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EAAS2022 Wastelands Conference

April 3, 2022
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Puerto Rican poet and philosopher Giannina Braschi is a Keynote Speaker of the European Association for American Studies Conference. On April 7, 2022, the President of EAAS's congress Cristina Garrigos interviews Giannina Braschi on her life’s work. Braschi will also be the subject of a roundtable discussion “United States of Banana and the Dregs of Empire” organized by Amanda Mignone Smith and...

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EAAS2022 Wastelands Conference Program Highlights

March 28, 2022
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The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. The title of the EAAS2022 conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States. Hence, the overarching theme of the conference is open to all kinds of reflections around the concept of “wasteland” and waste. European Association...

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