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Annual Conference: Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies – Vienna 2025 AAAS ConferenceCall for Papers

Annual Conference: Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies – Vienna 2025

The 52nd AAAS conference will take place from October 3-5, 2025, at the University of Vienna, Austria. It is titled "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies." To critically look at some of the most challenging issues of the 21st century, American literary and cultural studies have turned to ruptures, fractures,…
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4. December 2024
Annual Conference “Education, the Arts, and American Studies” – Feldkirch 2024 AAAS Conference

Annual Conference “Education, the Arts, and American Studies” – Feldkirch 2024

The 51st AAAS conference will take place from October 17-19, 2024, at the University College of Teacher Education Vorarlberg, Austria. It will explore “Education, the Arts, and American Studies.” Teachers and scholars interested in presenting a paper are asked to submit their proposals until May 31, 2024. The topic of…
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30. December 2023
Annual Conference “Versions of America: Speculative Pasts, Presents, Futures” – Klagenfurt 2023 AAAS Conference

Annual Conference “Versions of America: Speculative Pasts, Presents, Futures” – Klagenfurt 2023

The United States has always been one and many, as its national motto E pluribus unum highlights. Although the phrase originally reflected the determination to form a political unity from a collection of single states, it has much deeper cultural meanings in a nation of immigrants where people with many…
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21. January 2023
Heidelberg Center for American Studies 20th Annual Spring Academy Conference Call for Papers

Heidelberg Center for American Studies 20th Annual Spring Academy Conference

The twentieth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 20-24, 2023. 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…
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27. October 2022
Call for Applications: Partial Funding for Salzburg Global Seminar in November 2022 Other Events

Call for Applications: Partial Funding for Salzburg Global Seminar in November 2022

Excellent early career scholars may apply for partial funding (650 Euros) for the Salzburg Global Seminar on "Democracy on the Front Lines: Polarization, Culture and Resilience in America and the World." The event will take place from 3-7 November 2022. Applications can be submitted by 1 August 2022. Democratic systems…
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3. June 2022
Annual Conference “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” – Salzburg 2022 AAAS Conference

Annual Conference “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” – Salzburg 2022

Recent years have seen a re-politicization of the US public sphere and dominant discourses. The upcoming annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) seeks to explore narrative frames at the core of such processes. Titled "Narrative, Environment, Social Justice," it takes place on 21-23 October 2022 at…
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1. December 2021
Annual Conference “American Studies as Vulnerability Studies?” – Graz 2020 Call for Papers

Annual Conference “American Studies as Vulnerability Studies?” – Graz 2020

The cutting-edge yet under-theorized topic of vulnerability in American Studies was at the core of discussions at the 47th annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies. The conference took place virtually from October 30-31, 2020, and was hosted by the University of Graz. (more…)
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25. June 2020