Deadline: March 24, 2022 W2 Universitätsprofessur für Anglistische oder Amerikanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Bewerbungsschluss 24.3.2022, Dienstbeginn: schnellstmöglich. Aufgabengebiet Vertretung der Fächer Anglistik (Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft) oder Amerikanistik (Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft) in Lehre und Forschung in ihrer ganzen Breite. Ein transatlantischer oder anglophoner Forschungsschwerpunkt ist erforderlich. Von den…
Read MoreDeadline: May 2, 2022 2 Assistantships (60%) in North American and General Literature As of August 1, 2022, the Department of English at the University of Basel is looking for two 60% assistants in North American and General Literature (with Prof. Philipp Schweighauser). You will work in a vibrant and research-active department. The conditions of…
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Read MoreFebruary 24-25, 2022 Located at the intersection of art, scholarship, and personal exploration, videographic criticism refers to the study of audiovisual culture in audiovisual form. The videographic critic uses editing software to produce analyses and commentaries about film, television, games, online material etc., and typically communicates the results in the form of video essays. The…
Read MoreOnline Conference | February 24-26, 2022 Pamphlets are everywhere. In recent years, the polemical texts of the #MeToo movement, of Black Lives Matter, of anticapitalist movements, of Brexit, of anti-abortion coalitions, or of digital secessionists have demonstrably affected the normative fabric of Western societies. Pamphletary literature and the responses it elicits are at the core…
Read MoreAMERIKAHAUS MUNICH, GERMANY | NOVEMBER 17-19, 2022 DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15, 2022 “Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” is the third conference organized by “Playing the Field,” a collaborative research initiative for the study of video games in American studies: https://playingthefieldeu.wordpress.com/. The conference aims at examining the environments that video games affect and are impacted by. It…
Read MoreSpecial Issue of EJAS / European Journal of American Studies Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2022 Call for Papers— Special Issue EJAS / European Journal of American StudiesLaura E. Richards’ Children’s Poems Co-edited by Etti Gordon Ginzburg (Oranim College, Israel) andVerena Laschinger (University of Erfurt, Germany)Contact email: yeginz@gmail.com and verena.laschinger@uni-erfurt.de Deadline for abstract submissions: March 31, 2022Deadline for final…
Read MoreSection of the ECPR General Conference 2022 | University of Innsbruck, Austria | August 22-26, 2022 Deadline: February 16, 2022 We, Roland Lhotta, Jared Sonnicksen and Julia Simon, are happy to announce that we will be organizing the Section “Rigging the System – Righting the System: Dimensions of a constitutional, political and societal crisis in the United States (ecpr.eu)“…
Read MoreDeadline for abstracts: March 18, 2022 Please find below our current CfP for the next thematic issue of Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS). With our guest editors Selina Foltinek, Mascha Lange, and Florian Zitzelsberger, we invite proposals on the topic of “Reading (in) American Studies.” As always, we are dedicated to publishing the work of…
Read MoreAn International Symposium at Europa-Universität Flensburg | May 16-17, 2022 Registration Deadline: May 1, 2022 Designs of Tomorrow: Indigenous Futurities in Literature and Culture An International Symposium at Europa-Universität Flensburg, May 16-17, 2022 Conference website: https://www.uni-flensburg.de?49737 The conference will be on-site/in person, everyone interested is welcome. Please register by May 1, 2022 via native.futures@uni-flensburg.de. When we…
Read MoreDeadline: March 1, 2022 Dear Colleagues, Popular culture has long been identified either as the expression of working class or common folk or as the lowly substratum of an idealized high culture; thus, the emergence of a media-crossing pop aesthetic in the 1950s marked the beginning of a whole-scale social and cultural transformation. As an…
Read MoreScholarship for International Doctoral Students in North American History/History of the Americas/Transatlantic History (German Academic Exchange Service, Graduate School Scholarship Program) Class of Culture and History, Graduate School Language & Literature | Munich, University of Munich (LMU) Deadline: February 21, 2022
Read MoreUniversity of Bamberg | April 29-30, 2022 | Via Zoom Deadline: February 28, 2022 “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” Vanessa Redgrave speaks these lines on stage, in the monologue play The Year of Magical Thinking , impersonating Joan Didion and…
Read MoreFebruary 11 & 12, 2022 | Online Dear colleagues, We are pleased to open registration and present the program for this year’s annual meeting of historians of the German Association for American Studies on the topic of “Labor and Capital in U.S. History” (February 11 and 12). Due to the current pandemic situation,…
