The Heidelberg Center for American Studies Graduate Blog is welcoming contributions on all topics related to American Studies. The HCA Graduate Blog is a platform that emphasizes the interdisciplinary work of junior researchers in American Studies. Therefore, we invite contributions from fields such as (but not limited to) Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Geography,…
Read MoreTwo-day symposium of the American Studies division at Leibniz University of Hannover September 29-30, 2022
Read MoreFull-time, E 13 TV-L, starts January 1, 2023 Deadline: October 7, 2022 See the full job posting here: Postdoctoral Position in American Studies (2022/226) | Universität Konstanz | 1101 (uni-konstanz.de)
Read MoreThird annual conference of the Bamberg Graduate School of Literature, Culture, and Media | June 16–17, 2023 Deadline: October 31, 2022
Read MoreOpening: Professorship (W2) “Teaching English in Primary School” at the University of Koblenz-Landau
Department for English and American Studies, section Fremdsprachliche Bildung in der Grundschule (FBG) – Englisch Deadline: September 16, 2022
Read MoreSecond international conference of the ERC-funded project “PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory” University of Tübingen, September 15-17, 2022 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 15-17 September 2022, hosted by the University of Tübingen, Germany. Keynote speakers…
Read MoreTV-L E13, 100% | starts October 1, 2022, fixed term for three years Deadline: August 28, 2022
Read More31st Annual CDE Conference | Erfurt, Germany, June 8-11, 2023 Deadline: October 15, 2022
Read MoreInternational Conference at the University of Freiburg | March 10-11, 2023 on Zoom Extended Deadline: December 20, 2022
Read MoreOffener Brief gegen Kürzungen bei DAAD und AvH |Open Letter Against the DAAD and AvH Cuts [please scroll down for an English version][please scroll to the bottom of the page to sign] 12.7.2022 Mit Bestürzung haben wir, Wissenschaftler*innen, Forscher*innen und Hochschulangehörige aus dem In- und Ausland, die Ankündigung von Kürzungen in den durch das Auswärtige…
Read MoreSpecial issue of the Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS) Deadline: January 12, 2023 The JAAAS is calling for contributions to the special issue “Childfree by Choice: Pro-Natalism in American Literature, Film, and Television” guest-edited by Cornelia Klecker. Website: https://jaaas.eu/index.php/jaaas/announcement/view/11 On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court officially overturned the landmark…
Read MoreTwo workshops at Goethe University Frankfurt (Main) in November (3-4) and December (8-9) 2022 Deadline: August 30, 2022 The interdisciplinary research initiative on “Power and Abuse” at Goethe University brings together researchers from a range of social sciences and humanities, such as education, history, theology, philosophy, and law. It bundles research on phenomena of power…
Read More69th Annual Meeting of the DGfA/GAAS June 1-3, 2023 | Rostock University Deadline: October 1, 2022 America and Ownership: Territory, Slavery, Jubilee Still suffering from the shattering economic effects of the global financial crisis triggered by US banks’ large-scale gambling in the real estate sector, America voted a real estate speculator to become its 45th…
Read MoreMay 4-6, 2023 | University of Mannheim Deadline: September 18, 2022
Read MoreGraduate-level, peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 16, 2022 Call for Papers: aspeers, graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journalDeadline: October 16, 2022 aspeers, the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe, calls for papers for its sixteenth issue by October 16, 2022. As in previous years, aspeers calls for…
Read More32nd Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) November 10-12, 2022 | University of Regensburg Deadline: September 18, 2022
Read MoreTwo-year position (50%) TV-L EG 13, starts November 1, 2022 Deadline: September 1, 2022 Europa-Universität Flensburg is seeking to fill the following vacancy in the Department of English and American Studies (https://jobs.uni-flensburg.de/jobposting/0e31766184eab0f106133765692e6e8a9c2fac1a0) Assistant (“Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in”) in American Studies, salary grade TV-L 13 (50%). This is a two-year position, starting on November 1, 2022. Prerequisites include a good…
Read Morepart-time 65 %, E 13 TV-L, fixed term until 2025 Deadline: August 20, 2022 More information: Doctoral Position in American Studies (2022/170) | Universität Konstanz | 1028 (uni-konstanz.de)
Read MoreSpecial issue of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift 2023 Deadline: July 29, 2022
Read MoreWe are excited to share with you that issue 67.2 of Amerikastudien / American Studies is now online at https://amst.winter-verlag.de. This special issue on “Archives of Resistance: Picturing the Black Americas” has been guest-edited by Dustin Breitenwischer, Jasmin Wrobel, and Robert F. Rheid-Pharr and collects articles on a variety of themes from Black visual culture across the Americas,…
Read MoreDeadline: October 1, 2022 Call for Papers and Proposals: Amerikastudien / American Studies Amerikastudien / American Studies: A Quarterly is one of Europe’s leading journals in the field of American studies. With a community of over 10,000 readers in at least 68 nations across all continents, we take pride in providing open access online to high-end, interdisciplinary…
