EAAS Biennial Conferences

2022 EAAS Conference - Wastelands

Wastelands

34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE

Madrid 6-8 April 2022

Organized by the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

with the collaboration of the Universidad Complutense.

The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States. Hence, the overarching theme of the conference is open to all kinds of reflections around the concept of “wasteland” and waste. EAAS 2022 invites proposals that address the concept of waste in U.S. culture, history, and politics.

2020 EAAS Conference — 20/20 vision

2020 EAAS Conference — Virtual, April 30-May 2, 2021

20/20 vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal

Due to COVID-19, this conference has been rescheduled to April 30-May 2, 2021. The theme of the conference remains unchanged.

EAAS 2020 Conference coincides with the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Plymouth Plantation. Falling on the quadricentennial, EAAS 2020 invites broader contemplations of American history, politics, and culture. The conference seeks to underscore questions of optics, distance, and acuity. The concept of “20/20 vision,” an optical term denoting “normal” visual clarity and sharpness of sight, invites a reflection on historical distance, focal points, visibility and invisibility of socio-historical, cultural, and literary aspects of American citizenship, space, and renewal until today.

2020 EAAS Conference — 20/20 vision

2020 EAAS Conference - April 30-May 2, 2021

20/20 vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal

EAAS Statement on Academic Freedom in Support of L’Association Française d’Études Americaines (AFEA)

04 May 2021

The EAAS is a pan-European association of twenty-one national and regional American Studies associations and is the largest American Studies association in the world. We are committed to the research, study, and teaching of all areas of American culture and society, and we promote co-operation and intercommunication between European scholars of the United States from all parts of Europe and across all academic disciplines, established and emergent.

We are committed to the principles of academic freedom and the freedom of expression. We note with grave concern recent developments in France that question or seek to undermine these principles, and we send our solidarity and support to all academics in France working to expand our understanding of the world in which we live. For centuries, France has stood as a beacon of intellectual freedom and of progressive thinking. That is the France that has, rightly, held a pre-eminent position in the development of theories of cultural, political and social justice, and to which generations of scholars have turned for inspiration. We ask that the French government publicly commits itself to the fundamental principle of academic freedom and to supporting the right of all academics to pursue their research and critical enquiries without fear of reprimand or censure.

The Board of the European Association for American Studies

2018 London

The 32nd European Association for American Studies and 63rd British Association for American Studies Conference

Keynote Speakers: Bettye Collier-Thomas (Temple University), Jo Gill (University of Exeter), Pekka. Hämäläinen (University of Oxford)

Proposals are welcomed on any subject in American Studies. The overarching themes for the conference are environment, place and protest, and we particularly welcome submissions in these areas, broadly defined. The conference will also be an opportunity to reflect on the fiftieth anniversary of the turbulent events of 1968 and their impact on the United States and Europe.

Please note the following:

Given the size and scope of the conference, we will give preference to fully formed panel proposals, but will also accept individual proposals where possible.
All sessions at the conference will be a maximum of 1 hour 30 minutes. Proposals for panels should therefore consist of no more than three speakers, or, if more speakers are desired, should be conceived as roundtable discussions.
All individual proposals should be for 20-minute presentations.
BAAS and EAAS are dedicated to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. We strongly encourage and will give preference to panels that reflect the diversity of our field in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and institutional affiliation. All-male panel proposals will not be accepted.
Equipment for the projection of PowerPoint presentations will be available in all rooms.

Paper proposals should be 250 words maximum, including a title. Panel proposals should include a 250-word abstract for each constituent paper as well as an abstract of no more than 250 words describing the panel session as a whole.

Please submit proposals, along with a brief CV and email address for each participant, to ebaas2018@baas.ac.uk by the deadline of 1 October 2017.

Further details at www.kcl.ac.uk/ebaas2018

2016 Constanța

Website for the conference

EAAS 2016 Conference Program

EAAS 2016 Conference
Call for Contributions:
MappingTransnational America

In his opening remarks at the 2016 EAAS conference held at Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania, HE Hans Klemm, U.S. Ambassador to Romania expressed his wish that the event will “bring fresh ideas to the transatlantic dialogue in American Studies”. In Transnationalism (2009), Steven Vervotec considers that since the 1990s the transnational has become increasingly important in many domains: communities, identities, cultures, spaces, capital, networks, societies, organizations, services, politics, trade. Equally, Rosendahl Thomsen in Mapping World Literatures: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures (2008) claims that binary oppositions, such as minor and major literature and national and international literature are no longer of use; instead, he focuses on the reciprocal nature of literary and cultural interconnections and relies on mapping constellations in world literature. Thus, in today’s globalized society, the transnational mode, as a source of inspiration and an intensely debated topic of the papers and panels presented during the 2016 EAAS conference, held at Ovidius University, will be dedicated a volume. Looking at the United States from different angles of transnationalism, the essays in this collection will contribute to fresh and stimulating perspectives on American Studies.

Download the call for contributions (pdf)

The articles to be submitted should be around 4,500-5,000 words long.

Submission deadline: March 31, 2017. Please send your material or further inquiries to:

adina.ciugureanu@seanet.ro
nicoletastanca1506@gmail.com

2014 The Hague

“America: Justice, Conflict, War”

EAAS 60th Anniversary Conference, The Hague, Netherlands

April 3 – 6, 2014

Peace Palace, The Hague

Seat of the International Court of Justice

“The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessing of liberty.” (20^th-century U.S.-editor, commentator, and columnist George F. Will)

“And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.“ (John F. Kennedy, television address, 11 June 1963)

2012 Izmir

The Health of the Nation

March 30–April 2, 2012

Website for the conference.