Events

• The 2012 RAAS - Fulbright Conference
  January 5th, 2012

  Remapping Urban Spaces – American Challenges Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania October 4-6, 2012  The topic of the conference aims at reflecting the current debates on the contemporary city in the context of the developments that take place within urban studies in the United States at a time when the economic, the social, the political and the cultural tend to ...read more

• The Fourth International Conference on American Drama and Theatre
  August 18th, 2011

  The conference will take place in Seville, Spain between May 28 and May 30, 2012. The topic chosen for this edition is The Romance of Theater: American Drama and Its Stories. Plenary speakers who have confirmed their attendance and participation are Harry Elam, Naomi Wallace, Christopher Durang, Johan Callens, Bob Vorlicky, David Savran and David Roman. For further details, please click here.

• 2011 EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award
  March 3rd, 2011

  The European Association for American Studies (EAAS) is pleased to announce its biennial award for the best book manuscript in American Studies. 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 series European Contributions to Americanwhere the EAAS Biennial Conference volumes ...read more

• Fulbright Program Officer at the American Studies Center, UB
  February 13th, 2011

  On Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Dr. Karene Grad Steiner, Fulbright Program Officer at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, who is in charge of the Fulbright Program in Romania, visited the American Studies Center at the University of Bucharest, where she had a most fruitful meeting with academics and graduate students involved in the field of American Studies.  

• 2011 EAAS TRAVEL GRANTS
  February 10th, 2011

  The European Association for American Studies invites applications for the 2011 EAAS travel grants. Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university, and are members of an American Studies association may apply. Two kinds of grants are available: the Transatlantic Grant and the Intra-European Grant. It is expected that ...read more

• Training for American Studies Graduates at LBUS
  January 28th, 2011

  Education Beyond the Classroom In the context of aligning Romanian education to international standards, university professors have often had to combine classroom-based work with professional development strategies for the teachers they train so as to meet today's complex educational improvement challenges. Part of this, mentorship competency falls within university ...read more

• Image Gallery: The 2010 RAAS - Fulbright Conference
  January 17th, 2011

                         

• RAAS Graduate Student Awardees 2010
  October 18th, 2010

  The Romanian Association for American Studies has awarded the following RAAS members for their dissertations defended between 2008 and 2010 and submitted for the Graduate Student Award: Dana Mihailescu, University of Bucharest, for the best PhD dissertation; Adelina Vartolomei, Ovidius University Constanta for the best MA dissertation.   The awarding ceremony took ...read more

• 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