Read MoreFebruary 3-4, 2023 | TU Dortmund University | University of Duisburg-Essen | Ruhr-University Bochum Deadline (abstracts): October 1, 2022
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Read MoreJuly 2, 2022 | University of Freiburg The ubiquity of digital connectivity and the subsequent diminishing of human connection have become truths of our time. This conference starts with the assumption that digital overload takes a toll on people’s ability to connect meaningfully with themselves or with others. As many studies have shown hyperconnectivity can lead…
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Read MoreLehrstuhl für American Studies, Englisches Seminar der Fakultät für Philologie | Ruhr Universität Bochum Deadline: July 1, 2022 Der Lehrstuhl für American Studies, Englisches Seminar der Fakultät für Philologie sucht ab dem nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt einen Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (m,w,d) für die Dauer von 3 Jahren mit 26,2878 Wochenstunden (TVL E13) Der Lehrstuhl für American Studies vertritt die amerikanistische…
Read MoreDeadline: August 30, 2022 Percival Everett is among the most significant and prolific living contemporary American writers. The author of over twenty novels, four short-story collections, five volumes of poetry, and a children’s book, Everett is famed for his versatility and range while retaining a distinctly recognizable style. His prose oeuvre includes masterful satires as…
Read MoreJuly 6-8, 2022 | Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University Conference website: New Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and German Global History — BCDSS (uni-bonn.de)
Read MoreSehr geehrte Frau Stark-Watzinger, wir kommen zurück auf die Erklärung von 32 geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Verbänden an das Ministerium für Bildung und Forschung vom 29. Juni 2021, in der wir den #ichbinhanna-Protest am WissZeitVG unterstützen. Auf diese Erklärung sowie eine Erinnerung vom Februar 2022 reagierte das BMBF mit Verweis auf die laufende Evaluation des Gesetzes.…
Read MoreDepartment of Cultural & Literary Studies and Didactics & Methodology for Teaching English at secondary school | A 13, 100% | Starts October 1, 2022 Deadline: June 26, 2022
Read MoreGrants of up to 2,000 EUR to scholars working within the field of American Studies who find themselves in a situation of precarity Deadlines: June 30, 2022 | September 1, 2022 | November 15, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: June 30, 2022 The European Association for American Studies invites applications for an EAAS Postgraduate Travel Grant. Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university, and are members of an American Studies association belonging to EAAS may apply. Two kinds of grants…
Read MoreCoordinator for the research training group 2806 “Literature and the Public Sphere in Different iated Contemporary Cultures” Starts October 1, 2022 Deadline: July 6, 2022
Read MoreResearch training group 2806 “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Start October 1, 2022 Deadline: July 6, 2022
Read More100% E 13 TV-L, starts October 1, 2022 Deadline: June 25, 2022 Am Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Fachbereich Neuere Philologien, der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main ist in der Abteilung Amerikanistik zum 01.10.2022 die Stelle (100%) für eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) (Postdoc) (E13 TV-G-U) befristet für die Dauer von zunächst drei Jahren zu besetzen. Die…
Read MoreDept. of American Literature and Culture, Stuttgart University / English Institute, University of Education Ludwigsburg | March 30-31, 2023 Deadline: September 30, 2022
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Conference in New Delhi, India | November 22-24, 2022 Deadline: July 31, 2022 This international conference focuses on addressing the impact of CoVID-19 on the marginalized by studying a variety of aspects pertaining to inclusion and marginalization, particularly through the lens of the pandemic, both in historical and contemporary contexts. For more information and registration, visit:…
Read MoreFakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft | Universität Bielefeld TV-L E13, 65%, fixed term | Starts October 1, 2022 Deadline: June 8, 2022
Read MoreJuly 1, 2022, 5-8 p.m. on Zoom
Read MoreBegegnungsstätte Kleine Synagoge Erfurt | June 23-24, 2022
Read MoreThe American Studies Program at HU Berlin is happy to announce that Jean-Ulrick Désert’s beautiful memorial marker for W.E.B. Du Bois’s study years at the university of Berlin has been installed earlier this year. A big thank you to all GAAS members who donated! We will celebrate the memorial with an official unveiling in July:…
Read MoreChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | June 3, 2022, 2-7 p.m. In July 2021, readers of the Financial Times may have been surprised to read an op-ed calling for central planning to meet the challenges of global warming. While the article’s proposals were hardly as radical as recent calls for a renewed “war communism,” it was remarkable…
