The IAAS invites applications for our 2026 Research Bursaries, which offer funding for postgraduate research students and precariously employed/unsupported postdoctoral scholars. Application deadline: 31 Dec. 2025 for research activities in 2026. Visit iaas.ie/bursaries/.
The Call for Papers for the 2026 IAAS Annual Conference is officially live!
Abstracts will be accepted until Jan 26.
This year will be at @UlsterUni- Coleraine, with opportunities to visit the Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Distillery!
Learn more at iaas.ie
Calling all Postgrads! New Call for Papers has just dropped for the IAAS Postgrad Symposium!
This year's symposium will be at @UL, 14 November 2025. Deadline for submissions is 19 October 2025, midday. See you all there!
Learn more at iaas.ie/cfps/
The deadline for this year's WTM Riches Essay Prize is 31 July 2025. Entries from undergraduates and students in the first year of taught Master's degrees welcome. Entrants must be IAAS members normally resident on the island of Ireland. More: iaas.ie/essay-prizes/
We will be accepting abstracts for the IAAS annual conference (April 24-26) until tomorrow evening. Submissions from scholars of film, TV and literature are particularly welcome. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.ed…
Applications are open for the AMERICA 2026 undergraduate conference in Strasbourg, France, from June 9--20, 2025. This event offers students the opportunity to explore the global significance of the American Revolution.
Deadline: March 10
More here: shorturl.at/98Kax
We've had so many great abstract submissions for the IAAS conference April, but we'd like to get a few more, particularly from scholars in film and literary studies.
We've extended our submission deadline until March 15
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Recently published a monograph? Edited collection? Won a grant?
We're gathering items for our newsletter and would love to feature IAAS members with academic news relating to American Studies.
Email info@iaas.ie if you are a current member and would like to be featured!
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY:
The Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for its three-year doctoral program.
iaas.ie/news/doctoral-schola…
Opportunity from @GSNASBERLIN:
2 four-year DAAD GSSP grants and 2 one-year doctoral grants. Research must be related to the field of North American Studies.
Deadline: January 31, 2025.
Start date: October 1, 2025.
More here: gsnas.fu-berlin.de/en.
**EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR IAAS RESEARCH BURSARIES** The closing date for applications for the 2025 IAAS Research Bursaries has been extended to Friday, 7th February 2025. Application forms and full eligibility criteria are available on the IAAS website: iaas.ie/bursaries/
Call for Papers
Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA)
Late-stage American Empire?
Puerto Rico Convention Center, San Juan/Puerto Rico
November 20-23, 2025
theasa.net/2025