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A major reassessment of New York City’s first Black mayor and the fragile coalition politics that reshaped urban America.
The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies' (CISCS) Fiction and Poetry Reading Group is set to reconvene in November 2026! For this iteration of the group, we will be discussing 6 contemporary texts by Indigenous writers from across the Arctic. The group is open to all and meets online (typically) once per month.
Call for Papers: Geographies of Horror Department of English Studies (University of Zadar) in collaboration with The Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG) Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University) May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)
The BAAS schools newsletter, Summer 2026, is now available to access on our website. Visit the schools page for further details and a link.
Fearless Fiction uses experimental literature to change the way we see ourselves, our neighbours, and our world. Join us as we read, wrestle with, and revel in David Foster Wallace’s postmodern masterpiece, Infinite Jest, for its thirtieth anniversary.
The British Association for American Studies (BAAS) is seeking two Conference Managers to oversee the planning and running of its 72nd Annual Conference. This is its third to be hosted entirely remotely and will be held online in March and April 2027 (provisionally 31 March – 2 April 2027).
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