65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts November 1, 2024 or as soon as possible Deadline: August 25, 2024
Read MoreSpecial issue of the European Journal of American Studies (EJAS) Deadline (proposals): December 1, 2024
Read MoreMiddelburg, The Netherlands, November 27-29, 2024 Deadline: September 15, 2024
Read MoreStudent conference at the Obama Institute at Mainz University, January 16-17, 2025 Deadline: September 15, 2024
Read MoreInternational conference at Passau University, March 20-21, 2025 Deadline: November 4, 2024 Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures (March 20 & 21, 2025) This conference aims to explore the multifaceted portrayals of academia and academics in films and TV series, in both fictional and documentary modes,…
Read MoreCall for Workshop Proposals for our 71st Annual Meeting Siegen University, June 12-14, 2025 Deadline: September 30, 2024 View the full CfP here: Annual Meeting – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (dgfa.de)
Read More18th issue of aspeers, the graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 20, 2024 Call for Papers: aspeers, graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 20, 2024 aspeers, the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe, calls for papers for its eighteenth issue by October 20, 2024. As…
Read More13th Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network at Hildesheim University, September 15-17, 2025 Deadline: October 15, 2024 Call for Papers The Beats, Radicalism, and the Bipolar World European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference University of Hildesheim September 15-17, 2025 Organizers: Heike Mlakar, Florian Zappe, Tomasz Stompor, Alexander Greiffenstern Location: University of Hildesheim,…
Read MoreInternational Conference at Hamburg University, March 28-29, 2025 Deadline: October 7, 2024
Read MoreBiennial Conference of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Humboldt University Berlin, March 20-22, 2025 Deadline: September 30, 2024
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) Bielefeld University, May 29-31, 2025 Deadline: December 15, 2024
Read More34th Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) University Erlangen-Nuremberg, November 21-23, 2024 Deadline: August 17, 2024
Read More100% TV-L E13, fixed term for four years, starts January 1, 2025 Position at the DFG Heisenberg Professorship for Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities of Prof. Dr. Simone M. Müller Deadline: August 14, 2024
Read MoreHybrid Panel Discussion Organized by the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. July 11, 2024 | 12 p.n. ET | 6 p.m. CET For more information and registration, please visit: Event – GHI Washington (ghi-dc.org)
Read MoreEin Gelehrter und ein Herr: Zum Tode von Knud Krakau (25. 06. 1934 – 16. 06. 2024) Am 16. Juni 2024 verstarb Knud Krakau, emeritierter Professor für Amerikanische Geschichte am John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien der Freien Universität Berlin, wenige Tage vor seinem 90. Geburtstag in Berlin. Die Nachricht von seinem Tode ist schmerzlich, doch…
Read MoreSpecial issue of gender forum (gefo), Summer/Fall (2025) Deadline (abstracts): July 21, 2024 For more, please visit: Call for Papers: Flora – Fauna – Gender (guest editors: Burak Sezer and Johanna Pelikan) | gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies (uni-koeln.de)
Read MoreW2 professorship with a research focus on Environmental Humanities/Ecocriticism and Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies, starts April 1, 2026 Deadline: August 31, 2024
Read MoreInternational conference at Freiburg University, October 24-26, 2024 Deadline: July 31, 2024
Read MoreA new double-blind peer-reviewed (and fully indexed) journal in the field of early American studies Editors: Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich and Simeon Simeonov Website: The New American Antiquarian The New American Antiquarian is a new double-blind peer-reviewed (and fully indexed) journal in the field of early American studies. The mission of TheNew American Antiquarian (NAA), in brief, is to publish scholarship concerned…
Read MoreInternational symposium co-hosted by the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, the Society for the Study of the American Short Story, the American Literature Association, and the European Network for Short Fiction Research Mainz University, July 10–12, 2024 For more information, please visit: The Persistence of the Short Story: Traditions and Futures | Obama Institute…
Read MoreGuest lecture by Gero Guttzeit, LMU Munich Siegen University, July 8, 2024, 4 p.m. (c.t.) The English Department of the University of Siegen cordially invites everyone to the following guest lecture: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglistik/news/1035965.html
Read MoreConference at Leipzig University, May 22-23, 2025 Deadline: July 28, 2024
Read More65% E13 TV-L, fixed term for three years, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: June 30, 2024
Read MoreThe Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection Deadline: September 15, 2024 The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. Works of art from The Met collection should be central to the discussion. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship—art historical, technical, and scientific—whereas Research Notes are narrower in scope, focusing on a specific…
Read More100% E13 TV-L, fixed term for four years, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: June 30, 2024
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Read MoreInterdisciplinary workshop at Passau University, June 28-29, 2024, supported by Stiftung Deutsch Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen (SDAW) HYBRID, please register via Zoom for online attendance at https://uni-passau.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5YvduqgpjIoG9eFdpXPgxclDSyf4bi6UwTP More information and full program available here: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/ukrainian-refugee-migration/home
Read MorePostdoctoral Fellowships (24 months) and Senior Fellowships (6 months), start May 1, 2025 Deadline: July 19, 2024
Read MoreSpecial issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies edited by Ellen Barth and Corinna Norrick-Rühl (University of Münster) Deadline (abstracts): June 30, 2024
Read MoreOnline workshop organized by Würzburg University and Leipzig University | November 15, 2024 Deadline: July 12, 2024
Read MoreDeadline: July 15, 2024 The next application period for the MA Program in InterAmerican Studies/Estudios InterAmericanos at Bielefeld University begins on June 1st and runs until July 15th. We would like to encourage all BA graduates who are interested in our program to take a look at the Flyer attached.
