EAAS 2016 Conference Program Conference Program Outline EAAS 2016 ConferenceCall for Contributions:MappingTransnational America In his opening remarks at the 2016 EAAS conference held at Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania, HE Hans Klemm, U.S. Ambassador to Romania expressed his wish that the event will “bring fresh ideas to the transatlantic dialogue in American Studies”. In Transnationalism (2009), Steven Vervotec considers that since the 1990s the transnational has become increasingly important in many domains: communities, identities, cultures, spaces, capital, networks, societies, organizations, services, politics, trade. Equally, Rosendahl Thomsen in Mapping World Literatures: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures (2008) claims that binary oppositions, such as…

"American Values:Public Virtues, Private Vices?"THE 24th BIENNIAL NAAS CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN STUDIESUniversity of Oulu, Finland, May 11-13, 2015 The conference is organized by the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS) and it will offer papers - by approximately 100 speakers from 10 different countries - on how America has defined its central values in politics, history, literature, architecture, film, the media, popular culture, and everyday living. Why does it matter so much to the American public today whether or not Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings at the end of the eighteenth century? Are there some particular American ways…

The Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece in cooperation with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS), invites scholars to submit proposals for the international conference to be held in Athens between November 27-29, 2014. The topic chosen for this edition isThe War on the Human: Human as Right, Human as Limit and the Task of the Humanities. Keynote speakers who have confirmed their participation are Professor Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia) and Professor Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University). Deadline for paper submissions: June 30, 2014. For further details, please click here.

The conference will take place in Seville, Spain between May 28 and May 30, 2012. The topic chosen for this edition is The Romance of Theater: American Drama and Its Stories. Plenary speakers who have confirmed their attendance and participation are Harry Elam, Naomi Wallace, Christopher Durang, Johan Callens, Bob Vorlicky, David Savran and David Roman. For further details, please click here.