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Each year, BAAS offers a growing list of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research assistant awards, supporting the development of American studies in Britain. The 2026 Awards are now open to submissions. Descriptions of our awards can be found on the BAAS Awards web page, with more detail on the submission requirements.
Applications are now open for long-term or short-term fellowships from Newbury Library. Apply for long-term fellowships by November 21 and short-term fellowships by December 8.
The Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania at the British Library is inviting applications for its 2026–2027 Visiting Fellowship programme. If you are working on any kind of project about the Americas (the peoples and lands of Canada, the USA, the Caribbean, and Central and South America) that would be transformed by a few weeks of using the Library’s collections, this could be the fellowship for you. The deadline to apply is 17.00 GMT on Friday 19 December 2025.
The theme of the next Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (8-12 July 2026, Concord, MA) is "Living Well: Thoreau, Health, and Flourishing." Please find below a call for papers for a panel titled "'Worth the Postage': Thoreau's Correspondence"
The Royal Society for Asian Affairs, with the FCDOA and International Institute for Asian Studies, will hold a two-day online conference (6–7 November) discussing US policy across Asia under President Trump’s second term.
Are you interested in joining the Fiction and Poetry Reading Group hosted by CISCS? This academic year, the group will take place online and will meet once per month to discuss a range of texts from various Native Hawai'ian authors published in 2023, 2024, or 2025. The group will meet for the first time on Friday 28th November, 6pm GMT, to discuss 'Hula' (2023) by Jasmin Iolani Hakes. To express interest in joining the group, please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/JY6LK8STbK6BdzwPA
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