CASE - Council on American Studies Education

CASE Conference 2013: Programs! Get Yer Programs! (And Still Time to Register)

2013-02-04T13:41:40-06:00

See the preliminary program for the 2013 Council for American Studies Education (CASE) Conference, will be convening on February 22, 2013, at the Art Institute of Chicago. The theme is "Migration, Immigration and Integration: Marking Cultural Change"

Registration is still open as well.

CASE Conference 2013: Call for Proposals and Early Registration Still Open!

2012-12-05T18:39:33-06:00

The 2013 Council for American Studies Education (CASE) Conference, will be convening on February 22, 2013, at the Art Institute of Chicago. The theme is "Migration, Immigration and Integration: Marking Cultural Change"

Register now. Even better, submit a proposal for a breakout session. Early registration and the call for proposals ends December 21.

CASE Conference 2013: Meet the Keynote!

2012-12-05T18:33:58-06:00

We are proud to announce the keynote speaker for the conference: Michael Neblo, Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University and director of the COMPAS program (Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society) in OSU’s Center for Ethics & Human Values.

His talk will touch on the ways in which immigration and migration are changing electoral politics. Excited by the prospect and challenge of such change, Professor Neblo will discuss how a more deliberative democracy may be emerging – one that calls for more reflective citizenship. For teachers of American Studies, who are curious about moments of change in the American experience, Professor Neblo’s talk should spark much discussion with our colleagues about content, curriculum and pedagogy.

Neblo was previously a fellow in health policy at the University of Michigan and visiting professor in Yale’s program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. He is currently a visiting fellow at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Mathematical Social Science from Northwestern.

Most broadly, Neblo’s research investigates how democracies should work, how they actually do work, and practicable ways to narrow the gap between “should” and “do.” He has published widely in political science, philosophy, public policy, communications, psychology, and law. Neblo’s book manuscript, Common Voices: Between the Theory & Practice of Deliberative Democracy, will be published next year by Cambridge University Press, and his next book project analyzes the politics and policy discussions surrounding attempts to reform American immigration law. He has secondary interests in politics and the emotions, race politics, theories of citizenship, politics and technology, and politics and the arts.

He has been the recipient of awards and grants from the American Political Science Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the International Society for Political Psychology, Harvard’s Ash Institute for Democratic Governance, the Veterans Administration, among others.

CASE Conference 2013: Call for Proposals

2012-11-15T18:57:00-06:00

At the heart of the CASE conference is the opportunity to learn from a variety of local American Studies teachers. Please consider sharing your classroom experience with your fellow teachers. Submit a proposal today.

Please provide all of the following information when submitting your proposal:

Presenter name(s)
Presenter school
Contact person (email address and preferred phone number)
Title of presentation
Presentation description
Equipment needs

Deadline for submissions is Friday, December 21. Please email all submissions to heidkama@newtrier.k12.il.us.

Here are possible presentation topics that connect to this year's theme, but we encourage you to submit your own:

Early American migrations & settlements
The movement West
Literature of migration or immigration
Migration from print to digital text
New digital or visual literacies
Dream Act controversy
Maintaining cultural identity in the face of pressures to assimilate
Cultural identity and assimilation: becoming a hyphenated “American”
Push and Pull Forces – The force of nature in migration (e.g., Dust Bowl, Katrina, Sandy)
Urbanization and immigration – Chicago in the 21st century?
The changing face of electoral politics
On-line communities and their impact on students in our classrooms
Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, Mosaic – changing images of our national identity

Notice of Special Session: Our Changing Curricula – Resource Panel
Have you discovered a novel, memoir, collection of poems, or textbook that you would recommend to other American Studies teachers? Have you found a great website that you think would interest other teachers? Are you willing to share a 10 minute overview of this resource? This year, we would like to offer a session in which 5 teachers share resources in short presentations for their peers. If you send the title of the book or the name of the resource, we will put this session together.