USAbroad invites public history or public history-related contributions investigating US compelling past(s), heritage, memories and socio-economic fractures. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the field, which benefits from the integration of various research areas and communication methods, contributions may draw from, but are not limited to, the following research areas related to American history.
The Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program is a mechanism facilitated by the scholars and IASA and its scholarly journal RIAS – Review of International American Studies for the acquisition of experience
and the honing of skills of academic, scholarly and administrative leadership.
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Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) 2024 Hybrid Conference WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE We invite submissions that critically examine the intersections of race and ethnicity within popular culture. From film and television to literature and social media, this CFP seeks to interrogate the ways in which racial identities are constructed, represented, and contested in contemporary media … Read More “15/06/2024 (CFP) – Race & Ethnicity in Popular Culture at NEPCA 2024” »
WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE Date: May 2, 2024 Location: Torino, Italy Subject Fields: African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, Slavery, Women’s & Gender History / Studies The PhD program in Global History of Empires is pleased to invite anyone interested in the workshop “Slavery after Abolitionism? Temporalities, (Im)Mobility and Labor in Global Perspective”. Invited presenters … Read More “02/05/2024 (Workshop) – Slavery after Abolitionism? Temporalities, (Im)Mobility and Labor in Global Perspective” »
The virtual conference will focus on US American imaginaries related to neo/noir and thriller narratives. WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE We wish to collect presentations that deal with noir broadly intended as, after all, “noir itself is a kind of mediascape—a loosely related collection of perversely mysterious motifs or scenarios that circulate through all the information … Read More “17/06/2024 (CFP) – Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture” »
Il Centro Studi Americani ha il piacere di comunicarvi che il Seminario di Letteratura, Storia e Cultura Americana, organizzato in collaborazione con l’AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani) e l’Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti d’America in Italia, si terrà da lunedì 6 a mercoledì 8 maggio 2024. Il Seminario, tenuto da docenti statunitensi e italiani, si svolgerà presso la sede del Centro Studi Americani,
in via Michelangelo Caetani, 32 – Roma.
Netherlands American Studies Association is pleased to announce that it will hold its 29th annual Amerikanistendag on Friday, 14 June 2024. The event will be hosted by our colleagues at Leiden University.
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The conference invites reflections on the multimodal representations of the boundaries of US identity in popular culture and discourses, focusing on the diversity of identities, liminality, and disenfranchised experiences of US Americanness, as well as the construction of borders—both material and metaphorical—as means to define
the US national imaginary.
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WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE 2025 MLA Convention (https://www.mla.org/Events/2025-MLA-Convention) The 2025 MLA Annual Convention will be held from 9 to 12 January in New Orleans. Read about the presidential theme, Visibility. We look forward to meeting in person, and we hope you’ll join us! The Posthuman Studies session welcomes abstracts/papers that deal with the application of literary theory to historical/social/cultural issues. Posthuman as an … Read More “15/03/2024 (CFP) – Posthuman Studies Special Session (MLA 2025)” »
The editorial staff at Steinbeck Review invites submissions on the topic of “Steinbeck, Race, and Ethnicity.” Discussions of any Steinbeck work or works are welcome.
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