Conference Review: ‘Black Women’s Activism in the Americas’, SHAW Annual Conference 2022
The British Library, 1st July 2022 The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW), co-organised with the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, hosted […]
Book Review: The Lone Leopard
The Lone Leopard, the new novel by Dr. Sharifullah Dorani, speaks to Afghanistan’s diversity, historical turbulence and future uncertainty through the coming-of-age story of four friends; Ahmad, Bakhtash, Wazir and the defiant young woman Frishta – as their intersecting, often conflicting paths are shaped by years of civil war, Taliban rule and American occupation.
Book Review: Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark
Edward Jackson reviews Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark, which examines Haynes’s long-standing feminist commitments and his exceptional career as a director of women’s films.
Conference Review: ‘Pandemics, Public Health, and Statecraft in Twentieth-Century U.S. History’
Day One, University College London, 4-5 July 2022 Organised by University College London’s Stephen Colbrook, Pandemics, Public Health, and Statecraft provided a platform for the exploration of the far-reaching intersections […]
BAAS 2022 Panel Review: ‘Cultures of Surveillance and Counterinsurgency’
‘Cultures of Surveillance and Counterinsurgency’, British Association for American Studies Conference 2022, University of Hull, 21-23 April 2022 Cultures of Surveillance and Counterinsurgency was a panel held online for the […]
Book Review: John Dos Passos’s Transatlantic Chronicling: Critical Essays on the Interwar Years.
The University of Tennessee Press, $65 John Dos Passos’s Transatlantic Chronicling: Critical Essays on the Interwar Years (ed. Aaron Shaheen and Rosa Maria Bautista-Cordero) spotlights John Dos Passos’s (1896-1970) interwar […]
Panel Review BAAS 2022: ‘Rethinking Identity and Place in the South: Cultural Production and Community Formations’
One of the advantages of returning to an in-person conference format is the opportunity to benefit from all the modes of knowledge exchange on offer over the three-day period—from panels, […]
BAAS 2022 Panel Review: ‘Considering Presidential Legacies: Reagan and Trump’
The British Association of American Studies (BAAS) Conference 2022 at the University of Hull was a hybrid format, with some panels happening in-person at the beautiful Hull campus, and other […]
Book Review: FDR in American Memory: Roosevelt and the Making of an Icon by Sara Polak
Sara Polak. FDR in American Memory: Roosevelt and the Making of an Icon (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2021), £54. In FDR In American Memory: Roosevelt and the Making of […]
Event Review: The Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference 2022
The biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference is an event of legendary status both in Helsinki and far outside Finland. For almost four decades, it has kept the tradition of […]