Read More100%, fixed term until May 2025, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: June 17, 2024 Please find the full job posting here (German only): Gastprofessur Stellendetails | Universität Wien (univie.ac.at)
Read MoreClass of Culture and History, Graduate School Language & Literature Munich, LMU Munich Deadline: June 15, 2024
Read More100%, fixed term for four years, starts August 1, 2024 Deadline: June 14, 2024 The Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, has posted the following position: University Assistant (post-doc) starting August 1, 2024. It is a four-year contract with 40 hours per week. Please go to the career portal of the…
Read MoreSpecial issue of CLCWeb Deadline: June 15, 2024 Cineture: Cultural Negotiation between Iran and the USthrough Intermediality and Transmediality Amid the current global pandemic, literature and film continue to serve as influential socio-cultural mediums connecting nations and their cultures. This special issue aims to foster cultural exchange between Iran and the United States, highlighting their…
Read MoreConversation on Prof. Tara A. Bynum’s monograph Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America (2023) Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 6–7 p.m. CEST via Webex
Read More58th Annual Western Literature Association Conference in Tucson (AZ), October 2-5, 2024 Deadline: June 5, 2024
Read MorePostdoctoral Associate (40 hours/week), initially limited to six years, starts February 1, 2025 Deadline: June 18, 2024 The Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, has posted the following position: Postdoctoral Associate (40 hours/week), starting February 1st, 2025. The position is initially limited to six years. A qualification agreement may be offered.…
Read MoreThe editorial team is looking for three new members who are doctoral students or early career scholars Deadline: July 5, 2024
Read More1st international conference on Contradiction Studies at Bremen University, February 11-14, 2025 Deadline: June 1, 2024
Read MoreA reading and conversation with Chaun Ballard June 19, 2024, 6 p.m. CEST on Zoom Zoom link and registration: https://uni-ms.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscOyhpz8iHtdeU-9Zaim9TNV5KUifWNyB#/registration )
Read MoreSpecial issue of Public Humanities (Cambridge University Press) Deadline: August 1, 2024 Call for Papers Special Issue: Towards Global Public Literary Humanities For Public Humanities (Cambridge UP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities Edited by Tim Lanzendörfer and Pavan Malreddy (Goethe University, Frankfurt) The ongoing crisis of the humanities (Reitter and Wellmon 2021) has produced what Rachel Arteaga calls “an…
Read More50% TV-L E13, initially limited to one year with the possibility of an extension of one year, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: June 15, 2024
Read MoreInternational conference at Heidelberg University, June 10-12, 2024 The Research Training Group (Grako 2244): Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society is pleased to announce our international conference, “Institutional Authority: Trust, Judgment, Value,” June 10-12, 2024, hosted by the Heidelberg International Forum (IWH) and jointly organized with the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. “Institutional…
Read MoreSpecial issue of RIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025) Deadline: December 30, 2024 Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionality — RIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025) (us.edu.pl) Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionalityedited by Nathalie Aghoro and Julia FaisstRIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025)(Call open until December 30th 2024) As the Black Lives Matter movement has laid bare…
Read MoreFocus on North American literary and cultural studies Initial fixed term for five years with the possibility of tenure track Deadline: May 5, 2024
Read More80-100%, starts August 1, 2025 Deadline: May 31, 2024
Read More50% TV-L E13, fixed term for four years, starts September 1, 2024 Deadline: May 30, 2024
Read MoreGrant intended to cover round trip travel and some of the living expenses Deadline: May 31, 2024 NOTE: Please use the address aleksandra.izgarjan@ff.uns.ac.rs for all your questions regarding the Travel grant. Send your applications ONLY to this email address. Thank you! Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree…
Read More50% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts June 1, 2024 Deadline: May 3, 2024
Read MoreDigital symposium at Halle University, June 20-21, 2024 Registration Deadline: June 13, 2024 Conference website: https://muhlenbergcenter.uni-halle.de/?post_type=event&p=2405&preview=true
