International 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 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 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 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 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 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 MoreLecture series at Jena and Bremen Universities Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m., from April 3 to July 3, 2024
Read MoreHybrid Lecture Series organized by the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at Greifswald University April 22 – July 10, 2024
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Workshop at Passau University, June 28-29, 2024 Deadline: February 15, 2024
Read MoreAnnual conference of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies, co-hosted by Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) & Graduiertenkolleg Authority and Trust (GKAT)Heidelberg University, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. Heidelberg Center for American Studies, June 6-8, 2024 Extended Deadline: January 15, 2024
Read MoreKU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, December 20, 2023, 6 p.m. CET via Zoom Zoom link: https://kuei.zoom.us/j/68106271049?pwd=TGdITDRWNFNsakFqMUlnRjhkN1g4UT09 For more information, please visit: Gastvorträge Amerikanistik: Katholische Universität Eichstätt – Ingolstadt (ku.de)
Read MoreFirst Online Open Forum of the EAAS Digital Studies Network Zoom, December 15, 2023
Read MoreAnnual symposium of the Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University, April 12-13, 2024 Deadline: December 31, 2023
Read More12th Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network | University of Białystok, Poland, May 13-15, 2024 Deadline: December 31, 2023
Read MoreOrganized by Blue Humanities Research Group at Bremen University All events Wednesdays, 6.15 – 7.45 p.m. via Zoom (link available through Dr. Paula von Gleich)
Read MoreThird International Conference of the “Populism and Conspiracy Theory” Project (PACT) | Tallinn (Estonia), September 25-27, 2024 Deadline: November 30, 2023
Read More48th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies | April 4–6, 2024 in Austin, Texas Deadline: December 15, 2023 We invite you to submit a paper for the 48th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies to be held April 4–6, 2024, in Austin, Texas. Details and submission criteria have been…
Read MoreInternational Conference at Freie Universität Berlin, December 14-16, 2024 Deadline: November 15, 2023
Read MoreNovember 16, 2023, 9.30 a.m. – 4 p.m. via Zoom Registration: Canadian Studies Colloquium We are delighted to invite you to participate in our upcoming Canadian Studies Colloquium on November 16th from 9:30am – 4pm (CET) via Zoom, organized by the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS). The…
Read MoreHeidelberg, Germany, March 18-22, 2024 Deadline: November 15, 2023
Read MoreInternational conference at TU Dortmund, December 11-13, 2024 Deadline: December 17, 2023
Read MoreInternational conference at TU Dortmund, July 10-12, 2024 Deadline: December 15, 2023 The fourth installment of the Playing the Field conference series in American Studies focuses on video game politics in any sense of the phrase: the representation of concrete or abstract political concerns or processes in games; politics as gameplay or an aspect of…
Read MoreEvents | Current Issues in North American and Cultural Studies: Lecture Series Winter Term 2023/2024
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Read MoreInterdisciplinary Symposium at University of Passau | January 27, 2024 Deadline: November 10, 2023
Read MoreProf. Dr. Liz Przybylski (University of California, Riverside) and Plains Cree hip hop performing artist Eekwol (Lindsay Knight), who will discuss “Reclaiming Power in Indigenous Artistic Presence: Hip Hop, Creativity, and Gender in the Right Now.“ Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 6:15-7:45 pm on Zoom
Read MoreOrganized by the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Leiden (NL) and the Sciences Po Center for History (CHSP) in Paris Monthly seminars from September 2023-April 2024
Read More33rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE POSTGRADUATE FORUM (PGF) OF THE GERMAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES (GAAS/DGFA) Deadline: September 22, 2023 Conference website: PGF 2023 Hannover – English Department – Leibniz University Hannover (uni-hannover.de)
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Conference at LMU Munich, March 21-23, 2024 Deadline: October 1, 2023
Read MoreInternational conference at the University of Strasbourg, March 21-22, 2024 Deadline: September 30, 2023 The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art A two-day international conference at the University of Strasbourg funded by the Institut Universitaire de France Dates: 21-22 March 2024 Venue: University of Strasbourg, France Confirmed keynote speaker: Dawn Raffel…
Read More32nd Annual CDE Conference | Innsbruck (Austria), May 2-5, 2024 Deadline: October 2, 2023
