Category: Opportunities

Online Workshop at Leipzig University, September 18-19, 2026 Deadline: June 15, 2026

Call for proposals for a special issue on U.S. American, Canadian, and Latin American literary studies Deadline: June 1, 2026

Workshop at Erfurt University, November 26-27, 2026 Deadline: June 15, 2026 Call for Papers “Unruly Realism: Conventions and Contestations in 19th-Century American Realist Fiction” Workshop at the University of Erfurt – November 26 – 27, 2026 Co-organized by Ilka Saal (Erfurt) and Antonia Purk (Mannheim) This workshop reexamines nineteenth-century American realism through the lens of…

International conference at Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, February 10-12, 2027 Deadline: June 15, 2026

Interdisciplinary festival/conference at the University of Graz, Austria, October 29–31, 2026 Extended Deadline: May 6, 2026

Annual Conference of the Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA) at Radboud University in Nijmegen, November 4-6, 2026 Deadline: May 8, 2026

Study day at University Marie & Louis Pasteur, Besançon on Friday, October 16, 2026 Deadline: May 30, 2026 CFP: Representing the writer online : images, voices, and archivesStudy day at University Marie & Louis Pasteur, BesançonFriday, October 16, 2026 Organized byAmélie Macaud (ELLIADD, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur)Sahar Kheirandish (CLIMAS, Université Bordeaux Montaigne)Magali Bigey (ELLIADD,…

Workshop at TU Braunschweig, October 10, 2026 Deadline: May 31, 2026

Annual conference of the Society for the Study of British Cultures, Würzburg University, November 19-21, 2026 Deadline: April 15, 2026

Call for contributions and online symposium, October 8-9, 2026 Deadline: May 15, 2026

International in-person conference at JFK Institute at Freie Universität Berlin, September 30 – October 2, 2026 Deadline: May 31, 2026 Conference website: Frontiers Conference 2026 – PopMeC While encompassing the study of US American cultures broadly intended, the conference aims at examining the evolution of their contemporary manifestations and possible futures. As the sociocultural and…

Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic at Cologne University, September 17-19, 2026 Deadline: June 1, 2026

Special issue of American Periodicals Deadline: July 15, 2026

Invitation for contributions and/or guest editors for Volume 6 (2027) Deadline: May 8, 2026

Call for papers for a critial anthology devoted to television title sequences Deadline: May 4, 2026

International Doctoral Workshop at Cologne University, November 19-20, 2026 Deadline: April 30, 2026

13th World Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA) in Mérida, Mexico, February 17-19, 2027 Deadline: April 30, 2026

Interdisciplinary and international conference at TU Dortmund, December 3-5, 2026 Deadline: April 15, 2026

Call for contributions for the next issue of InMedia, The French Journal of Media Studies Deadline (abstracts): April 15, 2026 The latest call for articles for  is just out. We invite abstracts for contributions to the issue “The Art of Podcasting: experimenting with a new medium,” edited by Dr. David Lipson and Ella Waldmann. You will…

Special issue of gamevironments, a journal seeking to explore both established approaches and new frontiers of researching video games/gaming as related to culture and society Deadline (abstracts): June 1, 2026 Guest editors: Arno Görgen and Aurelia Brandenburg In the 1980s and 1990s, for many computer game enthusiasts, the dream of a job in the games…

Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, The Netherlands, June 17-19, 2026 Deadline: March 13, 2026

Student conference at the Obama Institute Mainz, June 19-20, 2026 Deadline: February 28, 2026

SANAS Biennial Conference at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, November 5-6, 2026 Deadline (proposals): March 31, 2026

Special Forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies Deadline: March 1, 2026

34th Annual Conference of The German Society for Contemporary Drama and Theatre in English (CDE) in Prague, June 4-7, 2026 Deadline: January 25, 2026

Special issue of AmLit: American Literature Deadline: January 18, 2026

2026 Annual Conference of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World at Regensburg University, June 17-19, 2026 Deadline: January 7, 2026

Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) at Osnabrück University, May 14-16, 2026 Deadline (abstracts): January 6, 2026

Special Issue of Feminist Theory Deadline (abstracts): March 1, 2026

24th Annual Conference of the Bavarian American Academy on “Free Speech: Promises, Meanings, Controversies” at Amerikahaus Munich, July 9-11, 2026 Deadline: March 15, 2026

Call for Papers for Edited Collection and Workshop at Heidelberg Center for American Studies, July 10-11, 2026 Extended Deadline: February 15, 2026 In recent decades, research on authority and trust in the US has seen a considerable increase across various disciplines (cf. Leypoldt and Berg 2021). However, in comparison, there has been much less scholarship…

Postgraduate symposium at University of Coimbra (Portugal), March 26-27, 2026 Deadline: December 31, 2025

MADS Conference, Augsburg (Germany), July 10-11, 2026 Deadline: January 9, 2026

Special issue of Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies Deadline (abstracts): January 15, 2026

Special Issue of The New American Studies Journal: A Forum Deadline: January 2, 2026

Collection of critical essays as part of the DFG-funded project “W( )les and ( )holes: Politically Engaged Erasure Poetry in Twenty-First-Century United States” Deadline: February 15, 2026 Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page, an essay collection co-edited by Sandra Tausel, Michael Fuchs, and Mahshid Mayar, invites proposals in the form of abstracts (500 words) and…

Special issue of Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology Deadline (abstracts): December 15, 2025

53rd Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies November 5-7, 2026, University of Education Upper Austria (PH OÖ) & Private University of Education of the Diocese of Linz (PHDL) Deadline: April 30, 2026

Special issue of AmLit Deadline: December 31, 2025

Call for contributions for upcoming issues on general aspects of literary and cultural studies, close readings of specific texts, innovative theoretical, methodological, or didactic approaches, bridges between academic discourse and classroom application Deadline: February 2, 2026

Special issue of Age, Culture, Humanities Deadline (abstracts): December 15, 2025 Age(ing) Games: Technology, Play, and Age George Bernard Shaw famously noted that “[w]e don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” In today’s media culture, play remains culturally coded as youthful, yet may, as Shaw suggests, in and…

International Conference at TU Dresden, August 26-28, 2026 Deadline (abstracts): December 31, 2025

First meeting of the network “ReCAP – Reproduction: Critical Approaches and Perspectives on Pregnancy, Birth, and (Non)Parenthood” | Bonn, May 8, 2026 Deadline: October 31, 2025

International conference at Lisbon University (Portugal), October 29-31, 2026 Deadline: June 10, 2026

Conference at Amsterdam University, April 23-24, 2026 Deadline: October 31, 2025

Berlin, May 8-10, 2026 Deadline: November 15, 2025

Annual Symposium of the German Inklings Society | TU Braunschweig, June 26-28, 2026 Deadline: January 10, 2026

An edited volume in the series REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (eds. Florian Sedlmeier, Alexander Starre, and Johannes Voelz) Deadline (abstracts): December 15, 2025

Heidelberg, March 23-27, 2026 Deadline: November 15, 2025

Conference at TU Dortmund, January 29-30, 2026 Deadline (abstracts): October 10, 2025

Special issue of Post45, co-edited by Laura Bieger (Ruhr University Bochum) and Philipp Löffler (University of Heidelberg) Deadline (abstracts): December 1, 2025 What happens when the present becomes historical to itself and the contemporary turns into a categorizable literary-historical formation? Is that even possible, that is: can the contemporary ever become historical (to) itself? This…

International conference at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, The Netherlands, April 8-10, 2026 Deadline: October 31, 2025

Conference hosted by the Graduiertenkolleg Authority and Trust at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, May 20-22, 2026 Deadline: November 15, 2025

Special issue of Apocalyptica, an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal Deadline: November 1, 2025

Leipzig University | September 24t-25, 2026 Deadline: October 12, 2025

Deadline: October 31, 2025 gender forum is calling for submissions for its upcoming Early Career Researchers Issue XII, Vol 25 No. 2 (2026) The interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed open access journal gender forum launched its first annual Early Career Researchers Issue in October 2013 with the aim of encouraging the next generation of scholars to publish their work in…

21st International Hemingway Conference in Toronto, July 20-25, 2026 Deadline: October 31, 2025

Early-career conference at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne (France), October 1-3, 2026 Deadline: September 15, 2025

Call for submissions for vol. 4, no. 1 Deadline: October 15, 2025

Edited Volume by Philipp Löffler (Heidelberg) and Alexander Starre (Berlin) Deadline (abstracts): October 31, 2025

Calls for papers for the 19th issue of aspeers, the graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journal Deadline: October 15, 2025 aspeers, the first peer-reviewed journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe, calls for papers for its nineteenth issue by October 19, 2025. As in previous years, aspeers calls for general submissions of excellent academic work by MA-level…

5th Crosscurrents Conference at the University of Madeira, December 4-6, 2025 Deadline: August 15, 2025 Call for Responses 5th Crosscurrents Conference—Women and Health in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic World 4 – 6 December 2025 Venue: University of Madeira – Rectory Building (Madeira Island, Portugal) Organised by Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network and University of Madeira, Faculty of Arts…

International conference at Innsbruck University, July 2-3, 2026 Deadline: September 15, 2025

Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg, The Netherlands, November 26-28, 2025 Deadline: September 12, 2025

35th Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) Leipzig University, November 6-8, 2025 Deadline: August 17, 2025 Crisis and Resilience in American Literature, Culture, History, and Politics 35th Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) The organizers of the…

Workshop at University of Duisburg-Essen, December 12-13, 2025 Deadline: August 30, 2025

Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA) Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, May 8-10, 2026 Deadline: September 15, 2025

36th EAAS Biennial Conference | Bologna, September 1-4, 2026 Deadline: October 15, 2025

34th Annual Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) Conference in Prague (Czech Republic), June 4-7, 2026 Deadline: September 15, 2025

International conference at the TU Dortmund, Germany, January 29-30, 2026 Deadline: September 15, 2025