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BAAS Annual Conference 2026 Call for Papers

The College of Arts & Humanities and Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow are delighted to host the 71st annual British Association for American Studies conference at the University of Glasgow, to be held from Thurs 9^th to Sat 11^th April 2026. We look forward to welcoming the international American Studies community to our beautiful West End campus.

This will be the first BAAS conference in Glasgow since 1999, and the first in Scotland since 2008. The conference coincides with the 250-year anniversary of 1776 and thus offers opportunities for new scholarly appraisal; 2026 also marks the University of Glasgow’s 575^th Anniversary. We are delighted to announce Professor Mia Bay (Cambridge),  Professor Sinéad Moynihan (Exeter), and Professor Simon Newman (Institute for Research in the Humanities) as, respectively, the 2026 Journal of American Studies, Eccles Centre and Andrew Hook Centre keynote speakers.

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