Review: HOTCUS Inaugural Work-in-Progress Meeting
Review: HOTCUS Inaugural Work-in-Progress Meeting, University of Nottingham, 19 October 2018 At the inaugural HOTCUS work-in-progress meeting, two developing journal articles were discussed: Dr Miguel Hernandez’s (University of Exeter) paper, ‘”The Menace of Modern Immigration”: Nativism and Violence in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan’ and Dr Alex Bryne’s (University of Nottingham) ‘The Potential of Flight: Pan-Americanism and U.S. Aviation during the Progressive Era’. As is typical of such sessions, the papers were circulated in advance, and briefly introduced by the authors. The chair of the meeting, Mark Eastwood (University of Nottingham), explained that the impetus for trialling work-in-progress sessions came from HOTCUS members: ‘in particular those at an early career stage, who wanted a forum for sharing and developing their ideas and research beyond the confines of a conference paper.’ An advantage of this format, for the audience, was the chance to hear more about the inspiration and development of […]
Continue ReadingEvent Review: Student-Led Midlands3Cities American Studies Retreat, 22nd – 29th June 2018
Between the 22nd and 29th of June, 2018, a group of research students from across the East Midlands – united by a shared passion for American Studies – gathered in Matlock, Derbyshire, with the intention of bursting their academic bubbles. This academic retreat was a student-led project generously funded by the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C) and was attended by both M3C and non-M3C PhD candidates representing Birmingham City University, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Leicester, and the University of Nottingham.
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