📅 Thu, July 9 to Sat, July 11, 2026:
BAA Annual Conference on “Free Speech: Promises, Meanings, Controversies” at Amerikahaus Munich | Keynote Lectures by @dblight.bsky.social (@yale.edu) & @mchangama.bsky.social (@vanderbilt.edu | @futurefreespeech.org)
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📅 Mon, June 1 to Mon, June 8, 2026:
BAA Summer Academy on "North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present" in Tutzing, Germany | Organized in cooperation with @apbtutzing.bsky.social.
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📅 Tue, April 14, 2026:
Podium Discussion | "Academic Freedom on the Line, Part II"
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📅 Sun, March 15, 2026:
Application Deadline | Emerging Scholars' Forum at the BAA Conference 2026
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📅 Sun, February 15, 2026:
Application Deadline | BAA Fellowship Program 2026
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📅 Sun, February 15, 2026:
Application Deadline | BAA Summer Academy 2025 at @apbtutzing.bsky.social in Tutzing, Germany
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📅 Wed, January 21, 2026:
Podium Discussion | "Academic Freedom on the Line: Perspektiven und Strategien für Hochschule und Forschung",
with Patrick Cramer (President, @maxplanck.de), Johannes Grave (Vice President, @dfg.de) and Robert Schlögl (President, @humboldt-foundation.de)
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We look forward to a year that holds many opportunities to meaningfully engage with each other. In this thread, you will find a brief glimpse at upcoming BAA events in the coming months, along with important deadlines.

We are very grateful to Professor Weinbaum for the insightful lecture and the engaged discussion with our audience, and we extend a big thank you to BAA members @ikalous.bsky.social (@fau.de) and Ina Batzke (University of Augsburg), with whom we have co-organized the event.

Alys Weinbaum gave an intriguing lecture on the political, social, and affective affordances of a sub-genre of speculative fiction that she calls ‘Reproductive Dystopia.’ To illustrate what she means by that, the literary scholar focused on Rivers Solomon's novella 'The Deep.'