CfP | “Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s)”

International in-person conference at JFK Institute at Freie Universität Berlin, September 30 – October 2, 2026 Deadline: May 31, 2026 Conference website: Frontiers Conference 2026 – PopMeC While encompassing the study of US American cultures broadly intended, the conference aims at examining the evolution of their contemporary manifestations and possible futures. As the sociocultural and…

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Registration and Conference Program for “Law and Order: Modes of Policing and Resistance in American History”

Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA), Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, May 8-10, 2026 Deadline: April 15, 2026 Dear colleagues, We are very pleased to share the program and registration details for this year’s annual conference of the historians of the German Association for American Studies with you.Please find the conference program…

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Prizes | “2027 Franz Steiner Prize in Transatlantic History”

€2,500 prize for outstanding work of historical scholarship in the field of North American studies or transatlantic relations Deadline: September 15, 2026 The Franz Steiner Verlag and the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) award the Franz Steiner Prize in Transatlantic History every two years to an outstanding work of historical scholarship in the field of…

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Openings | “Senior Assistantship in English Literary Studies” at Zurich University

90 %, initially limited to three years, starts August 1, 2026 Deadline: March 30, 2026 The English Department of the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral teaching and research position (Oberassistenz) in the field of English Literary Studies (British, North American and/or New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures) to start on 1 August 2026.…

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Prizes | “Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize” from the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)

€1,000 award for outstanding work in the field of American Studies Deadline: April 15, 2026 Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize | Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) The Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize is awarded outstanding work in the field of American studies. It honors one of the HCA’s earliest benefactors († 2019) and is endowed with…

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Events | “Law in Transit – Moving Subjects, Universal Rights, and the Contingencies of Recognition”

10th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law, July 18-26, 2026 Deadline: April 1, 2026 http://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/ The tenth International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law will be held from July 18 to 26, 2026 at Osnabrueck University, Germany. It aims to encourage and further promote the interdisciplinary study and…

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Events | “Keywords in Blue Humanities”

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. The talks will livestream on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@keywordsinbluehumanities. (Sign onto…

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Additional Fellowships | Long-term Visiting Fellowships at GHI Washington

Monthly stipend of €2,400 for doctoral and €3,400 for postdoctoral scholars for a duration of 6-12 months Deadline: January 12, 2026 See the full posting here: Long-term Visiting Fellowships – GHI Washington The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) is now accepting applications for its long-term visiting fellow program. The fellowships will be granted for a…

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CfP | “Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page”

Collection of critical essays as part of the DFG-funded project “W( )les and ( )holes: Politically Engaged Erasure Poetry in Twenty-First-Century United States” Deadline: February 15, 2026 Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page, an essay collection co-edited by Sandra Tausel, Michael Fuchs, and Mahshid Mayar, invites proposals in the form of abstracts (500 words) and…

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Summer School in the U.S.

Summer Symposium on U.S. Foreign Policy in Washington, D.C., August 2-13, 2026 Registration deadline: May 1, 2026 A summer symposium and field trip around international politics and U.S. foreign policy, organized by Hochschule für angewandtes Management. For more information, please visit Summer School | U.S. Foreign Policy Washington | HAM

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Events | “Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States”

International conference at Sorbonne University, Paris, and online October 17-18, 2025 The conference program is available here:   The keynote address will be delivered by Professor Emerita Phyllis   Cole (PennState Brandywine):   An art exhibition, featuring artwork by Paris-based artist Auriane   Kolodziej, will follow Professor Cole’s keynote:   Registration is free but mandatory.…

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Events | “Putting a Positive Spin on the Game: Reflections on Hip Hop, Art, and Life by Rappers and Actors Lil Mike and Funny Bone”

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Lecture at Bonn University October 13, 2025, 6.15-7.45 p.m. via Zoom Event Title: Putting a Positive Spin on the Game: Reflections on Hip Hop, Art, and Life by Rappers and Actors Lil Mike and Funny Bone (Indigenous Peoples’ Day Lecture) organized by the North American Studies Program at the University of Bonn…

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CfP | “What Was Contemporary Literature? or, The End of Periodization as We Know It”

Special issue of Post45, co-edited by Laura Bieger (Ruhr University Bochum) and Philipp Löffler (University of Heidelberg) Deadline (abstracts): December 1, 2025 What happens when the present becomes historical to itself and the contemporary turns into a categorizable literary-historical formation? Is that even possible, that is: can the contemporary ever become historical (to) itself? This…

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CfP | “Early Career Researchers Issue XII, Vol 25 No. 2 (2026) of gender forum”

Deadline: October 31, 2025 gender forum is calling for submissions for its upcoming Early Career Researchers Issue XII, Vol 25 No. 2 (2026) The interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed open access journal gender forum launched its first annual Early Career Researchers Issue in October 2013 with the aim of encouraging the next generation of scholars to publish their work in…

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CfP | “American Spaces of Resistance”

Calls for papers for the 19th issue of aspeers, the graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 15, 2025 aspeers, the first peer-reviewed journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe, calls for papers for its nineteenth issue by October 19, 2025. As in previous years, aspeers calls for general submissions of excellent academic work by MA-level…

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Call for Responses | “Women and Health in the Nineteenth Century Transatlantic World”

5th Crosscurrents Conference at the University of Madeira, December 4-6, 2025 Deadline: August 15, 2025 Call for Responses 5th Crosscurrents Conference—Women and Health in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic World 4 – 6 December 2025 Venue: University of Madeira – Rectory Building (Madeira Island, Portugal) Organised by Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network and University of Madeira, Faculty of Arts…

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CfP | “Crisis and Resilience in American Literature, Culture, History, and Politics”

35th Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) Leipzig University, November 6-8, 2025 Deadline: August 17, 2025 Crisis and Resilience in American Literature, Culture, History, and Politics 35th Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) The organizers of the…

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