EAAS Officer Elections
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During the last Board meeting, elections were held for two Officer positions for the 2026-2030 term.
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Latest News And Events
CFP Authority and Values in the English-Speaking World, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 17-18 June 2027
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Every four years the research center CREW at the Sorbonne Nouvelle hosts a multidisciplinary conference. It will investigate the challenges to authority and values that are now prevalent in the contemporary English-speaking world. Deadline for submissions is September 15, 2026.
EAAS 2026 conference in Bologna!
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From September 1–4, 2026, the 36th Biennial EAAS Conference, titled “1776–2026: Visions of Freedom,” took place at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Extended Deadline: 2026 EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award
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The European Association for American Studies (EAAS) invites submissions for the 2026 Rob Kroes Publication Award. To allow prospective applicants additional time, we have extended this year’s submission deadline to 15 October 2026.
CFP – International Conference at Le Mans University, France in association with The Philip Roth Society and The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Roth Unbound: Transcultural signposts from Goodbye Columbus to Nemesis Roots and Routes in Philip Roth’s Works
Call for Papers: International PhD Seminar in American History / American Studies (Middelburg, The Netherlands) 25-27 November 2026
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The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) calls for proposals to participate in our upcoming International PhD Seminar, taking place 25-27 November 2026 in Middelburg (Netherlands).
America at 250: Narratives of Resistance and Change International Symposium
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As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, at a time of perceived challenges to its promises of freedom and equality, this symposium invites a multidisciplinary reflection on the narrative strategies used to represent past and contemporary interpretations of experienced scenarios of crises, resistance and change. The Symposium is particularly interested in the connections between contemporary political, social and cultural fractures and previous experiences of confrontation of opposing visions of the collective national project, which also teste
American Shorts 2026
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Call for Papers for “American Shorts 2026” (international conference on American short forms). “American Shorts 2026” will take place on October 29-31, 2026, at the School of Arts & Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. American Shorts 2026 webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/americanshorts2026 Submission deadline: 10 June, 2026
Berlin’s Confidential Evaluation of American Universities: The Conrad Report (1897) (Hamburg: BoD, 2026).
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Berlin’s Confidential Evaluation of American Universities: The Conrad Report (1897). Hamburg: BoD, 2026. Print editions (March 2026): ISBN: 978-3-6951-1863-2 (hardcover) – [available in Europe only - € 24,95] ISBN: 978-3-6951-0153-5 (paperback) – [available globally - € 21,95] E-Books (April 2026): ISBN: 978-3-6957-9353-2 (ebook - ePUB) - € 9,99 ISBN: 978-3-6957-9661-8 (ebook - ePUB) - € 9,99
Call for Articles Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents and Workshop: “Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World”
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The editors of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents invite article submissions for a Special Issue and preceding Workshop that focus on the intersection of botany and the broader historical and cultural legacies through which plants, knowledge, and practices were moved and transformed within and beyond the Atlantic World. The inter- and transdisciplinary Special Issue and Workshop seek to explore how botanical knowledge, human activity, and natural processes have shaped the movement, dispersal (or rejection), and establishment of and narrative engagement with plant species across continents.
PJAS 2028 CfP – Art and/as Knowledge in American Contexts
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Art and/as Knowledge in American Contexts Special Issue of the Polish Journal for American Studies, 2028 This special issue asks what American art knows – and how that knowledge is produced.
International Conference: “Encampment, Confinement, and Community: Camps in U.S. American Media” at TU Dortmund
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This interdisciplinary and international conference investigates representations, structures, and functions of the spatial and temporal processes and experiences of encampment, confinement, and community within the U.S. Please submit a 300-word abstract and a short biographical statement to the conference co-organizers, Julia Faisst, Lena Gotteswinter, and Katharina Röder, by April 15, 2026. The conference takes place at TU Dortmund, Dec. 3-5, 2026.
53rd AAAS Conference 2026 Critical Media Analysis, Participatory Cultures, and New Textualities: American Studies through a Digital Lens, November 5-7, 2026, Linz, Austria
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We invite you to submit papers that explore American Studies through a digital lens, examining the multisensory quality of multimodal works as well as their creative, historical, social, political, and educational relationships to formative narratives and epistemologies. We particularly welcome papers that analyze the representation of digital cultures and technologies in U.S.-American popular culture, film, art, and literature, as well as papers that interrogate the impact of the digital turn on American Studies itself.
Symposium: Contemporary Poetics, Communities, and Publics | Inaugural European Association of American Studies Poetry Network Symposium University of Göttingen | May 16-17, 2025
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This symposium is organized by the Poetry Network of the EAAS and aims to bring together readers, writers, and scholars of poetry. Please reach out if you have any questions. Conference Organizers: Lucy Cheseldine (University of York); Gulsin Ciftci (University of Münster); Andrew Gross (University of Göttingen); Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast)