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Latest Past Events

CFP: BAAS Panel at ‘English: Shared Futures’ (Newcastle)

CFP: Writing Shared Futures: African American Literature and Racialisation BAAS Panel at 'English: Shared Futures,' 5-7 July 2017, Newcastle, UK Contributions are invited for a BAAS panel at 'English: Shared Futures,' a large-scale conference spanning across the discipline. The panel 'Writing Shared Futures: African American Literature and Racialisation' will explore the significances of, and engagements with, racialisation in post-Civil Rights writing by African Americans. It will seek to ask how understandings of racialisation are connected with understandings of the future, and to examine the ways in which literary texts have questioned categories and binaries of race and have complicated views of the processes by which racial identity comes into being. Such processes might be made visible in contexts such as: migration and immigration multi-ethnic coalitions intersectional politics future worlds internationalism coming of age narratives popular culture/music/sport contemporary politics, especially the Obama years new technologies and social media Possible writers include […]

CFP: 8th International Conference on American Studies (Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia)

 Organized by: ATSU Foreign Affairs and Development Office, Prof. Vakhtang  Amaglobeli Center for American Studies & John Dos Passos Association of Georgia.  Supporters: US Embassy in Georgia & Akaki Tsereteli State University We invite a variety of contributions that address any of the following topics: U.S. Literature U.S. Education System U.S. Culture Art Philosophy Mass Media Social and Women’s Issues U.S. History U.S. Politics Religion Law Economics Healthcare Ecology Georgian-American Relations Working Languages: Georgian and English  Style guides for papers: Conference proceedings will be published as a journal. Manuscripts should not ordinarily exceed fifteen standard pages (A4) including the abstract and the contributor’s short bio. All papers must conform to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition in all matters of form and should be typewritten in MS Word 2003. Use Times New Roman: 12 pts fonts for the main text and all additional parts except endnotes and index (where you […]

Fulbright Lecture: ‘Jaw Jaw is Better than War War’ (British Library)

British Library Conference Centre 96 Euston Road, London

Fulbright Lecture: Jaw Jaw is Better than War War When Thursday 8 September, 18.30-20.00 Where The British Library Conference Centre Price £10/£8/£7 http://www.bl.uk/events/jaw-jaw-is-better-than-war-war Former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell will be in conversation with Gabrielle Rifkind. Jonathan Powell, founder and director of Inter/Mediate an organisation dedicated to conflict resolution around the world, discusses whether an army of mediators would be better than an airforce of bombers. Powell was the British Government’s chief negotiator on Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007 and played a key part in leading the peace negotiations to a successful conclusion over that decade, from the triumph of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 though the nine year battle to get its implementation agreed and a lasting settlement in place. Before working for Tony Blair, Jonathan was a British diplomat from 1979 to 1994, specialising in negotiations. His new book Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflict was […]