Center for the Study of the Americas

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The CBS Center for the Study of the Americas studies the politics, economics, culture and history of the American continents. It offers:

research activities
teaching programmes in American Studies
a regular programme of lectures and seminars (join our mailing list if you wish to receive information about these events: csa.eng@cbs.dk)

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What's new:

The Faculty of Law, the University of Copenhagen, and the Center for European Constitutionalization in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Security Theory are hosting a guest lecture with specialist in US Consitutional Law, Louis Fisher on March 16th, 3 pm. Read more about the guest lecture, entitled Presidential Power and the Law,Guantanamo, Extraordinary Rendition, and Torture

The Human Rights Institute's spring lecture series for 2010 is entitled ”Where to go? Migration and integration in a human rights perspective”. The seminars are in English and are open to all. Participation is free and there is no registration. Read more about the DIHR, Seminar Series 2010
Weeklong Seminar on Bi-lateral Cooperation on Global Public Goods: The Future of the German-Canadian Relationship organized by Canada Meets Germany at the Institut of Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, March 7 - 13, 2010. Read more here
'Forever Young? The Changing Images of America' . "The youth of America is their oldest tradition; it has been going on now for three hundred years" - Oscar Wilde. The 2010 Biennial EAAS conference takes place in Dublin Ireland on March 26 - 29, 2010. The theme for the event is the United States as a forever 'new' country. Does it still make sense to think of America as the 'forever young' country? The conference invites an examination of this an many other similar questions, from all angles and all periods. For more information on the full program, other deadlines and the organizers, please go to http://www.eaas.eu/newsletter.htm or download:The 2010 Biennial EAAS Conference
The 2010 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference is held at Van Mildert College, Durham University, on July 12 - 15. Read more .

States of Emergency – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Dynamics of Crisis, an international conference on June 11 - 12, 2010
at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin, organized by the Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS). Read more
Tales of Transit - Narrative Migrant Spaces in Transatlantic Perspective, 1830 - 1954, an international conference in Antwert, Belgium 9-12 June, 2010 organised by the University of Antwerp a.o. Read more here .

Transnational Americas: Difference, Belonging, Identitarian Spaces, the first bi-annual conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany on November 11 - 13, 2010. Read more about the conference on Transnational Americas
The 5th NOLAN Conference is hosted by the Danish Network for Research on Latin America, LA-net and is taking place at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School on 10-12 November 2010. The theme of the conference is: Society, Culture, and Nature in Latin America: New Political Tendencies. Read more here.

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