The STAR Project seminar series for 2009-2010 is now available. The series will be articulated on the basis of a number of separate but interconnected projects and events. First, the symposium on 'Darwin and Lincoln on Race and Society', scheduled for the 13th of Novembre, at IASH, has confirmed speakers Professor Catherine Clinton (Queen's University Belfast), on Lincoln, and Professor James A. Moore (The Open University) and Dr Jon Hodge (University of Leeds) on Darwin. The second project concerns 'Rhetorics of Moderation: Politics and Pragmatics', a day seminar to be held at IASH, as part of the ESRC-funded Seminar Series; this will be the third seminar in the series, following similar day seminars held at the universities of Birmingham and Nottingham. On 11 December, Professor David Simpson (University of California at Davis), will give a Transatlantic Literary Studies Lecture at St. Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, to mark the launch of the Transatlantic Literary Studies series. Other events around these core events are to be announced shortly.
In 2008-2009, the STAR Project hosted a successful seminar series through the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. In collaboration with the Institute and its Fellows, STAR is drawing an ever larger group of academics for its fortnightly presentations and reading group discussions. Thanks to the contributions of scholars from a number of disciplines, the STAR Project continues to provide a locus for transatlantic research with a Scottish dimension; and through a variety of seminars, conferences, publication ventures and other collaborations, it continues to provide texture for ongoing debates concerning transatlantic theory in practice.
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