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6th International Conference on American Drama and Theater – “‘Game Over!’: U.S. Drama and Theater and the End(s) of an American Idea(l)”

CfP: Heidelberg Center for American Studies Annual Spring Academy Conference (Heidelberg, Germany)

Call for Papers 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 22-26, 2021. The HCA Spring Academy provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects. The HCA Spring Academy additionally offers workshops held by visiting scholars. We encourage applications that range broadly across the arts, humanities, and social sciences and pursue an interdisciplinary approach. Participants can present papers on any subject relating to the study of the United States of America. Possible topics include American identity, issues of ethnicity, gender, transatlantic relations, U.S. domestic and foreign policy, economics, as well as various aspects of American history, literature, religion, geography, law, musicology, and culture. Participants are requested to prepare a 20-minute presentation of their research project, which will be followed by a […]

CfP: The Fourth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium: Faulkner, Transgressive Fiction, Postmodernism (Online)

Conference will take place January 29th and 30th, 2021, online via Zoom   William Faulkner (1897-1962) has long been considered one of the foremost modernist authors to emerge from the United States. Faulkner’s authorial obsessions have typically been described as including time, history, and the fraught definition of “Southernness” in the aftermath of the Civil War, emancipation, and the quest for Civil Rights. However, starting with the publication of the edited volume Faulkner and Postmodernism (1997), critics have sought to recontextualise Faulkner as a “postmodernist” and even “transgressive” author, whose work explores the darker side of humanity and sets a precedent for writers including William S. Burroughs and Cormac McCarthy to explore the nature of sexuality, racial identity, violence, and much more. This conference builds upon these developing scholarly concerns, working to show that Faulkner is no mere regional or even traditionally modernist author who is fixated solely upon his […]

CfP: 55th Conference of the Japanese Association for American Studies

The 55th JAAS Annual Meeting will be held on June 5th and 6th, 2021 at Keio University, Tokyo. The JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee invites JAAS members to send paper proposals for the “Independent Paper Sessions” to be held on June 5th, 2020. If you are interested in giving a paper, please send by email a proposal that includes (1) your name, (2) your affiliation, (3) the title of your paper, (4) a summary of your paper (approximately 800 words) and (5) five keywords to the JAAS Annual Meeting Office (program@jaas.gr.jp) by November 20th, 2020 (Japanese Standard Time, JST). The 55th Conference may be held online, if the of COVID-19 pandemic is not sufficiently resolved. Please check JAAS official website for the latest information. Only JAAS members can submit a paper proposal. Proposals from non-members will be reviewed if their membership application is received by November 20th, 2019 and […]

CfP: Digital BAAS, The Digital Conference, 2021 (Online)

Digital BAAS 2021 – The Digital Conference  April 6-11, 2021   Call for Papers BAAS are excited to announce details for the British Association for American Studies’s 66th Annual Convention — its first to be hosted entirely remotely. For several years BAAS has been building towards an event of this type, in order to transcend the exclusivity and waste of our traditional conference model. The organisers' plans have been pushed forward by our familiar enemy Covid-19 but are equally motivated by their twin concerns of environmental impact and accessibility/inclusivity. As part of the ‘Green BAAS’ agenda, they are committed to reflecting upon the environmental impact of their activities, and to making positive changes to combat climate catastrophe. The decision to host a virtual conference presents the opportunity not only to minimise international travel, but also to highlight the work of members working in the environmental humanities, and to reflect critically upon […]

CfP: Public Health and Disease in the American Century (Online)

We invite applications to a conference dedicated to situating the COVID-19 pandemic in American and global history. The COVID-19 pandemic has confronted historians with the disruptive power of infectious disease. The impact of the crisis has been multifaceted, global, and immense in its scale and ramifications. For the United States, the experience has been especially confrontational. As of the time of writing, the US has among the highest rates of infection and the highest number of deaths of any country on the planet. The virus (and the measures taken to contain it) has disrupted almost every aspect of American life, revealed and exacerbated social, economic, racial and political fault lines, and raised major constitutional issues concerning the role of federal and state authorities in maintaining social well-being. This public health emergency has also set in motion an as yet uncertain set of consequences for the US’s position in the world.  President […]

CfP: Hip Hop and Higher Education Conference

Call for Papers The Hip Hop and Higher Education online conference is a one-day event, funded by the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), that will take place on Thursday 15th July 2021. Through this conference, we seek to do three things: Provide a space for people to exhibit and enjoy the critical, creative and communal elements of Hip Hop Interrogate Hip Hop's exclusion from higher education, linking it to intersecting systems of oppression and discrimination which underpin the university and wider society Explore the merits and possible dangers of incorporating Hip Hop into formal sites of higher education In order to reflect and honour the dynamism of Hip Hop, music and performance will feature throughout the day. In that vein, we not only invite artists, academics (early careers/established) and members of the Hip Hop community to submit proposals for papers, but also group presentations, performances, videos, virtual exhibitions, discussion […]

