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The BAAS PG Symposium 2025 is taking place at Teesside University, 29th November 2025 under the title: ‘The people favored and the people oppressed’: The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America.

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.

Applications for Development Funding close on 1st November 2025. 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.

The annual BAAS schools conference returns to central Manchester, and is once more aimed at students taking US History or US Politics at A-level or equivalent qualifications.

2026 marks 90 years since the publication of William Faulkner’s masterwork, Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Widely considered the greatest Southern novel of all time and among the most influential literary works of the twentieth century, the nineth Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium celebrates Absalom, Absalom!’s incalculable influence upon global literature.

This international conference seeks to explore the enduring allure of post cards, looking at the many ways that French and American poets from the early twentieth century onward have approached the medium as facilitating, inspiring, or circulating their poetic writing. We particularly encourage original case studies of poets whose interest in postcards as a form of writing has not been explored. Please submit your abstract (300 words max) and short biography to the conference organisers before 7th November 2025.