Conferences | Department of English and American Studies

Conferences hosted by the Department

Scheduled Conferences

The 8th students’ conference IDEAS

will take place in September 2023.
Please stay tuned for details.

Community in Peril: From Individual Identities to Global Citizenship
Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
25-26 November 2022
The graduate conference welcomes papers on various topics of culture, literature, translation, localization, and linguistics that highlight the interpretations of selfhood, identity, borders and boundaries in the Hispanic, Francophone, and Anglophone virtual and physical spaces.

Past Conferences

35 Years of Brno International Conferences of English, American and Canadian Studies

11 major events: tradition of the biggest conferences of English Studies in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic — since 1986.

14th ESSE Conference 2018, Brno, Czech Republic

The biennial conference of the Euroepan Society for the Study of English took place in the Czech Republic for the first time. Almost 700 participants partook in the 4-day event.

IDEAS — English Students' Conferences: since 2015

Students’ conferences organized by the English Students’ Club (ESCApe). See photo galleries, abstracts of papers and schedules from all years.

New Pathways in North American Studies

A graduate studies conference of North American literary and cultural studies.

New Pathways in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times

A graduate studies conference of literary and cultural studies in English. Emerging scholars, advanced M.A. students, and Ph.D. candidates exchanged ideas on the topic of health, contagion and epidemics, and presented their current research.

Other conferences and events

organized by the Department