Read MoreWebinar organized by the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), supported by the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) May 28, 2024, 6 p.m. Registration: Webinar-Registrierung – Zoom Description: Against the backdrop of present-day challenges to American democracy, this panel discussion will explore how the histories of sedition…
Read MorePosition in the interdisciplinary research project: “In the Age of the Polycrisis: How complex crises emerge and how we can confront them” 50% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: May 3, 2024
Read MoreLecture series at Jena and Bremen Universities Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m., from April 3 to July 3, 2024
Read MoreHumanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts Deadline: April 25, 2024 Humanities Bulletin Journal – Call for papersSubmission Deadline: April 25, 2024Vol. 7, No. 1 – May, 2024 ISSN 2517-4266 Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which…
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: May 4, 2024
Read MoreHybrid Lecture Series organized by the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at Greifswald University April 22 – July 10, 2024
Read More21st Conference of the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS) | Bremen University, October 10-11, 2024 Deadline: April 30, 2024
Read MoreDoctoral researchers: 65% TV-L E13, fixed term for four years, start October 1, 2024 Postdoctoral researchers: 100% TV-L E13, fixed term for two years, start October 1, 2024 Deadline: May 1, 2024 Based at the English Department of the University of Freiburg, the ERC Project (Consolidator Grant) “DERIVATE: “Retelling and Repetition: Towards a Literary History…
Read More50% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: April 6, 2024
Read MoreWorkshop at Zurich University, June 7-8, 2024 Deadline: May 1, 2024
Read MoreSpecial issue of Comparative Literature Studies, guest edited by Lena Seauve (Freie Universität Berlin) Deadline: March 30, 2024 New Right movements have moved in recent years from society’s outer fringes into the political mainstream. Disciplines like political science and sociology have given extensive attention to the phenomenon of the New Right, but its representation in…
Read MoreWorkshop in Heidelberg, December 5-6, 2024 Deadline: April 12, 2024
Read MoreFinal information and program for the annual meeting of the Historians in the DGfA at Augustinerkloster Erfurt, May 3-5, 2024 Dear friends and colleagues, We received so many excellent proposals that we ended up with a dense, yet also very exciting program, with Kathryn Olivarius from Stanford University as our keynote speaker. We are looking forward…
Read MoreInternational conference at Münster University, March 24-26, 2025 Deadline: August 1, 2024
Read MoreOne-year start-up grant of CHF 30,000, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: April 17, 2024
Read More60 % (salary according to canton regulations), initially limited to three years, start August 1, 2024 Deadline: March 31, 2024 Two PhD Assistantships in English Literature60 % The English Department of the University of Zurich invites applications for two Research and Teaching Assistantships in the field of English literature to begin on 1 August 2024.…
Read More15th Annual Meeting of the “Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung” | Kassel, September 5-7, 2024 Deadline: March 31, 2024
Read MoreSpecial Issue on Queer Utopia of Utopian Studies Deadline: May 15, 2024 Still Cruising Utopia: A Utopian Studies Special Issue on Queer Utopia UTOPIAN STUDIES: The Journal of The Society for Utopian Studies Deadline for all manuscripts: MAY 15, 2024. To acknowledge and celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the publication of Cruising Utopia: The Then…
Read MoreA14 BBesO, fixed term for four years, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: May 17, 2024
Read More9th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law | Osnabrück, July 6-14, 2024 Extended Deadline: April 15, 2024 http://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/ The 9th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) will be held from July 6 to 14, 2024 at Osnabrück University, Germany. It aims to encourage and…
Read MoreConference at Konstanz University, October 10-12, 2024 Deadline: April 30, 2024
Read MoreGross income of € 2,387.55/month, full-time, initially limited to two years, start October 1, 2024 Deadline: March 11, 2024
Read MoreScienceHumanities in association with Fiction Meets Science HWK Institute for Advanced Study (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg) | Delmenhorst (Germany), June 3-7, 2024 Deadline: February 23, 2024 BLUE HUMANITIES – SUMMER SCHOOL SCIENCEHUMANITIES IN ASSOCIATION WITH FICTION MEETS SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL HWK Institute for Advanced Study (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg) | Delmenhorst GERMANY MONDAY 3 JUNE – FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024 The ScienceHumanities Summer…
