University of Liverpool to host symposium on Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium
The University of Liverpool will host a symposium about the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium, a Willson Center research project, over the course of Friday evening and Saturday, January 30-31, 2015. This Symposium, a partnership between the University of Georgia and the University of Liverpool, will bring together speakers from several British, Irish, and American universities.
The Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium (AARC) is a collaboration between international academic partners, including University of Georgia, Emory University, University of Exeter, National University of Ireland Galway, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Universities of London, of Liverpool and of York.
The conceptual aim of AARC is to analyze the tensions in coupling identity and nationhood with ecology and the environment, relationships usually underplayed or overlooked in similar projects. To this end, AARC has selected potential participants with certain specialisms: the Atlantic and capitalism; early modern culture and transnational exchange; literary and cultural theory; literary environmentalism and nature writing; cartography and literary mapping; archipelagic, regional and national identities.
For more information about AARC, visit aarco.org.