Category: Calls for Papers

33rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English Konstanz, Germany | June 19-22, 2025 Deadline: September 15, 2024

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…

Peer-reviewed online journal that publishes excellent work by graduate students in Anglophone literary, cultural, and media studies, focusing in particular (but not exclusively) on the field of North American Studies Deadline: October 1, 2024

Heidelberg, Germany, March 24-28, 2025 Deadline: November 1, 2024 The twenty-second HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 24-28, 2025. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to…

Special issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies Deadline: December 1, 2024

International summer school at Mainz University, April 2-10, 2025 Deadline: October 1, 2024

Deadline: September 15, 2024 Call for Papers for Book Publication “Bridging Cultures: Transnational Travel Writing to, from (and in) the Americas” Stefan Brandt (University of Graz) and Saptarshi Mallick (University of Graz) Travel is an intimate part of human existence, involving cultural exchange through observation and interaction. It requires us to recognize that, beyond our…

International conference at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, The Netherlands, May 21-23, 2025 Deadline: October 31, 2024

A Special Issue of Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power Deadline: August 15, 2024

Special issue of the European Journal of American Studies (EJAS) Deadline (proposals): December 1, 2024

Student conference at the Obama Institute at Mainz University, January 16-17, 2025 Deadline: September 15, 2024

International 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,…

Call 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)

18th 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…

13th 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,…

International Conference at Hamburg University, March 28-29, 2025 Deadline: October 7, 2024

Biennial Conference of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Humboldt University Berlin, March 20-22, 2025 Deadline: September 30, 2024

Annual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) Bielefeld University, May 29-31, 2025 Deadline: December 15, 2024

34th 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

Special 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)

International conference at Freiburg University, October 24-26, 2024 Deadline: July 31, 2024

A 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…

Conference at Leipzig University, May 22-23, 2025 Deadline: July 28, 2024

The 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…

Special issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies edited by Ellen Barth and Corinna Norrick-Rühl (University of Münster) Deadline (abstracts): June 30, 2024

Online workshop organized by Würzburg University and Leipzig University | November 15, 2024 Deadline: July 12, 2024

Special 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…

58th Annual Western Literature Association Conference in Tucson (AZ), October 2-5, 2024 Deadline: June 5, 2024

1st international conference on Contradiction Studies at Bremen University, February 11-14, 2025 Deadline: June 1, 2024

Special 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…

Special 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…

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 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…

21st 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

Workshop at Zurich University, June 7-8, 2024 Deadline: May 1, 2024

Special 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…

15th Annual Meeting of the “Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung” | Kassel, September 5-7, 2024 Deadline: March 31, 2024

Special 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…

2024 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.…

Special issue of Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS) Deadline: March 8, 2024

International Conference at TU Dresden, July 22-24, 2024 Extended Deadline: February 5, 2024

SANAS Biennial Conference 2024 | University of Geneva, November 7-8, 2024 Deadline: April 8, 2024

Edited 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

International 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

International conference at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, July 4-6, 2024 Deadline: February 15, 2024

International conference at Lille University (Roubaix, faculty of Languages, Cultures and Societies), March 29-30, 2024 Deadline: January 13, 2024

International Conference at University of Graz (Austria), June 26-28, 2025 Deadline: February 20, 2024

Storytelling/Transdisziplinär–Symposium | Münster School of Design, May 23-25, 2024 Deadline: January 7, 2024

Interdisciplinary Symposium at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, June 6-7, 2024 Deadline: February 1, 2024  Call for Papers Prof. Dr. Heike Steinhoff (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)Prof. Dr. Katharina Vester (American University, Washington DC) From Body Hacking to Body Activism: Redefining Bodies in Digital Media Digital media has dramatically changed our understanding, knowledge, and experience of bodies. Body tracking apps and…

Special issue of LWU (Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht) Deadline: January 31, 2024

Special issue on Indigenous Speculative Fiction Deadline: November 30, 2023 https://orbit.openlibhums.org/news/655/ The various genres under the umbrella of speculative fiction – including but not limited to science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history – have long been popular across diverse reading audiences. More importantly, authors have used these genres to provide thoughtful commentary about and…

Final conference of the DFG Network “Voices & Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600 – 1865” at University of Duisburg-Essen, March 7-8, 2024 Deadline: December 15, 2023

2024 conference of the International Society for Cultural History in Potsdam, September 4-6, 2024 Deadline: January 7, 2024

Contributions to a peer-reviewed online journal that provides a space to publish excellent work written by graduate students in Anglophone literary, cultural and media studies Deadline: October 15, 2023

Extended Call for Submission for the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (2023) Deadline (abstracts): October 31, 2023

Call for submissions for the forum for inter-american research (fiar) Deadline: November 30, 2023

Inaugural Conference of stsing hosted by TU Dresden | March 19-22, 2024 Deadline: October 15, 2023 LEAKAGE Inaugural Conference of stsinghosted by TU Dresden | March 19-22, 2024 This conference inaugurates stsing e.V., an association (“Verein”) doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) in and through Germany, established in 2020. STS is an interdisciplinary field of…

Thirteenth Biennial MESEA Conference | University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, June 12-14, 2024 Deadline: November 15, 2023

Special Issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by The Working Group on Academic Forms Deadline: October 1, 2023

Call for book proposals in all areas and aspects of English philology Deadline: Proposals can be submitted any time The peer-reviewed Anglia Book Series (ANGB), published by De Gruyter, features high-quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and…

35th Biennial EAAS Conference | Munich, April 2-7, 2024 Deadline: September 3, 2023 PANEL CFP – the EAAS Digital Studies Network: Immigration, Technology, and American Society: Exploring the Digital Dimensions of Migration The panel on “Immigration, Technology, and American Society” as part of the EAAS Digital Studies Network aims to examine the multifaceted relationship between…

December 6-8, 2023 at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg, Netherlands Deadline: September 29, 2023

Contributions of chapters for book project on American Narratives of Confinement in literature, film, TV shows, music, and art Deadline: December 15, 2023

Workshop at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | January 12, 2024 Deadline: October 1, 2023

Organized by the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS) Thursday, November 16, 2023 | Online (Zoom) Extended Deadline: July 31, 2023

Calls for papers for 17th issue Deadline: October 15, 2023 aspeers, the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe, calls for papers for its seventeenth issue by October 15, 2023. As in previous years, aspeers calls for general submissions of excellent academic work by MA-level students as well…

International Pynchon Week | Belgrade, Serbia | June 17-21, 2024 Deadline: September 1, 2023 Call for papers: International Pynchon Week 2024, Belgrade, SerbiaInternational Pynchon Week will have its next venue in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, from June 17 to June 21, 2024. Although most Pynchon scholars have heard of the event, we are taking…

The 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, 2023  Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection.   The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. All texts must take works of art in…

Kick-off event at KWI Essen: November 24-25, 2023 Deadline: August 15, 2023 CFP: Network ‚Comedy as Cultural Studies/Das Komische als Kulturwissenschaft’ Submission of project outlines: 15 August 2023 Kick-off event at KWI Essen: 24-25 November 2023 Satirical poems and humorous prints, comedies and vaudevilles, stand-up, witty adverts and memes: to elicit responses from an audience,…

The Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS) is an open-access, peer-reviewed forum for Americanists in the global academic community Submissions of individual essays and proposals to guest edit a Special Forum are accepted on a rolling basis Check out the first edition below the CfP.