The Chairman of the TSA, Prof Alan Dobson (University of Dundee and St. Andrews University) and Professor David Ryan (UCC) would like to extend an invitation to the 2012 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference.

Our outstanding 2012 plenary guests are:

 Professor Constance Post (Iowa State University)
"Particles, Waves, and Fields:  Momentum and the Transatlantic Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies"

AND

Professor Fredrik Logevall (Cornell University)
‘Same Bed, Different Dreams: France and America in Vietnam’

Panel proposals and individual papers are welcome for any of the general or sub-panels.  A 300 word abstract of proposal and brief CV to panel leaders or to Alan Dobson a.p.dobson@dundee.ac.uk and David Ryan david.ryan@ucc.ie  by 30 April 2012.

The general panels, subpanels and panel leaders for 2012 are:

1. Literature and Culture: Constance Post, cjpost@iastate.edu and Louise Walsh walsh.lou@gmail.com

Sub-panels:

Literature, Culture and War: Constance Post, cjpost@iastate.edu and Louise Walsh walsh.lou@gmail.com

2. The War of 1812 and Transatlantic Affairs: A Two Hundred Year Commemoration in 2012, Simon Rofe, jsr13@leicester.ac.uk, simon.rofe@soas.ac.uk, Constance Post, cjpost@iastate.edu, Michael Cullinane, Michael.cullinane@northumbria.ac.uk

3. Economics: Fiona Venn vennf@essex.ac.uk, Jeff Engel jengel@bushschool.tamu.edu and Joe McKinney joe_mckinney@baylor.edu   

4. History, Security Studies and IR: Alan Dobson a.p.dobson@dundee.ac.uk and David Ryan david.ryan@ucc.ie

Sub-panels:

Democracy Promotion and Nation Building In and After the Cold War: The Transatlantic Experience: Annick Cizel annick.cizel@univ-paris3.fr and Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer alexandra.dehoopscheffer@sciences-po.org

NATO: Ellen Hallams, EHallams.jscsc@defenceacademy.mod.uk and Luca Ratti ratti@uniroma3.it, Ben, Zyla, ben.zyla@gmail.com Ellen Hallams, EHallams.jscsc@defenceacademy.mod.uk

Ethnicity and security in the transatlantic world: David Haglund david.haglund@queensu.ca

Diplomats at War: The American ExperienceSimon Rofe jsimonrofe@le.ac.uk or simon.rofe@soas.ac.uk and Andrew Stewart AStewart.jscsc@defenceacademy.mod.uk

Anglo-American Relations: Steve Marsh marshsi@cardiff.ac.uk and Charlie Whitham Whitham, cwhitham@uwic.ac.uk 

Transatlantic Relations during the Second World War: Tom Mills t.c.mills@lancaster.ac.uk  and Gavin Bailey g.j.bailey@dundee.ac.uk 

Crossing the Water: Maritime Trade, Warfare, and Politics: John Borgonovo, J.Borgonovo@ucc.ie

Cultural Transatlantic Relations: Gaynor Johnson G.Johnson@salford.ac.uk

Regional Conflicts and Transatlantic Relations from Vietnam to Libya: David Ryan david.ryan@ucc.ie