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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.

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Latest News and Events

    Call for Chapters: Cognitive Literary Urban Studies: Embodied Cognition and Narrative Space – Extended Deadline

    We invite contributions for the interdisciplinary volume Cognitive Literary Urban Studies: Embodied Cognition and Narrative Space. Grounded in the framework of 4EA cognitive science (Varela et al. 2006), the volume includes chapters that demonstrate a clear application of key concepts from embodied cognition in their discussions of the processes and aftermath of embodied reading of affordances (e.g., city signs and textual cues) in (urban) narratives and and city spaces.

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    TAACS’ Second International Conference: Justice and Morality in the North American Context

    The Tunisian Association for American Cultural Studies (TAACS) is pleased to announce its upcoming international conference, "Justice and Morality in the North American Context", to be held on October 23-24, 2025 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia. This interdisciplinary event invites scholars in American Studies to interrogate the evolving relationship between legal frameworks and moral imperatives in North American history, politics, media, and culture. Deadline: Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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     Global Identities International Conference 2025 

    We are pleased to announce HHGC project Global Identities Conference in November 2025: Global Identities International Conference 2025. The conference will be held in-person and online on Friday 14 November 2025.

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    Green BAAS Audit on Environmental Teaching in British American Studies

    Please help us shape the future of environmental teaching in UK universities and showcase good practice! The GREEN BAAS audit investigates academics’ current practices and experiences of teaching about the US environment in UK Higher Education (in or beyond American studies programmes). We invite educators to participate in the study through an online survey and/or discursive interviews.

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    CfP: Edith Wharton and Popular Culture

    Submit to a special issue of The Edith Wharton Review by Sep 10, 2025

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    Registration Open: Society for the History of Women in the Americas Annual Conference in Leeds 9 July 2025

    The Society for the History of Women in the Americas welcomes attendees to the 2025 annual conference, co-hosted by Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds. This year's theme is emotion: How do we reflect on, train and engage the emotional aspects of our research? How can histories of emotion deepen our understanding of historical events? And how is the archive or the classroom an emotive space?

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