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BAAS 2023 Annual Conference- Call for Papers

Keele University Keele

BAAS is delighted to invite submissions for the 67th annual British Association for American Studies conference at Keele University, which will be held between April 12 and April 14, 2023. Prof. Richard Blackett (Vanderbilt) and Prof. Louise Siddons (Southampton) will serve as keynote speakers. BAAS looks forward to welcoming the international American Studies community to Keele's beautiful campus.  Keele is located a short distance from Stoke-on-Trent, historically renowned for its pottery production. Building on the successes of the past two conferences, the Keele conference is currently planned as a hybrid event. Proposals are welcomed on any subject in American Studies, broadly conceived; that is, we hope to attract a range of papers across eras, geographies, and disciplines. Beyond research, we are interested in receiving session proposals that address American Studies pedagogy, “impact” and “knowledge exchange,” and the shape and future of the discipline. Along these lines, BAAS welcomes panels that include […]

CFP: HOTCUS 2022 Postgraduate and Early Career Conference: Poverty and (In)Equality in U.S. History

University of Leicester University Rd, Leicester

In recent years, the gap between the poorest and the wealthiest in society has increased exponentially and exacerbated the stark inequalities that have long existed in American society. This has been further impacted by the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has also raised a number of questions surrounding the treatment of those that were/are in poverty by the government, employers, educators, and society. Amidst these transformative changes in the United States, gross inequalities only grew. This conference will highlight the intersections between poverty and other facets of 20th century US history, such as; work and work relations, government support and programs, racialisation, the healthcare system and socioeconomic inequalities. Throughout the 20th Century, state initiatives attempted on various levels to reduce the socioeconomic inequality that existed throughout the US, for instance the growth of government programs that either aimed to tackle the gross unemployment levels or the changes that […]

CfP: “Uncertain landscapes”: representations and practices of space in the age of the Anthropocene

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 […]