2023 Conference

The 2023 Conference of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association

University of Sydney
December 1-3

Connection and conflict: making and unmaking political communities in the Americas

In the last two decades, new modes of social connectivity and disruption have altered the way people inside and outside of the United States live, work, study, socialise, and, consequently, engage with politics and political inclusion. Popular and scholarly attempts to interpret these transformations often reach for explanations in the shifting currents of technology and new media, demographics and identity, renewed political polarisation, or the resurgence of an authoritarian nationalism. Yet almost all these themes – technological connectivity, ethnonationalism, demographic change, and paranoid styles of political thought – predominate through the long histories of American politics and culture. So too do impulses toward political unity and social collectivism, the conflicted aspirations toward a good life, and the contested belief in a commonweal.

Our keynote speakers and our presenters will be addressing these themes, and we are pleased to welcome all American Studies scholars to attend and participate.

You’ll find here our Programme, Registration, Social Events including conference dinner, and Accommodation information as well as our original Call for Papers.

For enquiries, contact ANZASA.2023@gmail.com, or Lecturer of American Studies Aaron Nyerges aaron.nyerges@sydney.edu