The BrANCH committee is pleased to invite paper and panel proposals for our 29th annual conference, to be held at College Court, University of Leicester, 7-9 October 2022. The following Call for Papers for BrANCH 2022 at College Court is issued in the expectation that the Covid-19 rules will be sufficiently relaxed, and the various vaccinations sufficiently effective, that the conference can be held in person in October.  The committee will be keeping a close eye on the situation. —–0—– We are delighted to announce that the Parish Lecturer for 2022 will be Professor Susan-Mary Grant of the University of Newcastle.  Until recently the Chair of BrANCH, Professor Grant has made a major contribution to the study of nineteenth-century American history in the United Kingdom.  She is the author of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court Justice; The War for a Nation: The American Civil War; and […]

International conference Organised by SEARCH (UR 2325, Université de Strasbourg), MGNE (UR 1341, Université de Strasbourg), CHER (UR 4376, Université de Strasbourg), Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin With the support of the MISHA (Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme - Alsace) and the Institut Universitaire de France CALL FOR PAPERS "Uncertain landscapes": representations and practices of space in the age of the Anthropocene Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace Université de Strasbourg 20-21 October 2022 Keynote speakers: Mark Cheetham, Department of Art History, University of Toronto and Lina Prosa, playwright, Palermo “A working country is hardly ever a landscape. The very idea of landscape implies separation and observation” (Williams, 1973). In this well-known statement, Raymond Williams expresses the view, often reformulated by cultural geographers and philosophers since the 1980s, that the idea of landscape always supposes a distancing process, whether it is a dissociation between the observed […]