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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
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Name of publication: Op. Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies Series 4, No. 1 (2026) – General Issue: (New) Beginnings Issue edited by Alexandra Cheira, Universidade de Lisboa Contact details: op.cit.journal@gmail.com Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 January 2026
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The American Studies Network offers its call for submission for the 2026 ASN Book Prize.
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EAAS Postgraduate Grants for Active Participation in the Biennial EAAS Conference
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CFP for an edited collection, provisionally titled: “Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics.” The collection aims to gather a range of focused and broad/panoramic studies that together offer a richer understanding of the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world. The deadline for proposals is Sunday 14th December 2025.
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Annual Research Day of the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) in Brussels on December 5th!
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Call for Papers 5th HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium - The Age of Narratives: Expanding, Re-inventing, Re-imagining March 7, 2026 | Athens, Greece
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HELAAS Webinar: The Past, Present and Future(s) of Transitional Justice in the USA
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This special issue of Anglica Wratislaviensia invites essays which will explore the political dimension of the Western (novels, movies, TV series, and other genres). The Western as a genre dramatizes the tension between law and violence and often suggests – along Arendtian lines – that when individuals are left to pursue private concerns and evade moral responsibility for the community, the political life erodes. It is precisely the preservation of the political and its erosion that the special issue of Anglica Wratislaviensia invites to consider.
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While scholars have long construed institutions as coercive, pervasive, and disciplinarian forces, the increasingly obvious fragility of cultural institutions has led to a renewed interest in the generative, stabilizing, and benign aspects of institutional formations. Against this background, we invite contributions to the REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature that reconsider the study of British and American texts in relation to political, legal, and social institutions and/or the formation of institutional structures in the name of literature.
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The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual one‐week Spring Academy conference, which provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects. The twenty-third HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics & Religion will be held from March 23-27, 2026.
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The American Studies department of TU Dortmund University is organizing a conference with the title "Contemporary Reading Cultures" and invites proposals about topics such as online reading communities like BookTok, the construction of the comtemporary 'reader' or the publishing landscape, among others. The deadline for abstracts (300 words) and a short bio statement (100 words) is 10 October. (https://anglistik.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/crc/)
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The Doctoral Program in Literary Studies of the University of Basel calls for applications for two one-year start-up grants of CHF 32,000 (beginning April 1, 2026). The grant is designed to support promising junior researchers in developing a PhD project to apply for follow-up funding.
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The Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University invites applications for two positions at the assistant professor level to begin in September 2026. Applicants should hold a doctorate degree in American studies or related fields at the time of appointment.
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Boost your multimodal storytelling skills & Enhance your professional profile via your engagement with print and digital multimodal literary practice
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The Research Training Group Authority and Trust (GKAT) at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), Heidelberg University, Germany, invites proposals for the conference themed Contested Authority, Trust in Transition: Making Sense of the American Landscape" that will take place May 20-22, 2026. PhD students and junior scholars are particularly invited to apply. Limited travel grants are available. Please submit your abstract (250 words maximum) and a short biography to the organizers (gkat@hca.uni-heidelberg.de) until November 15, 2025.
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The 2026 Conference of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) seeks to explore the diversity of cultural environments in the nexus of nature and spatiality, ethnicity, history, and geopolitics. The event will be arranged as an onsite conference at Ionian University, Department of Environment, Zakynthos Island Campus, Greece. Abstracts should be submitted via our website at https://mesea.org/ before November 15, 2025.
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I’m organizing a panel on Afro-pessimism for the upcoming MLA in Toronto (8-11 January 2026) and am currently searching for co-panelists. I hope to bring together scholars who can offer diverse and critical perspectives on that subject. Proposals should be about a page (300 words).
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ASANOR biannual conference 2026 June 4-6, Kristiansand, Norway CONSTITUTING THE US IN THE 21ST CENTURY Proposal deadline: October 15, 2025
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Join us for The Edith Wharton Summit, a gathering dedicated to new research, dynamic conversations, and immersive experiences. Set against the backdrop of The Mount, Wharton’s beautifully preserved estate in Lenox, MA, the Summit offers a unique opportunity to engage with fresh perspectives on Wharton’s life and work, connect with fellow admirers, and explore the legacy of one of America’s most remarkable and enduring authors from the place she called home. 4 June- 6 June 2026. CFP submission deadline 1 October 2025. https://edithwharton.org/calendar/summit/
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Original, thought-provoking, analytical, and unpublished academic essays are invited for inclusion in Portrayals of the Fourth of July in American Culture and Literature: Reimagining American Identity at USA 250 to be published in 2026. This edited volume aims to contribute to broader conversations on memory, nationalism, and the future of democracy in the United States of America by critically reexamining how July 4 has been depicted and interpreted over time. The book invites essays that explore the many facets of American identity as represented in cultural and literary works.
