CfP | “International Pynchon Week 2026”

TU Dortmund, June 15-19, 2026 Deadline: November 15, 2025 Call for PapersInternational Pynchon Week 2026June 15-19, 2026TU Dortmund University, Germanywww.internationalpynchonweek.org “Consider coal and steel. There is a place where they meet.” (Gravity’s Rainbow) Indeed there is, and this is also the place where the international community of Pynchon scholars meets next: the Ruhrgebiet, the heart…

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CfP | “Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour”

International conference at the University of Bucharest, Romania, March 19-21, 2026 Deadline: September 10, 2025 Call for PapersPlaying the Field VI: Video Games and LabourUniversity of Bucharest, Romania19-21 March 2026(in-person)www.playingthefield.eu The proposed sixth instalment of the international Playing the Field conference series focuses on the multifaceted relationship between video games and labour. Such a topic…

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CfP | “Representations of Reproductive Justice in the United States: Past, Present, Future(s)”

International conference at University Erlangen-Nürnberg, July 3-4, 2025 Deadline: May 15, 2025 Call for Papers International Conference: Representations of Reproductive Justice in the United States: Past, Present, Future(s) July 3-4, 2025 Keynote: Alys E. Weinbaum (University of Washington) Venue: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Organizers: Dr. Ina Batzke (Augsburg) and Dr. Isabel Kalous (Erlangen) This international conference invites…

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Openings | “2 Project Assistants – Doctoral Candidates (m/f/d)” at Graz University

100% (30h/week) B1 (€ 52,007.20/year), fixed term for three years, start October 2025 Deadline: April 23, 2025 See the full job posting here: Apply Now | University Graz Your Responsibilities Pursuing a doctoral degree (“Cotutelle”) within the joint-degree framework consisting of universities participating in the European PhDnet “Literary and Cultural Studies” Your Profile The following…

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CfP | “Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025”

Special issue: “Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame” Deadline: September 20, 2025 CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025 Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame Editors:  Prof. Dr. Carla Locatelli and Dr. Victor Pricopi Humanities Bulletin, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal…

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Events | “Open Access as a Business Model: Practical Insights and Disciplinary Comparisons”

Event organized by the Working Group Digital Humanities of the Max Weber Foundation in cooperation with Text+ May 23, 2025, 2.00-3.30 p.m. (CET) on Zoom Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming event, *“Open Access as a Business Model: Practical Insights and Disciplinary Comparisons,”* organized by the Working Group Digital Humanities…

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CfP | “AmLit – American Literatures – Diamond Open Access Journal”

Call for proposals within the fields of U.S. American, Canadian, and Latin American literary studies Deadline: April 14, 2025 Dear German Association for American Studies, We invite proposals from prospective guest editors interested in curating a special issue for AmLit – American Literatures, a Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to publishing cutting-edge scholarship on contemporary developments in American literatures.…

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Openings | “Postdoc/Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d)” at Bochum University

100% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts October 1, 2025 Deadline: March 21, 2025 Das Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Fakultät für Philologie sucht ab dem 01.10.2025 eine*n Postdoc/Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) für die Dauer von 3 Jahren mit 39,83 Wochenstunden  (TV-L E13) Der Lehrstuhl befasst sich mit der Erforschung performativer Künste und Wissenspraktiken in komparatistischer Perspektive,…

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CfP | “AlterNative Intelligences: Forms and Practices of Global Indigenous Resurgences”

Upcoming issue of ECHO: Interdisciplinary journal Extendend Deadline: March 10, 2025 Call for papers AlterNative Intelligences Forms and Practices of Global Indigenous Resurgences  This process is collectively individual, creating islands of radical resurgence. Simpson 2017, p. 194 “I am interested in freedom, not survival” (Simpson 2017: 45). With these words, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist and…

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CfP | “Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century”

International Symposium at Lyons University (France), April 1–3, 2026 Deadline: June 15, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS Maps in American Literature, 15th-21st c. International symposium April 1-3, 2026ENS de Lyon, France Organized by Aurore Clavier (Université Paris Cité), Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg, USIAS), Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon, IUF) and Pauline Pilote (Université Bretagne Sud). Keynote…

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Events | “Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations”

14th Conference of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Humboldt University Berlin, March 20-22, 2025 On March 20-22, 2025, the Fourteenth Biannual Conference of CAAR, the Collegium for African American Research, titled “Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations,” will be hosted by the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.…

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CfP | “‘Monarch of All I Survey:’ Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies”

International conference at Lyon University (France), November 20-21, 2025 Deadline: April 15, 2025 We invite submissions for an international conference exploring the literary posterity of the phrase “I am monarch of all I survey” from William Cowper’s 1782 poem. Cowper’s lines have echoed through centuries of literature and criticism, embodying themes of imperial control, sight, and…

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Openings | “W 3 Professorship (m/f/d) American Studies / Literary Studies” at Kassel University

8 SWS, international and interdisciplinary teaching and research history required, starts October 1, 2026 Deadline: February 28, 2025 The University of Kassel is a modern and growing University with round about 22.000 students. The university’s wide range of expertise covers subjects in the natural, applied, cultural and social sciences. At the Faculty of Humanities (Institute…

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Additional Fellowships | Research Stay at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa

Fellowships of €2,000 plus health insurance for international researchers Deadline: February 15, 2025 The fellowships offer $2,000 and health insurance, as well as an office and access to the campus libraries, etc. They are very flexible in terms of dates and activities: from two weeks to a semester, with no obligations or disciplinary restrictions. International…

