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We look forward to receiving submissions to our workshop "Gender, Authority, and Trust," which will take place at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at Heidelberg University. Participants will examine how gender shapes and is shaped by cultural, social, and political developments in the United States, including issues of power, participation, space, ethnicity, and class. Workshop results will be published. Date: July 10 & 11, 2026.
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Please join "Keywords in Blue Humanities," an online symposium sponsored by the University of South Florida in Spring 2026. Over a series of one-hour discussions (free and open to the public), leading authors and scholars will address a "keyword" exploring the intersections of water and the humanities. Dates: 13 February, 13 March, 17 April
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The 53rd AAAS conference, organized by Melissa Kennedy, Edith Kreutner, and Martina Pfeiler, will take place from November 5-7, 2026, at the University of Education, Upper Austria and the University of the Diocese of Linz. It is titled “Critical Media Analysis, Participatory Culture, and New Textualities: American Studies through a Digital Lens”. Keynote Speaker: Wyn Kelley (MIT Boston)
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The EAAS Digital Studies Network invites colleagues and students to its 2nd Online Open Forum, “Digitality and Power in American Studies,” which will be held via ZOOM on December 19, 2025 (6:00pm–8:00pm CET).
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The Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for 4 doctoral scholarships (2 DAAD, four years; 2 Freie U Berlin - one year) for the academic year 2026/27 (starting date: October 1, 2026).
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"Challenging Literary and Cultural Practices, Now: Contemporary Approaches to the Humanities". This symposium is designed for PhD students and early career researchers, as well as MA students, from any area within the Humanities and Social Sciences. Although the main focus is on Literary and Cultural Studies, we welcome and encourage interdisciplinary perspectives. The symposium will take place on 26th-27th March 2026, at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
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In 2026, the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw will celebrate its 50th anniversary, a landmark occasion that coincides with the 250th anniversary of the United States. To mark these dual jubilees, we invite scholars to submit papers that explore the past, present, and future of the United States, its global impact, and the evolving role of American Studies as a field of inquiry
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The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, hosted by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. This year's conference invites papers on any topic relating to histories of women and gender non- conforming people in the Americas, but encourages proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that explore the subject of confinement. Please submit abstracts along with a 100-word biography of each proposed speaker to shawsociety@gmail.com, by Monday 12th January 2025.
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Special issue of Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (JLIC) Guest editors: Chiara Cremona (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Jelle Mast (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Thomas Mantzaris (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Marcela Scibiorska (Université Libre de Bruxelles/Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
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AmLit: American Literatures; Special Issue on “Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn”
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Expanding on previous scholarship on US culture and digital games, our special issue aims to investigate the question of interactive literariness in a US context by discussing the numerous instances of literary playfulness and gaming, and conversely of playful fiction, that characterize contemporary narratives. We welcome contributions that address diverse forms of storytelling and/or playing, especially in consideration of the interactive intersections between literary and ludic structures.
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The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (Göttingen University Press) invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue in 2026 that focuses on Chinese American literature. We welcome submissions of both academic essays and creative works. Deadline for abstracts: January 2, 2026.
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We invite abstract submissions (500 words) + author bios (100 words) to be considered for "Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page," an essay collection on the topic of erasure poetry and arts.
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DEADLINE EXTENDED The Hemingway Society invites proposals for the 21st International Hemingway Conference, exploring Hemingway’s ties to Toronto and his broader literary legacy.
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The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709; www.jlic.be) offers an open-access peer-reviewed online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. This special issue, titled “Postmigration Beyond National Borders”, aims to enhance the understanding of t
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We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue to be published in the journal Interfaces on the theme “Resistance,” inspired by the 2025 AFEA Congress. This issue will explore how narratives of resistance have challenged dominant ideologies, state policies, and cultural paradigms shaping U.S. society.
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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.
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The journal Gender Studies (see details about the journal here: https://reference-global.com/journal/GENST) invites contributions for a forthcoming special section on “Gender and Cognition: Intersections of Mind, Culture, and Language,” scheduled for publication in the 2026 issue. This special section seeks to explore the dynamic intersections between cognitive science and gender studies, with particular attention to their resonances in language, literature, and culture.
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We're attaching a cfp about narratives of gender and healthcare, with a particular focus on how narratives can subvert, challenge, and or inform different care practices, including case-study examples across the medical humanities. Please send 300-400 words abstracts, together with a brief biographical note (100 words) by January 15th to the editors, at lauraparrafernandez@ucm.es and david.yague.gonzalez@gmail.com We particularly encourage submissions from early-career scholars and from contributors working across different disciplines.
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The College of Arts & Humanities and Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow are delighted to invite submissions for the 71st annual British Association for American Studies conference at the University of Glasgow, to be held from Thurs 9th to Sat 11th April 2026. We look forward to welcoming the international American Studies community to our beautiful West End campus.
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The American Legacy of 250 Years: Continuity and Change in the United States of America May 28–30, 2026 Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Hungary Department of English and American Studies Institute of English, American and German Studies
