2026 BAAS Awards NOW OPEN!
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Each year, BAAS offers a growing list of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research awards supporting the development of American studies in Britain. The 2026 awards are now open for submissions!
On Thursday 11th December, Dr. Tim Galsworthy will deliver the Annual History Lecture at Lincoln Bishop University. In this lecture, Dr. Galsworthy will discuss the key findings of his new book "The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP"
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, hosted by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès.
UEA: 2026 call for the Postdoc Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.
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.
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