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CultCommWar Workshop Four: American Wars, American Memory

Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

CultCommWar Workshop Four: American Wars, American Memory Friday 30 November, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford Thanks to a BAAS and US Embassy Small Grant, booking is now open for our next Cultures and Commemorations of War event on the theme of American Wars, American Memory, on Friday 30 November at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Participants include John Horne and Layla Renshaw and the keynote speaker is Sarah Wagner, who will be talking about her book Bringing Them Home: The Identification and Commemoration of Vietnam War MIAs. It is free and open to all. You can register here. Please do join us for what should be a brilliant event! CultCommWar (@CultCommWar) is an interdisciplinary seminar series which considers the practices and politics of war memory across time. You can read more about the series on the British Academy website and the Oxford Arts blog, and in this […]

Over Here: US Presidents in Britain, 1918-2018

Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, United Kingdom

Over Here: US Presidents in Britain, 1918-2018 MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC HISTORY AND HERITAGE, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM: FRIDAY 7 DECEMBER 2018, 9.45AM-5.30PM December 1918 saw the first ever visit to Britain by a serving American President: Woodrow Wilson, who led the United States throughout the First World War, made a brief tour through the country on his way to the Paris Peace Conference (which started in the new year). The trip included three key destinations: in Carlisle, to see his mother's birth-place; in London, for meetings with politicians and Royalty; and in Manchester, where he addressed a large crowd outside the Free Trade Hall. To mark the centennial of this latter event, and in order to explore the impact and legacies of subsequent Presidential visits to Britain, the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage is hosting a one day symposium featuring talks by several leading scholars of Anglo-American […]

US Embassy (London) / British Association for American Studies – Small Grants Programme

US Embassy (London) / British Association for American Studies - Small Grants Programme The British Association for American Studies (BAAS), with the support of the United States Embassy, London, is delighted to announce that the US Embassy Small Grants Programme is now open.  The Programme seeks to provide funding for cultural, educational and outreach activities that will foster American Studies and otherwise enhance the understanding of the United States in the United Kingdom. Grants may be requested for a range of activities, including (but not limited to): •    Curriculum development, including schools activities; •    Student exchanges; •    US and UK Speaker programs; •    Film and arts programming; •    Conferences and symposia; •    Faculty development and exchange; •    Public dissemination of academic research. Applications for activities that introduce new audiences to American studies and / or have a focus on children, young people, and disadvantaged communities are welcome. Applicants need to […]

Biannual Meeting of the European Early American Studies Association (London)

Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road, London, United Kingdom

Biannual meeting of the European Early American Studies Association London, 14-16 December 2018 The Making and Unmaking of Identities and Connections in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 The 7th biannual meeting of the European Early American Studies Association convenes in London 14-16 December 2018 at King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London. The conference theme for EEASA 2018 is “The making and unmaking of identities and connections in early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850.” Issues of identities and connections were as pertinent to the inhabitants of early America and the Atlantic World as they remain today. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, the geopolitics of the Americas were in constant flux. European and indigenous empires emerged, competed, expanded, contracted and collapsed. New nations and unions were formed and reformed. Identities and loyalties were transitory, political and cultural borders permeable. Weak centers fostered local autonomy and a […]

CfP: Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book, SHARP 2019 (University of Massachusetts)

CFP - Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book We are pleased to invite submissions for the 27th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), to be held in Amherst, Massachusetts—primarily at the University of Massachusetts—from Monday, 15 July, to Thursday, 18 July 2019, with optional book-historical excursions on 19 July. (Details on pre- and post-conference activities will follow.) The conference theme is “Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book.” Areas of inquiry may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following: • The indigenous book: concepts, definitions, evolution • Making marks to new media: varieties of communicative practice • Cross-cultural encounters, diglossia, heteroglossia, and cultural hybridity • The uses of print by colonizers and colonized • Decolonizing book history, libraries, and archives • The formation and material expression of national literatures • Meanings and manifestations of the vernacular: national languages, lexica, […]

CfP: 40 Years of Alien (Bangor University)

40 years of Alien An academic symposium hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies Bangor University, UK Friday 24 May 2019 Keynote Speaker: Dr Rikke Schubart (University of Southern Denmark) Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Conceived primarily to cash in on the popularity of science-fiction films in the late 1970s, directed by a person known for making adverts (Ridley Scott) and starring an unknown actor in the lead role (Sigourney Weaver), it transcended its humble origins to frighten and disturb audiences on its initial release. Its success has led to three direct sequels, two prequels, one ‘mashup’ franchise, a series of comic books, graphic novels, novelisations and games, and has an enormous and devoted fanbase. For forty years, Alien (and its progeny) has animated debate and discussion among critics and academics from a wide variety of disciplines and methodological perspectives. Hosted by the […]