Read More15.09.–16.09.2022 | SFB 1385 “Law and Literature” | University of Münster Deadline: March 31, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: February 15, 2022 The newly established interdisciplinary research training group “Contradiction Studies – Constellations, Heuristics and Concepts of the Contradictory” at the University of Bremen, Germany, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), advertises: 12 positions for doctoral researchers / PhD candidates (f/m/d)salary group 13 TV-L / 75%; 1 position as postdoctoral researcher (f/m/d),…
Read More“Learning from Black History about Building Bridges across Race, Ethnicity, and Religion” A program of the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Consulates in Germany in cooperation with Virtual Speaker Series Monday, February 14, 2022, 19:00 – 20:00 CET (virtual)
Read MoreUniversity of Erfurt | July 14th-15th, 2022 Deadline: February 28, 2022 This workshop is convened by the research group “Praxeologies of Truth.” We regard truth as a performative and as a social operator, observable in scenarios that foreground the embodied relationalities of a set of actors and their communicative practices. The workshop seeks to examine…
Read MoreInstitut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Deadline: January 28, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: January 31, 2022 Leibniz University Hannover invites applications for the position of Research Assistant (m/f/d) at the English Department / American Studies Division (Salary Scale 13 TV-L, 65 %) starting 01.04.2022. The position is limited to 3,5 years. Responsibilities and duties Responsibilities and duties include research in a sub-project of the DFG-funded Emmy Noether Research Group…
Read MoreAmerikahaus Munich, Germany | November 17-19, 2022 Deadline: February 15, 2022 “Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” is the third conference organized by “Playing the Field,” a collaborative research initiative for the study of video games in American studies: https://playingthefieldeu.wordpress.com/. The conference aims at examining the environments that video games affect and are impacted by.…
Read MoreInstitute of English and American Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt Jan 28 2022, 6pm (s.t.), CET, Zoom AfropessimismA Reading and Conversation with Frank Wilderson III Frank Wilderson’s 2020 book Afropessimism has generated a fervent debate about the lasting presence of slavery and the centrality of anti-Black violence for the project of modernity. Wilderson’s melange of memoir, philosophy,…
Read MoreOn behalf of the editorial team, we are happy to announce that the last issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies has just gone online in time for the Christmas break. In this special issue entitled “The Continuity of Change? New Perspectives on U.S. Reform Movements,” guest editors Charlotte Lerg and Jana Weiß invite readers to discover the…
Read MoreDeadline: January 12, 2022 Department Faculty of Arts Organisation University of Groningen The Faculty of Arts is a large, dynamic faculty in the heart of the city of Groningen. It has more than 5000 students and 700 staff members, who are working at the frontiers of knowledge every day. The Faculty offers a wide range…
Read MoreDeadline: January 31, 2022 The KU Center for Advanced Studies “Dialogical Cultures. Critical Reflection Spaces for Cultural Studies and Social Sciences” at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt is advertising for summer 2022 (starting May 2022) three Research Fellowships (Junior/Senior/Henriette Herz for international young researchers) from one to four months. The Fellowships provide researchers with the opportunity to…
Read MoreDeadline: January 13, 2022 Im Rahmen einer von der Gerda Henkel Stiftung geförderten Forschungsgruppe zum Thema „The Black Power Movement and the Contested Nature of American Democracy“ sind zwei dreijährige Promotionsstipendien zu vergeben. Das Projekt untersucht bisher unterbelichtete Aspekte der Black Power Bewegung und deren Einfluss auf Debatten über die amerikanische Demokratie zwischen 1960 und…
Read MoreINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG | OCTOBER 6-8, 2022 ORGANIZED BY THE DFG-FUNDED PROJECT “ENTANGLED OBJECTS? THEMATERIAL CULTURE OF DIPLOMACY (1700-1830),” DIRECTED BY VOLKER DEPKAT (AMERICAN STUDIES) AND HARRIET RUDOLPH (EARLY MODERN HISTORY) Deadline: January 31, 2022 The interdisciplinary conference examines the variable forms, functions, and politico-legal semantics of object use in diplomatic…
Read MoreDeadline: January 23, 2022 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The newly established research training group “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics” at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (funded by the German Research Foundation and the Federal and State Governments) invites applications for the following positions: 12 PhD Positions (m/f/d)(E-13 TV-L 65%)starting 01.04.2022 for a duration of three years…
Read MoreWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Deadline: January 5, 2022
