2023 Conference of the HCA Graduiertenkolleg ‘Authority and Trust’ Heidelberg, Germany | May 11-13, 2023 Deadline: February 5, 2023
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 at TU Chemnitz, June 15-17, 2023 Deadline: February 15, 2023
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 MoreDeadline: November 14, 2022 For a new journal dedicated to the study of American Literatures – AmLit – we are looking for guest editors interested in organizing one of the journal’s maiden issues. AmLit is designed as a new academic venue for experienced as well as young and upcoming scholars to publish collections of cutting-edge articles on recent developments in American literature. We…
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Read MoreHeidelberg, Germany | March 20-24, 2023 Deadline: November 15, 2022
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) University of Konstanz, May 18-20, 2023 Deadline: January 31, 2023
Read MoreUniversity of Debrecen, Hungary | March 31 – April 1, 2023 Deadline: November 15, 2022
Read More8th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG) | Saarland University, 27–30 September 2023 Deadline: October 15, 2022
Read MoreWorkshop and Book Publication Project at Bielefeld University | June 30-July 1, 2023 Deadline: December 15, 2022
Read MoreInternational Conference at TU Dresden | June 22-24, 2023 Extended Deadline: December 5, 2022
Read MoreThird annual conference of the Bamberg Graduate School of Literature, Culture, and Media | June 16–17, 2023 Deadline: October 31, 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 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 MoreSpecial issue of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift 2023 Deadline: July 29, 2022
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
Read MoreJune 16-18, 2023 | Munich Deadline: September 30, 2022
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 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 MoreMid-term conference of the Graduiertenkolleg ‘Practicing Place’ November 10-11, 2022 | KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Deadline: June 15, 2022
Read MoreUniversity of Münster, July 24-29, 2022 Deadline: May 22, 2022
Read MoreTopic: “Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis und demokratische Staatlichkeit” July 8, 2022 | Akademie für Politische Bildung in Tutzing Deadline: May 20, 2022
Read MoreMarch 16-17, 2023 | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Deadline: November 11, 2022
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 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 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 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
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Read MoreVirtual Conference, November 16-18, 2022 Extended Deadline: May 1, 2022
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 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…
Read MoreSection of the ECPR General Conference 2022 | University of Innsbruck, Austria | August 22-26, 2022 Deadline: February 16, 2022 We, Roland Lhotta, Jared Sonnicksen and Julia Simon, are happy to announce that we will be organizing the Section “Rigging the System – Righting the System: Dimensions of a constitutional, political and societal crisis in the United States (ecpr.eu)“…
Read MoreDeadline for abstracts: March 18, 2022 Please find below our current CfP for the next thematic issue of Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS). With our guest editors Selina Foltinek, Mascha Lange, and Florian Zitzelsberger, we invite proposals on the topic of “Reading (in) American Studies.” As always, we are dedicated to publishing the work of…
Read MoreDeadline: March 1, 2022 Dear Colleagues, Popular culture has long been identified either as the expression of working class or common folk or as the lowly substratum of an idealized high culture; thus, the emergence of a media-crossing pop aesthetic in the 1950s marked the beginning of a whole-scale social and cultural transformation. As an…
Read More15.09.–16.09.2022 | SFB 1385 “Law and Literature” | University of Münster Deadline: March 31, 2022
Read MoreUniversity of Erfurt | July 14th-15th, 2022 Deadline: February 28, 2022 This workshop is convened by the research group “Praxeologies of Truth.” We regard truth as a performative and as a social operator, observable in scenarios that foreground the embodied relationalities of a set of actors and their communicative practices. The workshop seeks to examine…
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.…
Read MoreINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG | OCTOBER 6-8, 2022 ORGANIZED BY THE DFG-FUNDED PROJECT “ENTANGLED OBJECTS? THEMATERIAL CULTURE OF DIPLOMACY (1700-1830),” DIRECTED BY VOLKER DEPKAT (AMERICAN STUDIES) AND HARRIET RUDOLPH (EARLY MODERN HISTORY) Deadline: January 31, 2022 The interdisciplinary conference examines the variable forms, functions, and politico-legal semantics of object use in diplomatic…
Read More2022 Conference for the American Studies Association of Norway (ASANOR) | Nord University (Bodø, Norway) | September 29 – October 1, 2022 Deadline: April 8, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: May 31, 2022 The process of Europeanisation that has happened in political, social, cultural and especially legal form over the last decades, may duly be considered one of the most important and powerful changes within Europe, but also beyond. The process of instituting and developing a European internal market as a catalyst did not…
