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Concentric, a journal for literary and cultural studies published by the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, is inviting submissions for its March 2016 issue. This special issue attempts to further the inquiry into the dynamic nature of memory cultures by forging dialogue between mnemonic contexts in/about Asia and those in Europe, North America, Australia, etc. the deadline is June 30, 2015. More details on the journal website.

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The 3rd Annual American Studies Workshop in Zagreb will take place on October 3, 2015 at the Faculty of Humanities and social Sciences in Zagreb. This year, the workshop is entitled “Quarter of a Century after the Fall of the Berlin Wall – Perspectives and Directions in Croatian and Regional American Studies“. Taking stock of the last quarter century, the workshop intends to explore the ways the United States, conceptualized through the discipline of American Studies, had made its presence felt in the breakup of Yugoslavia and how its culture, diplomacy, economic influence, its images and values have continued to play a role in the countries that came into being after the dissolution of the federation. [click to continue…]

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The European Association for American Studies invites submissions for its biennial Rob Kroes Publication Award for an unpublished book-length manuscript. the deadline has been extended to 7th November 2014. [click to continue…]

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University of Zadar is announcing the 5th International Rethinking Humanities and Social Science Conference, which is to be held from September 26-28, 2014. For more information read on, or visit the conference website: http://rhss-conference.com.

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The English Department of the University of Sarajevo will host an American Studies Symposium on Saturday, March 22, 2014. We invite you to join us for a full day of theme-based sessions and discussion groups, with ample opportunities to present a range of approaches, and to exchange reactions, impressions, and suggestions. [click to continue…]

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Croatian Association for American Studies (HUAmS) and American Studies Program at the University of Zagreb are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2nd annual American Studies Workshop, which will take place in Zagreb, Saturday, May 24th, 2014.

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European Association for American Studies invites students from all EAAS member states to contribute to this conference by either offering a poster presentation, or by presenting a 15-minute paper. Group (poster) presentations are welcome too. Potential themes may include but are not restricted to the following: domestic conflicts; slave revolts; race, class, gender and religious conflicts; the US’s involvement in international wars from the (pre-)colonial times to the present; WWI and II; the Marshall Plan; cultural diplomacy; the Cold War; Vietnam; the First Gulf War; Afghanistan; 9/11; Iraq; the war on terror, and the war on drugs; violent responses to immigration and the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border; the past / present role of the U.S. in the international community (UN, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, NATO); representations of justice, conflict, war in literature, film, and other media; war as cultural misunderstanding; war trauma, etc. [click to continue…]

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On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, The Department of English at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb is organizing the conference English Studies as Archive and as Prospecting. The conference will take place 18-21 September 2014. Confirmed  plenary speakers are: Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven, Belgium), Winfried Fluck (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA). [click to continue…]

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Časopis [SIC] poziva na suradnju u tematskom broju, kao nastavku aktivnosti na jednodnevnom amerikanističkom simpoziju u organizaciji HUAmS-a nedavno  održanom u Zagrebu. Pozivamo sve sudionike skupa i ostale zainteresirane članove HUAmS-a da svojim prilozima sudjeluju u oblikovanju i ostvarivanju tematskoga broja časopisa SIC pod naslovom “From classroom to the public sphere: new methodologies and approaches in American Studies”. Tekstove za temat možete slati na hrvatskome i na engleskome jeziku. Rok za slanje priloga je 30. rujna 2013. godine.  [click to continue…]

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4th International Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences Conference is to be held at the University of Zadar, Croatia, September 5-7, 2013.
This year’s conference focuses on the ways in which violence is conceived and perceived within different contexts, the ways in which literature, film, performance, and other forms of art relate to and incorporate contemporary outbursts of violence, the new ways in which this process can be theorized in the field of humanities and social sciences, and finally the ways in which this type of violence changes cultural politics of diversity in societies. [click to continue…]

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