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HOTCUS Annual Conference 2021 (Online)

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North America: Inclusive, Exclusive, and Exceptional, The Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference in North American Studies (Online)

Please note that the conference has been postponed due to the corona virus situation, following the instructions issued by the University of Helsinki. The new dates are December 9 - 12, 2020. Update: The conference will be held as a virtual event. If you have any urgent questions, please do not hesitate to contact: mapleleaf-eagle@helsinki.fi. For decades, the Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference in North American Studies has presented a dynamic setting for examining and describing the phenomenon that is North America, involving the study of North America itself. We thrive on being interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, welcoming to academic specialties as varied as history, literature, politics, geography, media studies, ethnic studies, culture studies, law, and economics. Presentations are sought from a wide range of research traditions and from a variety of political and ideological backgrounds.

CfP: Hip Hop and Higher Education Conference

Call for Papers The Hip Hop and Higher Education online conference is a one-day event, funded by the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), that will take place on Thursday 15th July 2021. Through this conference, we seek to do three things: Provide a space for people to exhibit and enjoy the critical, creative and communal elements of Hip Hop Interrogate Hip Hop's exclusion from higher education, linking it to intersecting systems of oppression and discrimination which underpin the university and wider society Explore the merits and possible dangers of incorporating Hip Hop into formal sites of higher education In order to reflect and honour the dynamism of Hip Hop, music and performance will feature throughout the day. In that vein, we not only invite artists, academics (early careers/established) and members of the Hip Hop community to submit proposals for papers, but also group presentations, performances, videos, virtual exhibitions, discussion […]

University of Edinburgh American History Workshop: ‘A Task Worth Doing at All is a Task Worth Doing Well’: Holocaust Perpetrators and Post-war US Immigration Mechanisms (Online)

December 3  Claire Aubin (Edinburgh): 'A Task Worth Doing at All is a Task Worth Doing Well': Holocaust Perpetrators   and Post-war US Immigration Mechanisms This session is part of the University of Edinburgh’s American History Fall Workshop series. If you are interested in participating in these workshops, please contact David Silkenat at the in order to be added to the mailing list and receive the pre-circulated papers. All of these workshops will occur on Zoom at 5pm on the indicated date.