The UCD Clinton Institute Summer School will bring together scholars and graduate students from around the world to engage in wide-ranging discussion on interdisciplinary study of the United States. The School s aimed at advanced graduate students and junior faculty in the fields of American Studies, History, Political Sciences and Literary and Cultural Studies.

The programme will offer participants the opportunity to work with distinguished figures in these fields and to investigate current developments in study of the United States and its global relations. The School’s format will include daily workshop seminars and plenary lectures. Participants work with the School’s core faculty in one of four week-long seminars.

In 2008 the faculty will include Jonathan Auerbach (University of Maryland), Ruth Barton (Trinity College Dublin), Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds), Kevin Gaines (University of Michigan), Donatella Izzo (University of Naples), Cindi Katz (City University of New York), Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin), Eric Lott (University of Virginia), Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham), Donald Pease (Dartmouth College), Werner Sollors (Harvard University) and Penny Von Eschen (University of Michigan).

For further details, visit http://www.ucdclinton.ie/summerschool2008.htm, or contact Catherine Carey at Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie