Call posted by Dr Emily Brady, Emma Hall, Keisha Bruce, and Katharina Donn As part of the BAAS outreach research project “Bridging the Resource Gap”, we are looking to commission a small number of educators and researchers to each create a 5-10 minute video lecture on underexplored topics in A-Level curriculums for the following subjects: English Literature, History, Politics, Media, and Film Studies. The selected educators will each be paid an honorarium of £100. Project Aims: Bridging the Resource Gap aims to expand awareness of the discipline of American Studies to students in further education, by bringing resources created by American Studies scholars to the classroom. These mini lectures will supplement teaching materials on the existing curriculum, and show students the range of research areas that American Studies covers. Who We are Looking For: Educators will be required to script, deliver, and assist in the production of a video lecture […]

Department of History, University of Reading, November 17-18, 2022 This workshop will bring together historians researching the roles that emotions played in the creation, maintenance, and experience of slavery in the Atlantic World. Fundamental to how enslavers wielded power, the enslaved also used emotion as a method of resistance, and it was clearly central to their everyday lived experiences. It is almost impossible to read testimony left by the enslaved, or sources produced by enslavers, without encountering mentions of acute feelings, yet studies are only recently beginning to emerge that explore slavery through the lens of emotion. The value of pursuing this avenue of research has been exemplified by recent historiographical turns focused on the ‘history of emotions’ and the analysis of archival silences. Historians of emotion have fruitfully demonstrated that to understand societies, we must explore how emotional conventions functioned and how ordinary people created their own emotional worlds. […]