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.
Alongside our usual practice of accepting work in any area of American Studies, as this year will be the 70th anniversary of BAAS, we also aim to have two key strands within the conference:
- ‘1955’: We will be thinking about 1955 as a flashpoint year. We welcome proposals about key 1955 events/culture (e.g., the opening of Disneyland; the Montgomery Bus Boycott; Emmett Till’s murder; On the Waterfront at the Oscars) and their aftermath/longue durée.
- ‘American Studies Today’: We want to think about the history, shape, and development of American Studies (especially in the UK), as well as the discipline’s present and future in an era of higher education crisis.
Beyond these themes, proposals are welcomed on any subject in American Studies, though as ever we encourage – and will prioritise – non-traditional formats. While CFPs often ask to reconfigure the three-paper panel, for our 70th anniversary conference we want to do things differently. We therefore ask: what are conferences are for, and who do they serve? How can we include more people in our sessions and rethink the ways in which we present and learn from each other?
- November 22nd, 2024
Submission guidelines:Please click here for the full CFP.
Institution: BAAS
