News & Events

We are putting together a roundtable to submit to BAAS 2026 about American Studies at post-92 or 'modern' universities. We hope to recruit some historians or political scientists to our panel, which is currently made up of three literature scholars. If you are interested in joining us in Glasgow, please email Rowland Hughes at r.w.hughes@herts.ac.uk, Owen Clayton at oclayton@lincoln.ac.uk, and Stephanie Palmer at stephanie.palmer@ntu.ac.uk. Please respond by November 14th, since proposals are due to BAAS on November 28th.

Each year, BAAS offers a growing list of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research awards supporting the development of American studies in Britain. The 2026 awards are now open for submissions!

On Thursday 11th December, Dr. Tim Galsworthy will deliver the Annual History Lecture at Lincoln Bishop University. In this lecture, Dr. Galsworthy will discuss the key findings of his new book "The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP"

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, hosted by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

UEA: 2026 call for the Postdoc Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.

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