IAAS Postgraduate Symposium “The (Hi)stories We Create: Narratives of Exceptionalism, Ideology, and Resilience” (November 2021)

British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH 13 Nov. 2017 Convenors:  Professor Gary Gerstle FBA, University of Cambridge Professor Desmond King FBA, University of Oxford This one day event brings together a group of distinguished scholars to reflect on aspects of the US’s participation in World War One on the occasion of the centenary of America’s entry. Four broad themes of US involvement in the Great War are examined: the politics of America’s entry; the cultural contours of US engagement in the war; the journeys or movements prompted by wartime; and the settlements reached at the war’s conclusion. Speakers include: Professor Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University Professor Christopher Capozzola, MIT Professor Beverly Gage, Yale University Professor Michael Kazin, Georgetown University Dr Alice Kelly, Oxford University Professor Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University Professor David Lubin, Wake Forest University Dr Jennifer Luff, Durham University Dr David Milne, University of East Anglia Professor Andrew […]

BrANCA 3rd Biennial Symposium: The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S. November 17-18, 2017 Streatham Campus, University of Exeter Plenary speakers: ·         Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (Professor of American Literature, University of Lausanne, Switzerland). Author of The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Ashgate 2010). ·         Lloyd Pratt (Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature, University of Oxford). Author of Archives of American Time  (Penn 2009); The Strangers Book (Penn 2015). BrANCA: The British Association of Nineteenth Century Americanists seeks proposals to its third biennial symposium, which will take place November 17-18 2017 at the Streatham Campus, University of Exeter, UK. We invite individual paper or group proposals on progressive aspects of U.S. literary culture during the long nineteenth century (comparative approaches are particularly welcome). Our symposium theme is “The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S”. “Not Yet” gestures to the renewed and growing interest in the variety of politically imminent imaginaries that increasingly defines […]

Cambridge American History Seminar 2017-2018  We are pleased to announce the schedule of seminars and events for the academic year 2017/18. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. Several of the seminars will be based on pre- circulated papers that will be made available two weeks prior to the seminar date. All inquiries should be directed to Jonathan Goodwin, jmg216@cam.ac.uk, 01223 335317. 20 November: Carl Nightingale, Professor of Transnational Studies and American Studies, University of Buffalo From a Global History of Divided Cities to a Global Urban History 

BAAS Postgraduate Conference  Day 1 (25 Nov 2017): https://tinyurl.com/ycujjxyu  (Fee: £10) USSO Keynote: Patricia Malone (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘We Hold These Truths to Feel Self Evident: Post-Truth and American Myths, or “The Tyranny of Intimacy”’. Parallel Panel Sessions (We’ll publish the full programme for Day 1 soon.) Roundtable: Activism, Academia, and American Studies, speakers: Dr Kate Dossett (University of Leeds), Dr Francisca Fuentes (The British Library), Dr Gavin Grindon (University of Essex), Prof Colin Samson (University of Essex). Day 2 (26 Nov 2017): https://tinyurl.com/yagz9gll  (Free) – a CHASE-sponsored workshop day for all postgraduate research students and early career researchers. Session 1: Roundtable discussion: ‘Networks, Collaborations, Friendships: Beyond the dread of the buzzword’. Our speakers have kindly agreed to share their wisdom and honest stories about discovering like-minded individuals, creating networks, setting up collaborations, and developing friendships throughout their careers. We hope that the conversations resulted from this roundtable will enable us all to strip the word ‘networking’ of its corporate overtones and to approach the process of forming connections […]