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Straight to the Front Row: Investigating Contemporary Western Gay Male Cinema (University of Northampton)

University of Northampton Park Campus, Boughton Green Rd, Northampton, United Kingdom

Straight to the Front Row: Investigating Contemporary Western Gay Male Cinema University of Northampton (UK) 16/02/2019 – 17/02/2019 From Weekend (dir. Andrew Haigh, 2011) to Call me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2017), from God’s Own Country (dir. Francis Lee, 2017) to Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2016) and Love, Simon (dir. Greg Berlanti, 2018), contemporary Western gay male cinema has endured a shift in both representational strategies and a boom in popularity within both mainstream and independent spheres, since 2010. ‘Western gay male cinema’, more specifically, refers to cinema that features a gay male protagonist, has narrative themes that relate to gay male identities and films that are primarily produced for gay male audiences. Prior to 2010, there have been Western gay male films that have been significant in either their representations or their popularity (ranging from the films that centred on gay men in New Queer Cinema to films such as Brokeback Mountain ), however, Western gay male films since […]

2019 HOTCUS Winter Symposium (University of Lincoln)

University of Lincoln

2019 HOTCUS Winter Symposium: “Nuclear States": Science, Technology, and American Society in the Atomic Age University of Lincoln February 16th 2019 Plenary Speaker: Dr Audra Wolfe University of Pennsylvania In August 2017 President Donald Trump tweeted that if North Korea continued its path of missile development than it would be “met with fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen”. This aggressive rhetoric, coupled with Trump’s subsequent withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement, acted as a stark reminder for citizens of the United States and the world beyond of the continuing apocalyptic potential of nuclear technologies. Americans have lived with the shadows cast by the bomb on American politics, society and culture, alongside more affirmative visions of ‘free energy,’ ‘plowshares’, medical applications, and scientific advance for seventy years. As Trump’s fiery rhetoric revives Cold War concerns about nuclear doom, the time is ripe for historians to […]

The 64th BAAS Annual Conference (University of Sussex)

University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom

The 64th BAAS Annual Conference 25-27 April 2019, University of Sussex Keynote Speakers: Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania/University of Oxford), Robyn Weigman (Duke University), Jonathan Bell (UCL)

American Literature Association 30th Annual Conference

The Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

American Literature Association, 30th Annual Conference, May 23-26, 2019 Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Conference Director:  Olivia Carr Edenfield Georgia Southern University Conference Fee:  For those who pre-register before April 15, 2019:  $100 ($75 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired Faculty). After April 15, the fees are $125 and $100.

The 12th Biennial Symbiosis Conference, 11-14 July 2019, University of Dundee, Scotland.

University of Dundee Nethergate, Dundee, United Kingdom

The 12th Biennial Symbiosis Conference, 11-14 July 2019, University of Dundee, Scotland. The 12th Biennial Symbiosis Conference will take place at the University of Dundee, Scotland, 11-14 July 2019. As ever, there will be papers and panels on all areas of Transatlantic literary exchange. https://www.symbiosistransatlantic.com/conferences/  

UCL Institute of the Americas Event

When exactly did the term ‘punk’ go from street insult to global descriptor of a subcultural musical phenomenon? This talk departs from a now abandoned historical question: When exactly did the term ‘punk’ go from street insult to global descriptor of a subcultural musical phenomenon? Contrary to popular belief, the story that ensues does not centre on the mid-seventies but rather the late sixties. Nor does it involve rehashed accounts of London or New York, asking instead we reconceptualize Saginaw, Michigan as an epicentre of certain cosmic forces. Even more contrary to belief, the primary figure in the story involves a punk who refuses to be named as such, presenting instead as a utopian whose refusal to engage in identity politics opens up a radical ontological horizon from which the most important lessons to be gained come from the Wildebeest. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/2020/mar/cancelled-not-being-punk-or-mexican-american-and-predicating-wildebeest-our-future

UCL Institute of the Americas Event

The Institute of Historical Research presents this event, part of its North American History series, in collaboration with UCL Institute of the Americas.   https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/2020/mar/cancelled-hidden-plain-sight-camouflage-tactics-and-indian-non-removal-american  

UCL Institute of the Americas Event

Our guest panellists will discuss Sino-American relations in a historical context, focusing on the early and late Cold War Presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/2020/mar/cancelled-us-china-relations-historical-context-eisenhower-reagan  

BrANCH PGR and ECR Online Workshop: Women Doctors, Sex Workers, and Eugenics during WWI (Online)

This July and August BrANCH seek to bring their community together in a series of four online workshops focused on the research of our postgraduate and early career research membership. This week's speaker is Lizzie Evens, PhD Candidate at UCL, and her paper is 'Women Doctors, Sex Workers, and Eugenics during WWI'. The workshop will be held on Zoom, 12 August at 4pm. In each case, papers will be pre-circulated to BrANCH members. The organiser's aim is to elicit instructive and constructive contribution to the work of our early career academics. To that end, they very much hope that as many tenured staff as possible on both sides of the Atlantic will join them for these events. Your presence is key to ensuring their success. If you wish to register your attendance, then please contact us at branchworkshop2020@gmail.com or visit our eventbrite page. For any further questions, please contact Iain Flood at i.a.flood@ncl.ac.uk

CfP: The Spacial Americas, Kent Americanist Symposium 2020

This symposium invites Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers in the field of American Studies to evaluate and analyse the relationship between the Americas and ‘space’. This could include a geographical approach to ‘space’ and ‘place’, an ecological focus on the environment, the art of mapping, the relationship between the country and the city, the American notion of ‘the frontiers’, a transatlantic focus on the relationship between the Americas and other spaces, or even a more literal look at America’s role in exploring outer space. The interdisciplinary nature of this symposium aims to subvert the common use of space as ‘a context’ by bringing it to the forefront of the conversation to interrogate how the Americas are spatially constructed. Due to an emphasis on interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration, proposals are welcomed from PGRs and ECRs working across different periods, themes, landscapes, and disciplines within American Studies including, but not limited […]

HOTCUS – COVID-19 Mini Grants

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 and the absence of a postgraduate paper prize award this year, HOTCUS has over £2500 to distribute. The initial deadline for applications is September 1, 2020.  Applicants must be members of HOTCUS at the […]

Politics and Prose Live! Simon Hall – Ten Days in Harlem w/ Lillian Guerra

Author Simon Hall sits down with Professor Lillian Guerra to discuss his book, TEN DAYS IN HARLEM. About this Event This event is presented in partnership with the Harlem Historical Society. Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionized the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His visit to the UN represents a golden opportunity to make his mark on the world stage. Fidel's shock arrival in Harlem is met with a rapturous reception from the local African American community. He holds court from the iconic Hotel Theresa as a succession of world leaders, black freedom fighters and counter-cultural luminaries - everyone from Nikita Khrushchev to Gamal Abdel Nasser, Malcolm X to […]