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27th Annual BrANCH Conference (October 2021)

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UCL Americas Research Network Annual Conference: Histories of Inequality (Online)

The UCL Americas Research Network is delighted to present its sixth annual conference: Histories of Inequality, to be held virtually on 1 June 2021. Join an interdisciplinary group of scholars to debate and discuss the historical antecedents of our era’s entrenched injustices and inequities. We are also excited to announce that Professor Gareth Davies (UCL) will deliver a keynote lecture on the racial politics of US disaster relief. The conference organizers welcome submissions that detail any facet of the history of inequality, broadly conceived, in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Papers of an interdisciplinary nature are especially welcome, and we invite current postgraduate students and early career researchers alike to apply. We particularly encourage participants to consider the structural injustices that defined and continue to define the overlapping crises of 2020/21, including glaring health disparities, systemic racial inequality, growing economic stratification, and environmental degradation. Topics might include (but […]

HELAAS: After Postmodernism: American Studies in the 21st Century (Online)

The Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the Hellenic Association of American Studies (HELAAS) invites you to participate in the international conference: AFTER POSTMODERNISM: AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY December 17-19, 2020 There is a shared sense among a large majority of historians, philosophers, critics and artists that we are now living in a new global moment:  our contemporary era may or may not have started with the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989; may or may not have established itself in the wake of the 9/11 attacks; but it is painfully clear that, in the new millennium, a new debate on the “postpostmodern” has opened up. If the Jamesonian taxonomy no longer has the same explanatory power, what is the new dominant cultural logic of post-postmodernism?  If, to quote Jameson again, postmodernism was a “radical break or coupure” […]

Bookable-Space African-American Lit-Literary Salon with Edward A. Farmer

Edward will be reading from Pale. The readings will be followed by Q&A and discussion. Join us in Zoom or watch on Facebook Live.   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 […]