Read More2022 Conference for the American Studies Association of Norway (ASANOR) | Nord University (Bodø, Norway) | September 29 – October 1, 2022 Deadline: April 8, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: May 31, 2022 The process of Europeanisation that has happened in political, social, cultural and especially legal form over the last decades, may duly be considered one of the most important and powerful changes within Europe, but also beyond. The process of instituting and developing a European internal market as a catalyst did not…
Read MoreApplication deadline: January 15, 2022 UNIVERSITY OF TRIER The junior professor of American Literature at the Department of English (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nele Sawallisch), Faculty of Language, Literature and Media Studies, invites applications for a position asResearch Assistant (‘Wissenschaftliche/-r Mitarbeiter/-in’, 50%, E 13 TV-L) for a limited period of three years, starting April 1, 2022. A limited…
Read MoreInternational und interdisciplinary conference at Philipps-University of Marburg/Germany | November 23-25, 2022 Deadline: January 15, 2022 The conference aims at analyzing configurations of gendered power relations from the early modern era to the present from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus will be on these relations’ transformations and how they have been renegotiated and revisioned regarding…
Read MoreBereich North American Studies | Political Science (Besoldungsgruppe A 14 Z, Vollzeit, 7 SWS) Deadline: December 31, 2021
Read MoreDecember 16, 2021 | 7 p.m. CET | 1 p.m. EDT | 10 a.m. PDT Fulbright Lecture on Afrofuturism Speakers: Prof. Dr. Dennis Chester (California State University, East Bay) Prof. Dr. Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Read MoreApplication deadline: February 1, 2022 Giessen University’s International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture(GCSC) , co- funded from 2006-2019 by the German federal government’s Excellence Initiative, offers a three-year, structured PhD-programme in the study of culture. With its excellent research environment, adoctoral programme which is tailored to the needs of PhD students and the…
Read MoreEdited by Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling, Jana Weiß Deadline: March 15, 2022 History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) is seeking new contributions for publication in Volume 2 (2023). We are inviting proposals for (1) individual articles for sections I & III as well as (2) guest editors for the thematic section II. HIC focuses on…
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2022 | Zoom An Online Symposium with John Stauffer (Harvard) and Maurice Wallace (Rutgers). Organized by Dustin Breitenwischer (Universität Hamburg). January 13, 2022, 16-20h. Open to the Public (via Zoom). Please register via email to dustin.breitenwischer@uni-hamburg.de by January 11, 2022.
Read MoreDeadline: March 1, 2022 As a measure to enhance diversity within the German Association for American Studies (GAAS), the GAAS will award four travel grants for Ph.D. students who are members of the GAAS and who plan to attend the GAAS Annual Meeting in Tübingen 2022. We especially encourage applications from Ph.D. students who are…
Read MoreDeadline: March 1, 2022 The German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS), in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), offers one fellowship to support research at AAS by doctoral and postdoctoral candidates in American Studies at German universities. The American Antiquarian Society’s preeminent collections offer broad research opportunities in American history and culture through the…
Read MoreDeadline: February 1, 2022 The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress offers the opportunity for German scholars to work on specific research projects at the Library of Congress. The purpose of this Fellowship is to enable young scholars from Germany to conduct independent research using the collections of the Library of Congress.…
Read MoreDeadline: March 1, 2022 Das 1946 gegründete Fulbright-Programm genießt hohes Ansehen. Es fördert durch akademischen und kulturellen Austausch das gegenseitige Verständnis zwischen den USA und 150 Ländern weltweit. Benannt nach US-Senator J. William Fulbright, verwirklicht das Programm dessen Vision “that education is the best means […] by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity…
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Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2021 http://www.periodicalresearch.org/rsap-article-prize-2020-21/ Contact: Tim Lanzendörfer – tlanzend@em.uni-frankfurt.de The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2020-21 Article Prize. The prize is awarded to the best article on the subject of American periodicals published in a peer-reviewed academic journal between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021. RSAP takes an expansive view of…
Read MoreDate: February 3, 2022 | 7.30 – 9.15 p.m. | Zoom Proposal Deadline: December 20, 2021 During our first teach-in in February 2021, we considered the Trump administration’s 1776 Report and its impact on teaching American Studies (in Germany). Our proposal for a new event picks up the underlying baseline of “doing” and “teaching” American Studies by…
