Events
Description: In 1941, Henry Luce referred to the 20th century as “the American century,” highlighting the United States' emergence as a global superpower and providing a celebratory concept that embodied both national narratives and international perceptions of U.S.... Description: Epitomizing America’s quest for the frontier, California stands island-like in the collective imagination of North America. Its location on the edge of the western world, and its history at the margin of the dominant discourse on the United States up... Description: Landmark works such as Appandurai's The Social Life of Things (1986) suggest that there has been an increasing interest in material objects in aesthetic and literary theory: things are no longer relegated to anthropological study of material culture, but... Description: California occupies a central position in American studies and has inspired countless papers and books from its admission to statehood up to the present. While other U.S. cities and regions have in the past attracted the attention of social scientists on... Description: This year’s conference invites papers on any topic relating to histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas, but encourages proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that explore the subject of emotion. How do we reflect on, train... Description: The SASA committee hereby invites proposals for papers exploring all aspects of and approaches to the history, cultures and politics of the Americas. SASA recognizes a broad definition of the Americas and includes any topic situated within North, South or... Description: The BAAS Annual Conference 2025 Call for Papers is now live. We invite submissions for the 70th Annual Conference for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) at the University of Hertfordshire, which will be held between 23rd and 25th April... 2025 BAAS Awards Description: Each year, BAAS offers a growing list of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research assistant awards, supporting the development of American studies in Britain. The 2025 Awards are now open to submissions. Descriptions of our... Description: We would like to share our call for proposals to attend and present your research at the upcoming World Social Science Association Conference. The World Social Science Association is comprised of scholars across many disciplines in the social sciences and... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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...21st-century United States: A Historical Assessment
California Dreaming. Visions, Spaces, and Shadows from the Golden State
Re-Examining American Literature Student Symposium (REAL)
California as the Epicenter of Social Sciences
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) 2025 Conference
26th Annual Conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America
BAAS Conference 2025 – University of Hertfordshire
2025 BAAS Awards
First Nation, Indigenous Studies and American Indian Students Section | World Social Science Association Conference
International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games
17th SAAS Conference: American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies
56th Congress of the French Association of American Studies (AFEA)
46th American Indian Workshop
Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture
12th World Congressof the International American Studies Association
International conference “Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity”
