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University of Edinburgh American History Workshop: An Unlikely Freedom: Westward Migration and the Law of Slavery in California (Online)

October 22  Sally Gordon (Penn) and Kevin Waite (Durham): An Unlikely Freedom: Westward Migration and the Law of Slavery in California This session is part of the University of Edinburgh’s American History Fall Workshop series. If you are interested in participating in these workshops, please contact David Silkenat at the in order to be added to the mailing list and receive the pre-circulated papers. All of these workshops will occur on Zoom at 5pm on the indicated date.

Teaching Histories of Race in America to UK Undergraduates: A Review Panel (Online)

Review panel discussion for ‘America and Race: A Bibliography for UK History Undergraduates’ About this Event The RAI invites you to attend a review panel discussion on a collaborative bibliography project which asks: What readings are most effective for teaching UK history undergraduates about race in America? The focus is on works which provide accessible historical insights into conceptions of race, the social construction of difference, and the freedom struggles that have attempted to dismantle white supremacy. The project seeks to centre current research on early America and the United States, including Atlantic, global, national, and regional approaches. The review panel will discuss key issues in pedagogy on the history of race among the community of early American and US historians based in the UK, along with offering specific recommendations for revising the bibliography. After the review, the resulting bibliography will be hosted on the publicly accessible Bodleian LibGuides website. […]

CfP: Americanists Virtual Meet-Up (Online)

AMERICANISTS VIRTUAL MEET-UP 15:00 (GMT) 30th October 2020 This is a free online event for PhD students, aimed at creating a stronger sense of community for those of us researching within the broad field of American Studies. This event will give PhD students the opportunity to give a short, five minute presentation on their research, and to meet others working in similar areas. If your research focusses on the Americas, and you would like to sign up for the virtual meet-up, please register at https://forms.gle/nJEyFk75rGynsN1W9 by Friday 23rd October. Feel free to contact patrick.1.turner@kcl.ac.uk or a.djelid@pgr.reading.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Race and the 2020 Election (Online)

About this Event This event is part of the Rothermere American Institute's 'America Decides' series of election events, supported by the U.S. Embassy in London. Speakers Wesley Lowery is a journalist at CBS News. He previously worked at the Washington Post where he led the led the newspaper’s ‘Fatal Force’ project which investigated fatal police shootings. This project was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism. He has been named by the National Association of Black Journalists as the ‘Emerging Journalist of the Year’. He is the author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement (Hachette). Maria Givens is a member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in northern Idaho and serves as the Communications and Public Relations Director for the Native American Agriculture Fund. She has worked as a freelance journalist on tribal political issues and native food systems, and […]

US Elections Roundtable Event (Online)

US Elections Roundtable Event Confirmed panellists: Dr Mark McLay (Glasgow) Dr Clodagh Harrington (De Montfort) Dr Patrick Andelic (Northumbria) Chair: Dr Oliver Charbonneau (Glasgow) For info: email Mark.McLay@glasgow.ac.uk

University of Edinburgh American History Workshop: ‘That Infernal Race Prejudice:’ Dr. George Wellington Bryant and the Political Exploitation of African American Officeholding in Gilded Age Maryland (Online)

October 29   Gideon Cohn-Postar (Penn): 'That Infernal Race Prejudice:' Dr. George Wellington Bryant and the Political Exploitation of African American Officeholding in Gilded Age Maryland This session is part of the University of Edinburgh’s American History Fall Workshop series. If you are interested in participating in these workshops, please contact David Silkenat at the in order to be added to the mailing list and receive the pre-circulated papers. All of these workshops will occur on Zoom at 5pm on the indicated date.

Americanists Virtual Meet-Up (Online)

AMERICANISTS VIRTUAL MEET-UP 15:00 (GMT) 30th October 2020 This is a free online event for PhD students, aimed at creating a stronger sense of community for those of us researching within the broad field of American Studies. This event will give PhD students the opportunity to give a short, five minute presentation on their research, and to meet others working in similar areas. If your research focusses on the Americas, and you would like to sign up for the virtual meet-up, please register at https://forms.gle/nJEyFk75rGynsN1W9 by Friday 23rd October. Feel free to contact patrick.1.turner@kcl.ac.uk or a.djelid@pgr.reading.ac.uk if you have any questions.

The 2020 Election: A Postgrad and ECR Perspective (Online)

About this Event This event is part of the Rothermere American Institute's 'America Decides' series of election events, supported by the U.S. Embassy in London. In this special election-eve event, please join some of the RAI's Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers as they discuss the intersection between their area of research expertise and the 2020 election.   Speakers include: Dr. Emma Day on women's issues Dr. Rivers Gambrell on sport and the presidency Ella St George Carey on Evangelics and the Kanye West presidential campaign Joseph Guido on African foreign policy Dr. Daniel Rowe on trade Grace Mallon on the 'revolution of 1800' and the presidential transfer of power

University of Edinburgh American History Workshop: The War of 1812 and the Hidden Transformation of the American Central State  (Online)

November 5  Sveinn Johanesson (Edinburgh): The War of 1812 and the Hidden Transformation of the American Central State This session is part of the University of Edinburgh’s American History Fall Workshop series. If you are interested in participating in these workshops, please contact David Silkenat at the in order to be added to the mailing list and receive the pre-circulated papers. All of these workshops will occur on Zoom at 5pm on the indicated date.

CfP: PG BAAS 2020, Connection and Collective Action: Past and Present (Online)

For the 2020 BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, we welcome proposals that reflect aspects of this year’s theme, Connection and Collective Action: Past and Present. This year has seen an unprecedented reexamination of the ways we interact with one another, be it on an international, governmental, institutional, or personal level. While coming together physically is more complicated than it ever has been, this year has also seen people around the world unite to challenge engrained systems and demand change. This Symposium will enable us to participate in our own evaluation and interrogation of methods of connection and collective action in American history and culture. We seek to touch upon the following questions: How have people taken collective action historically, and how does this reflect on our present historical moment? How are cultures shaped by the points of connection and conflict that arise between the people that form them? How can our connection […]

IAAS Postgraduate Symposium: “Parallel Lives in America”

The IAAS Postgraduate Symposium “Parallel Lives in America” Virtual Event via Zoom 13th-14th of November, 2020 Last year, the Irish Association for American Studies’ Postgraduate Symposium, titled “The Land of the Unfree”, sought to interrogate the legitimacy of democracy in America. One year on, in the midst of a global pandemic, this legitimacy has not only been interrogated, but put on trial. In the U.S., the COVID-19 pandemic has both exacerbated and exposed already existent crises: social, political and economic, among others. Referred to by The New York Times as “The Pandemic Inequality Feedback Loop”, research has shown that individuals of lower economic strata and minority groups are both more likely to contract the virus, and to die from it. From bulk buying to wide-spread job losses, the concerns and priorities of American citizens have existed on a wide spectrum according to relative levels of privilege and oppression. The 2020 […]

HOTCUS COVID-19 Mini Grant

To help offset the difficulties posed by the coronavirus (COVID-19), HOTCUS welcomes applications from doctoral students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts for its 2020 Mini Grant scheme. HOTCUS Mini Grants support research in any area of twentieth century United States history (broadly defined).  Applications are invited for £50 to £100 in research expenses.  These expenses could include, but are not limited to the following: Reproduction of archival materials Paid subscriptions to research resources Copies of secondary materials necessary for a particular output (e.g. PhD chapter, journal article) Thanks to the generosity of our members, HOTCUS still has a significant amount of funding to distribute. The next deadline for applications is November 13, 2020.   Applicants do not need to be members of HOTCUS at the time of application, but successful non-HOTCUS members […]