Read MoreInternational und interdisciplinary conference at Philipps-University of Marburg/Germany | November 23-25, 2022 Deadline: January 15, 2022 The conference aims at analyzing configurations of gendered power relations from the early modern era to the present from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus will be on these relations’ transformations and how they have been renegotiated and revisioned regarding…
Read MoreEdited by Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling, Jana Weiß Deadline: March 15, 2022 History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) is seeking new contributions for publication in Volume 2 (2023). We are inviting proposals for (1) individual articles for sections I & III as well as (2) guest editors for the thematic section II. HIC focuses on…
Read MoreDate: February 3, 2022 | 7.30 – 9.15 p.m. | Zoom Proposal Deadline: December 20, 2021 During our first teach-in in February 2021, we considered the Trump administration’s 1776 Report and its impact on teaching American Studies (in Germany). Our proposal for a new event picks up the underlying baseline of “doing” and “teaching” American Studies by…
Read MoreInternational academic conference of the Regensburg Center for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS) and the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World | Regensburg, 19 – 21 May 2022 Application Deadline: January 10, 2022 As a contingent event par excellence, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore a variety of different…
Read MoreThe 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference | University of Seville, Spain | July 12-14, 2022 Extended Deadline: November 20, 2021 The Emily Dickinson International Society is extending its deadline until November 20 for proposal submission to its international conference, “Dickinson and Foreignhood,” and to its Critical Institute, both to take place at the College…
Read MoreBonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies | July 6-8, 2022 Deadline: January 31, 2022 Conference organizers: Claudia Jarzebowski and Pia Wiegmink (BCDSS), Susanne Lettow (FU Berlin)and Heike Raphael-Hernandez (University of Würzburg) The conference will explore questions regarding the heritage of slaveries and other forms of strong asymmetrical dependencies in history such as peonage, indentured…
Read MoreDepartment of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria | May 27-28, 2022 Deadline: December 1, 2021 The term “flyover country” has specifically US-American roots and has developed into a metaphorical condensation of several interrelated issues: a geographical image that suggests many (political, social, cultural) forms of marginalization; a technological image that speaks of different forms…
Read MoreExtended Deadline: December 1, 2021 Dear Members of the German Association for American Studies, The deadline for submission of workshop proposals for the 2022 annual meeting of the DGfA/GAAS on “Political Education and American Studies” from June 9-11, 2022, in Tübingen has been extended to December 1, 2021. We received a number of great proposals,…
Read MoreConference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022 Deadline: February 15, 2022 Conveners: Axel Jansen (GHI), Manuel Franzmann (Sociology, Kiel), Alice O’Connor (History, University of California, Santa Barbara) Political utopias have long envisioned a life without the need for paid work and free of economic struggle. At…
Read MoreBremen-Turku-Warsaw-Stockholm-Dresden Series | Contradictory Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalizations | June 17-18, 2022, Stockholm University Submission Deadline: December 15, 2021 Debates on language use, political correctness and identity politics seem to gain more and more attention in an increasingly polarizing society. Buzzwords such as cancel culture, snowflakes, woke, white fragility, safe spaces and trigger warnings…
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Online Symposium | February 23–24, 2022 | University of Wuppertal, Germany Submission Deadline: December 12, 2021 Following the work of Michaela Maroufof and Hara Kouki (2017, 78), “[m]igration must be understood as a complex social process that is also shaped by the agency of the migrants.” Agency, however, is often neglected in seemingly benevolent…
Read MoreSpecial Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021 Call for Papers The University as a Theater of Culture Wars: Then and Now Special Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies Edited by Florian Zappe The institution of the university is at the heart of the culture wars raging in contemporary American society.…
Read MoreSubmission Deadline: March 30, 2022 – Special Issue: Amerikastudien | American Studies – Call for Contributions: Research Articles or Original Lyric Poetry Capitalist Crisis Poetry:Neoliberalism and the 21st Century Lyric Editors: Stefan Benz (Universität Bonn), Marcel Hartwig (Universität Siegen), Hannah Schoch (Universität Zürich) For this special journal issue to appear with Amerikastudien | American Studies,…
