Opportunities (Sorted by Publication Date)

• 15/06/2024 (CFP) – Race & Ethnicity in Popular Culture at NEPCA 2024 April 18, 2024
  Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) 2024 Hybrid Conference WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE We invite submissions that critically examine the intersections of race and ethnicity within popular culture. From film and television to literature and social media, this CFP seeks to interrogate the ways in which racial identities are constructed, represented, and contested in contemporary media […]
  Francesca Scaccia
• 02/05/2024 (Workshop) – Slavery after Abolitionism? Temporalities, (Im)Mobility and Labor in Global Perspective April 15, 2024
  WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE Date: May 2, 2024 Location: Torino, Italy Subject Fields: African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, Slavery, Women’s & Gender History / Studies The PhD program in Global History of Empires is pleased to invite anyone interested in the workshop “Slavery after Abolitionism? Temporalities, (Im)Mobility and Labor in Global Perspective”. Invited presenters […]
  Francesca Scaccia
• 17/06/2024 (CFP) – Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture April 12, 2024
  The virtual conference will focus on US American imaginaries related to neo/noir and thriller narratives. WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE We wish to collect presentations that deal with noir broadly intended as, after all, “noir itself is a kind of mediascape—a loosely related collection of perversely mysterious motifs or scenarios that circulate through all the information […]
  Francesca Scaccia
• 20/04/2024 (Event registration) – Seminar on U.S. History, Literature, and Culture, “Banned (Hi)stories: Shaking the Foundations of American Culture” April 5, 2024
  Il Centro Studi Americani ha il piacere di comunicarvi che il Seminario di Letteratura, Storia e Cultura Americana, organizzato in collaborazione con l’AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani) e l’Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti d’America in Italia, si terrà da lunedì 6 a mercoledì 8 maggio 2024. Il Seminario, tenuto da docenti statunitensi e italiani, si […]
  Stefano Franceschini
• 26/04/2024 (CFP) – 29th annual Amerikanistendag April 3, 2024
  Netherlands American Studies Association is pleased to announce that it will hold its 29th annual Amerikanistendag on Friday, 14 June 2024. The event will be hosted by our colleagues at Leiden University. WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE The Amerikanistendag is a student conference and serves as a forum for students and recent graduates at the BA, […]
  Stefano Franceschini
• 17/06/2024 (CFP) – Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity March 25, 2024
  The conference invites reflections on the multimodal representations of the boundaries of US identity in popular culture and discourses, focusing on the diversity of identities, liminality, and disenfranchised experiences of US Americanness, as well as the construction of borders—both material and metaphorical—as means to define the US national imaginary. WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE Reprising its […]
  Stefano Franceschini
• 15/03/2024 (CFP) – Posthuman Studies Special Session (MLA 2025) March 4, 2024
  WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE 2025 MLA Convention (https://www.mla.org/Events/2025-MLA-Convention) The 2025 MLA Annual Convention will be held from 9 to 12 January in New Orleans. Read about the presidential theme, Visibility. We look forward to meeting in person, and we hope you’ll join us! The Posthuman Studies session welcomes abstracts/papers that deal with the application of literary theory to historical/social/cultural issues. Posthuman as an […]
  Francesca Scaccia
• 01/04/2024 (CFP) – Steinbeck, Race, and Ethnicity A Special Issue of Steinbeck Review February 23, 2024
  The editorial staff at Steinbeck Review invites submissions on the topic of “Steinbeck, Race, and Ethnicity.”  Discussions of any Steinbeck work or works are welcome. WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE Like many American authors who rose to prominence in the first half of the twentieth century, John Steinbeck came from an economically privileged Protestant family of […]
  Stefano Franceschini
• 23/02/2024 (CFP) – SCIENCEHUMANITIES IN ASSOCIATION WITH FICTION MEETS SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL February 21, 2024
  The ScienceHumanities Summer School features a week of workshops with leading scholars who have trained in a diverse array of disciplines—literature, history, philosophy, sociology, environmental science—and are doing research at the cross-section of the humanities and sciences. Students have the opportunity to engage with experienced researchers and a select cohort of peers from around the […]
  Stefano Franceschini
• 15/04/2024 (CFP) – Midwest Modern Language Association: American Literature 1870-Present February 12, 2024
  American Literature 1870-Present (Permanent Section), MMLA 2024, Chicago, IL   WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, in Chicago, IL, from Nov. 14-16 (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).   DEADLINE AND HOW TO APPLY All proposals are welcome, especially those that gesture toward the conference […]
  Francesca Scaccia