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