Events

• RAAS Graduate Student Award (GSA)
  June 12th, 2010

    Requirements and Evaluating Procedure (2010)   The Romanian Association for American Studies will reward one best MA dissertation and one best PhD dissertation submitted by graduate students and/or junior faculty members. The MA dissertation award will consist of a 150 euro prize and the PhD dissertation award will consist of a 250 euro prize as well as an ...read more

• 2010 EAAS TRAVEL GRANTS
  January 11th, 2010

  The European Association for American Studies is pleased to announce the 2010 EAAS travel grants for postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university. Two kinds of grants are available: the Transatlantic Grant and the Intra-European Grant. It is expected that four scholarships will be available this year. The ...read more

• The 2010 RAAS – Fulbright Conference
  January 11th, 2010

  The American Tradition of Descent/Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the (Anti)Utopian   Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania October 7-9, 2010   The topic of this conference aims at reflecting the contemporary atmosphere of dissent in the United States at a time when the economic, the social, the political and ...read more

• 2009 EAAS Rob Kroes AWARDEE
  October 12th, 2009

   The Rob Kroes Publication award committee has decided that Professor Astrid Franke (University of Tübingen) shall receive the 2009 Rob Kroes Publication Award. Her book manuscript, "Pursue the Illusion: Problems of Public Poetry in America," will be published as volume 2 of the EAAS book series European Views of the United States. The award will be presented to Astrid Franke ...read more

• American Studies at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu
  October 12th, 2009

  Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, the Faculty of Letters is happy to announce the launching of the American Studies BA Program, hoping to contribute to the consolidation of American Studies in Romania. For further details check http://litere.ulbsibiu.ro/.

• Expressions of the Self: Autobiography and Its Avatars
  June 2nd, 2009

  THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  - CALL FOR PAPERS The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, invites you to the Expressions of the Self: Autobiography and Its Avatars Conference to be held in Iasi on 24-26 September 2009.  Recognised since the late 18th century as a literary genre ...read more

• 2009 EAAS Rob Kroes Award
  March 15th, 2009

  Dear EAAS Board Members,   During last year’s Board Meeting in Oslo we decided to create an award for the best book manuscript in American Studies, thus honoring the special services to EAAS of Professor Rob Kroes. The following announcement is also available online at www.eaas.eu/2009_rob_kroes_award.htm.  Best regards, Hans-Jürgen   2009 EAAS ...read more

• Accepting proposals for small grants
  February 12th, 2009

  The American Cultural Center of the US Embassy in Bucharest is pleased to announce that it is now accepting proposals for small grants to support American Studies programs in Romania. We are accepting requests for funding from universities that have American Studies programs, undergraduate and graduate. University programs and American Studies scholars may request grants for travel to conferences ...read more