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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

Renowned Fitzgerald scholar, Elisabeth Bouzonviller, will give an in-person talk on Zelda Fitzgerald in Glasgow on Tuesday 11 November, as part of the Transatlantic Literary Women Series funded by a BAAS Development Grant. Venue: room 202, 4 University Gardens, Glasgow. Talk starts at 4.15, refreshments available from 4pm. Free. All welcome!

We are putting together a roundtable to submit to BAAS 2026 about American Studies at post-92 or 'modern' universities. We hope to recruit some historians or political scientists to our panel, which is currently made up of three literature scholars. If you are interested in joining us in Glasgow, please email Rowland Hughes at r.w.hughes@herts.ac.uk, Owen Clayton at oclayton@lincoln.ac.uk, and Stephanie Palmer at stephanie.palmer@ntu.ac.uk. Please respond by November 14th, since proposals are due to BAAS on November 28th.