Read MoreInternational academic conference of the Regensburg Center for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS) and the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World | Regensburg, 19 – 21 May 2022 Application Deadline: January 10, 2022 As a contingent event par excellence, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore a variety of different…
Read MoreThe 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference | University of Seville, Spain | July 12-14, 2022 Extended Deadline: November 20, 2021 The Emily Dickinson International Society is extending its deadline until November 20 for proposal submission to its international conference, “Dickinson and Foreignhood,” and to its Critical Institute, both to take place at the College…
Read MoreApplication deadline for summer term 2022: December 15, 2021 The American History doctoral program of the Amerika-Institut at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) offers graduate students the opportunity to study major issues in the history, culture, media, politics, and society of the United States, Canada as well as the Americas, including the Caribbean. The program is integrated…
Read MoreBonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies | July 6-8, 2022 Deadline: January 31, 2022 Conference organizers: Claudia Jarzebowski and Pia Wiegmink (BCDSS), Susanne Lettow (FU Berlin)and Heike Raphael-Hernandez (University of Würzburg) The conference will explore questions regarding the heritage of slaveries and other forms of strong asymmetrical dependencies in history such as peonage, indentured…
Read MoreDepartment of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria | May 27-28, 2022 Deadline: December 1, 2021 The term “flyover country” has specifically US-American roots and has developed into a metaphorical condensation of several interrelated issues: a geographical image that suggests many (political, social, cultural) forms of marginalization; a technological image that speaks of different forms…
Read MoreExtended Deadline: December 1, 2021 Dear Members of the German Association for American Studies, The deadline for submission of workshop proposals for the 2022 annual meeting of the DGfA/GAAS on “Political Education and American Studies” from June 9-11, 2022, in Tübingen has been extended to December 1, 2021. We received a number of great proposals,…
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Application Deadline: December 1, 2021 The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) is now accepting applications for its long-term visiting fellow program. The fellowships will be granted for a period of 6 to 12 months in the following thematic areas: History of Family and Kinship History of Knowledge History of Migration History of Race & Ethnicity History…
Read MoreConference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022 Deadline: February 15, 2022 Conveners: Axel Jansen (GHI), Manuel Franzmann (Sociology, Kiel), Alice O’Connor (History, University of California, Santa Barbara) Political utopias have long envisioned a life without the need for paid work and free of economic struggle. At…
Read MoreApplication Deadline: 21. November 2021 Orientiert an den Werten einer humanistischen, nachhaltigen und handlungsorientierten Universität steht die Leuphana Universität Lüneburg – Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts – für Innovation in Bildung und Wissenschaft. Die gemeinschaftliche Suche nach Erkenntnis und tragfähigen Lösungen in den Bereichen Bildung, Kultur, Nachhaltigkeit, Management und unternehmerisches Handeln prägt das vielfach ausgezeichnete Universitätsmodell…
Read MoreBremen-Turku-Warsaw-Stockholm-Dresden Series | Contradictory Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalizations | June 17-18, 2022, Stockholm University Submission Deadline: December 15, 2021 Debates on language use, political correctness and identity politics seem to gain more and more attention in an increasingly polarizing society. Buzzwords such as cancel culture, snowflakes, woke, white fragility, safe spaces and trigger warnings…
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Online Symposium | February 23–24, 2022 | University of Wuppertal, Germany Submission Deadline: December 12, 2021 Following the work of Michaela Maroufof and Hara Kouki (2017, 78), “[m]igration must be understood as a complex social process that is also shaped by the agency of the migrants.” Agency, however, is often neglected in seemingly benevolent…
Read MoreNovember 10, 2021, 3-7 PM Virtual Seminar: “The Mobile Archive Project”, November 10, 2021, 3-7 PMRegistration: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglistik/mobilearchives/ (Please register by November 9, 2021) Keywords: archive, nationalism, colonial America, translation, historiographyConference organizers: Markus Heide (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany), Thomas Hallock (University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA), Marcel Hartwig (University of Siegen, Germany), Lenin Martell Gámez (Autonomous University of…
