JAAAS - Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies

JAAAS - Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies The Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS; ISSN 2616-9533) is a peer-revie JAAAS is powered by Open Journal Systems.

The Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS; ISSN 2616-9533) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal which creates an interdisciplinary space for debate on all aspects of American studies. It functions as a forum for Americanists in Austria and the global academic community. Published twice a year, the journal welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics, aiming to broaden

the multi- and interdisciplinary study of American cultures. JAAAS does not charge any article-processing charges (APCs). JAAAS is supported by the Austrian Association for American Studies and hosted and supported by the University of Graz, Austria. JAAAS is published twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. Open-access content is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

09/01/2026

Announcing // Reflecting on Stuart Hall’s Impact

The BFI and the Stuart Hall Foundation present a look back on the impact of Professor Stuart Hall, through a screening and discussion featuring programmes Hall developed with CARM (Campaign Against Racism in the Media) and the Commission for Racial Equality.

📆 Wed 18 February, 6.10pm
📍 Screen NFT3, BFI Southbank
🎟️ £6.50, on sale Thu 26 January, 12pm
👉 https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/bfi-reflecting-on-stuart-halls-impact/

Open Door: It Ain’t Half Racist Mum
(BBC 1979. BBC Community Programme Unit in association with Campaign Against Racism in the Media. 29min. Digital)

Language is the Key
(UK 1985. Director Yugesh Walia. 39min. Digital)

It Ain’t Half Racist Mum, produced for the BBC’s Open Door series, presents a rigorous deconstruction of racism in British media. It will be screened alongside a new digitisation of Language is the Key, an exploration of the relationship between language and power featuring contributions from Hall.

A panel discussion will take place after the screening, considering how Hall’s pioneering work on media remains essential for analysing the political and cultural dynamics of multiculturalism. Speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Tickets go on sale from 12pm GMT on Thursday 26 January 2026, and will cost £6.50.

Reflecting on Stuart Hall’s Impact is part of Constructed, Told, Spoken: A Counter-History of Britain on TV, a seasonal programme at the BFI exploring Afro-Caribbean and South Asian Britons’ use of television to advocate for political and social representation in postwar Britain.

Produced by the BFI in association with the Stuart Hall Foundation.

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Image: It Ain’t Half Racist Mum

09/01/2026
09/01/2026

Political leaders today largely take pride in rejecting conquest as illegitimate, and US informal imperialism has crucially shaped this principle.

But could the US stance against annexation-by-conquest be softening and, if so, what would be the consequences for global order?

Revisit this revealing and timely Essay from the Aeon archive https://aeon.co/essays/how-it-became-wrong-for-nations-to-conquer-others

08/01/2026

The pressure to publish is creating a crisis of "junkification" in academic research, where the relentless demand for quantity in a tiered journal system floods the scholarly ecosystem with low-quality, commodified work. Driven by misaligned career incentives and methodological shortcuts, this trend produces unreliable findings on critical issues—eroding public trust and exacerbating global research inequities. This systemic problem calls for a fundamental re-evaluation of academic incentives to prioritize rigorous, careful science over mere publication volume.

Link to access the full essay by Rhodes and Linnenluecke (2025): https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084251399576

08/01/2026

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Interrogating the notion of "America" and looking at the U.S. within its transnational and (trans-)hemispheric interconnections, JAAAS wants to challenge disciplinary boundaries by bringing together original and innovative work by scholars who focus on topics as diverse as literature, cultural studies, film and new media, visual arts, ethnic studies, indigenous studies, performance studies, q***r studies, border studies, mobility studies, age studies, game studies, and animal studies. Apart from offering insights into trans- and international American literary and cultural studies and offering European perspectives on America, the journal also seeks scholarship that deals with history, music, politics, geography, ecocriticism, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, law, and any other aspect of American culture and society.

JAAAS welcomes submissions from new, emerging, and established scholars on various topics related to American culture (literature, film, television, visual arts, etc.). Although scholars working in the broad field of American Studies are the expected primary authors, anyone conducting research on American culture is encouraged to submit a proposal.

Work that meets the following prerequisites is likely to be a good fit for JAAAS:


  • It is original scholarship, neither previously published in English nor under consideration elsewhere, with a compelling argument;