Read MoreHeidelberg, Germany | March 21-25, 2022 Submission Deadline: November 15, 2021 The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 21-25, 2022. The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to…
Read More6th International Conference on American Drama and Theater | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) | June 1-3, 2022 Submission Deadline: December 1, 2021 The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, co-sponsored by the Spanish universities of Cádiz and Sevilla and the University of Lorraine in France, and working in partnership with the American Theater and Drama Society…
Read MoreUNED | Madrid, April 6-8, 2022 Submission Deadline: October 10, 2021 The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land . The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United…
Read MoreSubmission Deadline: November 17, 2021 Als langjähriger Richter beim U.S. Supreme Court setzte sich Louis D. Brandeis stets für die freie Debatte als Teil der demokratischen Ordnung ein. Seine abweichende Begründung in der Entscheidung des Supreme Courts im Fall Whitney v. California gilt als die vielleicht beste Verteidigung der Redefreiheit durch ein Mitglied des Supreme…
Read MoreAnnual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies | University of Jena | May 19-21, 2022 Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021 Call for PapersPolitical Norms and Normative Politics?Development, Stagnation, Erosion Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.Political Science…
Read MoreInstitute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), UK, 13-14 January 2022, Preston campus and online Submission deadline: October 31, 2021 Practices and discourses of mobility have been crucial for the Black experience across the Atlantic World. Civilisations from Africa and Europe have been in contact since antiquity, and interactions between Africa and…
Read MoreBavarian American Academy Annual Conference | July 7-9, 2022 Deadline: October 31, 2021 The American Revolution is, obviously, the founding moment of the United States of America that continues to be present in the U.S. and beyond. From the late eighteenth-century on, it has been and continues to be an inspiration for social movements and…
Read MoreDeadline: October 31, 2021 Series Editors: Robert Singer, Gary D. Rhodes, Frances Smith Over his four-decade long career, Abel Ferrara has built himself a reputation of being one of the most audacious and unconventional filmmakers in contemporary cinema. After his beginnings in the exploitation circuit of late 1970s he developed to become one of the…
Read MoreDeadline: September 30, 2021 Call for papers for a panel called Natural Disasters and Risk Management from a Global North-South Perspective. This panel is part of the conference History of Insurance in a Global Perspective, held at the University of Basel, Switzerland, July 20-22, 2022. We invite scholars interested in participating to submit proposals for papers. Paper proposals…
Read MoreVirtual Seminar, November 10, 2021 Deadline: September 21, 2021 Conference organizers: Markus Heide (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany), Thomas Hallock (University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA), Marcel Hartwig (University of Siegen, Germany), Lenin Martell Gámez (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Mexico). Sponsors: Society of Early Americanists, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, University of Siegen.…
Read MoreTübingen, May 19-21, 2022 Deadline: September 30, 2021 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 19-21 May 2022, hosted by the University of Tübingen, Germany. Keynote speakers will be Letícia Cesarino (Federal University of Santa Catarina), Mark…
Read MoreExtended Deadline: December 1, 2021 Political Education and American Studies Political Education has played a special role in German American Studies due to the unique political context of the development of the discipline in postwar Germany. After the Second World War, American Studies itself was seen as instrumental for German re-education in West Germany. The…
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CfP Deadline: May 31, 2021 Political Journalism between Media Change and Democratization from the 17th to the 21st Centuries, International Conference, University of Bayreuth, June 16–18, 2022 Conveners: Volker Depkat (American Studies, University of Regensburg), Susanne Lachenicht (Early Modern History, University of Bayreuth), Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Romance Languages/Intercultural Communication, Saarland University), Christine Vogel (Modern European History,…
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Follow the link to the the Call for Papers: https://dgfa.de/wp-content/uploads/DGfA-2020_CfP.pdf All members of the association and those interested are invited to submit paper proposals for the 2020 Annual Conference. Please send your paper proposals directly to the workshop organizers listed above. Each workshop will have six slots for presentations. A minimum of two presentations have…
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CHALLENGES OF THE POST-TRUTH ERA IN AMERICAN STUDIES 30TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE POSTGRADUATE FORUM (PGF) OF THE GERMAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES (GAAS/DGFA) Since its inception in 1989, the PGF has been a platform for early career researchers in the field of American studies to present their current work and engage in critical conversations…
