American Studies Issue Launch: "Unsettling Global Midwests"

A Conversation with Editors and Contributors
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The two-volume special issue explores the Midwest as a vibrant region that is and has been a locus of creative intellectual production, as well as a center of social transformation and politics that speak to local, national, and international audiences. What does it mean to center the Midwest without reducing it to a subcategory; to see it as dynamic, vibrant, contested, interconnected, and transitive?

Join us for a virtual discussion with several of the issue’s editors and contributors to learn more about how the concept of “Global Midwests” can help us to see and make connections, and to reorient local and global imaginings of American empire.

Panelists include:

Bianet Castellanos,  Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota

Jessica Lopez Lyman, Assistant Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies, University of Minnesota

Tom Sarmiento, Associate Professor of English, Kansas State University

Chris Perreira, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

Jane Simonsen, Professor of History, Augustana College
 
Andy Oler, Associate Professor of Humanities and Communication Department, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 
 
Giang Nguyen-Dien, Postdoctoral Fellow of American Culture Studies, Washington University
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