The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest
invites proposals for its annual student conference on the topic
The United States of America at 250
to be held in person and online
on Saturday, May 16, 2026.
In-person panels will be held in Martin Luther King Hall
1st floor, 7-13 Pitar Moș St., Sector 1, Bucharest.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Erika Baldt (Rowen College at Burlington County)
Fulbright scholar, American Studies Program, University of Bucharest
We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations from undergraduate and MA students whose research is relevant to the topic of the conference. PhD students are also welcome to submit proposals. Papers may come from the fields of literature, film, theater and performance arts, popular culture, visual culture and the media, history, politics, intercultural and interdisciplinary communication, transatlantic relations, as well as other academic areas that are relevant to the subject. You may consider papers on topics such as (but not limited to) literature/ media/ popular culture, identity, and representation; literature/ media/ popular culture and American politics; literature/ media/ popular culture and public discourse; U.S. literature/ media /popular culture from the early republic era to the digital age; from the emergence to the globalization of American literature /media /popular culture; media activism (media and social movements); past and present representations of gender and sexuality in American literature /media /popular culture; war, conflict, and media narratives over time; media and consumer culture over time; mainstream and independent media over time; media and cultural memory from the emergence of the United States of America to the present; media, law, and ethics in the United States.
Submission Guidelines. Please submit the following:
1) a 250-word abstract attached as an MS Word file. Your abstract must include the title of your paper and the name of the academic coordinator who has agreed to supervise your paper. Please note that, considering that each presentation will be 15 minutes long, final papers should be approximately 5-6 pages long (Times New Roman, font 12, double-spaced). However, we strongly encourage participants to present and not simply read their papers.
2) 3-5 keywords from your essay;
3) Contact information (name, affiliation, phone number, and email address).
Please email your submissions to sabina.draga.alexandru@lls.unibuc.ro.
Deadline for submissions: April 26, 2026.
Notifications of acceptance: April 30, 2026.
