The American Studies Association is the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history.

Chartered in 1951, the American Studies Association now has 5,000 individual members along with 2,200 library and other institutional subscribers.

* Together these members represent many fields of inquiry, such as history, literature, religion, art and architecture, philosophy, music, science, folklore, ethnic studies, anthropology, material culture, museum studies, sociology, government, communications, education, library science, gender studies, popular culture, and others.

* They include persons concerned with American culture, such as teachers, researchers, and other professionals whose interests extend beyond their specialty; faculty and students associated with American Studies programs in universities, colleges and secondary schools; museum directors and librarians interested in all segments of American life; public officials and administrators concerned with the broadest aspects of education.

* They approach American culture from many directions but have in common the desire to view America as a whole rather than from the perspective of a single discipline. Read more about what the ASA does.

FROM THE EDITORS

2008 Annual Meeting Schedule

Below is the link to view the 2008 Annual Meeting schedule of sessions and events.

http://www.allacademic.com/index.php?cmd=theasa08_guest

To view the schedule, click on the events calendar box at the top right of the page, and then click on a day to view all of the events. The session and paper titles are “hot-buttoned” so you can view abstracts. There are, however, no session abstracts for panels constructed of individual papers.

http://prostores2.carrierzone.com/servlet/theasanet/StoreFront

Click on “registration” under “categories.”

To register by mail, click here, http://www.theasa.net/images/uploads/reg08a.pdf

Direct questions concerning your conference registration status to the conference registrar, tel. 301-934-8589; fax: 413-473-0324; email

Submit a title for the Celebration of ASA Authors

ASA Program Book Online

Published on August 8, 2008 by John F Stephens.

Logging in to the New ASA Web Site

Having difficulty logging in or with other technical aspects of our website? Please click the Help button above. This should provide the answers to your site-related questions.

The ASA web site (http://www.theasa.net) is on a different platform/server than the JHU Press web site (http://asa.press.jhu.edu/membership.html) for dues payments, AQ, and EAS Online, or the 2008 annual meeting proposal submission website (http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/theasa/theasa08/index.php?). They require separate web site registrations.

Many of you have a login and password for the JHUP site and are trying to use those at the ASA site or the proposal submission site. To do so, you must create the same login/password at all three sites.

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Published on August 1, 2008 by John F Stephens.

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