The America Now! seminar series returns in 2026 with a session on the myth-making & self-fashioning of the American empire. 🗓️ Thursday 29th January 📍 British Library

The Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for its three-year doctoral program. Learn more here: buff.ly/QhdYvhh Application Deadline: 31st January 2026

#CFP - Postgraduate Conference - Challenging Literary and Cultural Practices, Now: Contemporary Approaches to the Humanities. The symposium will take place on 15th January 2026. Abstracts must be submitted by 31st December.

#cfp UK American Studies Against the Genocide! A symposium on Palestine and American Studies in the UK 🇵🇸 Proposals are welcomed for papers & panels on the subject of Palestine & its relation with American Studies. It will take place 9th May. Deadline: 6th February 2026

🏆 Good news - the submission window has been extended to 6th January for multiple BAAS Awards including... * School Essay Award * Undergraduate & Postgraduate Essay Awards * Teaching Development Awards Learn more & make your submission here:

Last chance! The deadline for the 2026 BAAS Awards is this Wednesday (17th). Prizes will be awarded for exemplary essays, teaching, & more.

We are now just *one week* away from the closing date for the BAAS Awards. Click here to learn if you are eligible for any of the awards - buff.ly/EPsM0Ww Deadline: 17th December

⚠️ Today is the deadline to share your proposals for BAAS 2026 ⚠️ Don't miss your opportunity to join us in Glasgow to present your research & discover the most exciting conversations in American Studies.

Did you know? The BAAS Development Fund offers up to £2,000 for activities, such as: - Conferences & events - Workshops & reading groups - Diversity & inclusion initiatives Apply today:

The deadline to submit a proposal for BAAS Annual Conference 2026 has been extended to Wednesday, 10th December. There's still time to submit and join us in Glasgow in 2026. Full details on the page below. baas.ac.uk/conferences/... #BAAS #AMStudies #AmericanStudies

The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for its Article Prize. $1,000 will be awarded to the best article on the subject of American periodicals published in between January 1, 2024 & December 31, 2025. Deadline: 15th December

BAAS invites scholars in any field of American Studies to apply for grants of up to two years in duration. Grants may be requested for up to a maximum of £2000 for a range of American Studies academic activities. Please note, from 2026, earlier submission deadlines are in place.

'At the core of our mission is the principle that the UK should be a country where access to free and open discussion of US policy, both domestic and foreign should be available to members without impediment or fear of reprisal.' Read our Statement on Academic Freedom here:

🚨 TOMORROW is the deadline for Targeted Research Panel funding. This is your last chance to apply for £5,000 to facilitate research & deliver papers at two BAAS conferences over three years. Follow this link to find out if your panel is eligible: buff.ly/FwA7hcQ

Politics! Literature! Music! Equality and Inequality! Lunch! All this and more here at the @officialbaas.bsky.social PG Symposium 2025!

Today's the day. You can join us in-person or online for our Postgraduate Symposium, beginning at 9am!

Our Postgraduate Symposium, on the unequal struggle for equality and rights in America, is this Wednesday! Tickets are still available here:

The BAAS PG Symposium is happening THIS WEEK! Just 2 days to book your spot! Get your tickets now while they're still there to get! Check the @officialbaas.bsky.social link below for more details! See you soon! baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

There's still time to sign up for the BAAS PG Symposium next Wednesday. Don't miss out! There's so much to experience!

🔔 We have extended the deadline for Targeted Research Panel funding until Friday 28th November. What's TRP funding? Each conference, we award up to £5000 funding for panels which aim to support & promote the production of research by people of colour, LGBTQ+ communities & disability communities.

What's New? Head to our website to discover the latest opportunities, publications, CFPs, & more!

⚠️ There are now less than 2 weeks until our 2025 Postgraduate Symposium ⚠️ The event, titled '"The people favored and the people oppressed": The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America', will take place on 26th November in Middlesbrough & online. Sign up now:

Many years ago I had the privilege of an Eccles Institute fellowship, and the chances it gave me to do sustained research in the BL's amazing collections was invaluable. Apply now!

Thanks to the hard work of Green BAAS member & Hull PhD student Sam Hawksford White, we are pleased to share this report which investigates academics’ practices & experiences of teaching the US environment in UK Higher Education (in/beyond American studies programmes). Read more:

REMINDER: The BAAS Awards are open for applications. 🏆 These rewards include... * Research Assistant Awards * School, Undergrad, & Postgrad Essay Awards * Teaching Prizes & more Apply before 17th December!

