UPDATE – The 2023 RAAS-Fulbright Conference – TRAVEL INFORMATION AND ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS

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TRAVEL INFORMATION AND ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS Travel information From Bucharest Henri Coandă Airport to Constanţa. By shuttle bus – you can make reservations at https://alt-transportpersoane.ro/en/home/ or at https://kirvad.ro/. The shuttle will take you to the hotel. By train from Bucharest airport to Bucharest North Station. From Bucharest North Station to Constanţa. Reservations and ticket purchase at https://www.cfr.ro From Constanţa railway station to the hotel: take a taxi or, if you have the application, Bolt or Uber. The conference venue will be Ovidius University (Campus Building A; 1 Aleea Universitatii), within walking distance to the hotels suggested as accommodation options. Accommodation options:…

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2024 EAAS CONFERENCE 1924 – 2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited

The EAAS-conference 2024 seeks to engage with the complicated histories that have shaped the American immigrant narrative in all of its variations across time and from different disciplinary angles, and it welcomes contributions that critically interrogate its historical trajectories, political conundrums, regional manifestations, and myriad cultural representations. We invite scholars interested in exploring these topics to submit their proposals for individual papers or full panels. Proposals can be submitted via our conference tool by September 15, 2023. Abstracts for individual papers should be no longer than 300 words. Panel proposals should includea description of the panel as a whole and the abstracts of the individual papers.…

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News – The 2023 RAAS-Fulbright Conference

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MAPPING SPACES AND (THE) US October 5-7, 2023 The thematic framework that the conference promotes envisages various exploratory areas of research which, following such paths as “the spatial turn,” have stimulated considerable interest in critical spatial thinking across a large variety of subject areas. Starting from geography, architecture, urban and regional planning, and urban sociology, spatial thinking has reached far beyond the traditional disciplines to cover such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, postcolonial and feminist thought, race and gender theories, literary criticism and poetry, art and music, virtual and digital space, theology, law and economics, and global studies. In a…

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The 2023 RAAS-Fulbright Conference

MAPPING SPACES AND (THE) US October 5-7, 2023 The thematic framework that the conference promotes envisages various exploratory areas of research which, following such paths as “the spatial turn,” have stimulated considerable interest in critical spatial thinking across a large variety of subject areas. Starting from geography, architecture, urban and regional planning, and urban sociology, spatial thinking has reached far beyond the traditional disciplines to cover such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, postcolonial and feminist thought, race and gender theories, literary criticism and poetry, art and music, virtual and digital space, theology, law and economics, and global studies. In a…

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Alegerea noului board al RAAS

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Dupa cum se stie, intarzierea cu care declansam alegerile noului board al RAAS pentru urmatorii 4 ani se datoreaza situatiei create de restrictiile medicale din cauza carora am amanat si conferinta RAAS pentru anul acesta. Aspectele bune sunt ca vom tine conferinta in toamna, online. Daca tot suntem obisnuiti deja cu tehnologia vom organiza si votul electronic pentru board-ul RAAS pentru urmatorul mandat.  Din experienta de pana acum este preferabil ca board-ul ales sa fie din acelasi centru din cateva motive importante. Astfel, in demersurile bancare sunt situatii cand presedintele si trezorierul trebuie sa se deplaseze la banca personal sau trebuie…

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Wastelands – 34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE – Madrid 6-8 April 2022

Wastelands 34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE Madrid 6-8 April 2022 Organized by the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) with the collaboration of the Universidad Complutense. 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 States. Hence, the overarching theme of the conference is open to all kinds of reflections around the concept of “wasteland” and waste. EAAS 2022 invites proposals that address the…

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The 2021 RAAS Conference (online)

On the occasion of The 2021 RAAS Conference (online), 7-9 October 2021, The Romanian Association for American Studies andthe Doctoral School of Humanities, Philology (Ovidius University Constanța) invite PhD students specializing in American Studies to present their doctoral projects on 7 October 2021 (online workshops).  The event is meant to provide the participants with necessary feedback: questions and suggestions, necessary information about similar work being done by other doctoral students. If you are interested in participating, please fill in the registration form attached separately to this message and return it until July 30, 2021, at the following e-mail address: [email protected] Call for doctoral projects_RAAS_ 2021_October_7 Registration_Form_2021_RAAS_Doctoral workshops__October 7

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