Read More2024 Conference of the Postcolonial Narrations Postgraduate Forum | Augsburg, September 6-7, 2024 Deadline: May 19, 2024 Augsburg 2024: The Ruins of Empire: Postcolonial Hauntings 6th & 7th September 2024 The notion of ‘haunting’ connotes windswept houses tormented by ghosts and specters, forging a connection between an unresolved past, the troubled present, and imagined futures.…
Read MoreSpecial issue of Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS) Deadline: March 8, 2024
Read MoreInterdisciplinary conference at the University of Texas, Austin | February 23-25, 2024 Attendance also possible via Zoom
Read MoreAAAS Annual Conference at PH Vorarlberg (Austria), October 17-19, 2024 Deadline: May 31, 2024
Read MoreSymposium at Freie Universität Berlin, April 24, 2024 Please register by February 29, 2024
Read MoreRoosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg, Netherlands, June 26-28, 2024 Deadline: March 29, 2024
Read More100% TV-L E 13, fixed term for four years, starts October 1, 2024 Deadline: March 22, 2024 45,000 students and 8,000 employees in teaching, research and administration, all working together to shape perspectives for the future – that is the University of Münster. Embedded in the vibrant atmosphere of Münster with its high standard of…
Read MoreWorkshop at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg | October 9-10, 2024 Deadline: June 1, 2024
Read MoreGerman Historical Institute Spring Lecture Series 2024, February 22 – May 23, 2024
Read MoreInternational Conference at TU Dresden, July 22-24, 2024 Extended Deadline: February 5, 2024
Read MoreSANAS Biennial Conference 2024 | University of Geneva, November 7-8, 2024 Deadline: April 8, 2024
Read MoreEdited collection of research into the zombie, and the figure of the zombie itself, in the wake of its apparent decline of cultural currency Deadline: February 15, 2024
Read MoreWe are happy to report that the new Amerikastudien / American Studies special issue, “Rethinking Solidarity” (68.4), is now online. The collection is guest-edited by Nathalie Aghoro, Katharina Gerund, and Sylvia Mayer and includes contributions by Sally J. Scholz, Silvia Schultermandl, Julia Faisst, Christoph Decker, Janine Giordano Drake, Daniel Herwitz, and Aleida Assmann. To view…
Read More90%, salary according to canton regulations, fixed term for three years with the possibility of extension for up to three years, starts August 1, 2024 Deadline: February 16, 2024
Read MoreThe new platform serves as workspace for anti-violent, anti-racist, postcolonial and decolonial thought as praxis
Read MoreInternational conference hosted by the DFG-research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, September 30, 2024-October 2, 2024 Extended Deadline: February 18, 2024
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts as soon as possible Deadline: January 4, 2024
Read MoreProject: “In the Age of the Polycrisis: How complex crises emerge and how we can confront them” 50% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years (with the possibility of a one-year extension), start April 1, 2024 Deadline: February 11, 2024
Read More1,350 EUR per month, funding period of one year (2024-2025) Deadline: January 31, 2024 The Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for 3 doctoral grants with a funding period of one year (1,350 EUR per month, 2024-2025) as well as up to 7 additional doctoral memberships for candidates…
Read MoreGuest Lecture & Discussion with Elena Furlanetto, Universität Essen-Duisburg January 11, 2024, 4-6pm, at the University of Siegen Invitation to Guest Lecture of Elena Furlanetto (Essen-Duisburg) | Fakultät I: Philosophische Fakultät (uni-siegen.de)
Read MoreOnline Guest Lecture & Discussion with Molly J. Farrell, Ohio State University January 15, 2024, 7-8 p.m., via Webex https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglistik/news/1026129.html
Read MoreWorkshop at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, January 13-14, 2024
Read More65% TV-L E13, fixed term for three years, starts April 1, 2024 Deadline: January 14, 2024 For the full jop posting, please visit: Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) | Universität Erfurt | 149 (uni-erfurt.de)
Read MoreInternational conference at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, July 4-6, 2024 Deadline: February 15, 2024
Read MoreInternational conference at Lille University (Roubaix, faculty of Languages, Cultures and Societies), March 29-30, 2024 Deadline: January 13, 2024
Read MoreMartin Luther King Day Lecture by Dr. Nathalie Aghoro, LMU Munich Monday, January 15, 2024, 6.15-7.45 p.m. at Senatssaal, Main Building, University of Bonn
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