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    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.

            Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition

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            Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement

            CFP for the 28th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS)

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            DEADLINE EXTENSION - CFP for the 28th Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS)

            Understanding American Politics, Third Edition by Stephen Brooks, Donald E. Abelson & Melissa Haussman

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            University of Toronto Press Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States. Placing the study of American politics within a broader context of other western democracies, this textbook reinforces the idea that in order to understand the American system, students need to begin by understanding their own democracy. This balanced, comparative perspective is integrated throughout to better explain and highlight the ways in which American politics and government work in relation to other democracies.

            Remembering Flannery O’Connor 100 Years after Her Birthday: Transnational, Intersectional and Multidisciplinary Approaches. Culture and Space Series

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            Remembering Flannery O’Connor 100 Years after Her Birthday: Transnational, Intersectional and Multidisciplinary Approaches Culture and Space Series Toruń, 25-26 March 2025 Onsite and Online Sessions The year 2025 will mark the centenary of Flannery O’Connor’s birth (1925-1964). This widely acknowledged American author of Irish origin is part of not only American but also world literary heritage. For several decades, her novels, short stories, essays and letters have posed a challenge to critics, readers, editors and translators alike, not to mention common readership.

            CFP / Book Publication: “Bridging Cultures: Transnational Travel Writing to, from (and in) the Americas”

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            We invite scholars and researchers to submit papers exploring the theme of transnational travel writing to (and in) the Americas for publication by a reputable publishing house. This interdisciplinary panel aims to examine how international travel writers from around the world have represented and engaged with the Americas as a destination of travel and a place of longing. We encourage papers that explore the diverse and complex intersections of travel writing with issues such as race, gender, class, imperialism, globalization, and transnationalism.

            The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion by Iván Chaar López

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              Iván Chaar López argues that the United States uses a combination of drone, surveillance, and informational technologies to protect the US-Mexico border in ways that mark border crossers as racialized others that must be policed.

              Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin by Sergio M. González

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              Perceptive and original, Strangers No Longer reframes the history of Latinos in Wisconsin by revealing religion’s central role in the settlement experience of immigrants, migrants, and refugees.

              The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics by James A. Tyner

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                What America’s intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War reveals about Cold War–era U.S. national security strategy.

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