UdS American Studies Graduate Forum

UdS American Studies Graduate Forum 2023 and UniGR CBS Border Seminaire: “Borders in Crisis: Border Struggles and Border Violence in a Global Perspective”

The 9th Seminar of the UniGR-Center for Border Studies organised by Saarland University will take place on-site (D4.1) and online on the 11th and 12th May 2023.

Find more information as well as the full program here.

Please register here.

Call for Papers: "Border Close-ups: Film and Everyday Lives in the Borderlands"

In cooperation with the German-American Institute Saarland, the Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University (UdS) will hold a 3-day American Studies Graduate Forum on December 2-4, 2021, that invites advanced Master students, doctoral candidates, as well as junior and senior scholars to present their current work-in-progress in a workshop-style setting. The forum will offer participants a chance to discuss their research with peers as well as with more advanced scholars. This year, we invite submissions dealing with the construction, representation, and assessment of borderlands in film.

CALL FOR PAPERS HERE (PDF)

Deadline: October 31, 2021

Presentations should be approximately 20 minutes in length and will be followed by a discussion and feedback round with all participants and experts. Saarland U will seek to offer assistance in travel funding to selected presenters; recipients of the funding will be selected based on their proposals.

In order to submit a proposal, please send an email, including a title, a 250-word abstract and a short biographical note to

amerikanistik@mx.uni-saarland.de by October 31, 2021.

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