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Call for Papers: The Platinum Age of American Television
Editor: Ben Alexander Benalexander@fas.harvard.edu
Publisher: Brill Publishers (series, European Perspectives on the United States)
Rocznik Komparatystyczny
Comparative Yearbook
11 (2020)
CFP
We invite proposals for articles to be published in this 11/2020 issue of Rocznik Komparatystyczny / Comparative Yearbook titled “Melodrama: Transcultural Considerations”.
ExtReme 21: Going Beyond in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture
Polish Journal for American Studies
Special issue, Fall 2021
The ExRe(y) project invites proposals for articles to be published in a special issue of Polish Journal for American Studies titled “ExtReme 21: Going Beyond in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture” (Fall 2021).
The Department of English Language and Literature
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS)
invites you to participate in the international conference:
After Postmodernism: American Studies In The 21st
Century
Extended deadline for proposal submission: 31 May 2020
Çankaya University and the University of Białystok invite proposals for
the 9th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture in a joint event with
Crossroads III Conference
on the theme
“Risk and Safety”
International Conference
At the Dusk of Literature? – 21st-century North American writing in extremis.
Department of North American Literature & Culture
University of Łódź, Poland
September 28-30, 2020
Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature is a peer-refereed online journal published by the Department of the English Language and the Department of English Language Literatures at Opole University, Poland (for more information and the current issue see http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl). For the next issue of the journal, to be published in December 2020 we invite articles addressing language- and literature related topics in an original and innovative way. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches ranging across linguistics, critical theory, literary studies, cultural studies and translation studies (theoretical or applied). Each submitted article will be peer-reviewed by academic experts selected from relevant fields of research.
Contributions are expected by June 30, 2020. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 30, 2020.
For style sheet and further information, please consult the journal web page at http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl.
- Explorations is listed in Polish Scholarly Bibliography (PBN), ERIH Plus, Index Copernicus International (ICI), ARIANTA, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), MLA Directory of Periodicals, CEEOL.
- The Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) assigned 20 points to Explorations (item 28609; list of July 31, 2019).
2020 EAAS Conference – 20/20 Vision
SSF Panels CFP
Warsaw, May 1-3, 2020
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS
Heidelberg Center for American Studies 17th Spring Academy Conference
Heidelberg, Germany, 23-27 March, 2020
Michał Jan Rozbicki, distinguished historian of the American Colonial Period, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Intercultural Studies at St. Louis University in Missouri, passed away on July 31, 2019.
Michał J. Rozbicki was founding president of the Polish Association for American Studies (1989-1990). He was faculty member at UMCS in Lublin before coming to the University of Warsaw in 1976, where he served as director of the American Studies Center (1987-1990). He was a visiting professor at Indiana University at Bloomington (1990-1992) and a visiting scholar at institutions in the US, the UK and Germany.
He is the author of Samuel Hartlib. Z dziejów polsko-angielskich związków kulturalnych w XVII wieku (PAN, 1980), Transformation of English Cultural Ethos in Colonial America: Maryland, 1634-1720 (Wyd. UW, 1985; University Press of America, 1988), Narodziny Narodu: Historia Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki do 1860 roku (Interim, 1991), The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America (University of Virginia, 1998), and the award-winning Culture and Liberty of the Age of the American Revolution (University of Virginia, 2011).
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W dniu 31 lipca 2019 r. zmarł Michał Jan Rozbicki, wybitny historyk epoki kolonialnej, profesor historii i dyrektor Center for Intercultural Studies w St. Louis University (Missouri).
Michał J. Rozbicki był założycielem i pierwszym prezesem Polskiego Towarzystwa Studiów Amerykanistycznych (1989-1990). Wykładał na UMCS w Lublinie, a od 1976 roku na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Był dyrektorem Ośrodka Studiów Amerykańskich UW (1987-1990), profesorem wizytującym w Indiana University, Bloomington (1990-1992), a także na innych uczelniach w Stanach Zjednoczonych, w Wielkiej Brytanii i w Niemczech.
Autor monografii: Samuel Hartlib. Z dziejów polsko-angielskich związków kulturalnych w XVII wieku (PAN, 1980), Transformation of English Cultural Ethos in Colonial America: Maryland, 1634-1720 (Wyd. UW, 1985; University Press of America, 1988), Narodziny Narodu: Historia Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki do 1860 roku (Interim, 1991), The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America (University of Virginia, 1998) i Culture and Liberty of the Age of the American Revolution (University of Virginia, 2011), nagrodzonej przez State Historical Society of Missouri.
Call for Abstracts – The COMELA 2020, The Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology 2020
Following the growth of The Global Network for Linguistic Anthropology, we announce The COMELA 2020, The Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology 2020.
Common Room: Crisis/Catastrophe/Apocalypse?
Płock, 25-26.10.2019
ExRe(y) 2020
ExtReme 21: Going Beyond
in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
Lublin, Poland
June 4-6, 2020