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.…

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…

“‘Game Over!’: U.S. Drama and Theater and the End(s) of an American Idea(l)” Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)1–3 June 2022

Heidelberg Center for American Studies 18th Annual Spring Academy Conference Heidelberg, Germany, 22–26 March, 2021 Call for papers Poster

The American Studies Association of Turkey and the Department of American Culture and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey organize the conference entitled Manifestations of Love and Hate in American Culture and Literature, November 1–3, 2017, and invite the submission of individual abstracts, panels, and proposals from any branch of American Studies. Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2017. For further details, please check http://www.asat-jast.org/index.php/2017-asat-conference

Migrations in American Drama and Theater 5th International Conference on American Theatre and Drama Nancy, France; 4-6 June 2018 Abstracts due 15 September 2017 Working in partnership with the American Theater and Drama Society (ATDS) and the Spanish universities of Cádiz, Sevilla, and Madrid Autónoma, the research group I.D.E.A. (“Théories et pratiques de l’interdisciplinarité dans les études anglophones”) and the Université de Lorraine are announcing a call for papers for the conference “Migrations in American Drama and Theater” to be held in Nancy, France, from 4 to 6 June 2018. This 5th International Conference on American Drama and Theater will be dedicated to the…

The Department of American Literature of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS), invite scholars to submit proposals for the international conference – The Politics of Space and the Humanities – to be held in Thessaloniki between December 15-17, 2017. Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2017. For further details, please click here.

The “13th International Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference. Understanding (Human) Nature” will be held at the University of Extremadura. Cáceres (Spain), 5 -7 April 2017. The list with the 24 panels issuing out call for papers can be accessed at the following site:https://sites.google.com/site/saasconference2017 Please submit all paper proposals directly to the Panel Chair no later than October 15, 2016.

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…