CALS will host a state-of-the-field conference, "Imagining: A New Century," for the new international academic society we founded in 2008. The society is called C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. We will inaugurate C19 with a conference at Penn State's Nittany Lion Inn, May 20-23, 2010.           

The first academic organizational for scholars of nineteenth-century American studies, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists will serve to bring together scholars in an institutional space that will facilitate the development and dissemination of methodological and critical innovations necessary to a re-invigorated conception of American literary studies. The conference we will hold at Penn State on May 20-23, 2010 will provide those in American Studies, as well as scholars, students, and teachers of the humanities more generally, with the theoretical and practical tools by which to engage and propel broader discussions about the place of American literature and culture in the worlds of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

www.C19americanists.org