📣 There's still time to submit your proposal for Targeted Research Panel funding. BAAS will award up to £5000 over three years to successful applicants. The application window closes on 14th November.

Participants are invited for the Native Hawai’i Fiction and Poetry Reading Group hosted by CISCS. The group will meet online monthly to recent works by various Native Hawai’ian authors. First meeting: 28th Nov

CFP: “Worth the Postage”: Thoreau’s Correspondence Thoreau Society, 8th-12th July 2026 Abstracts must be shared by 10th December.

Eccles Institute at the British Library is now inviting applications for its 2026–2027 Visiting Fellowship programme. Applications are due before 19th December. buff.ly/nQpkuyj

The application deadline has been extended for 2026-27 long-term fellowships at the Newberry Library until 21st November. Short-term fellowships are also available (closing 8th December). Apply now:

Call for roundtable participants for BAAS 2026! If you are interested in joining a session on American Studies at post-92 / ‘modern’ universities, please see:

Don't miss this week (6th & 7th)... The RSAA online Conference on US Policy towards Asia of Trump's second term. Learn more:

Elisabeth Bouzonviller will deliver a talk on Zelda Fitzgerald as part of the Transatlantic Literature Women Series. The event will take place in Glasgow on 11th November & is free to attend.

🏆 BAAS Awards 2026 🏆 The BAAS Awards are back & accepting submissions! Click through the link to see available awards... buff.ly/WFVkgf7 Deadline: 17th December

Dr. Tim Galsworthy will deliver the Annual History Lecture at Lincoln Bishop University, offering insights into the relationships between the Republican Party & Civil War memory. Thursday 11th December | 5:30pm | Free

#cfp Proposals are welcomed for the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) annual conference. The conference will take place at University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès in June 2026. Submit abstracts before 12th January 2026!

OPPORTUNITY: Expressions of interest for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships to be held at the University of East Anglia are invited. Deadline: 17th November Learn more:

The CFP for the @officialbaas.bsky.social Annual Conference is now live! Join us at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social in April 2026 to mark the 250-year anniversary of 1776, with amazing keynote speakers already lined up! Deadline: Friday 28th November 2025 baas.ac.uk/conferences/...

📙 Remarkable books in AmStudies published by European scholars in 2024/25 are eligible for EAAS's American Studies Network Book Prize! 🥇 Learn more: buff.ly/0blUDZv Deadline: 9th Jan 2026

#cfp Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics Proposals are sought for an edited collection which expands scholarly conversation about the global production of the American Western in comics from across different countries. Deadline: 14th Dec

BAAS promotes research by people of colour, LGBTQ+ communities, & disability communities through Targeted Research Panel funding. Successful applicants receive up to £5000 & will present at BAAS 2026 in Glasgow + the 2027 or 2028 conference. Deadline; 14th November 2025

Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/ Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025.

Glasgow people! Join us on Tuesday 11 November at 4pm for an in-person Tea with TLW event, where we'll be joined by the incredible Elisabeth Bouzonviller for a talk on Zelda Fitzgerald! #AmericanLiterature #Glasgow 📚💙 transatlanticladies.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/i...

📨 You are invited to our annual conference. BAAS 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow in April 2026 🎉 Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November. buff.ly/xAdQJB8

2026 will mark 90 years since the publication of Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!". The Faulkner Studies network are calling for papers that respond to any aspect of the novel, to be delivered during an online conference next May. Learn more:

✏️ Don't miss the BAAS Schools Conference This year, scholars will be consider the nature of power, institutions, & pressure groups in contemporary American politics. The conference will take place on 17th October in Manchester. Registration is now OPEN.

Applications are now open for the BAAS Development Fund 💰 American Studies scholars are invited to apply for grants of up to two years in duration & a maximum of £2000 to support a range of academic activities. Deadline: 1st November Apply here: baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🕸️ New research network: "Settler Colonialisms / British Empire" (SC/BE) * Recruiting PhDs & ECRs for upcoming workshops * CFP for one-day conference coming soon More info:

"Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States" 📅 17th-18th October 📍 Sorbonne Université Registration is open now. baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

What can we learn from the pioneers who started the citizen science beach cleanup movement? I wrote about the lessons we can learn from their plastics activism for the conversation.