Call for contributions to a special issue of EJAS
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CFP for contributions to the Winter 2025 special issue of EJAS, "Transatlantic Flows: Cross-Cultural Interfaces between the U.S. and Europe, 1945 to Present"
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Latest News And Events
Contemporary maternal subjectivities on the page and on the screen – Call for Papers for an edited collection
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We are seeking contributions for an edited volume that explore the complexities of maternal subjectivity in contemporary literature (broadly defined), visual art, digital media, video games, social media, AI as well as in film and on television. We invite interdisciplinary submissions anchored in literary and cultural studies that engage primarily with Anglophone contexts but we also welcome comparative analyses of motherhood in various cultures and backgrounds.
NEW DEADLINE – Call for Panel Contributions: “Framing America: Visual Narratives and Transnational Exchange Across the Centuries”
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NEW DEADLINE: We invite submissions for presentations (approximately 15 minutes) from scholars interested in visual culture, transnational studies, and American studies. Contributions can focus on historical or contemporary practices and may employ theoretical approaches from visual studies, cultural theory, media studies, or performance studies.
Call for Participation/CfP – IASA – International American Studies Association
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The International American Studies Association (IASA) (www.iasa-world.org) is expanding! We're inviting emerging scholars and established academics worldwide to help shape the future of American Studies by joining our Continental Chapters. Whether you're in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Australia & Oceania, East Asia, South Asia, Europe, or Africa, this is your chance to make a global impact!
CfP: Irish Association for American Studies 2024 Postgraduate Symposium: American Carnage
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The Irish Association for American Studies Postgraduate Symposium will take place on Friday, November 22nd 2024. For this one-day in-person event, we invite scholars across all disciplines of American Studies to reflect on the theme of ‘American Carnage.’ 300-word proposals for fifteen-minute papers or 500-word proposals for three-person panels, along with a short academic biography (150 words) in the same document should be sent to postgrad@iaas.ie by Monday, 21st October 2024.
HCA Spring Academy 2025
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The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 24-28, 2025.
Asynchronous course on Multimodality and Anglophone Narratives (Winter & Spring cycles)
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The 100-hour program Multimodality: Print and Digital Anglophone Narratives is delivered by the members of the “Multimodal Research and Reading Group” of the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The course runs during the winter (cycle 3) and spring (cycle 4) semesters, it is delivered in English, and provides an in-depth understanding of American literary multimodal storytelling in print and digital format.
Call for papers – Genre in new media PGR/ECR conference
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Genre borders of our times fade away. The loss of defining characteristics forces the academics and artists to ask: “Do we still need genres, and why do we need it?”. During this conference, we aim to provide a platform for discussion. We want to hear from you about genres in new media and popular culture. The conference is going to involve two sessions, one in English on 18th November, and one in Polish on 19th. Our guests are dr Sorcha Ni Fhlainn from Manchester Metropolitan University; and Magdalena Wleklik, a screenwriter and a playwright, winner of the 2021 ArtSkrypt award.
CFA: Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellowship Program
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery encourages applications for its 2025-2026 research fellowships, awarded through the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP). Residencies are available at the graduate, doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior levels. The deadline to apply is October 15.
17th SAAS Conference: American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies
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SAAS (Spanish Association for American Studies) is glad to share that the call for our 17th conference is now open. The conference will take place at Universidad de Alicante in April 2025. The topics under discussion will be American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies.
Call for Panel Contributions: “Framing America: Visual Narratives and Transnational Exchange Across the Centuries”
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Organizers: Univ.- Prof. Dr. Stefan Brandt (University of Graz, Austria) Dr. Saptarshi Mallick (University of Graz, Austria) Planned venue: 12th World Congress of the International American Studies Association, “Visual Americas: Image, Text, Performance.” Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye, May 14-16, 2025.
Call for Papers: EJAS Special Issue The Uncanny States of America – Encountering the Planetary
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Taking into consideration recent developments toward a Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies, this special issue of The European Journal of American Studies aims to rethink and recontextualize the American project not through the homogenizing impulses of the global sublime but through the decentered relationality of planetarity—the act of “making our home unheimlich or uncanny” (Spivak 74). Potential contributors should send a 500-word abstract and a short biographical note to dominik.steinhilber@uni-konstanz.de and florian.wagner@uni-jena.de by December 31, 2024.
Call for Papers: In Progress – A Graduate Journal of North American Studies
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In Progress is a peer-reviewed online journal based at the English Department of Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. It provides a space to publish excellent work written by graduate students in Anglophone literary, cultural, and media studies, focusing in particular (but not exclusively) on the field of North American Studies. For the next issue (vol. 3, no. 1), In Progress invites contributions of up to 7,500 words (including abstract, footnotes, and list of works cited). The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2024.
Eisenhower for Our Time by Steven Wagner
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Eisenhower for Our Time provides an introduction to the Eisenhower presidency, extracting lessons for today's world. Steven Wagner proposes that the need to maintain balance defines Eisenhower's presidency.
Baby Bust, 10th Anniversary Edition: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family by Stewart D. Friedman
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Ten years ago a groundbreaking cross-generational study revealed that greater freedom and new constraints were leading fewer young people to choose parenthood. In the intervening years, the decision to have a family has not gotten easier.
How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano
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Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world.
Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity by Daniel Widener & Vijay Prashad
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Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century antiracist movements in the United States in a broader internationalist context.
2025 CAAR Conference Call for Proposals Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations March 20-22, 2025 Humboldt University Berlin
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From March 20-22, 2025, the 2025 Biennial The Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conference, titled Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations, will be hosted by Humboldt University Berlin. The conference theme reflects African and African-diasporic production, critiques, and contributions to new discourses and existing epistemologies.
America: The Troubled Continent of Thought
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Written by leading scholar Avital Ronell, this new book investigates the complicated image of America within the realm of philosophy. As both a country and a concept, America has long been a site where new and old ideas have converged and transformed. But within this intellectual melting pot contradictory notions emerge, and Ronell deftly explores how European philosophers and American thinkers alike have struggled to explain America’s peculiar place in the history of modern thought.
To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s by Linda M. Perkins
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From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. Perkins’s study ranges across educational and geographical settings to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students, professors, and administrators.
Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981 by Marisela R. Chávez
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about US by Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle
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The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.
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