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Fourth Annual Conference of the UCL Americas Research Network

With support of the UCL Institute of the Americas and the UCL Doctoral School, we are pleased to present the 4th Annual Conference of the UCL Americas Research Network, which will be hosted under the theme of Intersections in the Americas at the UCL Institute of the Americas and at various venues from 2-4 May, 2018. Fascinating panels, a movie screening with Q & A, workshops, and networking events await. Your attendance can now be registered through our Eventbrite page. We are also very pleased to announce our Keynote Speakers: Dr Jelke Boesten (King’s College London), Dr Althea Legal-Miller (Canterbury Christ Church University). The Americas Research Network has welcomed presentations on many aspect of the Americas, as well as those relating directly to the conference theme of Intersections in the Americas, covering a range of periods and regions in the hemisphere. The conference’s guiding theme this year draws on contemporary issues of division in the geopolitical, societal and domestic spheres. Today the need to interrogate the […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “What’s Yours is Mine: Family and Property in an Age of Landgrabbing”

Cambridge American History Seminar 2017-2018  We are pleased to announce the schedule of seminars and events for the academic year 2017/18. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. Several of the seminars will be based on pre- circulated papers that will be made available two weeks prior to the seminar date. All inquiries should be directed to Jonathan Goodwin, jmg216@cam.ac.uk, 01223 335317 7 May: Nathan D.B. Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History, John Hopkins University What’s Yours is Mine: Family and Property in an Age of Landgrabbing 

Memories of Fiction: The Living Library (Live Art Event, Omnibus Theatre, Clapham)

'The Living Library', bringing to life local readers' memories of reading, at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, London UK, 9-13 May. This live art event comprises a series of storytelling, dance, sound art and participatory artworks spaced throughout the building's theatre and common areas. Audiences will explore individually as well as sharing group experiences, choosing what they are interested in, much like a library. (Omnibus Theatre is itself an old library, so the perfect space for it!). The piece stems from the project Memories of Fiction: An Oral History of Readers’ Lives (Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project based at the University of Roehampton). The project team, including Shelley Trower, Amy Tooth Murphy, and Sarah Pyke, interviewed Wandsworth libraries' reading group members and LGBTQ+ readers about their life stories and their experiences of books, reading and libraries. The artworks draw on this research, exploring topics including first encounters with books, memories of libraries and their vital and varied roles in people's lives, and […]

U.S. Embassy/BAAS Small Grants Programme

The British Association for American Studies (BAAS), supported by the United States Embassy, London, offers small grants for cultural, educational and outreach activities that will foster American Studies and otherwise enhance the understanding of the United States in the United Kingdom. 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 show how they intend to actively promote an understanding of the United States and how they will engage with American studies communities and the wider public. 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. Application Deadlines For activities commencing on or after 1 June 2018 the application deadline is 10 […]

CFP: Women’s Spring: Feminism, Nationalism and Civil Disobedience (University of Central Lancashire)

The Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), (University of Central Lancashire) would like to invite you to a conference co-organised with the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR),  Open Democracy 50.50, the Cornelia Goethe Center (Goethe University, Frankfurt); International Development and Inclusive Innovation, Strategic Research Area (The Open University) and De Gruyter: Women’s Spring: Feminism, Nationalism and Civil Disobedience 21-23 June 2018, University of Central Lancashire, Preston The aim of this conference is to explore the ways in which female activists and artists responded to the resurgence of far-right nationalism and the twin evil of religious fundamentalism. We want to take a closer look at grassroots emancipatory movements, women-led voluntary associations, as well as cultural texts by women – performances, installations, artworks, films and novels – in which authors take a stance against religious bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia, racism and misogyny. But we also invite contributions that focus on women’s endorsement […]

The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Postcapitalism (King’s College London)

Registration is now open for 'The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Postcapitalism' conference, Friday 11 May 2018 .   The conference will explore what kind of economic system digital technologies are producing in the era of Facebook, Amazon and Uber. Keynote speakers: Melissa Gregg, Nick Srnicek and Athina Karatzogianni. Panels on digital labour, digital consumption, digital economy in a global perspective and theories of digital capitalism.   Please find the conference programme below.   Registration costs £5 and can be completed here   Register now: https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/arts-humanities-research-institute/the-digital-economy-ubercapitalism-or-postcapitalism

Cambridge American History Seminar: “Fear and Democracy: Responding to Carl Schmidt”

Cambridge American History Seminar 2017-2018  We are pleased to announce the schedule of seminars and events for the academic year 2017/18. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. Several of the seminars will be based on pre- circulated papers that will be made available two weeks prior to the seminar date. All inquiries should be directed to Jonathan Goodwin, jmg216@cam.ac.uk, 01223 335317. 14 May:  Ira Katznelson, 2017-18 Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge, and Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University Fear and Democracy: Responding to Carl Schmidt 

