Events

56th Congress of the French Association of American Studies (AFEA)

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

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

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

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...