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CFP: Social Cohesion in Times of Uncertainty (Cumberland Lodge)

CFP: Social Cohesion in Times of Uncertainty, 24-25 September 2017 The annual Cumberland Colloquium stimulates discussion on areas of pressing social and ethical importance. This year’s theme is ‘Social Cohesion in Times of Uncertainty’. We live in an increasingly uncertain world. In recent years we have seen a chain of overlapping and intersecting crises – from the financial crisis to the refugee crisis, the ecological crisis and the crisis of liberal democracy. These crises pull us unevenly in every direction: pressing strangers together and pulling neighbours apart, creating new forms of hate and new forms of kinship. In these uncertain times, what are the prospects for social cohesion? How do we make sense of these issues from diverse disciplinary positions and professional backgrounds, and where are the commonalities between our understandings? We welcome proposals for presentations of research papers, roundtable discussions, film screenings and other events, from both academics (of all disciplinary backgrounds) and practitioners interested in social cohesion, broadly conceived, from community volunteers to […]

Theorising the Popular Conference (Liverpool Hope University)

Theorising the Popular Conference 2017 Liverpool Hope University, June 21st-22nd 2017   The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its seventh annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2017 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with and within ‘traditional’ subjects. One of its chief goals will be to generate debate that challenges academic hierarchies and cuts across disciplinary barriers. The conference invites submissions from a broad range of disciplines, and is particularly interested in new ways of researching ‘popular’ forms of communication and culture. In addition to papers from established and early career academics, we encourage proposals from postgraduate taught and research students. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Film and Television Media and Communication Politics and Populism Literature (Fiction and Non-Fiction) […]

Job: Lecturer in American Literature, Fixed Term (University of Kent)

The School of English wishes to appoint a Lecturer in American Literature for one year and are seeking a colleague with experience in teaching at University level and someone who will contribute to the School’s undergraduate curriculum in American Literature by teaching seminar groups, offering lectures, and acting as a module convener for our Stage 1 core “Writing America”. The successful candidate will also be encouraged to take on some lecturing in the Centre for American Studies (CAS). This is a vibrant, collegiate department, and we look forward to appointing someone interested in collaborative teaching and thinking and working across and between disciplines. To succeed in this role you will have: A completed PhD or equivalent in a relevant subject area. Experience of successful teaching of relevant literature modules at all undergraduate degree levels. Demonstrable expertise in American Literature 1800 – 2000. Research/teaching interests in one or more of the […]

Job: Teaching Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture, Fixed-Term (Kings College London)

The salary will be paid at Grade 6, £32,958- £39,324 per annum, plus £2,623 per annum London Allowance. This post will be fixed-term for 12 months King’s College London with its 200 years of heritage is recognised today as a world-leading research university, ranked 7th in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. We understand the need to turn original thinking into everyday application, encouraging curiosity to develop work that makes an impact on society and global issues. Great names from King’s are continuing to change the world. The Department wishes to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Literature & Culture for a period of twelve months. The appointment will run from 1 September 2017. The successful candidate will have a strong teaching record to complement our current strengths and will be expected to contribute to our undergraduate modules: American Popular Culture, Introduction to American Studies (and convene), Twentieth-Century American Fiction, […]

Transformers: All that is solid changes into something else (University of Aviero, Portugal)

TRANSFORMERS: all that is solid changes into something else INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON  PRACTICES AND MEMES IN CONTEMPORARY MEDIA & CULTURE Department of Languages and Cultures University of Aveiro, Portugal 29, 30 June & 1 July 2017 Keynote addresses by: Roz Kaveney, Author and Activist Toby Miller, University of California Riverside & Loughborough University London The movement of narratives and characterisations across forms, conventionally understood as adaptation, has been commonly carried out from the high-status classical forms (drama, epic, novel) to recorded and broadcast media (film, radio and television), or from the older recorded media to the newer ones. The advent of new convergent digital platforms has further transformed hierarchies. Now source texts can move in any direction and take up any configuration, as emergent interacting fan bases drive innovation and new creative and commercial possibilities are deployed. “Transformers” is the guiding metaphor for this conference, as the Transformers toy franchise […]

Job: Lecturer in American Literature in English to 1900 (University College London)

