CultCommWar Workshop Four: American Wars, American Memory Friday 30 November, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford Thanks to a BAAS and US Embassy Small Grant, booking is now open for our next Cultures and Commemorations of War event on the theme of American Wars, American Memory, on Friday 30 November at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Participants include John Horne and Layla Renshaw and the keynote speaker is Sarah Wagner, who will be talking about her book Bringing Them Home: The Identification and Commemoration of Vietnam War MIAs. It is free and open to all. You can register here. Please do join us for what should be a brilliant event! CultCommWar (@CultCommWar) is an interdisciplinary seminar series which considers the practices and politics of war memory across time. You can read more about the series on the British Academy website and the Oxford Arts blog, and in this […]

Music and Social Movements Symposium 2018, Northumbria University, 30th November 2018 This symposium, funded by the US Embassy and Northumbria University, will bring together academic historians, graduate students, and teachers to examine the role that music played in various oppositional social movements active in the post-World War II period in the United States. This includes (but is not limited to) religious movements, the gay rights movement, labor organizations, and the African-American and Latino activist communities. Participants will think through how we teach and write about the ways that popular music relates to minority group understanding, political protest, religious identity, and more. In particular, the symposium hopes to promote the work of graduate students and early career academics. It will facilitate this through bursaries to cover travel and accommodation. The day will include a series of academic papers and a ‘Teaching History with Music’ roundtable. The symposium will conclude with a major […]

Thursday 15th November 2018 British Views of the United States, 1939-1984 is a symposium organised by Professors Robert Cook and Clive Webb at the University of Sussex. The symposium, supported by a grant from the British Association for American Studies and the US Embassy in London, assesses continuity and change in British attitudes towards the United States from the start of the Second World War to the late Cold War. Although there is an enormous literature on Anglo-American relations, it is usually focused on political and diplomatic elites with little insight into the thoughts and feelings of the larger public. Our focus is therefore on the ways in which notions of a ‘Special Relationship’ between Britain and the United States have been consistent with, or run counter to, popular opinion. We are also interested in intellectual, artistic and literary representations of the United States. Our keynote speaker is Professor James Cronin of Boston College, author of Global Rules: America, Britain and a Disordered […]