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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.
A call for papers for an edited collection, provisionally titled: Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics. The collection seeks to gather a range of focused and broad/panoramic studies that together offer a richer understanding of the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world. The deadline for proposals is Sunday 14th December 2025.
On 7 April 2026, Maynooth University will be hosting the ‘Citizens Abroad and the International Order: Theory and Practice’ workshop. Organised by Dr. Lewis Defrates and Dr. Jennifer Chochinov, the conference will focus on the past and present treatment and experiences of foreign nationals abroad. The workshop is honoured to have Professor Engin Isin as they Keynote Speaker to deliver a paper on Extraterritorial Citizenship. The CFP is open until 21 December 2025 and is looking to attract interested contributors from a variety of disciplines, time periods, and geographic regions.
How did South Asian doctors become essential to US health care?
The American Studies Network biennial book prize is open for submissions until 9 January 2026. Books published in English by European scholars in calendar years 2024 and 2025 are eligible for submission.
On Wednesday 8 October, in London, the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism will host former Special Counsel Jack Smith in conversation with Professor Andrew Weissmann (NYU).
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