Call for Applicants: Midlands 4 Cities Doctoral Training Scheme (University of Leicester)

AHRC Midlands4Cities funding for UK/EU students The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C) brings together eight leading universities across the Midlands to support the professional and personal development of the next generation of arts and humanities doctoral researchers. M4C is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, University of Warwick, Coventry University, University of Leicester, De Montfort University, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. M4C is awarding up to 80 doctoral studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2019 through an open competition and 11 Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) through a linked competition with a range of partner organisations in the cultural, creative and heritage sector. The School of Media, Communication and Sociology is inviting applications from students whose research interests connect with our fields of expertise in: Media Cultures Public Communication Digital Networks and Communication Citizenship, Migration and Identity Culture, Consumption and Production Youth, Childhood and Generation […]

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

University of Dundee Nethergate, Dundee, United Kingdom

CFP: 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, we welcome paper and panel proposals on all areas of Transatlantic literary exchange. In addition to the general call for papers, there will be three special themes: •    Transatlantic Bicentenaries: George Eliot and Herman Melville amongst others •    Transatlantic Crime Fiction •    Transatlantic Comics You can find more information on the conference website. Please send proposals to Dr. Aliki Varvogli (a.varvogli@dundee.ac.uk), using ‘Symbiosis 2019’ as your subject. Deadline for proposals: 30 January 2019.

American Literature Association 30th Annual Conference, May 23-26, 2019

Call for Papers: 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. Deadline for Proposals:  January 30, 2019 The ALA website contains details and instructions for submitting proposals as well as important information for representatives of participating author societies. Proposals from individuals and program information from author societies should be sent to Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield via email (carr@georgiasouthern.edu) by January 30, 2019, following the instructions on the website: www.americanliterature.org

CfP: 3rd Sexual Cultures Conference: PLAY
 (University of Turku)

CFP: 3rd Sexual Cultures Conference: PLAY University of Turku 28-29 May, 2019 Confirmed keynote speakers: Tom Apperley (University of Tampere), Kane Race (University of Sydney) & Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University) The 3rd Sexual Cultures Conference focuses on the notion of play, understood as autotelic practices of pleasure where the enchantment of the activity is an end in itself. As the game studies scholar Miquel Sicart nevertheless notes, the pleasures of play can be ambivalent indeed: “Play is not necessarily fun. It is pleasurable, but the pleasures it creates are not always submissive to enjoyment, happiness, or positive traits. Play can be pleasurable when it hurts, offends, challenges us and teases us, and even when we are not playing. Let’s not talk about play as fun but as pleasurable, opening us to the immense variations of pleasure in this world.” Building on this understanding of play, as well as sex, as […]

Interventions: New Perspectives on Politics, Freedom, and Democracy

Interventions: New Perspectives on Politics, Freedom, and Democracy May 10, 2019 – Leicester, UK.  Keynote address from Professor Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway. Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: February 1st, 2019.  Please send all submissions to interventions2019@gmail.com. Interventions 2019 aims to critically explore pertinent socio-political issues and their cultural representations. Papers of twenty minutes might include, but are not limited to: •    Post-truth politics •    Neoliberalism and freedom •    Democratic participation •    Class and austerity politics •    Globalisation, migration, and citizenship •    Censorship, offense, and free speech •    Autonomy and marginalised identities •    Resistance and activism in the arts and humanities •    Theoretical interventions with regard to freedom and democracy •    Cultural responses to political events •    Social media and social movements •    Politics and the academe •    Corporations, governments, and accountability •    Politics and mental health •    Technologies and democracy •    Anti-semitism and Islamophobia

CfP: Queer Celebrity Conference (Portsmouth)

Queer Celebrity Conference University of Portsmouth 6th-7th June 2019 Keynote Speakers: Professor Richard Dyer (King’s College, London) Professor Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) Dr Michèle Mendelssohn (University of Oxford)   The focus of celebrity studies on the cultural mediation and function of a diverse range of public personalities has foregrounded an ever-growing archive of queer celebrities. This conference aims to explore how the entry of queer figures into the public imagination, in different historical periods and geographical locations, has had a transnational, even global, impact, changing perceptions, attitudes and the way individuals live their lives. LGBTQ figures, for example, have risen to public prominence and become positive role models, while negotiating their fame alongside cultural associations of homosexuality with crime, scandal and blackmail. The refusal of closeted celebrities to come out underlines the detrimental effects of homophobia on popularity, but also celebrity culture’s preoccupation with the open secret. ‘Straight’ celebrities have […]