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  • Just published: Body Signs. The Latino/a Body in Cultural Production. Series American Studies in Austria, vol. 6. Ed. by Astrid Fellner.

    For more information, see LIT Verlag or our publications section!
           

Body Signs



  • Upcoming event: Conference in Salzburg: "Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1865-1933," University of Salzburg, December 6-7, 2012.

    Download: Call for papers (.pdf)
    Deadline: March 31, 2012.

    Contact the conference organizer: 
    Joshua Parker





            Austria and America
  • Upcoming 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




            Auteur TV
  • Upcoming 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.

    Download: Call for papers (.pdf)
    Deadline: May 1, 2012.

    Contact the conference organizers: 
    Elisabeth Bronfen
    Mario Klarer
    Christina Ljungberg




            Cultures in Conflict
  • Recent event: AAAS Conference 2011: "Is It 'Cause It's Cool? Affective Encounters with American Culture." Organized at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, November 4-6, 2011.

    Download: Call for papers (.pdf)
    Find more information on the conference website!

    Update: 
    The conference publicized at Saarland University and the University of Vienna: follow the links to the respective media gateways.




            Cool website
  • Fulbright Prize 2011: This year, the Fulbright Prize in American Studies goes to:

    -  Mag.a Carina Lesky for her MA thesis "Flesh, Stone and Celluloid: An Exploration of Urban Skins" (University of Innsbruck).

    -  Mag. Dr. Andreas Leisner for his doctoral dissertation "Individualism in U.S. Mythology: The Lawman as Promethean Figure in the Western" (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.

    Information regarding submissions for the Fulbright Prize 2012 will be available shortly.


           


  • Upcoming event: 5th Annual Austria's Young Americanists' Workshop: “American Studies And/As/Vs. Media Studies.” Innsbruck, December 9-11, 2011.

    Invited guest scholar: Jason Mittell
    Download: Call for Papers
    Deadline for applications: September 19, 2011. See CfP for details!


         
 


  • Upcoming event: EAAS Conference 2012 in Izmir: "The Health of the Nation." March 30–April 2, 2012.


    Call for papers: see the EAAS website. Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2011.
           


  • Upcoming event: 33rd American Indian Workshop 2012: "Presentation and Representation Revisited: Media, Places, Disciplines."
    University of Zurich, Zurich/Switzerland, April 12 - 15, 2012.


    Call for papers: see the conference website. Deadline for proposals: October 31, 2011.
           

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  • Recent event: “Refractions of Bob Dylan - Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon.” Conference at Amerika Haus Vienna, May 19-21, 2011.


    Press: Features in ORF Kulturmontag from May 23, and on the website of the University of Vienna. 
    Find more information directly on the conference website, which includes the complete program and more, at www.dylanvienna.at/dylan/Welcome.html.
           


  • Recent event: Fifth World Congress, International American Studies Association (IASA) 2011: "American Configurations - Configurações Americanas."
    Rio De Janeiro, Brasil, July 27 - 29, 2011.


    Details: please see the conference website. 
           

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  • Past event: "Space, Place and Time: The Construction of Identity in American Literature and Popular Culture." First Graduate Student Conference, Department of American Studies at the University of Graz. Dec. 10-12, 2010.
    Deadline for porposals: October 17.

    Download: Call for papers (.pdf) 
           


  • Past  event: AAAS Conference 2010: "The Visual Culture of Modernism." This conference will be organized in collaboration with SANAS, the Swiss Association for North American Studies, at the University of Innsbruck, Nov. 12-14.  

        Keynote speakers:

         Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
         Scott Curtis, Northwestern University
         Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam  
         Vinzenz Hediger, Ruhr-University Bochum                                                                        Downloads: CfP, Program and all abstracts 

                                                                               

         

Visual Culture of Modernism



  • Past event: "Impacts: Does Academic Exchange Matter? Cultural Diplomacy, Scholarly Internationalism, and American Studies since World War II": A conference on the occasion of the 60th anniverary of the establishment of the Fulbright Program in Austria.
    November 18-19, 2010. Amerika Haus, Vienna.

    Download the call for papers here (.pdf)

           

Fulbright

  • Past event: "Cultural Circulation: Canadian Writers and Authors from the American South--A Dialogue." International Colloquium, University of Vienna, September 24-26, 2010.


    Download: Invitation (.pdf, German) and Program booklet (.pdf) 
           


  • Past event: “American Studies in Europe Post-9/11: Is it All Different Now?” Fourth Annual Austria's Young Americanists Graduate Student Workshop. Vienna, Oct. 8-10, 2010.
    Deadline for porposals: September 12.

    Download: Call for papers (.pdf) 
           


  • AAAS Newsletter: Newsletter 19 (2008-2010) is now online. Download it here. (.pdf)
           


  • Recently published: Almighty Dollar. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference by the AAAS.
    Ed. by Heinz Tschachler, Eugen Banauch, and Simone Puff.

    For more information, see LIT Verlag or our publications section!
           




  • Past event: The American Indian Workshop presents “Approaching Native American Cultures from an Inter-American Perspective: Similarities and Differences,” a workshop hosted by the Center for the Study of the Americas at the University of Graz, March 31 to April 03, 2011 in Styria, Austria.
    For general information, click here.

    See the call for papers here.

    Deadline for submission of proposals: October 1, 2010.
           

AIW




  • Past event: Salzburg Global Seminar: American Studies Symposium - To Honor Emory Elliott: "American Literary History in a New Key." Session organized by SSASAA, Sept. 24-28, 2010.

    For further information about the Salzburg Global Seminar, please go to: http://www.salzburgglobal.org/2009/sessions.cfm?IDSpecial_Event=2445.

    Downloads (.pdf): description.
           

SGS 2010

  • Past event: EAAS Conference 2010 in Dublin, March 26-29: "Forever Young? The Changing Images of America." See the conference website at www.eaasdublin2010.com

    See also the new EAAS website at www.eaas.eu!
           

EAAS Dublin 2010

  • Recently published: Exploring Spaces: Practices and Perspectives. Proceedings of the 34th International Conference by the AAAS ("American Studies in Austria.") Ed. by Dorothea Steiner and Sabine Danner.

    For more information, see LIT Verlag or our publications section!
           


  • Recently published: Silvia Schultermandl, Transnational Matrilineage: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Asian American Literature (LIT Verlag, Münster).
           

  • Recently published: Eugen Banauch, Fluid Exile: Jewish Exile Writers in Canada 1940-2006 (Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg).
           

           
           

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