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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

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.

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.

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

A gripping civil war era tale of a sex, murder and an ambitious Union solder, all set against the backdrop of American life in the nineteenth century, one given to desperate self-improvement.