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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS, 67TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE DGFA: “PARTICIPATION IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY,” HEIDELBERG CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES (HCA), HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY, JUNE 4-6, 2020 Deadline: October 1, 2019 Local Organizers: Manfred Berg (History), Ulrike Gerhard (Geography), Günter Leypoldt (Literature and Culture), Margit Peterfy (Literature and Culture), Jan Stievermann (Religious History), Martin Thunert…
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Symposium: African American Worldmaking in the Long Nineteenth CenturyUniversity of Potsdam, October 11 and 12, 2019 Organizers: Verena Adamik, Hannah Spahn, and Nicole Waller 4 Presentation Slots for Early-Career Scholars: Work in Progress Presentations This symposium brings together early-career scholars (doctoral researchers or researchers in an early postdoc stage) with established scholars and community historians…
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Call for Papers: “Relativität und Bildung” Fachdidaktische Tagung vom 18.2.-20.02.2020 an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen In einer pluralen und demokratischen Gesellschaft ist die Relativität von Gewissheiten konstitutiv geworden, so sind auch politische und religiöse Vereindeutigungsversuche hier nur Ausdruck für die Nachfrage nach stellvertretenden Bewältigungsangeboten. Das Thema Relativität scheint aber neben dieser gesellschaftlichen Dimension auch…
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Migrant states of exception proliferate and intensify across the world. While processes of globalization have fostered movement and enhanced connectivity on a hitherto unprecedented scale, they have also brought the highly uneven distribution of elected and enforced mobility to the fore. Such physical and virtual forms of mobility are at the center of processes of…
Read MorePlease follow this link to find the WORKSHOPS – CALL FOR PAPERS for the 66th annual meeting of the DGfA in Hamburg, 2019.
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Dear colleagues, we invite contributions to a Special Issue (to appear with Atlantic Studies) on “Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World”. Please find the call for contributions at http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/rjas-atlantic-studies-black-editorship. Deadline: October 31, 2018 We look forward to your input! Nele Sawallisch & Johanna Seibert
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The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual one‐week Spring Academy conference, which provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects. The sixteenth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics & Religion will be held from March 18-22, 2019. APPLICATIONS…
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Call for Papers: Atlantic Studies: Global Currents Routledge, UK: www.tandfonline.com/rjas Special Issue: “Black Editorship in the Early Atlantic World” Scholarship on early African American print has developed substantially in the last decade. Major collections like Lara Langer Cohen and Alexander Stein’s Early African American Print Culture (2012) or George Hutchinson and John K. Young’s Publishing Blackness (2013), along…
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Call for Papers: Culture & International History VI: Visions of Humanity 6 – 8 May 2019 in Berlin John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin The conference Culture and International History VI will take place from the 6th through the 8th of May, 2019 in Berlin. Siep Stuurman (Universiteit Utrecht), author of The Invention of…
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The Age of Sharing? Practices of Sharing in Contemporary Media, Literature and Culture (20.-22. March 2019; University Koblenz-Landau/Germany) The concept of sharing has become pervasive in the 21st century. We are encouraged to ‘share’ our digital data (e.g. facebook) and to participate in the ‘sharing industry’ (e.g. Airbnb). Moreover, popular self-help literature emphasizes that we…
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“Intersectionality: Theories, Policies, Practices” February 14-17, 2019, Grainau, Germany 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS) The Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries is a multidisciplinary academic association which aims to increase and disseminate a scholarly understanding of Canada. For our 2019 annual conference, we invite papers from…
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Challenging Comfort as an Idea(l) in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Dec 8, 2018; University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau Contemporary culture has a deeply ambivalent attitude towards comfort. On the one hand, comfort is enshrined as a key ideal in practices from nursing to urban planning. Healthy home and working environments are characterised in terms of…
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