International Forum for U.S. Studies

Past Initiatives / Events

IFUSS Spring 2012 Talk Series - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"The Presence of 'America' in India: Where and How Does 'America' Appear and What Are the Effects?" CONFERENCE April 5-7, 2012

Robert Myers, Unmanned: Reading of a Work-in-Progress - A New Play about Drone Pilots
Wednesday, March 7th
8pm – Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, UIUC

 

IFUSS Fall 2011 Talk Series - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Isar Godreau, Hispanic Whiteness in the U.S. Empire: Taming Slavery and The Invisibility of Free People of Color in Puerto Rico
Friday, December 2nd
3pm - 109 Davenport

Ulf Hannerz, Soft Power: The Politics of Culture in Globalizing Times
Friday, November 4th
3pm  - 109 Davenport

Helena Wulff, The Irish Writer as Global Public Intellectual: Fiction and Cultural Journalism between Ireland and New York
Friday, October 21st
3pm - 109 Davenport

Giorgio Mariani, The Rhetorical Equivalent of War
Wednesday, September 7th
8pm – Levis Faculty Center
Co-sponsored by the Unit for Theory and Criticism

"'America’ in the World: Discourses of 'Americanization' and 'Anti-Americanism'" CONFERENCE I
March 4-5, 2005

Reciprocal American Studies/Crossing Borders Project