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The international conference of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story will take place at University of Lisbon on 29th-31st October. Submissions are invited before 10th June.
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250 years after the Declaration of Independence condemned the politics of neglect, America’s constitutional architecture remains structured by the enduring power of inaction.
Dr Ursula Hackett will deliver a lecture on this topic at UCL this Wednesday (3rd June). Register now!
#cfp - "Quiet Desperation”: Pessimism in Emerson and Thoreau"
Deadline for abstracts: 31st October 2026
đź“Ł Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) conference!
#cfp 'Black Journalism in Global Perspective: Intellectual Exchange Across the Diaspora'
A collaborative workshop, 15-16 October, @ Brown University.
CFP Deadline: 1st July
March 2027 is the bicentennial of the first Black newspaper in North America. To mark the occasion, a symposium will be held at Howard University that examines the past, present, & futures of the Black Press.
Abstracts to be submitted by 18th Sept.
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CFP - Speculative Ontologies: The Posthuman, the Eerie, and Cultural Memory in US Media and Narratives Panel
Proposals are invited for the 18th SAAS Conference, taking place next March in Asturias, Spain.
Deadline: 15th Oct
Papers are invited on the relationship between Ireland & the US post-1998, to be presented at an online conference in October 2026. Abstracts & bios are to be submitted via email by 31st August.
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Professor Eliga Gould will be delivering the 2026 Commonwealth Fund Lecture, "From 1775 to 1776: The American Revolution and the Embarrassing Right of Resistance", on 2nd July at University College London.
Arthur Miller Institute for American Studies has announced its 2026 winners:
Article Prize 🏆️ Sian Round, “Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships”
First Book Prize 🏆️ Erin Pearson, Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Online registration is now open for the Society for the History of Women in the Americas' annual conference. This year's conference takes place on 26th June, 2026 at the University of Toulouse - Jean…
