Special Issue of the European Journal of American Studies Guest editors: Florian Freitag (JGU Mainz, Germany) & Kirsten Sandrock (U Göttingen, Germany)   Earlier discussions of literary and cultural regionalism in North America have frequently tended to cluster around specific regions and their relations to the nation. By contrast, this thematic issue of EJAS seeks to explore new perspectives by focusing espec... More

Warrior or Peacemaker? The Battle over Canada’s Identity, 1914-2014    2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, a conflict in which several hundred thousand Canadians participated and 60,000 lost their lives. Governments around the world, including Canada's, will be actively looking to commemorate key battles and other moments of the war. In the Canadian case, these efforts... More

Call For Papers Conference website This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most seminal events in modern American poetry, the Vancouver Poetry Conference 1963. Following the publication of Donald Allen's prescient The New American Poetry in 1960, Warren Tallman and Robert Creeley gathered together a number of the New American poets (including Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, and Allen Ginsberg) in Vancouver for three weeks of poetry rea... More

University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Graduate School Inaugural Conference for Academic Year 2013-2014 Writing Beyond Borders   The University of Manchester, 20th September 2013   Opening Keynote Speaker: Dr Jean-Marc Dreyfus (Religion and Theology, Manchester) Closing Keynote Speaker: Dr Claire Chambers (English Literature, York) This conference aims to examine the ways in which reading, writing and researching li... More

Call for Proposals, Food Across Borders CALL FOR PAPERS Food Across Borders: Production, Consumption, and Boundary Crossing in North America Recent criticism of our global food system has obscured a longer, and still healthy, tradition of food cultivation and circulation among nations.  Our own national diets are a product of long-existing agricultural empires across the North Ameri... More