Green BAAS special issue of New Area Studies
Just published: a Green BAAS special issue of New Area Studies, Environmental American Studies.
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Just published: a Green BAAS special issue of New Area Studies, Environmental American Studies.
Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850
The fourth episode of the BAAS How To series has been released! In this video, Sian Round talks to Dr Nicole Gipson, Associate Editor of the Journal of American Studies, about writing an academic book review.
Together with the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the US-UK Fulbright Commission is excited to welcome applications from UK and US HEIs for the Global Challenges Teaching Awards. If you teach a course tackling some of the world's most urgent issues—Climate Action, Disinformation & Misinformation, Health Inequality, or Peace & Justice—we're looking to take your lessons global through collaborative online international learning/virtual exchange. Applications close on 10th March, so start your application today!
The annual conference of the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) will take place at the Long Room Hub in Trinity College Dublin on 24-26 April 2025. We welcome papers on the theme of “We the People” from all disciplines in American Studies. Abstracts of c. 300 words for 20-minute papers, along with a short author bio, should be submitted by attachment to conference@iaas.ie by Friday, 14th February 2025. Joint proposals for three-person panels are also invited. Further details are available at https://iaas.ie/iaas-annual-conference/
International conference - ENS de Lyon, France, Nov. 20-21, 2025. We invite submissions for an international conference exploring the literary posterity of the phrase “I am monarch of all I survey” from William Cowper’s 1782 poem.
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