The British Association for American Studies is pleased to maintain a list of news and events from across the American Studies community.
The items below include news from BAAS itself and submissions from other institutions and organisations. You will find posts organised by category below. Each week, the news and events submitted to BAAS, are included on the Weekly Digest mailing. You can sign up to receive the weekly mailing by completing this form.
To submit content to appear on this page and to be included in our Weekly Digest mailing, please submit your content to us by completing the submission form.
“Smith’s work on the experience of Black farmers during the Jim Crow era joins a vibrant field of scholarship focused on agriculture as a site of independence and self-sufficiency, not only as a site of exploitation.” —Adrienne Monteith Petty, author of Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War
In Progress is a peer-reviewed online journal based at the English Department of Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. For our Spring 2027 issue, we invite submissions from MA students in North American Cultural Studies, including revised term papers and essays of up to 7500 words. Deadline: Oct 15th, 2026.
The deadline for submitting an application to the BAAS Development Fund is approaching on 1st October 2026.: BAAS invites scholars in any field of American Studies to apply for grants of up to two years in duration. Grants may be requested for up to a maximum of £2000 for a range of American Studies academic activities that seek to develop American Studies scholarly communities.
On Thursday 3 September, from 5pm-7pm, at the Brig Cafe in Birmingham, join UK American Studies Against the Genocide for an event on mobility justice and empire, featuring Dr. Dani Abulhawa (University of Leeds), Dr. Nathan Cardon (University of Birmingham) and local activists. For more information and to register: https://buytickets.at/ukamericanstudiesagainstthegenocide/2371671
The purpose of this year’s virtual conference is to open a space for the analysis of the ethical principles (or lack thereof) that seem to guide the construction, circulation and reception of public discourses within the popular culture ecosystem, including both more traditional mediums such as television and comics, but also the products that emerge from generative AI.
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of a document that changed the world: The US Declaration of Independence. We are recognising this momentous period in British American history with a powerful free exhibition that charts the emergence of the United States of America. Original maps, correspondence, first-hand accounts and a rare, original ‘Dunlap broadside’ of the Declaration of Independence, printed on the night of 4 July 1776, will be on display.
We encourage you to submit content for the BAAS Weekly Digest, which will also appear on this page. Each week the digest is emailed out to our full list of subscribers and includes information on upcomming events, conferences, job opportunities, call for papers and more. You can submit your item to the digest, by clicking the button below.
