Links

Web Sites

University of Michigan:

• American Culture, Program in
• Anthropology, Department of
• Anthropology and History, Doctoral Program In
• College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS), International Institute
• Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS), International Institute
• Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS), International Institute
• Comparative Literature, Program In, and Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar Series (GELS)
• Dean's Lecture Series, Facing Up to History: Racism's Pasts & Presence, CSST, International Institute
• Early Modern Colloquium (EMC)
• History, Department of
• International Institute
• Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
• Program in the Comparative Study of Social Transformations (CSST), International Institute
• The Science, Technology & Society Program
• Sociology, Department of
• Women's Studies Program
• Pathways to an International Experience, International Institute
  

External:

• Academic Associations, maintained by The Association for Institutional Research
• African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University
• African Studies Association, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Americanisation and the Teaching of American Studies (AMATAS), is a project housed in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Central Lancashire with consortium partners at the University of Derby and King Alfred's College, Winchester, UK .
• American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation
• apsanet online, The American Political Science Association Online
• Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), a not-for-profit, tax deductible organization of international scholars seeking to further our understanding of the African Diaspora, that is, the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the world.
• Atlantic Association of Historians
• Atlantic World Colloquium, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
• Caribbean Institute and Study Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies Association, InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico
• Cicero Foundation
• Committee on Atlantic Studies, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
• Council for European Studies, Columbia University
• European Union Politics Group, Department of Political Science, Trinity College
• European Union Studies Association (EUSA), University of Pittsburgh
• Gendering Cyberspace is an intensive, Open and Distance
  Learning course in the field of Multimedia and Multicultural
  Women's Studies in Europe, using new media and Information
  and Communication Technologies. The theme Diasporic
  Identities and Mediated Cultures will be explored from the
  perspective of giving meaning to and theorize about 'living in a
  digital society'. The theme Diasporic Identities and Mediated Cultures (09/24-11/30/01) will be explored from the perspective of giving meaning to and theorize about 'living in a digital society'.
• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
• International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, Harvard University
• International Studies Association
• Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power & History, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
• Latin American Studies Association, University of Pittsburgh
• Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
• Oceans Connect Atlantic Studies, Duke University
• School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Tulane University
• Scotland's Transatlantic Relations (STAR) Project. Made possible by funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and convened by Professor Susan Manning (University of Edinburgh), the STAR Project is an interdisciplinary collaborative venture involving colleagues across the Scottish universities, research libraries and museums, in association with partners in North America and the Caribbean. STAR's goals are to facilitate links with existing groups in transatlantic studies, to enable connections between researchers and resources, and to engage in active identification of research projects and publishing ventures.
• Society for Caribbean Studies (UK)
• The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA), founded to provide an international forum for interdisciplinary discussion on multi-ethnic studies. The Society promotes the study of the ethnic cultures of Europe and the Americas in their circumatlantic relations from a transdisciplinary literary, historical and cultural studies perspective. The society acts as a forum for cooperation between universities, political institutions and ethnic communities as well as supports the scholarly and cultural exchange between them in order to further multi-ethnic understanding.
• Transatlantic History Program, University of Texas at Arlington
• Transatlantic Studies, Saint Louis University
• TransAtlantic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Trans-Atlantic Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University
• Transatlantic Studies Association
• Trans-Atlantic Studies Program, Center for West European Studies, University of Washington
• The University of Pittsburgh Graduate Arts & Sciences
• Voice of the Shuttle Postcolonial (and Colonial) Studies gateway to postcolonial studies resources on the web.
• What Is Atlantic History? University of Pittsburgh
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• World History Center at Northeastern University