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Invitation for Engagement

Research Group:Representations of Reproductive Justice in the United States: Past, Present, Future(s) Organizers:Ina Batzke (University of Augsburg)Isabel Kalous (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) With the formation of this research group, we aim to bring together scholars interested in examining how reproductive justice has been portrayed in literature and cultural texts pre- and post-Roe v. Wade. Drawing on Loretta…

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Additional Fellowships | PhD Program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas

Deadline: January 15, 2025 (fall term 2025) PhD Program at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) | The PhD program at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) is inviting applications. The program offers top ten funding: six years of an annual stipend of $39,000.00, a research travel fund after the first year of $1,500.00, as well an…

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Openings | “PostDoc: American Visual History ‘Documentary Drawing in the 20th Century'” at Amerika-Institut Munich

100%; TVL-13, fixed term for three years, starts May 1, 2025 at the latest Deadline: January 10, 2025 3-Year PostDoc: American Visual History “Documentary Drawing in the 20th Century” (Amerika-Institut, Munich) The DFG-funded project “Documentary Drawing in the 20th Century” is seeking a PostDoc researcher (100%; TVL-13, for 36 months) with a background in Art…

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Prizes | 2023-2024 Book Prize of the Research Society of American Periodicals

Prize money of $1,000 and one-year membership to the Research Society of American Periodicals Deadline: December 20, 2024 Contact: Cynthia Patterson (cpatterson@usf.edu) or Jim Berkey (jhb5255@psu.edu) The Research Society of American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2023-2024 Book Prize. The prize is awarded to the best scholarly monograph on the subject of periodicals of the Americas published…

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CfP | “The Gendered Anthropocene”

Sixth Biennial Women’s Network Symposium at Karlstadt University (Sweden), April 10-11, 2025 Deadline: November 29, 2024 The Sixth Biennial Women’s Network Symposium, to be held at Karlstad University, Sweden (April 10-11, 2025), will explore the theme of “The Gendered Anthropocene.” This symposium will engage in a critical interrogation of feminist and gender theory within the…

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Nachruf auf / Obituary for Prof Dr. Berndt Ostendorf

English version below Nachruf auf Professor Dr. Berndt Ostendorf (1940-2024) Am 18. Oktober 2024 ist Berndt Ostendorf nach langer Krankheit im Alter von 84 Jahren gestorben. Er war von 1981 bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 2004 Lehrstuhlinhaber für Nordamerikanische Kulturgeschichte am Amerika-Institut der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Die Nachricht seines Todes ist sehr schmerzlich, vor allem…

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Openings | “Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d)” at Göttingen University

50% TV-L E13, fixed term until 2031, starts April 1, 2025 Deadline: November 15, 2024 Am Seminar für Englische Philologie, Abteilung Nordamerikastudien, der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ist zum 01.04.2025 eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) mit 50 % der regelmäßigen wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit (zzt. 19,9 Stunden/Woche) befristet bis zum 31.03.2031 zu besetzen (Zuordnung zu Prof. Gross). Die Entgeltzahlung erfolgt nach Entgeltgruppe…

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CfP | “The Campus and Beyond: Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1850s-2000s” 

International conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, October 9-10, 2025 Deadline: December 8, 2024 Event – GHI Washington (ghi-dc.org) International Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Conveners: Raphael Rössel (GHI Washington), Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University Chicago), and Stefanie Coché (Gießen University) Call for Papers This conference aims to bring scholars of…

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CfP | “Humanities Bulletin Journal”

Deadline: October 25, 2024 Humanities Bulletin Journal – Call for papersSubmission Deadline: October 25, 2024Vol. 7, No. 2 – November, 2024 ISSN 2517-4266 Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts. This journal is not allied with any specific…

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Events | “Current Affairs: Koalitionen und Konflikte in den USA”

Lecture series at Staatsbibliothek Berlin Current Affairs Koalitionen und Konflikte in den USA – SBB aktuell 31.10.2024 — 19 UhrWessen Amerika? Whiteness in Politik und Kultur der USAAlexandra Hartmann (Universität Paderborn)Theodor Fontane Saal 13.11.2024 — 19 Uhr„Trump Country“? Appalachia, Kohle und eine Geschichte der AusbeutungEvangelia Kindinger (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)Theodor Fontane Saal 28.11.2024 — 19 UhrDer politische Kampf…

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CfP | “Human/Nature – Entanglements in Cultural History”

2025 ISCH conference on cultural history in Rovaniemi, Finland, June 16–19, 2025   Deadline: November 15, 2024 Call for Panels  2025 ISCH conference: ‘Human/Nature – Entanglements in Cultural History’   16–19 June 2025, Rovaniemi, Finland   Cultural history has mainly studied humans: their actions, experiences, and ways of thinking. Yet the past is not shaped by only human actions…

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CfP | “Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945”

Workshop and Young Scholars Forum at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany, September 10-12, 2025 Deadline: January 19, 2025 Workshop and Young Scholars Forum at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany | Conveners: Charles Dorn (Bowdoin College, Maine), Axel Jansen (German Historical Institute Washington), Charlotte Lerg (Amerika-Institut, LMU München), Till van Rahden (Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes, Université…

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CfP | “The Uncanny States of America: Encountering the Planetary (EJAS Special Issue)”

Special issue of The European Journal of American Studies Deadline: December 31, 2024 The Uncanny States of America: Encountering the Planetary (EJAS Special Issue) Taking into consideration recent developments toward a Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies, this special issue of The European Journal of American Studies aims to rethink and recontextualize the American project not…

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