CfP: HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium: Americans in the World (Online)

HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium: Americans in the World, February 20, 2021, on Zoom. Jane Adams presided over the International Congress of Women in The Hague in 1915, Jesse Owens made sporting history at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, Eslanda Robeson attended the All-African Peoples’ Conference in Ghana in 1958, and in 1968 Dale Smith marched with German student activist Rudi Dutschke in Berlin. These individuals all played a crucial role in connecting America to the world and likewise played a central role in complicating the ideological underpinnings of the American Century abroad. In a field long dominated by an institutional focus on diplomatic exchanges, military interventions, and foreign trade, diplomatic history’s cultural turn has significantly shifted its gaze to the role of non-state actors—students, artists, missionaries, athletes, and scholars,  among others—to examine their impact on the United States’ connections with the world and their multivalent role in the creation of […]

CfP: SASA Annual Conference (Online)

22nd Annual Conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America 6 March 2021, Online Conference The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) was formed in 1999 to encourage the study of North America in Scotland. Due to ongoing concerns over COVID-19, the committee has decided our annual conference will be held virtually this year. The conference will take place on Saturday, 6 March 2021. The virtual nature of the conference has provided us with an opportunity to adapt our standard format. Instead of traditional 20-minute conference papers, we are asking for brief, 10-minute papers, which will be followed by a discussion. These presentations are meant to be informal, and our aim is to provide a welcoming environment for speakers to get feedback on their projects, or specific aspects of their research they would like to discuss. SASA recognizes a broad definition of the Americas and includes […]

CfP: Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference 2021

Transatlantic Studies Association 19th Annual Conference Centre for International Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon 5-7 July 2021 _________ Call for Papers Submissions are invited for the 2021 Annual Conference KEYNOTE LECTURES Professor Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University) “Why meeting NATO’s 2% target would make Europe (and the West) less secure” AND Professor Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia) Mayflower Lecture “From Lima to Lisbon: Earthquake History in the Making” Co-sponsored by the University of Plymouth: ‘Mayflower 400: Atlantic Crossings’ AND Dr Dan Plesch (SOAS, University of London) “Twilight or New Dawn in Transatlantic Relations?” PLUS A Roundtable discussion on: Southern Transatlantic Connections and the Cold War _________ The TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in a variety of disciplines, including (but not limited to): history, politics and international relations, and literary studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and […]

CfP: HOTCUS 2021 Annual Conference (Online)

HOTCUS 2021 Annual Conference: Call for Papers Digital Conference – 7-11 June 2021 Plenary Speaker: Professor Connie Chiang (Bowdoin College) Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to invite paper and panel proposals for our 2021 annual conference. For the first time, the annual conference will take place digitally in order to provide the safest and most accessible venue for attendants. Despite the global context, we still hope to provide a space for scholars to share their research and socialize virtually with colleagues studying the history of the United States. Papers from members or non-members are welcomed on all topics concerning the history of the United States – broadly conceived – from 1890 to the present. The committee welcomes proposals for papers and panels covering all aspects of U.S. history, including (but not limited to): Citizenship, immigration, and migration Cultural and intellectual history Economic history Environmental history […]

CFP: Movement and Mobility in America (Online)

WHAT, WHEN & WHERE American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT) 40th International American Studies Conference Movement and Mobility in America Online Conference June 28-29, 2021 Movement and mobility lie at the core of American society. Whether through immigration, internal migration, social mobility, or domestic and global expansionism, the United States has always been defined as a nation of frontiers and pioneers, a country that is constantly (re)defining itself, where self-(re)invention is part of the American dream. Movement and mobility in the American context can also be physical, sociological, psychological, or political, as in the case of mobilizing for racial justice, such as with the Black Lives Matter movement that is sweeping the nation. The Trump Administration has prompted a reevaluation of movement and mobility across the political spectrum. While some argue that this has stimulated a visible resurgence in activism and a revival of social movements in the United States, […]

CfP: Radicalisation and the Media: From Television to Twitter

CfP DEADLINE: FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2021 Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford 20-22 April 2021   In the mid-twentieth century two mutually influencing revolutions took place, one technological and one socio-political; the emergence of television and the advent of the civil rights movement both fundamentally altered American society and the wider world. Today, social media and digital technologies are reshaping social relations, while the renewed visibility of white supremacist activism has precipitated a new chapter in the long struggle for racial equality. This conference will put the study of the past in conversation with current debates about media, technology, and race. The first day of the conference is dedicated to research development workshops. Participants will have the opportunity to give and receive feedback on in-progress work and meet scholars researching similar topics across a range of disciplines. Abstracts may consider issues of race and ethnicity across news, entertainment, and social media. […]