Read MoreMid-term conference of the Graduiertenkolleg ‘Practicing Place’ November 10-11, 2022 | KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Deadline: June 15, 2022
Read MoreJuly 7-9, 2022 | Bayerische Amerika-Akademie / Amerikahaus München | Hybrid Event This year’s annual conference of the Bavarian American Academy investigates how the American Revolution functioned as a usable past, inspiring social movements, informing both state- and nation-building processes, and justifying political change in other world regions throughout the ages. The American Revolution is,…
Read MoreRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Bereich North American Studies / Political Science Besoldungsgruppe A 14 Z, Vollzeit, 7 SWS Deadline: May 31, 2022
Read MoreUniversity of Münster, July 24-29, 2022 Deadline: May 22, 2022
Read More04. bis 15. Mai 2022 in den Münchner Spielorten | 09. bis 22. Mai 2022 deutschlandweit @home Herzlich willkommen zum ersten dualen DOK.fest München! Kino oder Online? Warum nicht beides? Das duale DOK.fest München 2022 macht unser ausgewähltes Filmprogramm für ein größtmögliches Publikum zugänglich: Die 124 Filme aus 55 Ländern werden sowohl in München auf…
Read MoreTopic: “Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis und demokratische Staatlichkeit” July 8, 2022 | Akademie für Politische Bildung in Tutzing Deadline: May 20, 2022
Read MoreVeranstaltungsreihe des Bund demokratischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler gemeinsam mit dem freien zusammenschluss von student*innenschaften und dem Netzwerk Gute Arbeit in der Wissenschaft
Read MoreMarch 16-17, 2023 | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Deadline: November 11, 2022
Read More8th International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law University of Osnabrueck | July 16-24, 2022 Application Deadline: May 15, 2022 http://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/ The International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) will be held from July 16 to 24, 2022 at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Since 2009,…
Read MoreThursday, May 19, 2022, 6:00-8:00 pm | Lecture Hall 17 (HS XVII), Regina- Pacis-Weg 5, 53113 Bonn The North American Studies Program at the University of Bonn is proud to welcome the acclaimed Native American writer and academic Diane Glancy (Cherokee) for a reading from her diverse body of work. With over 60 books of…
Read MoreFaculty of Humanities, History Department, Contemporary History Section at the University of Tübingen Deadline: May 27, 2022 English version below An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen ist im Seminar für Zeitgeschichte zum 01.10.2022 die Tenure Track-Professur für Nordamerikanische Geschichte (m/w/d) zu besetzen. Die Inhaberin oder der Inhaber der Tenure Track-Professur soll das Gebiet der…
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing | May 5-7, 2023 Deadline: August 1, 2022
Read MoreMAY 13, 2022 | 2 P.M. – 4 P.M. VIA ZOOM The GAAS will organize a Town Hall on May 13, 2022, 2 to 4 p.m. (organizer: Miriam Strube, moderator: Jeanne Cortiel) This meeting focuses on women’s roles in German Academia at large and in the GAAS in particular. Featuring short statements by four women…
Read MoreJune 14, 2022, 10.30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Read More5th workshop of the DFG research network “The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure.” April 21-22, 2022 Hosted by the Institute for English and American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, organized by Marius Henderson, Molina Klingler (University of Würzburg), and Marlon Lieber (Christian- Albrechts-University Kiel) More information: https://knowledge-failure.org/events/ and https://knowledge-failure.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Poster-Erlangen.pdf Keynote Susan J. Matt: https://fau.zoom.us/j/62861104661?pwd=WkV1Q0I3Q2M1ZWZ4dy8vTjQ1VFpTUT09…
Read MoreApril 28-29, 2022 | Virtual At a moment in history when the Covid-19 crisis coincides with the Black Lives Matter movement’s protests against racism and systemic oppression, this interdisciplinary conference investigates how intersectionality, as an analytical category and an experience focusing on mutually constitutive systems of discrimination, engages and narrates blackness in the U.S. and…
Read MoreUniversity of Vienna | February 15-17, 2023 Deadline: June 1, 2022
Read MoreFood is everywhere because everybody has to eat. At the same time, food is political: specific foods and ways of eating are connected to particular socio-economic structures and have become prime markers of social distinction. Because food nourishes our bodies, food is also directly associated with our bodies’ health, with our fitness and/or our fatness.…
Read MoreParis Lodron University of Salzburg | October 21-23, 2022 Deadline: May 31, 2022 Conference website: https://aaas.at/salzburg-2022/
Read MoreDoing│Teaching American Studies Series | Thursday, June 2, 2022, 7:30 PM, online Deadline (short abstract): May 9, 2022 “I was to dream of a prose which was flexible, and swift as American change is swift, confronting the inequalities and brutalities of our society forthrightly, yet thrusting forth its images of hope, human fraternity and individual…
