Understanding the South, Understanding America: The American South in Regional, National and Global Perspectives

在24个月的赠款期间将举行四次网络会议：曼彻斯特大学、佛罗里达大学、剑桥大学和哥本哈根大学各一次。每次会议将集中讨论与目标中概述的美洲南部研究有关的一个主要研究问题（见上文第2段）。单独和集体，会议将鼓励在南方研究领域的理论回顾和方法创新，同时也促进在国家和跨国背景下更深入地了解美国南方的历史和文化。在密切关注南方内部明显的多样性的同时，该网络将探讨该区域与从殖民时代到当代的更广泛的国家和全球历史之间的复杂关系。最终，该网络将肯定美国南部的信号重要性，作为一个重要的社会，政治，经济和文化交叉的地方，传统上已经被重新塑造，并完善了对这些交叉点的历史，性质和意义的新的调查模式。曼彻斯特会议（2008年5月）将使用当代南方多学科的观点，主要是描绘其对现代美国的影响，并通过扩展，对二战后的世界。在这个过程中，它将促进历史学家和主要基于文学和文化研究的新南方研究的实践者之间的长期对话。主要发言人将包括马丁·伯恩、大卫科尔本、艾莉森·格雷厄姆、保罗·哈维、约翰·柯克、威廉·林克、里奇·理查森和莎伦·蒙特斯。在佛罗里达会议（2009年1月）将探讨不断变化的公民，民族主义，南方的概念，并在比较国际的角度分离的经验。预计主要发言人包括大卫布朗，唐道尔，劳拉爱德华兹，玛莎霍兹，威廉林克，迈克尔奥布莱恩，和安德烈斯雷森德斯。在剑桥会议（2009年8月）将重新审视的分析美德（和危险）的定位南方历史和文化的研究在“大西洋世界”的框架，并探讨延伸的可能性，该模型的时间范围超出其传统的家在近代早期。主要发言人预计将包括迈克尔比布勒，彼得科克拉尼斯，特雷弗伯纳德，艾莉森游戏，理查德金，乔恩森斯巴赫，布赖恩沃德和贝蒂伍德。哥本哈根会议（2010年5月）将聚焦于从殖民时代到现在，南方及其文化在美国和全球范围内被想象、生产、销售和消费的方式。主要发言人预计将包括托尼獾，黛博拉科恩，罗素邓肯，安妮Dvinge，艾莉森格雷厄姆，理查德金，莎拉梅尔，海伦泰勒和布赖恩沃德。除了南方主要学者的正式发言外，每次会议都将举行一次全体会议，网络指导委员会成员将在会上主持讨论论文提出的对网络至关重要的理论和方法问题。将在曼彻斯特建立一个专门用于该网络的网站兼讨论板。佛罗里达大学出版社将出版两卷（可能三卷）编辑本，以使网络的创新工作在赠款有效期结束后继续下去。在一个类似的举动，以刺激持续的学术关注的经验和理论问题在网络的核心，每次会议将纳入美国和英国/欧盟研究生的一些论文（资金不要求作为本申请的一部分）。据设想，该网络将为一个永久性的南方研究网络提供基础，在曼彻斯特和一个或多个合作伙伴在此出价的枢纽。

Four Network meetings will be held during the 24-months of the grant: one each at the universities of Manchester, Florida, Cambridge and Copenhagen. Each meeting will focus on one of the major research questions relating to the study of American South outlined in the Objectives (see 2 above). Individually and collectively, the meetings will encourage theoretical retrospection and methodological innovation in the field of Southern Studies, while also promoting a deeper understanding of the history and cultures of the American South in national and transnational contexts. While paying close attention to the diversity apparent within the South, the Network will explore the region's complex relationships with broader national and global histories from the colonial era to the contemporary period. Ultimately, the Network will both affirm the signal importance of the American South as a place where vital social, political, economic, and cultural crosscurrents have traditionally intersected and been reshaped, and refine new modes of enquiry into the history, nature and significances of those intersections. The Manchester meeting (May 2008) will use multidisciplinary perspectives on the contemporary South primarily to delineate its influence on modern America and, by extension, on much of the post-World War Two world. In the process it will facilitate long overdue dialogue between historians and practitioners of the New Southern Studies based principally in literary and cultural studies. Key speakers will include Martyn Bone, David Colburn, Allison Graham, Paul Harvey, John Kirk, William Link, Riché Richardson, and Sharon Monteith. The Florida meeting (January 2009) will explore changing southern notions of citizenship, nationalism, and the experience of secession in comparative international perspective. Key speakers expected include David Brown, Don Doyle, Laura Edwards, Martha Hodes, William Link, Michael O'Brien, and Andres Resendez. The Cambridge meeting (August 2009) will re-examine the analytical virtues (and perils) of situating the study of southern history and cultures within an 'Atlantic World' framework and explore the possibilities for stretching the chronological scope of that model beyond its traditional home in the Early Modern period. Key speakers are expected to include Michael Bibler, Peter Coclanis, Trevor Burnard, Alison Games, Richard King, Jon Sensbach, Brian Ward, and Betty Wood. The Copenhagen meeting (May 2010) will focus on the ways in which the South and its cultures have been imagined, produced, marketed and consumed within the US and globally, from colonial times to the present. Key speakers are expected to include Tony Badger, Deborah Cohn, Russell Duncan, Anne Dvinge, Allison Graham, Richard King, Sarah Meer, Helen Taylor, and Brian Ward. In addition to formal presentations by leading southern scholars, each conference meeting will feature a plenary session at which members of the Network Steering Committee will lead discussions of the theoretical and methodological issues raised by the papers and central to the Network. A website-cum-discussion board dedicated to the Network will be created at Manchester. Two (possibly three) edited volumes will be published by the University Press of Florida, to perpetuate the innovative work of the Network beyond the life of the grant. In a similar move to stimulate continued scholarly concern for the kinds of empirical and theoretical issues at the core of the Network, each meeting will incorporate some papers by US and UK/EU postgraduate students (funds for this are NOT requested as part of this application). It is envisioned that the Network will provide the basis for a permanent Southern Studies Network, with hubs at Manchester and one or more of the partners in this bid.