The 2025 BAAS Postgraduate Symposium invites proposals from postgraduate researchers at all levels and disciplines that address the diverse interpretations, possibilities and liminality that can be found in the depictions and theorisation of America’s (un)equal past and/or future.
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Call for Papers: BAAS Postgraduate Symposium – Teesside University, 29th November 2025
‘The people favored and the people oppressed’: The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America
The 2025 BAAS Postgraduate Symposium invites proposals from postgraduate researchers at all levels and across all disciplines that address the diverse interpretations, possibilities and liminality that can be found in the depictions and theorisation of America’s (un)equal past and/or future. We invite panels and individual papers on the topic of The Unequal Struggle for Equality and Rights in America. We encourage you to interpret the theme as broadly as you wish and welcome contributions from all realms of American Studies, including, but not limited to; literature and film studies, postcolonial and decolonial analysis, science and visual culture, urban and environmental history.
We welcome the submission of individual papers as well as proposals for complete panels of three researchers. Applications from groups of three or four researchers for roundtable discussions are also welcome. For panel and roundtable proposals, please also include a statement of up to 250 words on the aims of the collective submission, alongside the individual papers. Papers should be around 15-20 minutes long, and roundtables will consist of five-minute introductions by each researcher followed by 45 minutes of discussion. Interdisciplinary paper, panel, and roundtable proposals are encouraged. This will be a hybrid symposium, so we also welcome researchers wishing to attend online. We especially encourage researchers from across Europe and beyond to submit and attend, as part of ongoing efforts to expand the EAAS community of postgraduates. We want to make this symposium as accessible as possible; we will be working to ensure a relaxed academic environment, and we encourage anyone attending in-person to email us with any access needs.
All presenters attending will receive a contribution toward their costs of attendance or childcare up to £100.
The deadline for submissions is 22nd August 2025. Please send proposals including a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short biography of no more than 300 words to David Malcolm at david.malcolm@baas.ac.uk.
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Each year, BAAS offers a growing list of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research assistance awards. In recent years, we have added a new essays award for students of colour at school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and, in light of the climate crisis and our commitment to promote low-carbon research practices, we transformed the travel assistance awards into research assistance awards, offering the possibility of hiring research assistants to pursue archival research remotely.
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