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<font face="Times New Roman, Georgia" size=5>Situating Area Studies Librarianship in a Globalised World:<br><br>New Directions, New Collections</font>
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Sponsored by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries.</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman, Georgia" size="3">Cosponsored by the [http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/les/leshomepage.cfm Literatures in English Section] of [http://www.acrl.org ACRL]<br>Cosponsored by the [http://www.gwu.edu/~sees Slavic & East European Studies Section] of ACRL</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Georgia" size="3">ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois  USA<br>Monday, July 13, 2009, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon<br> • '''McCormick Place West • <br>W-180'''</font>
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<blockquote><font face="Berlin Sans FB"size="3"><center>Foreign languages and area studies live in a new world of cultural and ethnic studies, comparative literature, multiculturalism, and global studies. Established disciplines are morphing into interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary innovations. Popular genres and media -- like film, detective fiction, children's literature, and graphic novels -- are now part of the cultural canon. How do we integrate these new media into our collections?  The panel will expound on these new developments and their place in our libraries.</center></font></blockquote>

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<font face="Times New Roman, Georgia" size="4">[http://www.frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/bush.html Christopher Bush]</font>
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<blockquote>Professor of French, Northwestern University<br>
'''The Lost Samurai: Researching Across and Between''' -- ''Do we study European culture as something known, or European culture as something that knows (or thinks it does)?''<br>
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"As someone who, in the context of the U. S. university system, studies the cultural imaginary of European/East Asian relations, I routinely find myself having to work across and between disciplinary institutions and conventions. In concrete terms, this often involves looking in parts of the library that are, in principle, remote from my 'field.' Taking several incidents from my own research as points of departure, my talk offers some methodological reflections on the challenges and opportunities presented to interdisciplinary work by the existing forms of national, linguistic, and disciplinary categorization."</font face="Times New Roman, Georgia" size="2">


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:[http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wess/library-samurai.pdf PDF file of Prof. Bush's presentation]</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Georgia" size="4">[http://www.cges.umn.edu/about/director.htm Sabine Engel]</font>
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<blockquote>PhD, Director of the Center for German & European Studies, University of Minnesota<br>
<b>European Studies: Continuities and Change</b> -- <i>Striking the best balance between disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity</i>.
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:[http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wess/Engel2009.pdf PDF file of Dr. Engel's presentation]</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Georgia" size="4">[http://depts.washington.edu/scand/faculty/ingebritsen.shtml Christine Ingebritsen]
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<blockquote>Professor of Political Science & Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington<br><b>"The Power of Scandinavia</b> -- <i>How the small, northern European states exercise soft authority in world
politics and why they should be studied in a global age</i>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Georgia" size="4">[http://www.musicsleuth.com/sqpress/stephen.html Stephen Corrsin]</font>
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<blockquote>PhD, Assistant Director for Acquisitions, New York Public Library<br>
'''The Transodran Perspective'''<br>
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Librarianship is a very practical profession. We in middle management do not control the direction of the institution for which we work. As the world changes, so does "area studies."  So with those assumptions in mind -- 1/ practical, 2/ lack of power, 3/intensive change -- what do we do? How do we react?</font face="Times New Roman, Georgia" size="2">
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:'''Supported in part by a generous grant from''' [http://www.touzot.fr '''Jean Touzot Booksellers''']
:and by the [http://www.acrl.org '''ACRL'''] '''Conference Program Fund''' 
:Information on previous annual WESS programs available [[Past_WESS_Conference_Programs|here]].
:Of particular relevance was the 2007 program, [[The European Union Today: Constructing European Identity]].
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