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HOTCUS 2020 Postgraduate and Early Career Virtual Conference: America At and Beyond the Ballot Box (Online)

Due to concerns over covid-19 HOTCUS's annual postgraduate and early career conference will this year take the form of a one-day virtual event, taking place on Friday 18 September 2020. With the presidential election looming in November 2020, politics is paramount in the minds of those interested in the United States. This year also marks a century since the Nineteenth Amendment to the American Constitution was ratified giving women the right to vote. The 2020 HOTCUS Postgraduate and Early Career conference provides a pertinent opportunity for emerging scholars to explore America at and beyond the ballot box. Professor Iwan Morgan (UCL Institute of the Americas) will close the day with a virtual keynote address. The full programme is now available here.There is no charge for the conference and you can register here. The call for papers is now closed.

CfP: BAAS Seminar Series: PGR Work in Progress Session Winter 2020 (Online)

After a very successful pilot during the summer months, the organisers decided to continue BAAS PGR Work in Progress Session for the winter term. The sessions will run on the second Friday of each month during October-December between 15:00-17:00. (9th of October, 13th of November, and the 11th of December)   The organisers invite postgraduate students to present a work in progress on any topic and period related to the Americas – music, visual culture, art, literature, history, politics etc. Postgraduates are encouraged to circulate any piece of writing they see fit – it can be a dissertation chapter, book review or an essay in preparation for a peer review submission. Each session will consist of three presenters and five readers to provide in-depth feedback in a collegial and supportive atmosphere. Upon submission, the organisers will try as much as possible to curate the sessions based on some common ground – themes, period or genre […]

CfP: BAAS Seminar Series: PGR Work in Progress Session, Winter 2020 (Online)

After a very successful pilot during the summer months, the organisers decided to continue BAAS PGR Work in Progress Session for the winter term. The sessions will run on the second Friday of each month during October-December between 15:00-17:00. (9th of October, 13th of November, and the 11th of December)   The organisers invite postgraduate students to present a work in progress on any topic and period related to the Americas – music, visual culture, art, literature, history, politics etc. Postgraduates are encouraged to circulate any piece of writing they see fit – it can be a dissertation chapter, book review or an essay in preparation for a peer review submission. Each session will consist of three presenters and five readers to provide in-depth feedback in a collegial and supportive atmosphere. Upon submission, the organisers will try as much as possible to curate the sessions based on some common ground – themes, period or genre […]

University of Edinburgh American History Workshop: Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Protest, and Racial Moderation in April 1963 (Online)

September 24  Megan Hunt (Edinburgh): Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Protest, and Racial Moderation in April 1963 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 University of Edinburgh 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

States of Exception in American History: Book Launch and Q&A (Online)

This book spotlights the remarkable number of instances in which the Constitutional protections have been overridden or weakened in the USA About this Event The first comprehensive account of the politics of exceptions and emergencies in the history of the United States, States of Exception in American History weaves together historical studies of moments and spaces of exception with conceptual analyses of emergency, the state of exception, sovereignty, and dictatorship. Combining theory and history, this book spotlights the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the polity. During this event, Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac will discuss the book’s overarching themes, methodological contributions, and relevance for our current moment. A Q&A session will follow, with questions taken in advance. To submit a question please e-mail it to statesofexception@gmail.com States of […]

CfP: 2021 MLA International Symposium, Being Hospitable: Languages and Cultures Across Borders (Glasgow)

Being Hospitable: Languages and Cultures Across Borders The unifying theme for the 2021 MLA International Symposium is Being Hospitable: Languages and Cultures Across Borders, to be understood in the broadest possible senses of both hospitable and language and as a defiant counter-gesture to the currently inhospitable, even hostile, nature of world politics. The word and concept of hospitality will embrace a wide range of disciplinary interpretations, including Ethics (philosophies of self/other, from existentialism to deconstruction) Welcoming the radically other (tout autre) Political theory (from identity politics to the “politics of alterity”) Gender fluidity Decolonial thinking (different modes of “writing back” to the Empire) Ongoing refugee and migration crisis International law and human rights Adoption (particularly international) Medical humanities (notably around the concepts of health, well-being and care, hospitals and hospitality) Social anthropology (rituals of welcoming the other) Security studies and conflict studies (hospitality and hostility) Problematizing the notion of hospitality […]

University of Edinburgh American History Workshop: Experiences of Grief in Missouri’s Guerrilla Conflict (Online)

October 1  Iain Flood (Newcastle): Experiences of Grief in Missouri's Guerrilla Conflict 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 University of Edinburgh 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

University of Edinburgh American History Workshop: Kneel, Sit, or Stand: Creating a Student Movement in Civil Rights Era Tennessee

October 8  Kate Ballantyne (Keele): Kneel, Sit, or Stand: Creating a Student Movement in Civil Rights Era Tennessee 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: IAAS Postgraduate Symposium – “Parallel Lives in America” (Online)

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 […]

Zoom in to BrANCH 2020 (Online)

In place of their annual conference this year, BrANCH are hosting a series of online workshops. Join them for a weekend of detailed discussions! To attend, please register online here. About this Event Rather than traditional seminars or panels, this year BrANCH will be coming together to discuss pre-circulated papers. They hope to make the most of the online format, bringing together the BrANCH community across the UK, US, and beyond. While they encourage members to attend as many sessions as possible, registration is for individual sessions. Take note of the time of the session you wish to attend – this is what you will need to book your place. Links to the Zoom meetings will be sent out to all attendees shortly before the sessions. BrANCH are aware of the difficulties that members are currently facing, especially those with caring responsibilities. They hope that this format allows as many […]

The 2020 U.S. Election: Who’s Winning? (Online)

Held three weeks out from the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, join our expert panel to discover the real state of the race. 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. Held three weeks out from the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, join our expert panel to discover the real state of the race. Who’s up and who’s down? What is the effect of early voting? How are demographic shifts affecting electoral outcomes? How important is turnout, and what early signs are we seeing to indicate who is (and is not) turning out to vote? How impactful were the Presidential debates? What are the state of House and Senate races? For this first panel in our election series, the Rothermere American Institute is delighted to welcome David Wasserman, House Editor for the Cook Political Report, […]

CfP: 15th SAAS Conference: “Fear Narratives” and their Role/Use in the United States (University of Deusto, Bilbao)

This is the list of panels for the 15th SAAS Conference. Prospective participants are now invited to email the abstracts of their proposals directly to the chair of the selected panel using this form. The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 15, 2020. 1) “Domestic Spaces, Safety, and the (Micro)Political in the United States” Panel Chair: Rodrigo Andrés and Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Universitat de Barcelona. E-mail: rodrigoandres@ub.edu / alsina@ub.edu 2) "McCarthyism and Cold War Literatures: A Cultural Response to Fear and Paranoia" Panel Chair: María Laura Arce Álvarez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid E-mail: laura.arce@uam.es 3) "Unauthorized Mobility, Disposable Living: Migrants, Drifters and Nomads in Contemporary North American Literature and Culture" Panel Chair: Paula Barba Guerrero and Mónica Fernández Jiménez, Universidad de Salamanca / Universidad de Valladolid E-mail: paulabarbaguerrero@usal.es / monica.fernandez@uva.es 4) "The Phenomenology of Fear and Resilience in Women's Poetry: The Role of Poetic Creativity and the Artistic Process" Panel […]