Read MoreVeranstaltet vom DFG-Netzwerk „The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure“ 18. Mai 2022, 18:00-19:30 Uhr Referent_innen: Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (Soziologie/Gender Studies, LMU), Jörg Radtke (Politikwissenschaft, Univ. Siegen), Simon Strick (Amerikanistik/Medienwissenschaft, ZeM Brandenburg) Moderation: Katharina Motyl (Amerikanistik, Univ. Mannheim) Link erhältlich unter: l.fender@stud.uni-hannover.de Das Thema Wissenschaftsleugnung ist angesichts der Pandemie noch virulenter geworden. Coronaleugner_innen lehnen…
Read MoreSpecial Issue of Literature Deadline (abstracts): May 1, 2022 Technologies of the Human: Assembling the Subject of Rights Rights discourses have become a primary “technology” of the human, across the globe. That is to say, we recognize others, as human beings, through an international language of rights and the institutions and infrastructures that disseminate it,…
Read MoreTuesday, April 26, 2022, 19:00-20:00 CET (10:00 am PST) Registration and more information: https://virtualspeakerseries.org/
Read MoreOctober 13-14, 2022 | University of Cologne Deadline: June 30, 2022
Read MoreAnnual Postcolonial Narrations Forum | October 20-22, 2022 | Bonn University Deadline: May 31, 2022
Read MoreStarts May 1, 2022 | 75% TV-L 13 | Fixed term until 2024 Deadline: April 20, 2022
Read MoreAn obituary by Prof. Dr. Astrid Böger With Herwig Friedl’s passing on March 15, 2022 following a severe illness, we have lost a truly great member of our American Studies community as well as, in my case, an astute mentor and a good friend. Everyone who knew him will have their own cherished memories, and…
Read MoreApril 1, 2022 | 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. via Zoom The GAAS’s Digital American Studies Initiative (DASI) will organize a townhall meeting on April 1, 2022, 2 to 5 p.m. Featuring a panel of international experts and an extensive Q&A session, the meeting focuses on the role of DH methods, the politics of data…
Read MoreObama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz | April 29, 2022, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies organizes a symposium on the heritage of Colonial Germany and the presence of people of African descent in German society. This trilateral investigation ranges from Germany to Africa, America…
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Read MoreApril 20, 2022 6 p.m. CEST via Zoom
Read MoreVirtual Conference, November 16-18, 2022 Extended Deadline: May 1, 2022
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Read MoreVirtual Conversations Continued April 7, 2022, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. (Berlin, CET) via Zoom Conference Organizer: Laura-Isabella Heitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Khristeena Lute (SUNY Adirondack), Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Sandra H. Petrulionis (Penn State University, Altoona) “The London and Berlin Lyceum Clubs – Service, Transnational Advocacies and Nationalist Self-interest before World War I” by Christine Spreizer…
Read More50% E-13 TV-L | Starts June 1, 2022 Deadline: March 31, 2022
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Read MoreDeadline: March 15, 2022 Open to new ideas. Since 1365. The University of Vienna is a research university with high international visibility and a wide range of degree programmes. We are committed to basic research that is open to applications and to research-led teaching, as well as to the dialogue with economy and society. We strive…
Read MoreMay 6-7, 2022 | University of Innsbruck Deadline: March 28, 2022
Read MoreTwo-day symposium of the American Studies division at Leibniz University of Hannover | September 22-23, 2022 Deadline: April 15, 2022 Modernist print media tended to insist on being different from mass-oriented publications that surrounded them in the public sphere, even where they drew on them. Yet, as much recent scholarship has shown, avant-garde publications and…
Read MoreNovember 17-19, 2022 | Amerikahaus Munich, Germany Deadline: March 15, 2022 Call for PapersPlaying the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American StudiesNovember 17-19, 2022Amerikahaus Munich, Germany “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:…
Read MoreSpecial Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies | Capitalist Crisis Poetry: Neoliberalism and the 21st Century Lyric Deadline: March 1, 2022 – Special Issue: Amerikastudien | American Studies – Call for Contributions: Original Lyric Poetry Capitalist Crisis Poetry:Neoliberalism and the 21st Century Lyric Editors: Stefan Benz (Universität Bonn), Marcel Hartwig (Universität Siegen), Hannah Schoch (Universität…
Read MoreVienna | October 19-21, 2022 Deadline: May 6, 2022
Read MoreOpening conference of the International Doctorate Program (IDK) Um(Welt)Denken. The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society; University of Augsburg & Rachel Carson Center, LMU June 24-26, 2022, University of Augsburg Deadline: March 1, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: 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…
Read Morepart-time (20.05 hours/week) | fixed two-year term | TV-L E13 Deadline: February 21, 2022
Read MorePhilipps Universität Marburg Deadline: March 11, 2022
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…
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