International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games
Description: Ever since Steven Russell, Wayne Wittanen, and J. M. Graetz, three MIT employees who fantasized about bringing Edward E. Smith’s (1890-1965) Skylark novels (1915-1966) to the big screen, developed Spacewar! (1961), one of the first digital games created...
17th SAAS Conference: American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies
Description: In 2025, we commemorate the centenary of Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The novel explores, among other themes, the downside of the American Dream and how achieving material wealth does not guarantee happiness. In 1931, James Truslow Adams published...
56th Congress of the French Association of American Studies (AFEA)
Description: The term “resistance” has recently made a comeback in the United States. It was used during Donald Trump’s presidency to refer to those who opposed his policies: the hashtag #TheResistance was first embodied in the January 2017 Women’s March and later...
46th American Indian Workshop
Description: The American Indian Workshop (AIW) was founded in 1980 and has become the most important European scholarly platform for researchers concerned with topics related to the Native Peoples of North America. The AIW also includes scholars from all over the...
Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture
Description: The virtual conference will focus on US American imaginaries related to neo/noir and thriller narratives. We wish to collect presentations that deal with noir broadly intended as, after all, “noir itself is a kind of mediascape—a loosely related...
12th World Congressof the International American Studies Association
Description: As we approach the end of the twenty-first century’s first quarter, we find ourselves in an era that W.J.T. Mitchell famously termed the “pictorial turn”—a period marked by the abundance and explosion of visual imagery. Indeed, the phenomenon is by no...
International conference “Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity”
Description: Reprising its first edition, the conference will focus on how US American identities have been shaped, informed, configured, and challenged since the country’s foundation. It will look at the centrality of boundaries broadly intended and borderlands as...