Read MoreNovember 10-12, 2021 | John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin and online The fourth thematic workshop of the DFG research network “The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure” addresses the dynamics of knowledge production within and among social institutions. With sustained challenges from divergent political actors to the ideal of knowledge as rational, objective,…
Read MoreSpecial Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021 Call for Papers The University as a Theater of Culture Wars: Then and Now Special Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies Edited by Florian Zappe The institution of the university is at the heart of the culture wars raging in contemporary American society.…
Read MoreSubmission Deadline: March 30, 2022 – Special Issue: Amerikastudien | American Studies – Call for Contributions: Research Articles or Original Lyric Poetry Capitalist Crisis Poetry:Neoliberalism and the 21st Century Lyric Editors: Stefan Benz (Universität Bonn), Marcel Hartwig (Universität Siegen), Hannah Schoch (Universität Zürich) For this special journal issue to appear with Amerikastudien | American Studies,…
Read MoreApplication Deadline: October 28, 2021 Freie Universität Berlin | Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften und Zentralinstitut John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Universitätsprofessur für Literatur Nordamerikas Besoldungsgruppe: W 3 oder vergleichbares Beschäftigungsverhältnis Kennung: W3LitNordamerika Bewerbungsende: 28.10.2021 Aufgabengebiet: Vertretung des o. g. Faches in Forschung und Lehre Einstellungsvoraussetzungen: gem. § 100 BerIHG Weitere Anforderungen: exzellente, internationale Erfahrungen in…
Read MoreFriday, December 3, 2021, 4-7 pm CEST | 10 am-1 pm EDT (on zoom) Poet Taylor Johnson (Washington, D.C.), whose debut collection Inheritance appeared in 2020, is joining us for our third installment in this series. Taylor Johnson received fellowships from Cave Canem and the Conversation Literary Festival and their work has appeared in The…
Read MoreHeidelberg, Germany | March 21-25, 2022 Submission Deadline: November 15, 2021 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 21-25, 2022. The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to…
Read MoreSwiss Association for North American Studies Biennial Conference | Online, November 5-6, 2021 It is with great pleasure that we are inviting you to sign up for the SANAS Biennial Conference entitled “Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History,” which will take place online on 5-6 November 2021. The conference uses a mix of…
Read More6th International Conference on American Drama and Theater | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) | June 1-3, 2022 Submission Deadline: December 1, 2021 The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, co-sponsored by the Spanish universities of Cádiz and Sevilla and the University of Lorraine in France, and working in partnership with the American Theater and Drama Society…
Read MoreApplication Deadline: November 30, 2021 The Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for its three-year doctoral program. Applicants must have a completed degree (M.A. or equivalent) with above average grades in one of the following or related fields: American/Canadian Cultural Studies, American/Canadian Literature, Economics, History, Political Science, Sociology Up…
Read MoreApplication Deadline: October 28, 2021 Bereich: Fakultät I – Philosophische Fakultät Stellenumfang: Vollzeit Beschäftigungsdauer: befristet Wir sind eine interdisziplinär ausgerichtete und weltoffene Universität mit aktuell rund 18.000 Studierenden und einem Fächerspektrum von den Geistes-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften bis hin zu Natur-, Ingenieur- und Lebenswissenschaften. Mit über 2.000 Beschäftigten zählen wir zu den größten Arbeitgebern der Region und bieten…
Read MoreTitle: Saving Our Planet? What We Need to Do Now to Combat Climate Challenges and Secure Our Future Thursday, October 28, 19:00 Prof. Dr. Miranda SchreursDr. Miranda Schreurs is Professor and Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University Munich. Her main research areas are in…
Read MoreUNED | Madrid, April 6-8, 2022 Submission Deadline: October 10, 2021 The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land . The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United…
Read MoreSubmission Deadline: November 17, 2021 Als langjähriger Richter beim U.S. Supreme Court setzte sich Louis D. Brandeis stets für die freie Debatte als Teil der demokratischen Ordnung ein. Seine abweichende Begründung in der Entscheidung des Supreme Courts im Fall Whitney v. California gilt als die vielleicht beste Verteidigung der Redefreiheit durch ein Mitglied des Supreme…
Read MoreAnnual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies | University of Jena | May 19-21, 2022 Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021 Call for PapersPolitical Norms and Normative Politics?Development, Stagnation, Erosion Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.Political Science…
