During the workshop four Texas State graduate students will have an opportunity to interact with peers from Germany and elsewhere in the U.S.

“American Studies in Transatlantic Perspective: Critical Regionalism in Politics and Culture” is a collaboration of the CSSW and BAA with the Augsburg University, Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremburg, and Wayne State University.

The CSSW wishes to thank the departments of History and Anthropology at Texas State for their support of the workshop.