Conference Review: APG/BAAS Annual US Politics Colloquium
The event was a combination of two discussion panels and two paper presentations showcasing the diverging views of the Democratic and Republican participants on the 2014 midterm election results and the parties in general, as well as perspectives on Barack Obama regarding race and foreign policy.
Continue ReadingConference Review: Sixth London Colloquium of the Native Studies Research Network
The papers presented at this year’s colloquium focused on a range of diverse aspects of the study of Native American and Indigenous issues, from literature to history of thought, from art and visual studies to human rights,
Continue ReadingConference Review: ‘Not Your Average Superhero’
The three panellists, Zara Dinnen, Tony Venezia and Daniel Rourke, set out to explore superheroics not on the cinema screen, but behind the keyboard, in the literary novel, and in relation to digital technologies.
Continue ReadingReview: BrANCA Reading Group Session, ‘Forgotten Sensations’ and Sensationalism
We started the afternoon discussing The Leavenworth Case. A classic yet little-read piece of detective fiction, the novel opens with news of the death of retired New York merchant Horatio Leavenworth, murdered in his Manhattan mansion.
Continue ReadingReview of Protestantism and the Superpowers: Mission, Spirituality, and Prayer in the USA and USSR
Dr Mark Hurst gives a comprehensive review of the ‘Protestantism and the Superpowers: Mission, Spirituality, and Prayer in the USA and USSR’ workshop, held at the University of Leicester.
Continue ReadingReview: Joint BrANCH and HOTCUS Annual Conference
Andrea Livesey puts both her BrANCH and historian hat on when she reviews the Joint Annual Conference of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) and Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS).
Continue ReadingReview of the Tenth Annual ‘Wikimania’ Conference
Kiron Ward reviews the debates and panels at the forefront of this year’s Wikimania conference, held in London.
Continue ReadingReview of Celebrity Encounters: Transatlantic Fame in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America Conference
Hannah-Rose Murray explores celebrity encounters in her review of the ‘How to Define Celebrity’ conference, held at the University of Portsmouth.
Continue Reading“Be broad, be bold and be aware”: Review of the 2014 HOTCUS Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Workshop
Providing a first hand synopsis of the 2014 HOTCUS Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop, Tom Bishop shares the invaluable advice from senior historians on several uncertain areas for postgraduates: they address, amongst other things, applying for jobs in the U.S. and U.K, the advantages of publishing with smaller presses, and how to engage the public with history through digital spaces and museums. Other panels include: surviving the interview process, grant capture and life outside the academy.
Continue ReadingReview of Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border 2014 Conference
Convening on a sun-drenched weekend amid the wonderful surroundings of University Park Campus, the third Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border conference met to discuss the broad theme of ‘Cultural Crossings’, interrogating production, consumption, and reception across the 49th parallel; that real-and-imagined international boundary that lies between the United States and Canada.
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