Spanning Regions and Disciplines - Conferences of the European Joint Master's Programme in English and American Studies

The Seventh Student and Alumni Conference will be held in Venice at the Ca' Foscari University on May 3, 2027. The theme, “Changing Landscapes, Shifting Grounds” explores the constant movement in and across our contemporary world, especially in a city like Venice, exposed to climate change and always on the brink of collapse, yet which continues to resist adding new chapters to its centuries-long history. The technological disruptions and ecological crises of the world we inhabit demand evolving cultural paradigms for the future. In the fields of English and American Studies, these transformations compel us to rethink traditional boundaries. The landscapes we study—whether geographical, literary, linguistic, or political—are changing; the very grounds upon which our disciplines were built are transforming.

Check out the Call for Papers and send in your proposal until January 10, 2027: Changing Landscapes, Shifting Grounds(312.5 KB, 2 pages)

On 8 May 2025, the fifth conference of the Joint Master's Programme took place for the first time in Pécs as the culmination of the Joint Lecture series of the academic term of 2024/2025. The topic of the lecture series and conference was "Environment(s): Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives". The conference will be a hybrid event, allowing students from all partner universities to attend it.

The fourth student and alumni conference returned to Bamberg as its venue on April 25, 2024, under the title "Diversity: Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Aspects". A large number of presentations - from Diversity in Linguistics and Perspectives on Dis/ability to Gender and Queerness, Ethnic and Political Diversity in Literature and other topics - provided a multifaceted insight into a wide range of research areas.

The fourth conference of the European Joint Master's Programme was held in 2023, in Krakow.

On June 22, 2017, the second student and alumni conference of the European Joint Master's Programme in English and American Studies took place in Bamberg for the first time. The topics ranged from gender roles in the literature of Anne Wilke's and Jack Kerouac to linguistic hunting for genes or an analysis of the morphology of Nigerian Pidgin and depictions of class and tradition in American cinema.

Graz served as the venue for the inaugural student and alumni conference of the European Joint Master's programme. The topics of the conference covered aspects from literary, linguistic and cultural studies including but not limited to American Invertentionism, Lady Macbeth's role in Shakespeare's play Macbeth as well as contemporary Anglophone Novelists of the West African diaspora.