The eighteenth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 21-25, 2022. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects. More on the HCA website.
Croatian Association for American Studies (HUAmS) and Croatian Association for the Study of English (HDAS) announce the Call for Papers for a one-day workshop entitled Reading COVID-19 in the Anglo-American context. The workshop will be held on September 26, 2020 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. (In case of epidemic restrictions, the workshop will take place on-line.) Our key-note speaker will be Professor Stipe Grgas (American Studies Program, University of Zagreb). The deadline for proposals is August 15, 2020. Please read on for more details. [click to continue…]
This conference aims to bring together scholars who want to share their work on “the South” and “doing Southern Studies” in an uncommon place: Berlin – a place outside “the South.” The conference will take place at Humboldt University, 14-15 January 2021. Read on for details. [click to continue…]
The English Student Club X.a (University of Zagreb) is organizing its traditional international student conference on English Studies, Anglophonia. The conference will take place at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb on May 9-11, 2019. Follow the link for CfP and other details.
The 3rd Annual American Studies Workshop in Zagreb, “Quarter of a Century after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Perspectives and Directions in Croatian and Regional American Studies”, will take place on October 3, 2015. Here’s the preliminary program. [click to continue…]
Submissions are invited for papers for a special 2-day conference on Transnational and Transracial Adoption in North American Culture to be held at the University of Turku, Finland, August 27-28, 2015. The theme of the conference reflects the increasing attention that has been paid to this field in recent years. To what extent does the process of international adoption reflect imperious inequalities around the world, or can international adoption and the personal experiences of international adoptees today be seen more positively as what has been called the richness of “adoptive being” ? [click to continue…]
The next biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies will take place in Constanta, Romania from 22nd to 25th April, 2016.The EAAS conference will be hosted by our colleagues at Ovidius University in Constanta, with the local support of the Romanian Association for American Studies. To highlight the range and diversity of American Studies in Europe the EAAS is issuing an open call for proposals for the 2016 conference.
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