Journals

• Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural and Historical Perspectives (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group; Eds., W. Boelhower, D. Fischer-Hornung, R. Follett, M. Lauret). Published on behalf of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), the Journal aims to be an important site for scholarship on the comparative study of multi-ethnic cultures and societies. It challenges nationalist histories and literatures by focusing on the Atlantic as an arena of cultural change and exchange, translation and interference, communication and passage.
• The American Historical Review
• The Black Arts Quarterly, Stanford University's Committee on Black Performing Arts (CBPA) provides a forum for circulation of student work addressing explorations of performance theory, published thrice per academic year.
• Commonwealth: Essays and Studies: an on-line journal.
• Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, consists of three parts (Politics/Identity; Gender/Sexuality/Identity; Culture/Identity). The rest of the Journal offers reviews of the latest books and journals that appear in the rest of the world (notably in Western Europe and USA).
• India Star: An on-line book review journal of Indian literature.
• Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, on-line table of contents.
• Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies: home page.
• Journal of Postcolonial Studies: on-line table of contents.
• Journal of Transatlantic Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press, & affiliated with the Transatlantic Studies Association.
• Jouvert: an on-line journal of Postcolonial studies.
• Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, published by Routledge, Leon Zamosc (ed).
  

Reference

• ABC-Clio announce the publication (June 2005) of the first 3 titles of their 6-title Transatlantic Relations Encyclopedia Series -- FRANCE AND THE AMERICAS: CULTURE, POLITICS AND HISTORY (Oxford & Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005; ISBN 1-85109-411-3, the print edition costs $270), a three-volume, 1297-page Encyclopedia tracing the multiple dimensions of the French Atlantic, from Jacques Cartier and his 1534 voyage that 'discovered' Canada, to the Iraq War of 2003. Edited by Bill Marshall assisted by Cristina Johnston, it contains nearly 800 articles by distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.

• AfriGeneas, African Ancestored Geneology, a site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats

• African American Civil War Memorial, Washington D.C. "The First and only National Memorial and Museum for United States Colored Troops in the Civil War."

• The Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture

• Atlantic Studies on Society in Change, Columbia University Press
• Continuity of Discord--Crises and Responses in the Atlantic Community, Robert J. Jackson, ed. Published in cooperation with the Committee on Atlantic Studies, Washington DC, Praeger Publishers, NY, 1985.
• The Edinburgh Review articles published from 1802-1820 that concern North America and Canada have now been digitised as part of the STAR Archive.
• Genius in Bondage, Literature of the Early Atlantic, V. Carretta & P. Gould, eds; University of Kentucky Press, 2001.
• H-Atlantic, an international online discussion list for Atlantic World
  History from 1500 to 1800. This an interdisciplinary list for scholars who study colonial North America and the United States, Europe, West
  Africa, the Caribbean, and South America in a transatlantic context.
• Materials on Philosophy, Transcultural Communication and Multiculturalism, site maintained by Metropolitan Community College, Omaha
• McGill-Queen's University Press, catalogue by subject: Atlantic Studies
• Media for Development International (MFDI) is an American 501©3 non-profit agency. It relates closely to Media for Development Trust (MFD) a Zimbabwean registered charity (W.O. 21/89). The two have been sister agencies for about 15 years now, both were initially funded by DSR, Inc. MFDI provides support to MFD in Zimbabwe, and they work together in film productions as well as distributing African social message films and videos. MFDI stocks about 1,000 VHS videos, and a small collection of 35mm prints. MFDI also has a selection of over a dozen 16mm films.
• Popcultures.com: links to on-line postcolonial essays.
• Race & Place: An African American Community, an archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century. The focus of the collection is the town of Charlottesville in Virginia. Maintained by the Virginia Center for Digital History, The Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library (515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801; 212.491.2200)
• Scotland's Transatlantic Relations Project (STAR) Archive: Edinburgh Review articles concerning/from Central America, the Caribbean, & South America, 1802-1820 inclusive.
• Society of Early Americanists, Scholarly Journals.
• Stratford Hall Plantation Seminar on Slavery, The seminar is designed to help teachers of history and social studies grades 4-12 and
  museum educators employed in a public history setting to incorporate the history of African-American slavery into their programs. Site includes links to other websites & journals on the topics of slavery & race.
• Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, SUNY Press
• The Legacy of Slavery at Yale, Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center looks at the subject across time & cultures.
• The Transatlantic 1790s: Projects, Chronology, Bibliography A database-based site written by Grinnell College students. More detailed information about the project is available at: http://www.math.grinnell.edu/1790s/Siteinfo/
• Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity, Merseyside Maritime Museum.
• The Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora.
• UNESCO Slave Route Project, focuses on the development of the African diaspora from approximately 1650-1900.

Other

Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the largest African film festival. The last edition was held 26 February - 5 March 2005.