Events

• The 2020 RAAS-Fulbright Conference, October 8-10
  January 21st, 2020

  The 2020 RAAS-Fulbright Conference: "Eco Consciousness: Imperatives in American Culture" Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania; October 8-10, 2020 The topic of the conference invites contributors to reflect on the significance of ECOlogy as key concern in the United States of America and around the world today. Some of the questions the ...read more

• ASAT Conference, Ankara, November 2017
  February 22nd, 2017

  The American Studies Association of Turkey and the Department of American Culture and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey organize the conference entitled Manifestations of Love and Hate in American Culture and Literature, November 1–3, 2017, and invite the submission of individual abstracts, panels, and proposals from any branch of American Studies. ...read more

• The Fifth International Conference on American Drama and Theatre
  February 14th, 2017

  Migrations in American Drama and Theater 5th International Conference on American Theatre and Drama   Nancy, France; 4-6 June 2018 Abstracts due 15 September 2017   Working in partnership with the American Theater and Drama Society (ATDS) and the Spanish universities of Cádiz, Sevilla, and Madrid Autónoma, the ...read more

• HELAAS Conference, Thessaloniki, December 2017
  February 11th, 2017

  The Department of American Literature of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS), invite scholars to submit proposals for the international conference – The Politics of Space and the Humanities – to be held in Thessaloniki between December 15-17, 2017. Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2017. For further details, please click here.

• SAAS Conference, Cáceres, Spain, April 2017
  May 16th, 2016

  The “13th International Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) Conference. Understanding (Human) Nature” will be held at the University of Extremadura. Cáceres (Spain), 5 -7 April 2017. The list with the 24 panels issuing out call for papers can be accessed at the following site: https://sites.google.com/site/saasconference2017/list-of-panels-participants ...read more

• Image Gallery: The 2014 RAAS - Fulbright Conference
  April 3rd, 2015

• 2014 EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award
  November 3rd, 2014

  Call for Manuscript Submissions ~ Extended Deadline 7th November 2014 The European Association for American Studies invites submissions for its biennial Rob Kroes Publication Award for an unpublished book-length manuscript. The award is named for Rob Kroes, who served as Treasurer (1976–1988) and President (1992–1996) of EAAS. For many years, Rob Kroes also edited the ...read more

• NAAS Conference, Oulu, Finland, May 2015
  October 1st, 2014

  "American Values: Public Virtues, Private Vices?" THE 24th BIENNIAL NAAS CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN STUDIES University of Oulu, Finland, May 11-13, 2015 The conference is organized by the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS) and it will offer papers - by approximately 100 speakers from 10 different countries - on how America has defined its central values in politics, ...read more

• RAAS Graduate Student Award (GSA) - Deadline Extension
  September 5th, 2014

  Requirements and Evaluating Procedure (2014)      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

• HELAAS Conference, Athens, November 2014
  May 6th, 2014

  The Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece in cooperation with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS), invites scholars to submit proposals for the international conference to be held in Athens between November 27-29, 2014. The topic chosen for this edition is The War on the Human: Human as Right, Human as Limit and ...read more

• The 2014 RAAS - Fulbright Conference
  March 3rd, 2014

  (Im)Migration Patterns: Displacement and Relocation in Contemporary America October 10-12, 2014   The topic of the conference invites contributors to explore recent reflections centered on issues of migration, more specifically patterns of immigration into the United States of America, and discuss current ways of surviving, coping with and embracing the experiences ...read more

• RJAS 2013 – Call for Articles
  April 1st, 2013

    The journal seeks contributions on the topic Remapping Urban Spaces – American Challenges for its first issue. Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2013. Further details: http://raas.ro/e-journals

• Call for RAAS - Fulbright Conference Topics
  March 31st, 2013

  The RAAS board is seeking topics for the next RAAS-Fulbright Conference to be held in October 2014.   Considering the large variety of research in the American Studies field from inter- and cross-cultural perspectives, we welcome any new topic proposal which would be challenging enough, thoroughly supported by recent bibliography, and inciting enough to attract a large number of ...read more

• RAAS Graduate Student Awardees 2012
  November 30th, 2012

  The Romanian Association for American Studies has awarded the following RAAS members for their dissertations defended in 2011 or 2012 and submitted for the Graduate Student Award: Sorina Chiper, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, for the best PhD dissertation; Cristina-Maria Nițu, University of Bucharest, for the best MA dissertation.   The announcement was ...read more

• Image Gallery: The 2012 RAAS - Fulbright Conference
  October 6th, 2012