CFP: Sex and Celebrity PGR Workshop (University of Portsmouth)

Expressions of Interest & Call for Papers: Sex and Celebrity PGR Workshop Thursday 28th June 2018, University of Portsmouth   Keynote Speaker: Professor John Mercer, Birmingham City University     This one-day PGR Workshop seeks to interrogate the relationship between sex and celebrity – the role of sex in the construction, negotiation and perpetuation of celebrity identity. As well as academic papers and roundtable discussion, this event will also include PGR professionalization sessions.   This free PGR workshop asks how sex and sexuality form, create and change our relationship to celebrity: how do sex and celebrity intersect? What roles do sex stories, exposés and scandals have in the formation and/or devaluing of celebrity? Is desire an inherent part of celebrity culture? How do attitudes to sex and celebrity change across time, cultures and societies? What role does the media play in forging links between sex and celebrity? How do film and […]

CFP: Let the Sun Shine In: American Theatre, Protest and Censorship (British Library)

Let the Sun Shine In: American Theatre, Protest and Censorship An international conference co-sponsored by the American Theatre & Drama Society and the Eccles Centre for American Studies http://www.atds.org/ https://www.bl.uk/eccles-centre October 26-27, 2018 British Library, London (UK) Keynote speakers: Prof. Ramón Espejo Romero, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) Dr. Marlis Schweitzer, York University (Canada) In 1968, the American musical Hair opened on Broadway, in London's West End, and in Munich, West Germany. Hailed by many for capturing the zeitgeist of the late 1960s, Hair also reflected changes in the writing and production of American theatre. Produced Off-Broadway at the Public Theater, it emerged from experimental theatre practice to achieve commercial success on Broadway and internationally. Staging contemporary protest and dissent, the musical was censored on tour in Boston but became the first production to open after the Theatres Act ended both censorship in British theatre and the power of the Lord Chamberlain. This conference investigates American theatre, […]

Media Journeys Symposium (University of East Anglia)

Animation in Transcultural Contexts, the inaugural Media Journeys Symposium at UEA, will be held in the Julian Study Centre, Room 3.02, on 24 May 2018. We wish to welcome all to an event that will investigate the diverse paths travelled by animated texts. This symposium brings together debates about animation from across media studies in order to investigate the transnational and transcultural connections between the global animation industries. This event includes a keynote address by Helen McCarthy on creating anime fandom here in the UK and the importance of transcultural texts, a book launch reception for PRINCESS MONONOKE: UNDERSTANDING STUDIO GHIBLI'S MONSTER PRINCESS (Bloomsbury, 2018) and an optional screening of PRINCESS MONONOKE at Cinema City, as well as an optional symposium dinner. Tickets for the PRINCESS MONONOKE screening are available at £5.00 for symposium attendees. Registration and further information here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/media-journeys-2018-animation-in-transnational-contexts-registration-44629673555?aff=es2

Transatlantic Literary Women Series: Women’s Partial Suffrage Centenary Celebration (People’s Palace Museum, Glasgow)

All are welcome to join us for a weekend of craft workshops, talks and readings, to celebrate 100 years since partial women’s suffrage. You’ll have the opportunity to create your own suffrage rosette or sash, learn about women’s activism through the museum collection, and drop in to talks on the history of women and the vote. Our main speaker, suffrage specialist and performer Naomi Paxton will be talking transatlantic suffrage theatre, with a Scottish twist. The event is being held in collaboration with the People’s Palace Museum, Glasgow, which you can learn about here. The event is funded by the US Embassy London, the British Association for American Studies, and the University of Glasgow College of Arts Collaborative Research Award. More details to follow… watch this space! Programme: Welcome Room 1-3pm 1-3pm Crafts: suffragette rosettes (Saturday) and sashes (Sunday) Run by Katrina Falco (freelance designer) and Laura Clark (Glasgow Life/Glasgow Museums) […]

CFP: Living Well with Books (University of Bristol)

Living Well With Books Call for Papers Centre for Material Texts, Richmond Building, University of Bristol Wednesday 5 – Friday 7 September 2018   Since the invention of the codex, the lives (and afterlives) of books have been intertwined with the lives of people. This interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational conference organized by the Centre for Material Texts, University of Bristol, aims to explore how books have affected and continue to affect our daily lives and well-being. How we have lived with books in the past, how do we live with them in the present, how we might live with them better in the future, and how might we help others do the same?   As readers, writers, creative practitioners, educators, researchers, curators, consumers and producers, how do books feature in our lives? How do they share our living and working spaces? How might books contribute to health and wellbeing? Do […]