For the 2020 BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, we welcome proposals that reflect aspects of this year’s theme, Connection and Collective Action: Past and Present. This year has seen an unprecedented reexamination of the ways we interact with one another, be it on an international, governmental, institutional, or personal level. While coming together physically is more complicated than it ever has been, this year has also seen people around the world unite to challenge engrained systems and demand change. This Symposium will enable us to participate in our own evaluation and interrogation of methods of connection and collective action in American history and culture. We seek to touch upon the following questions: How have people taken collective action historically, and how does this reflect on our present historical moment? How are cultures shaped by the points of connection and conflict that arise between the people that form them? How can our connection […]

AMERICANISTS VIRTUAL MEET-UP 15:00 (GMT) 30th October 2020 This is a free online event for PhD students, aimed at creating a stronger sense of community for those of us researching within the broad field of American Studies. This event will give PhD students the opportunity to give a short, five minute presentation on their research, and to meet others working in similar areas. If your research focusses on the Americas, and you would like to sign up for the virtual meet-up, please register at https://forms.gle/nJEyFk75rGynsN1W9 by Friday 23rd October. Feel free to contact patrick.1.turner@kcl.ac.uk or a.djelid@pgr.reading.ac.uk if you have any questions.

This is the list of panels for the 15th SAAS Conference. Prospective participants are now invited to email the abstracts of their proposals directly to the chair of the selected panel using this form. The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 15, 2020. 1) “Domestic Spaces, Safety, and the (Micro)Political in the United States” Panel Chair: Rodrigo Andrés and Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Universitat de Barcelona. E-mail: rodrigoandres@ub.edu / alsina@ub.edu 2) "McCarthyism and Cold War Literatures: A Cultural Response to Fear and Paranoia" Panel Chair: María Laura Arce Álvarez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid E-mail: laura.arce@uam.es 3) "Unauthorized Mobility, Disposable Living: Migrants, Drifters and Nomads in Contemporary North American Literature and Culture" Panel Chair: Paula Barba Guerrero and Mónica Fernández Jiménez, Universidad de Salamanca / Universidad de Valladolid E-mail: paulabarbaguerrero@usal.es / monica.fernandez@uva.es 4) "The Phenomenology of Fear and Resilience in Women's Poetry: The Role of Poetic Creativity and the Artistic Process" Panel […]