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BCEAH 2017: Land and Water

LAND AND WATER: PORT TOWNS, MARITIME CONNECTIONS, AND OCEANIC SPACES OF THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC WORLD. The British Group of Early American Historians will hold its annual conference at the University of Portsmouth, 31 August - 3 September 2017. Drawing on Portsmouth’s historic significance as a port town this year’s conference theme is: “Land and Water: Port Towns, maritime connections, and oceanic spaces of the early modern Atlantic World.” Portsmouth was a site of embarkation for those who shaped (or attempted to shape) the political, social, and demographic contours of the Atlantic World: the Roanoke colonists departed from the town in 1587; as did Admiral Nelson for the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It was a hub of imperial force in the form of the Royal Navy and intimately connected with the imperial conflicts across the globe, and also of the protection and then prevention of the transatlantic slave trade. […]

Remobilising Militant Pasts: Histories of Protest, Unrest and Insurrection in Politics and Culture (King’s College London)

REMOBILISING MILITANT PASTS: HISTORIES OF PROTEST, UNREST AND INSURRECTION IN POLITICS AND CULTURE Hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London - 31st August & 1st September 2017 Delegates’ Fees: •       Speakers  Free •       Students and Untenured: One Day  £10 •       Students and Untenured: Both Days  £20 •       Tenured Staff: One Day  £20 •       Tenured Staff: Both Days  £40 Deadline for Registration is Thursday, 24 August.  Registration fees include lunch and refreshments. For any queries, contact Dr Dion Georgiou at diongeorgiou@hotmail.co.uk Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remobilising-militant-pasts-histories-of-protest-unrest-and-insurrection-in-politics-and-culture-tickets-36308575928 Programme (correct at time of posting) THURSDAY, 31 AUGUST 9:30 – 10:00: Registration 10:00 – 12:00: Radical Histories in Fictional Texts Matthew Ingleby (Queen Mary University of London) Fantasising 1887: Harkness, Nesbit and the Literary Afterimage of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Ruth Adams (King’s College London) Popular Cultural Representations of the Suffragettes Rebecca Hillman (University of Exeter) Resistance, Representation and Repetition: […]

CFP: The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style

Call for papers: The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style Many of our current cultural practices are marked by a union of art and entertainment. Underlined by all-pervasive processes of globalization and digitalization, this union comes in all shapes and sizes, transforming culture so that it can no longer be comfortably classified as high or low, art or genre. Surprisingly, this ‘art of artertainment’ has not, as yet, attracted much scholarly interest. It is with the aim of overcoming this omission that we launch this call for papers. As editors of a collection titled The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style, we warmly invite articles that focus on all aspects of American culture, such as literature, television, cinema, music, painting, material culture, photography, theater, and all other that are influenced by the crossovers of highbrow with lowbrow. Of special interest are historical and/or analytical approaches illuminated by colorful studies of cases where […]

CFP: British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Panel at the BAAS/EAAS Joint Conference (London)

BRITISH ASSOCIATION  OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICANISTS PANELS AT THE BAAS/EAAS JOINT CONFERENCE, LONDON 2018 The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists invites submissions to two panels to be submitted to the joint British Association for American Studies/European Association for American Studies Conference, taking place in London, April 4-7 2018. More information on BrANCA and its activities can be found here: http://www.branca.org.uk/ 1. OPEN PANEL ON 19th CENTURY AMERICANIST TOPICS Each year BrANCA hosts a special panel at BAAS showcasing progressive, interdisciplinary work on the United States in the long nineteenth century. This year BrANCA invites paper proposals on any relevant topic to be included within a sponsored panel at the BAAS/EAAS Conference in London, April 4-7 2018. We invite proposals for papers from all researchers working in the field. We are particularly interested in global, hemispheric and transatlantic approaches to key themes in nineteenth century literary studies, and papers that propose new ways […]