Super excited to be organising this conference 🙌 Registration is now open! (And it’s free!)

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Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our first panel of the day is on the theme "The Dystopia" and will feature Eptisum Laskar, Jacob Moose, Yifei Jing (Peking University), and Brittney Finley (University of Kent)...

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our second panel is on the theme "The American Dream/American Nightmare on Film" and will feature Upasana Sarangi (KIIT), Nick Berbiers (University of Kent) and Tweed (Native Spirit Film Festival)...

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our third panel of the day is on "The Body" and will feature Carla Abella Rodriquez (Universidad de Salamanca) and Anouk Hreman (University of Silesia)...

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our second roundtable is on "Perspectives within "New" and "Emerging" Media" and features Prof John Wills (University of Kent, John Wills ), Dr Stephen Morgan (KCL), and Dr Sara Polak (Leiden University)...

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our third roundtable is on "Indigenous Horror on Turtle Island" and features Dr Krista Collier-Jarvis (Dr. Krista Collier-Jarvis ) and Tiffany Morris ...

Introducing the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference speakers! Our final event of the day is a Conversation with Curtis Chin, author of "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" (2023)...

We're excited to introduce the "American Dream/American Nightmare" conference online day keynote! Dr Lucy Bond (University of Westminster) will be speaking on "Capitalising on the Past: Heritage, Industry, and the Environmental Racism in the American Gulf States"...

Exciting new CFP! ‘Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years’. A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture 46.2 (Summer 2026). Edited by Colin Halloran & Marc Ouellette. Article proposals sought by 31 August 2025. More details available below:

The American Dream/American Nightmare Conference 2025 is complete!🙌🏻 We proudly welcomed 40 presenters across the 2 days, both online and at University of Westminster. Congratulations to all presenters, and a huge thank you to all speakers, panel chairs, and everyone involved👏🏻 (1/2)

University of Westminster We wish to extend our gratitude once more to our funders: Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, BAAS, and the research committee from Humanities at Westminster. Stay tuned for more information about our upcoming special issue with European Journal of American Culture on the conference’s theme✨ (2/2)

Are you a PGR interested in Postcolonial Studies? Are you interested in gaining experience in a director role? We want to hear from you! The NVPoco network will need a new director for the coming academic year. (1/2)

We're excited to announce the final seminar in our 2024/25 series!! 🎉 “Thinking the (Im)possibility of (Liberatory) Ecological Alternatives” will be an interactive workshop facilitated by Mohamad Baqer elHarake online...

...You can register (for FREE ✨) through this link which you can also find in our bio: eventbrite.com/e/thinking-the…

Gothic Nature is looking for a new Film & TV Reviews Editor! Please see attached for details. We look forward to hearing from you! 🍃🍃🍃 Kind regards, Elizabeth & Harriet