Dear all,
We are happy to share our June 2025 newsletter with all of you–and last one before the Summer break. Here are the announcements and reminders for this month:
Events of the Month
The Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists Date: 5-8 June 2025 Location: University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA. The program contains a panel on “1776 and the Age of Revolutions” with the participation of AMERICA2026 members! For more information on the program, see here.
Currents and Exchanges in Vast Early America. OI 28th Annual Conference. Date: June 12-14, 2025 Location: The College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. For more information on the program and on participation, see here.
Archiving America/American Archives Annual Meeting of the German Association of American Studies Date: June 12-14, 2025 Location: Siegen University, GER. For more information on the program, see here.
Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America Lunch at the Library presentation with Peter Conn Date: June 12, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Location: hybrid, Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106, and online. Find more information on registration and online participation here.
Job Announcements and Scholarships
2025 Rachel Hines Prize The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program and the University of South Carolina Press are delighted to announce that we are now soliciting submissions for the biannual Rachel Hines Prize for manuscripts on the Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World. More information: see attached file. Submission deadline: June 1, 2025
Obama Fellowship at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies Application Deadline: July 1, 2025 For more information on the Institute, the fellowship, and the application process, see here.
Publications
Seynabou Thiam-Pereira, Les Loyalistes noirs et la Guerre d’Indépendance des Etats-Unis. Etude comparée d’une communauté réfugiée au Canada (1775-1815), Paris, Honoré Champion (published on April 25, 2025) More information here.
The latest issue of the Journal of Constitutional History / Giornale di Storia Constituzionale is out and available online. In this issue (49, April 2025) are published the papers presented at the conference organized by Manuela Albertone and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke in May 2023 in Turin, among which those of Agnès Delahaye, “La révolution américaine sous le prisme du peuplement”, Ghislain Potriquet, “The Franco-American Alliance: a Century After”, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Irma Toti, “L’Amérique au concours. Prix académiques sur la “découverte” du Nouveau Monde et la Révolution américaine en France et en Toscane (1774-1792)”.
Volker Depkat, Karsten Fitz, and Susanne Lachenicht, eds., Representations and Uses of the American Revolution in Past and Present (Heidelberg, 2025) More information here.
Remember to send us your publication news so we can spread the word!
Calls for Papers and Submissions
Maps in American Literature, 15th-21st c. International symposium. Date: April 1-3, 2026 Location: ENS de Lyon, France Submission deadline: before June 15, 2025. For more information and the Call for Papers, see here.
A Quarter-Millenium of Franco-American Relations Co-organized by The Tocqueville Society and the American University of Paris. Date: May 28-29, 2026 Location: Paris Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025 at David Bell, dabell@princeton.edu. Papers can be delivered in either English or French. For more information, see here.
America’s 1776: Independence and its Enduring Legacies A conference by the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society America’s 1776 is one of three conferences co-hosted by DCAR and the APS in 2026. These conferences seek to examine the American Revolution in global, national, and local contexts, to view the American Revolution in relationship to the Age of Revolutions, and to debate the central forces of change at work in the period. Submission Deadline: June 23, 2025 Find the CfP and more information here.
Let us know what you are up to in- and outside of America2026 (preferably by the 20th of the current month to be included in the upcoming newsletter) so we can spread the word here as well!