Read MoreHybrid conference of the Transpacific Studies Network | February 9-10, 2024 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and Online Deadline: September 1, 2023
Read MoreInterdisciplinary conference at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, February 8-10, 2024 Deadline: August 31, 2023
Read More35th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies | Munich, April 2-7, 2024 Deadline: September 15, 2023
Read MoreInterdisciplinary symposium at the University of Basel | November 9-10, 2023 Deadline: September 1, 2023
Read MoreInternational conference at TU Dresden | June 22-24, 2023
Read MoreInternational Conference at Goethe University Frankfurt, June 23-25, 2023 The last two decades have seen a plethora of new studies on the history of the Black Power movement. Taken together, these studies have revised one-dimensional interpretations of the movement, exploring its roots, the significance of local organizing, African American women’s contributions, the movement’s political impact,…
Read MorePoetry Reading & Workshop with Dominick Knowles (Brandeis University) & Mathilda Cullen (U at Buffalo) July 7, 2023, 4-7 p.m. via Zoom Friday, July 7, 2023 | 4:00 pm–7:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am–1:00 pm EST | on Zoom Collaborating poets Mathilda Cullen and Dominick Knowles are joining us for the sixth installment in this…
Read MoreWorkshop (in person and via Zoom) at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) | University of Bonn, June 20-21, 2023 Deadline for registration: June 7, 2023 “Global Voyages, Local Sites: The Long Shadow of Atlantic Slavery in the Anglo-American and German Pacific” workshop brings together renowned scholars working in the fields of Slavery…
Read MoreInternational conference at Bangor University, UK | September 7-8, 2023 Deadline: June 16, 2023 An in-person academic conference hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies, Bangor University, UK | 7 and 8 September 2023 Paul Verhoeven(b. 1938) has left an indelible mark on popular culture. His films marry a European arthouse sensibility…
Read MoreAnnual conference ofthe Bayerische Amerika-Akademie / Amerikahaus München Munich, July 6-8, 2023 “Environmental Citizenship: Politics, Practices, Representations” BAA Annual Conference 2023: Thursday, July 06 – Saturday, July 08, 2023 The notion of Environmental Citizenship resonates strongly across the disciplines as well as in political, educational, and activist practice. The urgency of current debates about climate change,…
Read MoreFinal conference of the DFG funded research network ‘The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure’ Mannheim University | May 4-6, 2023 Conference website: The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure (knowledge-failure.org) The event is open to the public, and the keynotes will be streamed. To receive the link or register for conference attendance…
Read MoreForthcoming publication that will examine the representation and negotiation of “cultures of denunciation” in nineteenth-century American literature Deadline: June 1, 2023 The themes of ostracism, social exclusion, and defamation have become increasingly and globally relevant in contemporary society, with the rise of cancel culture and public condemnation of perceived misdemeanors. We have recently witnessed the…
Read More10th Conference of the Captivating Criminality Network Bath Spa University in Bath, UK | August 31-September 2, 2023 Deadline: May 1, 2023 The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its tenth conference, Captivating Criminality 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction, which will be held at Bath Spa University in Bath, UK. Building upon and developing ideas and themes…
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) University of Konstanz, May 17-20, 2023 Keynotes by Homi K. Bhabha, Elleke Boehmer, and Manu Karuka For more information and conference registration, please visit GAPS 2023 – GAPS 2023 annual conference
Read More50th annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies | University of Klagenfurt, October 20-22, 2023 Deadline: May 31, 2023
Read MoreInternational conference at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies | May 25-27, 2023 Registration is now open: Konferenzen – Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) (uni-heidelberg.de)
Read MoreMay 2-3, 2023 | University of Tübingen Dear colleagues, friends, and interested parties, we would like to draw your attention to an exciting opportunity: The symposium “Social Justice and Technological Futures” will be held in person on May 2 and 3, 2023, at the University of Tübingen in Germany. The symposium features a series of…
Read More11th IASA World Congress 2023 (ASA) “Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives” University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland | September 7-10, 2023 Deadline: April 14, 2023
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) in Munich, Germany, July 6-8, 2023 CfP for the Young Scholars’ Forum Deadline: April 28, 2023 Young Scholars’ Forum: Call for Papers One of the key questions of our time is how to act – individually and collectively – at a time of climate crisis that needs…
Read MoreOnline Conference at the University of Freiburg and the University of Surrey | August 30-31, 2023 Deadline: May 15, 2023
Read MoreBavarian America Academy, Amerikahaus Munich March 24-25, 2023
Read More20th Annual Conference of the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin | June 29-30, 2023 Deadline: March 31, 2023
Read MorePublic lecture by Angela N. Parker, Mercer University Amerikahaus München, March 14, 2023, 7.30 p.m. Information and registration: nicole.schneider@ku.de
Read MoreInternational Conference at Potsdam University | March 29-31, 2023 What is a crisis? From a financial, economic, political, psychological or even moral perspective, and many more, the word ‘crisis’ continues to leave traces on our public and private discourse, often accepted as an unavoidable and uncontested category to qualify the present. The three-day hybrid conference will attempt to…
Read MoreSymposium at the University of Münster, May 31, 2023 CfP Deadline: March 24, 2023
Read MoreInternational Graduate Conference 2023 Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute for North AmericanStudies | Freie Universität Berlin, June 15-16, 2023 Deadline: March 18, 2023
Read More12th International Summer Academy of the Bavarian American Academy Munich | June 5-13, 2023 in Lexington, Kentucky Deadline: March 17, 2023
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, May 5-7, 2023 Registration is now open here: https://www.apb-tutzing.de/programm/anmeldung.php?tid=118177
Read MoreSeminar and symposium at Sapienza University of Rome, June 12-17, 2023 Deadline (seminar): March 1, 2023. Deadline (symposium): February 15, 2023
Read MoreInternational and Transdisciplinary Summer School for PhD Candidates at Mainz University, June 18-24, 2023 Application Deadline: February 28, 2023
Read MoreInternational Conference at Stuttgart University | March 30-31, 2023 For more information on the program and on how to register, please visit: Conference Englishconf2023 | University of Stuttgart (uni-stuttgart.de)
Read MoreInternational Conference at the University of Tübingen, June 20-22, 2023 Deadline: March 31, 2023
Read MoreFriday, December 2, 2022 | 4:00 pm–7:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am–1:00 pm EST Poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky is joining us for our fifth installment in this series. His latest books are Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018; Lake Michigan, a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and The Performance of…
Read MoreInternational Conference at LMU Munich, May 11–13, 2023 Deadline: December 31, 2022
Read MoreA Conference co-hosted by The Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V., Freie Universität and Bard College Berlin May 25-27, 2023 | John-F.-Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin Deadline: December 15, 2022
Read MoreInternational conference on Ben Lerner’s Poetry, Fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations June 28 – July 1, 2023 | Paris, France Deadline: November 30, 2022
Read MoreAmerikahaus Munich | November 17-19, 2022 “Playing the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” serves as a platform for scholarly exchange on the growing significance of the medium of video games in American (and global) culture. Contributions will examine the environments that video games affect and are impacted by through the lens of…
Read MoreInternational and interdisciplinary conference at TU Dresden | November 9-12, 2022 This conference is dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogues between the environmental humanities and the boundary-defying work of the late philosopher of science Michel Serres. Committed to the incessant circulations between nature and culture, the global and the local, the natural sciences and the humanities, Michel…
Read MoreInternational Conference of the Research Network Gender – Power Relations – State at Philipps-Universität Marburg and Herder-Institute Marburg | November 23-25, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: October 1, 2022 Dear GAAS members, It is with great pleasure that we bring a grant/funding opportunity to your attention. On the occasion of the 75-year anniversary of American Studies at Schloss Leopoldskron (Salzburg, Austria). EAAS will partially fund a post-doc/early career scholar to attend the Salzburg Global Seminar on “Democracy on the Front…
Read More8th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG) | Saarland University, 27–30 September 2023 Deadline: October 15, 2022
Read MoreTwo-day symposium of the American Studies division at Leibniz University of Hannover September 29-30, 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 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 MoreJuly 24-29, 2022 | WWU Münster
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…
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 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 MoreJuly 1, 2022, 5-8 p.m. on Zoom
Read MoreBegegnungsstätte Kleine Synagoge Erfurt | June 23-24, 2022
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