We'll be joined by Dawnie Walton. Dawnie will be reading from Opal & Nev. The reading will be followed by Q&A and chat.   Funded by a US Embassy Small Grant, Bookable-Space African-American Lit-Literary Salon is a monthly event. Each month, we'll feature a book written by an African American author.  On the first Friday of each month, the author will join us in Zoom to read us engaging stories from their wonderful book, talk about the writing/themes/influences for the book, and answer questions about writing, process, and/or their publishing path. The events are ideal for readers who enjoy and/or are interested in: fiction, contemporary fiction, American studies, American literature, African-American studies, African-American literature, English literature, and well-told stories. Bookable-Space African American Lit Literary Salon promotes and expects a non-judgmental and supportive attitude from participants. If you’re interested in joining, would like to learn more, or are an author interested […]

The 55th JAAS Annual Meeting will be held on June 5th and 6th, 2021 at Keio University, Tokyo. The JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee invites JAAS members to send paper proposals for the “Independent Paper Sessions” to be held on June 5th, 2020. If you are interested in giving a paper, please send by email a proposal that includes (1) your name, (2) your affiliation, (3) the title of your paper, (4) a summary of your paper (approximately 800 words) and (5) five keywords to the JAAS Annual Meeting Office (program@jaas.gr.jp) by November 20th, 2020 (Japanese Standard Time, JST). The 55th Conference may be held online, if the of COVID-19 pandemic is not sufficiently resolved. Please check JAAS official website for the latest information. Only JAAS members can submit a paper proposal. Proposals from non-members will be reviewed if their membership application is received by November 20th, 2019 and […]

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT) 40th International American Studies Conference   Movement and Mobility in America Online Conference June 28-29, 2021   Movement and mobility lie at the core of American society. Whether through immigration, internal migration, social mobility, or domestic and global expansionism, the United States has always been defined as a nation of frontiers and pioneers, a country that is constantly (re)defining itself, where self-(re)invention is part of the American dream. Movement and mobility in the American context can also be physical, sociological, psychological, or political, as in the case of mobilizing for racial justice, such as with the Black Lives Matter movement that is sweeping the nation.   The Trump Administration has prompted a reevaluation of movement and mobility across the political spectrum. While some argue that this has stimulated a visible resurgence in activism and a revival of social movements in the United States, others […]

Call for Papers The Hip Hop and Higher Education online conference is a one-day event, funded by the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), that will take place on Thursday 15th July 2021. Through this conference, we seek to do three things: Provide a space for people to exhibit and enjoy the critical, creative and communal elements of Hip Hop Interrogate Hip Hop's exclusion from higher education, linking it to intersecting systems of oppression and discrimination which underpin the university and wider society Explore the merits and possible dangers of incorporating Hip Hop into formal sites of higher education In order to reflect and honour the dynamism of Hip Hop, music and performance will feature throughout the day. In that vein, we not only invite artists, academics (early careers/established) and members of the Hip Hop community to submit proposals for papers, but also group presentations, performances, videos, virtual exhibitions, discussion […]

An engaging evening with readings, Q&A, and discussion with Cadwell Turnball.   Funded by a US Embassy Small Grant, Bookable-Space African-American Lit-Literary Salon is a monthly event. Each month, we'll feature a book written by an African American author.  On the first Friday of each month, the author will join us in Zoom to read us engaging stories from their wonderful book, talk about the writing/themes/influences for the book, and answer questions about writing, process, and/or their publishing path. The events are ideal for readers who enjoy and/or are interested in: fiction, contemporary fiction, American studies, American literature, African-American studies, African-American literature, English literature, and well-told stories. Bookable-Space African American Lit Literary Salon promotes and expects a non-judgmental and supportive attitude from participants. If you’re interested in joining, would like to learn more, or are an author interested in being a salon guest, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. […]

Landscape Research Group is delighted to be able to announce the date for this hugely exciting and important online event exploring the long-lasting physical and cultural impacts of empire on the landscape. We have invited three renowned academics and authors who have written extensively about colonisation’s effects on the landscape in different parts of the world from varying perspectives.  They will be discussing and comparing how landscapes and buildings express empires’ power relationships and their enduring legacy, from conquest and dispossession, both in the colonies and metropole. The panellists are: Professor Jill H Casid, a historian, theorist and practicing artist based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Her contributions to the transdisciplinary field of visual studies include Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005) and Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015). Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, Saree Makdisi is the author of Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Palestine Inside […]

Registration is now open for 'Change in the Postwar World', an online PGR and Early Career conference to take place on Friday October 1st, exploring a variety of topics in political, intellectual and cultural history since 1945. In particular, papers covering American intervention in El Salvador, the impact of the 1970s and 1980s on New York City literature, and McCarthyism in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, will be of interest to HOTCUS members. To register to attend the conference for free, sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../change-in-the-postwar.... The full schedule can be viewed here (https://docs.google.com/.../1lUtrYV2QsMr0M5mWkzCi8NE.../edit), or via our Twitter @postwarchange, where you can also keep up to date with the latest from the conference. We look forward to seeing you on October 1st! An interdisciplinary research conference for PG and early-career researchers on significant cultural, political and social change after WWII About this event As the world slowly emerges from the COVID-19 […]

27th Annual BrANCH Conference University of Warwick, 8-10 October 2021   Peter Parish Memorial Lecture: Professor Vivien Miller (Nottingham) Vitriol Throwing in Victorian America. BrANCH Keynote: Elaine Frantz (Kent State University): Title: The Nineteenth-Century Arrest as Trauma and Performance. Saturday New Directions in History Roundtable : History of Emotions Jo Cohen (QMUL): A Feeling for Property: Writing Histories of Emotions and Capitalism Tom Wright (Sussex): Charisma and the Problem of Crowd Emotions Iain Flood (Newcastle University): Postbellum Missouri: Individual Emotions and Political Change   This has been an unusual year (or has it been two?), and we are so excited at the prospect of holding BrANCH2021 at Warwick, and in person. The Covid situation remains ongoing and subject to change, so please be aware that it may not be possible to refund the full cost of the conference if travel restrictions are put in place from outside the UK. For […]

We invite applications to a conference dedicated to situating the COVID-19 pandemic in American and global history. The COVID-19 pandemic has confronted historians with the disruptive power of infectious disease. The impact of the crisis has been multifaceted, global, and immense in its scale and ramifications. For the United States, the experience has been especially confrontational. As of the time of writing, the US has among the highest rates of infection and the highest number of deaths of any country on the planet. The virus (and the measures taken to contain it) has disrupted almost every aspect of American life, revealed and exacerbated social, economic, racial and political fault lines, and raised major constitutional issues concerning the role of federal and state authorities in maintaining social well-being. This public health emergency has also set in motion an as yet uncertain set of consequences for the US’s position in the world.  President […]

Virtual Event Via Zoom 5th/6th November 2021 In November 1621 colonists in Massachusetts celebrated a year of survival and their first harvest with a feast that has since been called The First Thanksgiving. The feast was a supposed celebration of resilience after hardship. It was not until 1863, in the midst of the American Civil War and with the nation divided, that this feast was enshrined as a national holiday and a touchstone of American tradition and ideology: a story of togetherness projected over the realities of division, exceptionalism, genocide, and slavery. Now, four hundred years later, the story of the First Thanksgiving both provides comfort in another time of hardship while also revealing a depth of narrative ideology and mythology which obfuscates the ideological construction of modern day American nations. In the narrative of the US, in particular, at home and abroad, we see an increased awareness and attention […]