Promoting, supporting and encouraging the study of the United States since 1955

British Association for American Studies

×

News & Events

Join BAAS

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.

Latest News and Events

    Black Feminism(s) and Transnational Solidarity BAAS 2024

    The convenors of 2023’s BAAS Panel Black Feminism(s): Past, Present, and Future’ seek submissions from PhD students and ECRs for the 2024 continuation Panel, ‘Black Feminism(s) and Transnational Solidarity’.

    BAAS 2024 Constitutional Amendment

    BAAS members, make sure to check your emails for a link to the BAAS 2024 Constitutional Amendment vote which is currently running. The vote closes April 1, 2024 at 8pm. If you think you're a member and you haven't received the email with the election link, please contact Kate Ballantyne at secretary@baas.ac.uk.

    CFP Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity Conference

    Reprising its first edition, the conference will focus on how US American identities have been shaped, informed, configured, and challenged since the country’s foundation, looking at the centrality of boundaries broadly intended and borderlands as geopolitical, sociocultural, metaphorical zones of liminality

    CFP: Unmasking America – Comparative American Studies Special Issue

    This interdisciplinary special issue invites contributions which consider the role of the mask within and beyond America, in international and comparative contexts. Articles may consider masks as material object or metaphor, and as represented in any discipline. You could consider the following: -masks and crime and / horror -masks and superheroes -masks in celebrity culture -masks in theatre -masks and the posthuman -masks and the wellness industry

    Being Human Festival 2024: Call for Applications

    Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Each year we invite researchers and staff from universities and research organisations to take part in our national festival by organising a public engagement event or activity, rooted in humanities research.

    Asynchronous course on Multimodality and American Literature

    An asynchronous short course is offered by the Center for Education and Lifelong Learning of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, this spring with emphasis placed on Multimodality and American Literature under the following title: Multimodality: Print and Digital Anglophone Narratives (3,5 ECTS). The 100-hour program is delivered by the members of the “Multimodal Research and Reading Group” of the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Current page: 1 All pages 45