Austrian Association for American Studies

Update: AAAS Conference 2013: "American Utopias." Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Nov. 8 - 10, 2013. Find more information here, and the registration form below. (Registration is now open until Oct. 15, 2013.) Downloads: Call for papers (.doc) (Deadline: May 15, 2013.) Registration form (.docx) Contact the conference organizers: Ralph Poole Hanna Wallinger
Call for contributions: Conference "Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1933-1955." The University of Salzburg and the Stefan Zweig Centre, Salzburg, Jan. 24-25, 2014. Downloads: Call for papers (.pdf) (Deadline: August 15, 2013.) Contact the conference organizers: Ralph Poole Joshua Parker
Newsletter: We are pleased to present our latest newsletter, AAAS Newsletter 22. Download here (PDF) and find the collected newsletters here.
Announcement: EAAS Conference 2014 on “America: Justice, Conflict, War.” The Hague, Netherlands, April 3-6, 2014. Link: Call for papers (Deadline: workshops, March 15, 2013; papers, May 2013.) Contact the EAAS Secretary General: Gert Buelens
Call for contributions: The European Journal of American Studies (EJAS) is inviting contributors. Download: Call for articles Website: ejas.revues.org
Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2013 in cooperation with AAAS: The Fulbright Commission has announced its invitation for submissions for the annual Fulbright Prize for American Studies. The prize is intended for dissertations and/or theses in American Studies. Submissions are accepted until May 1, 2013. Please find details here and on Fulbright's own website.
Fulbright Prize 2012: In 2012, the Fulbright Prize in American Studies goes to: - MMag. Dr. Cornelia Klecker for her doctoral dissertation "Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film" (University of Innsbruck). - Mag. Dr. Johannes Mahlknecht for his doctoral dissertation "Writing on the Edge: Paratexts in Narrative Cinema" (University of Innsbruck). For these and other recipients of the Fulbright Prize, see the website of the Fulbright Commision in Austria here or click the image to the right.
Recent event: AAAS Conference 2012, in collaboration with SANAS, the Swiss Association for North American Studies: "Cultures in Conflict / Conflicting Cultures." University of Zurich, Nov. 9 - 10, 2012. Downloads: Call for papers (.pdf) (Deadline: May 1, 2012.); conference program (.docx) Contact the conference organizers: Elisabeth Bronfen Mario Klarer Christina Ljungberg
Recent event: Television Conference in Salzburg: "Auteur TV: Resurrecting Quality through Trash?" University of Salzburg/KunstQuartier, July 5 - 6, 2012. Download: Call for papers (.pdf) Deadline: March 31, 2012. Contact the conference organizers: Ralph Poole Florian Sedlmeier Susanne Wegener
Recent event: Conference in Salzburg: "Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1865-1933," University of Salzburg, December 6-7, 2012. Download: Call for papers (.pdf) Contact the conference organizer: Joshua Parker
Upcoming conference: "From Theory to Practice: Fifth International Conference on Anglophone Studies," Department of English and American Studies at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic, 5-6 September 2013. The conference welcomes papers from the fields of linguistics, literary, cultural, and translation studies. For more details please visit http://conference.uaa.utb.cz/.
Our latest publications: Series American Studies in Austria, vols. 10-12:
Contact Spaces of American Culture. Globalizing Local Phenomena. American Studies in Austria, vol. 12. Ed. by Petra Eckhard, Klaus Rieser, and Silvia Schultermandl. For more information, see LIT Verlag or our publications section!
Hard Bodies. American Studies in Austria, vol. 11. Ed. by Ralph J. Poole, Florian Sedlmeier and Susanne Wegener. For more information, see LIT Verlag or our publications section!
Landscapes of Postmodernity. Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory. American Studies in Austria, vol. 10. Ed. by Petra Eckhard, Michael Fuchs, and Walter Hölbling. For more information, see LIT Verlag or our publications section!