Read MoreApplication Deadline: November 5, 2021 Dear colleagues, My project “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World” has been funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). You can find a brief description of the project below. I am currently looking for 2 research assistants (research foci: environmental humanities and medical humanities) to be employed for…
Read MoreInstitute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), UK, 13-14 January 2022, Preston campus and online Submission deadline: October 31, 2021 Practices and discourses of mobility have been crucial for the Black experience across the Atlantic World. Civilisations from Africa and Europe have been in contact since antiquity, and interactions between Africa and…
Read MoreBavarian American Academy Annual Conference | July 7-9, 2022 Deadline: October 31, 2021 The American Revolution is, obviously, the founding moment of the United States of America that continues to be present in the U.S. and beyond. From the late eighteenth-century on, it has been and continues to be an inspiration for social movements and…
Read MoreApplication Deadline: December 5, 2021 The Doctoral Program in Literary Studies of the University of Basel calls for applications for two one-year start-up grants of CHF 30,000 (duration: 1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023, in two installments, with evaluation), starting 1 April 2022. These grants are designed to make a contribution to the successful…
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2021 | 20.00-21.00 CET With Dr. Katharina Wilkinson, author, strategist, teacher and co-founder of The All We Can Save Project and Dr. Catrin Gersdorf, Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Würzburg Time magazine featured Dr. Wilkinson as one of 15 “women who will save the world” and Apolitical named…
Read More11. und 12. November 2021 | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Programm und Anmeldung auf www.rkfu-workshop.de Dieser interdisziplinäre Workshop setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, wie rassismuskritischer Fremdsprachenunterricht ganz konkret aussehen kann. Welche Chancen und Herausforderungen ergeben sich für Lehrkräfte und was brauchen sie, um das Thema Rassismus im Unterricht zu reflektieren? Was für Materialien, Methoden und Themen bieten…
Read More16. September, 17:00 CEST | Civics in the Hot Seat: Civic Education & Politische Bildung Under Pressure Bitte melden Sie sich hier an: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvdeqgqj0rHtU3wQ0i2cWzvpyIKhbk9KBr Civics and history education has received an enormous increase in attention recently from policy-makers, funders, and the general public in both Germany and the U.S. Similar societal challenges – racism and…
Read MoreMission Statement | 22 May 2021 The DICE Network (Decolonial, Indigenous, and Critical Ethnic Studies Network of the European Association of American Studies [EAAS]) is committed to creating discussions amongst, and connecting, scholars working in these fields. Inherent to the network’s approach is an inclusive participation of our members in the direction of our network…
Read MoreDate: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | 18.30-20.00 (CET) Across literature, film, radio, television, and computational media, seriality and serialization have been important formal and narrative strategies for popular media cultures from the nineteenth century onward. Series mark out temporal trajectories that invite long-term integration into our lives, providing opportunities for ongoing identification/disidentification and accompanying our…
Read MoreDeadline: October 31, 2021 Series Editors: Robert Singer, Gary D. Rhodes, Frances Smith Over his four-decade long career, Abel Ferrara has built himself a reputation of being one of the most audacious and unconventional filmmakers in contemporary cinema. After his beginnings in the exploitation circuit of late 1970s he developed to become one of the…
Read MoreApplication deadline: October 11, 2021 The University of Zurich invites applications for a Professorship in American Literature and Media (open rank) starting on 1 August 2023. Applicants are expected to have an excellent international track record as well as teaching experience in American Literature, American Studies or an equivalent field. The position requires a research focus in intermediality;…
Read MoreApplication deadline: 30 September 2021 This award of £6,000 is offered by the Eccles Centre for American Studies to help support individuals wishing to conduct research on US politics at the British Library for a period of 3 to 6 months. The Philip Davies Fellowship supports a researcher to conduct bi-partisan research on politics in…
Read MoreRegistration deadline: Oct 7 (workshop & keynotes)/ Oct 19 (keynotes only) Organized by Dr. Katrin Horn, PD Dr. Karin Hoepker, and Selina Foltinek This conference investigates the ways in which cultures of knowledge and forms of capital intersect in the US during the long nineteenth century. Epistemological and economic concerns complexly intertwine in the US,…
Read MoreDeadline: September 30, 2021 Call for papers for a panel called Natural Disasters and Risk Management from a Global North-South Perspective. This panel is part of the conference History of Insurance in a Global Perspective, held at the University of Basel, Switzerland, July 20-22, 2022. We invite scholars interested in participating to submit proposals for papers. Paper proposals…
Read MoreVirtual Seminar, November 10, 2021 Deadline: September 21, 2021 Conference organizers: Markus Heide (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany), Thomas Hallock (University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA), Marcel Hartwig (University of Siegen, Germany), Lenin Martell Gámez (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Mexico). Sponsors: Society of Early Americanists, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, University of Siegen.…
Read MoreTübingen, May 19-21, 2022 Deadline: September 30, 2021 The second international conference of the ERC-funded project PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory, titled ‘Populism and Conspiracy Theories in the Americas’, will take place on 19-21 May 2022, hosted by the University of Tübingen, Germany. Keynote speakers will be Letícia Cesarino (Federal University of Santa Catarina), Mark…
Read MoreDate: Sept. 10, 2021 9/11: Twenty Years On When the second of four hijacked passenger airliners flew into the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, shocked onlookers around the globe realized that what they were watching on television was unlikely to be an accident. The terrorists behind the attacks had orchestrated…
Read MoreExtended Deadline: December 1, 2021 Political Education and American Studies Political Education has played a special role in German American Studies due to the unique political context of the development of the discipline in postwar Germany. After the Second World War, American Studies itself was seen as instrumental for German re-education in West Germany. The…
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Die Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) gehört zu den großen Universitäten in Deutschland. In der Wissenschaftsregion Rhein-Main entfaltet sie ihre Leistungsstärke, Innovationskraft und Dynamik. Als Volluniversität ermöglicht die JGU ein Fachgrenzen überschreitendes Lehren und Lernen und eröffnet großes Potenzial für international renommierte, interdisziplinäre Forschung. Fast all ihre Einrichtungen vereint die JGU auf einem innenstadtnahen Campus –…
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Stellenausschreibung der Universität Regensburg | Nummer 88046586 Die Universität Regensburg ist mit ihren über 20.000 Studierenden eine innovative und interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Campus-Universität mit vielseitigen Forschungsaktivitäten und einem breiten Studienangebot für junge Menschen aus dem In- und Ausland. Am Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik / American Studies ist zum 1.10.2021 eine Stelle als Lektor/in für Englisch in Teilzeit…
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Follow this link. The University of Vienna (20 faculties and centres, 178 fields of study, approx. 9.800 members of staff, about 90.000 students) seeks to fill the position from 01.09.2021 of a University Assistant (post doc)at the Department of English and American Studies Reference number: 11946 The Department of English and American Studies (Faculty of Philological and Cultural…
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Poetry Reading & Workshop: Conversations on Capitalist Crisis Poetry Date: July 2, 2021 “[Poetry] forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless…
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg: In der Fakultät III – Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften – ist im Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik zum 1. Oktober 2021 befristet für drei Jahre eine Stelle alsWissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d; Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) im Umfang der Hälfte der regelmäßigen Arbeitszeit (z. Z. 19,9 Std.…
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Öffentliche Stellenausschreibung Jung, modern, forschungsorientiert: Im Jahr 1991 gegründet, hat sich die Universität Potsdam in der Wissenschaftslandschaft fest etabliert. An der größten Hochschule Brandenburgs forschen und lehren national wie international renommierte Wissenschaftler/-innen[1]. Die Universität Potsdam ist drittmittelstark, überzeugt durch ihre Leistungen im Technologie- und Wissenstransfer und verfügt über eine serviceorientierte Verwaltung. Mit rund 22.000 Studierenden…
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Die Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ist eine internationale Forschungsuniversität mit einem breiten Fächerspektrum. 200 Jahre Geschichte, rund 38.000 Studierende, mehr als 6.000 Beschäftigte und ein exzellenter Ruf im In- und Ausland: Die Universität Bonn zählt zu den bedeutendsten Universitäten Deutschlands und wurde gerade als Exzellenzuniversität ausgezeichnet. Am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie der Philosophischen…
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