The Department of English Language and Literature invites applications for a full-time, open-ended Lectureship in American Literature in English to 1900. The successful candidate will have a proven record of high-quality research and publication in some field of pre-twentieth-century American literature in English.  The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the teaching of the Department's second and third-year undergraduate course, American Literature to 1900, as well as, where appropriate, to other period courses; to give seminars on the Master of Arts (MA) in English: Issues in Modern Culture; and to teach on the following first-year undergraduate courses:  Narrative Texts, Criticism and Theory, Intellectual and Cultural Sources. Additional duties will include: delivering tutorials/supervisions to undergraduate and postgraduate students; the provision of pastoral care and support; interviewing UCAS candidates; setting and marking examinations; the performance of various administrative tasks and roles. Candidates must hold a PhD by the time they begin their appointment and have a proven track record of high-quality research […]

CFP: Exploring Identity: Between Being and Belonging (University of Liverpool)

Exploring Identity: Between Being and Belonging AHRC NWCDTP Postgraduate Conference 2017 Dates: 25-26 October 2017 Venue: The University of Liverpool and FACT The AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership is delighted to announce that this year’s postgraduate conference, Exploring Identity: Between Being and Belonging, will be hosted by The University of Liverpool and FACT on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th October 2017. The conference aims to bring together postgraduate researchers and academic staff in the Arts and Humanities to explore the concept of ‘identity’ from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. Scholars, performers and creative practitioners are invited to reflect on ‘identity’, as representing a stable condition of being, a collective notion of belonging, and a continual process of becoming, in the light of current, progressively challenging contexts. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the concept of ‘identity’ against this backdrop as it manifests across literature, language, and culture. We […]

Job: Teaching Fellow in US Politics, Part-time, Fixed-term (University of Durham)

Contract Type: Part Time, Fixed Term (planned end date 31 August 2018) Working Arrangements: This role is a 0.5 appointment (17.5 hours per week). As such it is not open to job share arrangements. Closing date: 30 June 2017 (Midday) This post is Fixed Term with a planned end date of 31 August 2018 and Part-time (17.5 hours per week) therefore, the salary will be pro rata to the salary shown. The School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) seeks to appoint an exceptional scholar as a Teaching Fellow with teaching interests and experience in US politics. The successful candidate will teach a final year module entitled Culture and Conflict in American Politics. In addition, applicants with expertise in the field of nationalism studies will be at a considerable advantage. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a contribution to the development of SGIA’s teaching and curriculum. The successful candidate will have […]

The Trump Revolution (Institute of Historical Research, London)

Senate House, University College London Malet Street, London , United Kingdom

The Trump Revolution: A Passing Fad or Permanent Change in U.S. Presidential Politics Date: 30 Jun 2017, 15:00 to 30 Jun 2017, 17:00 Venue: IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Description Speaker: Professor Bruce Newman (DePaul University) Since Donald Trump won the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, there have been 2 opposing views on what it represents. His supporters have argued that he has broadened the base of the Republican Party to include a wide cross-section of voters who are fed up with Washington insiders and sought a fresh approach to running the country. His detractors believe that his victory is one-time occurrence that is the result of dirty politics that struck a populist cord at a vulnerable point in time for the Democrats with American voters. Both views will be analysed from a political marketing perspective as the campaign unfolded at key junctures […]

CFP: American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact On U.S. Policy and Culture

Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2017 Full name/name of organization: Jody Baumgartner, editor Contact email: ABCCLIOSATIRE@GMAIL.COM Seeking contributors for ABC-CLIO’s two-volume forthcoming encyclopedia, “American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact on U.S. Policy and Culture.” This two volume set, due out in the fall of 2019, will have a total of approximately 110 profiles, 2,000 words in length, of important individuals or media outlets (specific magazines, television shows, websites, and specific vehicles of political humor). These will be divided into 12 chronological chapters. In exchange for agreeing to contribute, all authors will have complimentary e-book access to the set and an ABC-CLIO gift card worth $100 as a token of appreciation. The complete list of the topics to be covered in the encyclopedia can be found at http://satire.jodyb.net (entries that are already “claimed” are in strike-out, italicized text). If you are interested, send an email to ABCCLIOSATIRE@GMAIL.COM listing […]

The American New Wave: A Retrospective (Bangor University, North Wales)

The American New Wave: A Retrospective This conference will consider The American New Wave’s cultural, political and aesthetic legacies fifty years since its birth. It will seek to look afresh at the films produced during its short lifespan and assess their continued significance. It will explore the films these directors produced in the years after 1980 to consider how far the values and ideals of the earlier period persisted or whether they were subsumed by the cultural conservatism that has dominated mainstream cinema since then. It will also investigate those filmmakers we might consider to have picked up the baton from their predecessors and pursued challenging material in more recent times. The conference will be held from 4th-6th July 2017 at Bangor University in North Wales. It is planned to publish the proceedings. A series of complementary screenings will be held at our new Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre Confirmed […]