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: […]

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. […]

Studying the South: Approaches and Orientations A one-day colloquium organised by the Southern Studies in the UK Network (www.ssukn.com) 26th August 2017, University of Hertfordshire Studies of the U.S. South have radically changed across the last century, and especially so in the twenty-first. As Michael Bibler (2016) has argued recently, southern studies scholars “begin with the assumption that there’s no such thing as a solid South. We are interested in all kinds of Souths, bringing a dazzling range of theoretical approaches” to the region. This one-day colloquium will explore the variety of perspectives or “orientations” (Bibler) that open up discussion of the U.S. South today. Where historically the South has been considered as the “nation’s region” (in Leigh Ann Duck’s words), southern studies scholars see the region in smaller and larger scales and frames. The South can be read in relation to other American regions like the West or Midwest; it can be thought […]