Upcoming Conferences

• The joint 2012 SANAS-AAAS Conference on "Cultures in Conflict—Conflicting Cultures" will take place at the University of Zürich on November 9-10, 2012. Scholars should send 200-word abstracts suitable for 20-minute papers to the conference organizers by May 1, 2012: Elisabeth Bronfen <bronfen@es.uzh.ch>, Mario Klarer <Mario.Klarer@uibk.ac.at>, Christina Ljungberg"<cljung@es.unizh.ch>. See here for the call for papers.

CUSO Doctoral Program in English Language and Literature: 2012 Workshops

• The 2012 workshops of the CUSO Doctoral Program in English Language and Literature are open for registration here. Three of them are particularly relevant to American Studies scholars: "Aesthetics and Politics; Or, What’s Entitled to be Beautiful Today?" (Crêt-Bérard, Vaud, 22-23 March), "New Aesthetic Paradigms" (Seminarhotel Lindenhof, Brienz, BE, 7-9 September), and "PhD Day" (tbd, 8 December).

SANAS Awards

• SANAS members of all ranks are eligible for the SANAS Research Award (deadline: November 1). SANAS members may nominate applicants for  the SANAS Teaching Travel Award (deadline: subject to revision).  See here for more information.

Dates & Deadlines

• The 2012 EAAS Conference on "The Health of the Nation"  will take place in Izmir on March 30–April 2, 2012. See here for more information.
• The 2012 ASA Annual Meeting on “Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future” (November 15-18, 2012) will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The call for topics is open: see here for more information.
• The 2012 MLA Annual Convention will take place in Seattle, January 5-8, 2012. See here for more information.
• The 2012 Conference of the German Association for American Studies on "American Lives" will take place at the University of Mainz from May 31- June 3, 2012. See here for more information.