Polskie Towarzystwo Studiów Amerykanistycznych
Call for Submissions
Polish Journal for American Studies 2023
Paper proposals are welcome for a themed issue of Polish Journal for American Studies. PJAS has been published yearly since 2004, and is one of the leading American Studies journals in Poland. The journal is the yearbook of the Polish Association for American Studies. It is published by the American Studies Center and the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. https://paas.org.pl/pjas/
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2023 Annual Conference
held and hosted by the Department of American Literature
and the Department of Studies in Culture,
The Faculty of English,
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
America and Deep Time:
Alternate Geographies, Temporalities, and Histories
25-27 October 2023
Conference website: http://paas2023.amu.edu.pl
Border Seminar 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS
Migration Narratives and Border Studies
May 23-25, 2023
Faculty of Languages, University of Gdańsk
4th Re-Examining American Literature Student Symposium (REAL): Call for Papers
The 4th REAL Student Symposium “American Pasts and American Futures in Literature and Culture” seeks to explore the future and the past as concepts, ideals, and ideologies. The United States, as a nation that always looks ahead trying to reinvent itself, enjoys a troubled relationship with both its past and its future. We are interested in ways in which the pasts(s) and the future(s) of America conjured up in literary and cultural texts reflect and comment on the current state and possible developments in the United States.
We cordially invite B.A., M.A. students and doctoral candidates, to submit conference papers (approx. 20-minute presentations) on American literature, theater, film and art.
Deadline for submitting abstracts is January 15, 2023.
More information can be found on our website:
The Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for
3 doctoral grants with a funding period of one year (1,350 EUR per month, 2023-2024) as well as up to 7 additional doctoral memberships for candidates who have already obtained third-party funding (starting date: October 1, 2023).
Doctoral grants are open to prospective candidates who are interested in pursuing a doctoral project in Cultural Studies, Economics, History, Literary Studies, Political Science or Sociology. Only doctoral projects related to the field of North American Studies can be considered. Applicants will be able to submit their applications via our online platform until January 31, 2023 at 23:59 hours GMT (deadline). Further details can be found on the attached posters and our website at gsnas.fu-berlin.de/en.
Should doctoral candidates at your institution be interested in a short-term stay (2-6 months) at GSNAS, we would appreciate to receive inquiries at visitingresearcher@gsnas.fu-berlin.de.
Heidelberg Center for American Studies 20th Annual Spring Academy Conference
Heidelberg, Germany, 20-24 March, 2023
/Call for Papers/
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2022 Annual Conference
held and hosted by the Department of British and American Studies,
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
19-21 October 2022
Our Brand is Crisis: American Downfalls, Hopes, and Renewals
POLISH JOURNAL FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
SPECIAL ISSUE 2022
GLOBAL CINEMA/AMERICAN IMAGINARY
CALL FOR PAPERS
For more than a century now America’s visual legacy has been considered the chief contributor to the field of global cinema. This legacy conceptualizing the U.S.A. as, basically, visualized space, has similarly – and strongly – influenced global audiences’ conceptions of America and cinema as a medium. However, as both American studies and film studies do evolve, the question arises of how, at present, these two scholarly disciplines can be rethought and reinvented. In other words: has our perception of what it takes for a movie to be identified as American changed?; how does America matter in the contemporary global cinematic context?; how does this context offer itself to America so that she can be visible as (in)operative in it? – these are just a few of the questions that this special issue of PJAS would like to approach.
Referring, via the title, to the anthology of essays American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary which, back in 2011, recreated the traditional vision/s of the South and southern cinema, we want to invite scholars to help us complicate the above mentioned issues by offering us what they believe is now cinematically American (and/or America-filmed) “visualization/s” of: history, literature, politics, religion, food, education, culture, economics etc. With a multitude of – undoubtedly – colliding visions, we hope we can make these issues denser than they appear to be at present.
Submission details
The deadline for this year’s volume has been extended to 1st March, 2022.
The length of submission should be between 5,000 and 9,000 words.
We follow the MLA format for references and bibliography
A submission should be sent by e-mail as a Word attachment to Beata Zawadka at:
For more information on the journal see https://paas.org.pl/pjas/
ASANOR Conference 2022
29 September – 1 October
Bodo, Norway
Appalling Ocean, Verdant Land: America and the Sea
The 9th Congress of Polish Canadianists
21-23 September 2022
University of Białystok, Poland
Rocznik Komparatystyczny
Comparative Yearbook
13 (2022)
We invite proposals for articles to be published in this 13/2022 issue of Rocznik Komparatystyczny / Comparative Yearbook titled Law and literature
Continue readingRelational Forms VI
Imag(in)ing the Nation:
Literature, the Arts and Processes of National Construction
2 – 4 December 2021
an international conference hosted by the
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Portugal
International Conference at Le Mans University in association with the University of Latvia
May 19-20, 2022
Transcultural Perspectives in Language, Literature and Culture in the 21st century
POLISH JOURNAL FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
SPECIAL ISSUE 2022
GLOBAL CINEMA/AMERICAN IMAGINARY
CALL FOR PAPERS
For more than a century now America’s visual legacy has been considered the chief contributor to the field of global cinema. This legacy conceptualizing the U.S.A. as, basically, visualized space, has similarly – and strongly – influenced global audiences’ conceptions of America and cinema as a medium. However, as both American studies and film studies do evolve, the question arises of how, at present, these two scholarly disciplines can be rethought and reinvented. In other words: has our perception of what it takes for a movie to be identified as American changed?; how does America matter in the contemporary global cinematic context?; how does this context offer itself to America so that she can be visible as (in)operative in it? – these are just a few of the questions that this special issue of PJAS would like to approach.
Referring, via the title, to the anthology of essays American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary which, back in 2011, recreated the traditional vision/s of the South and southern cinema, we want to invite scholars to help us complicate the above mentioned issues by offering us what they believe is now cinematically American (and/or America-filmed) “visualization/s” of: history, literature, politics, religion, food, education, culture, economics etc. With a multitude of – undoubtedly – colliding visions, we hope we can make these issues denser than they appear to be at present.
Submission details
The deadline for this year’s volume is January 31st, 2022.
The length of submission should be between 5,000 and 9,000 words.
We follow the MLA format for references and bibliography
A submission should be sent by e-mail as a Word attachment to Beata Zawadka at:
For more information on the journal see https://paas.org.pl/pjas/