March 19–21, 2009

McKenna Hall University of Notre Dame

All are welcomeAdmission is free for Notre Dame faculty and students

Imaging Americathe annual conference of the Great Lakes American Studies Association

“Imaging America” evokes themes fundamental to the

discipline of American studies and representative of some

of the most current research in the field.

The conference will consider how America is pictured,

configured, and imagined on multiple levels.

Keynote Addresses:

Phil Deloria, Professor of History, University of Michigan,

and current president of the American Studies Association

Shawn Michelle Smith, Associate Professor of Visual and

Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The conference will also feature free film showings,

a reception at the Northern Indiana Center for History,

and numerous panels and roundtable sessions.For more information, please contact: Erika Doss, Chair of the Department of American Studies University of Notre Dame 314 O’Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 574.631.2706 doss.2@nd.edu

“Imaging America” is made possible in part by generous support from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame.

Sponsored by the Notre Dame Department of American Studies