Past PAAS Conferences
1991, Warsaw – “Reception of American Culture in Twentieth-Century Poland”
1992, Skierniewice – “American Dream: Past and Present”
1993, Łódź – “Assimilation vs. Multiculturalism: American Culture/American Cultures”
1994, Puławy – “Revisioning Democracy: America and Europe”
1995, Poznań – “Canons/Revisions/Supplements in American Culture and Literature”
1996, Gdańsk – “Dimensions of American Cityscape”
1997, Serock – “Cultural Policy or the Politics of Culture”
1998, Ustroń – “Ethical Values in Post(?)modern American Societies and Cultures”
1999, Łódź – “Apocalypse Now: Between Prophecy and Fulfillment”
2000, Toruń – “Local Colors of Stars and Stripes”
2001, Puławy – “American Portraits and Self-Portraits”
2002, Wrocław – “Traveling Subjects: American Journeys in Space and Time”
2003, Poznań – “America: The Natural and the Artificial”
2004, Jadwisin – “American Freedoms, American (Dis)Orders”
2005, Kamień Śląski – “Conformity and Resistance in America”
2006, Warszawa – “Ideology and Rhetoric: Constructing America”
2007, Łódź – “Communication Technologies and American Cultural Practice”
2008, Warszawa – “The Past in the Present: The American Uses of History”
2009, Puławy – “(Mis)Reading America: American Dreams, Fictions, and Illusions”
2010, Łódź – “American Diversity: Identities, Narratives, Politics”
2011, Gdańsk – “American Experience – The Experience of America”
2012, Puławy – “Americascapes: Americans in/and Their Diverse Sceneries”
2013, Wrocław – “Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability”
2014, Białowieża – “American Wild Zones: Space, Experience, Consciousness”
2015, Warsaw – “Homeliness, Domesticity, and Security in American Culture”
2016, Warsaw – “Transnational American Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Perspectives
2017, Szczecin – “Performing America”
2018, Łódź – “Challenging America, American Challenges: Culture, Society, Politics”
2019, Opole – “The Sound of Silence in American Literature, Culture, and Politics”
2021, Rzeszów (online) – “Darkness in Paradise: American Declarations, Disillusions, and Disasters”
2022, Lublin – “Our Brand Is Crisis: American Downfalls, Hopes, and Renewals”
2023, Poznań – “America’s Deep Time: Alternate Geographies, Histories, and Temporalities”
2024, Białystok – “American Hospitality”