Introduction

Abstract

For three summer days in August 2013 the International American Studies Association managed to attract scholars of all continents to travel to a Polish harbor town-Szczecin-to contribute to the discussions on America(s) separated from other continents by two oceans. The title ‘Oceans Apart’ turned out to be an intellectual provocation which proved that the oceanic separateness was illusory as the discussions oscillated around the topics which were recognized and resonant in distant parts of the world (...)