History
The EAAS was founded in 1954 at Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, where 40 professors of American studies from Europe and the United States were convening for the first “American Studies Conference.” To explore conference themes and past officers dating back to 1954, continue below.
EAAS Conferences since 1954
Munich 2024
1924 – 2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited
Madrid 2022
Wastelands
Warsaw 2021
20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal
London 2018
Environment, Place, and Protest
Constanța 2016
Mapping Transnational America
Izmir 2012
The Health of the Nation
Dublin 2010
"Forever Young"? The Changing Images of America
Oslo 2008
"E pluribus unum" or "E pluribus plura"?
Nicosia 2006
Conformism, Non-Conformism, and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States
Prague 2004
America in the Course of Human Events: Presentations and Interpretations
Bordeaux 2002
The United States of / in Europe: Nationhood, Citizenship, Culture
Graz 2000
Nature's Nation Reconsidered: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis
Lisbon 1998
Ceremonies & Spectacles: America and the Staging of Collective Identities
Warsaw 1996
American Culture and Its Impact, 1946–1996
Luxembourg 1994
The Insular Dream: Obsession and Resistance
Seville 1992
The American Columbiad: 'Discovering' America, Inventing the United States
London 1990
Victorianism in the United States: Its Era and Its Legacy
Berlin 1988
Looking Inward – Looking Outward: The United States from the 1930s through the 1940s
Budapest 1986
The Early Republic: The Making of a Nation – The Making of a Culture
Rome 1984
Social Change and New Modes of Expression: The United States, 1910–1930
Paris 1982
The United States from 1870 to 1919
Amsterdam 1980
The American Identity: Fusion and Fragmentation
Norwich 1978
Religious and Political Ideologies in America and Europe
Heidelberg 1976
Americans and Nature
Vienna 1974
European Attitudes towards America – A Love-Hate Relationship
"International Study Conference" and one-day "Open Conference" for Young Scholars
Geneva 1972
The Impact of American Dissent on European Political, Cultural and Social Life
Brussels 1970
"The American Way – The European Way"
"Study Conference"
Rome 1967
Intellectual Communication between the Old World and the New"
"Working Conference" – invitational only
Aarhus 1965
The Role of Universities in the Modern World – A Transatlantic Dialogue
Cambridge 1962
The Impact of the United States on Europe after 1945
"EAAS Bi-annual [sic] Working Conference"
Berlin 1961
The American Promise Reconsidered, 1929–1939
Bellagio 1960
American Educational Items and the European Mind
The Lost Generation Writers in Europe
Woodrow Wilson's Reputation in Europe
Paris 1957
Emigration – Immigration
The Businessman in America and Europe
The Frontier – An American Phenomenon?
Salzburg 1954
First International Conference of Professors and Scholars of American Studies in Europe
EAAS Officers since 1954
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