Meet our new team. Alongside returning committee members, we have a new chair, a new secretary and a brand new postgrad caucus co-chair:

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:

RT @Dr_Clodagh: Wld love a share @MYBISA @theIAAS @USEmpire @ScottLucas_EA @EA_WorldView @Clinton_InstUCD @LarrySabato @Center4Politics @CU….

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.

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:

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.

Today is the final day to get your proposals in for the IAAS annual conference in Trinity College Dublin.

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!.

Just a reminder that abstracts for this year's IAAS annual conference are due this Friday, February 14th.

The deadline for submitting an abstract to this exciting conference in Madrid has been extended to the end February:

Join us in April for the 2025 Irish Association for American Studies annual conference. Abstracts due February 14th.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY:.The Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for its three-year doctoral program.

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:

**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: 

RT @IasaStudies: Call for Papers.Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA).Late-stage American Empire?.Puerto Rico Conventio….

RT @IasaStudies: Review of International American Studies.Number 17 (1/2024).Journeying America(n)s: On Paradoxes of Travel(and) Narratives….

RT @IasaStudies: Call for Papers.52nd Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) Conference.Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Tro….

RT @IasaStudies: From @ScotAmStudies :. "Our cosy but very international conference, held on Saturday March 1, 2025, has the deadline for t….

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2025's IAAS Annual Conference – to be held 24-26 April at Trinity College Dublin – will address the theme “We the People”. Send abstracts (c. 300 words) for 20-minute papers to conference@iaas.ie by Friday, 14th February 2025. More here:

The IAAS invites applications for our 2025 Research Bursaries, which offer funding for postgraduate research students and precariously employed/unsupported postdoctoral scholars. Application deadline: 31 Dec. 2024, for research activities in 2025. Visit 

RT @Dr_Clodagh: It’s here! Thank you @pressmansteven for talking to @AlexWaddan & me for our December #podcast 🇺🇸 talking @potus economic p….