New American Studies Journal

NASJ is a peer-reviewed, open access journal for intellectual debate about social, cultural, and political life in the United States of America.

[New American Studies Journal @NASJ_org]

📣Our new issue, Vol. 74 (2023), Transatlantic Women at Work: Service in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. by Laura-Isabella Heitz, Khristeena Lute, Julia Nitz, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, and Esther Wetzel is online!

Read it here: https://t.co/krxVyV1o2s

[The Finnish American Studies Association (FASA) @fasafinland]

The next Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS) conference will take place in Turku, Finland, on June 4-6, 2025. The CFP is open until June 15, 2024! https://t.co/URmEIk1qWo #MeetTurku #VisitTurku #jmc_utu @JMC_utu #NAASpirations

[Greta Olson @Greta_Olson_]

Delighted to work with colleagues on intersections of law, image, and politics, at @UniLuzern and on developing methods for working with visual instances of legality.

[Uni Göttingen @uniGoettingen]

Whether you're interested in literature, history or the power of the story, the #ENLIGHT Network lecture “Innovation in Cultural Narratives” will ignite your curiosity. All welcome, online 8 May: https://t.co/ayBM5w6gey #CulturalHeritage #AncientMyths to #ModernMedia @enlight_eu

[Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg]

Migration and the Americas continues
With a lecture by Nanneke Winters, Erasmus University Rotterdam, about “Crossing No Man’s Land? Acknowledging the Indigenous Communities along US-Bound Migrant Routes in the Darién Gap.”

🕰️ May 7, 6:15 pm
📍 HCA Atrium

[Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg]

📣 Graduate Student Conference at the English Department, University of Heidelberg

Send in your paper proposals until April 30th!

[The American Academy in Berlin @AmericanAcademy]

"This election is going to be decided on a razor thin margin," said @ucla political scientist Lynn @vavreck in a #RoadtoElection Zoom discussion with Academy president Daniel Benjamin about the dynamics of the 2024 US presidential election. Watch here: https://t.co/XInajnqmUp

[Kathleen Loock @kalliloo]

🚨Call for Video Essays🚨
Check out this call for video essays on the topic of "Remakes and Memory" and please share it with anyone who might be interested.
We are looking forward to your submissions!
https://t.co/pbkqx6M93B

[SUB Göttingen @[email protected] @subugoe]

Im Forum Wissen ist ab dem 01.07.2024 eine Stelle als
Referent*in für Wissensforschung und -vermittlung (w/m/d) - Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L - zu besetzen https://t.co/K1qgNBzozZ{%22vollzeit%22:[],%22befristet%22:[],%22gruppe%22:[],%22besoldGrp%22:[]}&details=74397

[Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @LibraryAAC]

Colin Firth's wet shirt from Pride and Prejudice goes up for auction for charity!

Also costumes from Peaky Blinders, Poldark, Downton Abbey, Evita, Ever After, French Lieutenant's Woman, a script of Love Actually & more!

#PrideandPrejudice #JaneAusten

https://t.co/PEdXcyj2hf

[The American Academy in Berlin @AmericanAcademy]

UPDATE: This event has been postponed to April 18, 2024. You can sign up here: https://t.co/PoTIQLXa4q

[The American Academy in Berlin @AmericanAcademy]

How does political violence shape the identities of victims & their descendants? Spring 2024 fellow @NoamLupu (@VanderbiltU) offers a novel argument about which experiences of violence cause lasting intergenerational trauma: https://t.co/mA5jP5pGdy

[Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg]

📣 One more month to apply for the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize at the HCA

Every year the prize rewards outstanding work in the field of American Studies

📅 Deadline for applications March 31st

Get all the information here 👇
https://t.co/t0QJSMbuZz

[Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @LibraryAAC]

In this 2021 study, brand-new in our collection, @DrCherylT traces the history & influence of #HarrietBeecherStowe's literary figure #UncleTom from 1852 to today's media & pop culture

https://t.co/Bu62GNcL7G

#CulturalStudies #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #BlackHistoryMonth

[SUB Göttingen @[email protected] @subugoe]

In der SUB ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Stelle als Data Analyst (w/m/d) - Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L -in Vollzeit (teilzeitgeeignet) zu besetzen. https://t.co/K1qgNBzozZ{%22vollzeit%22:[],%22befristet%22:[],%22gruppe%22:[],%22besoldGrp%22:[]}&details=74393

[Rothermere American Institute @RAIOxford]

Next Thursday, 29 February at 13:00 at the RAI @ALRSOx will host Daniel Abdalla (Liverpool) to discuss their work on '‘A Strange and Secret Thing’: Staging Heredity in the Harlem Renaissance'- details available here: https://t.co/nWtBqhnuyH

[Christoph Straub @chris_straub]

#CallforApplications: The Futures of #AmericanStudies Institute takes place 17-23 June at @dartmouth. If you are an early career Americanist at a Bavarian university & would like to attend the Summer Institute, apply for a BAA Fellowship!
👉 Learn more: https://t.co/mduFHm8Cug

[New American Studies Journal @NASJ_org]

Don’t miss out on this conversation between Linda Kinstler and our executive editor Andrew Gross. The Event will be live-streamed 👇🏻

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

It grieves me to think
the dead won't see them—
these things we depend on,
they disappear.

—Louise Glück (1943-2023)

https://t.co/yeL8olezJy

[Christoph Straub @chris_straub]

Next Tuesday, @nsdoku and the #BavarianAmericanAcademy @amerikahaus are hosting a virtual event with @lindakinstler and Andrew Gross (@uniGoettingen). Join us online for a conversation about Kinstler's book "Come to This Court and Cry"! https://t.co/mzBy0UKGSk