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Gothic, Ghastly, Corporeal and Creaturely: Tim Burton’s Curious Bodies (University of Wolverhampton)

The First International Conference on Twenty-First Century Film Directors University of Wolverhampton in collaboration with Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton and Redeemer University College, Ontario presents Gothic, Ghastly, Corporeal and Creaturely: Tim Burton's Curious Bodies Thursday 15th February 2018 at Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton 9.00-9.30  Registration and Coffee FOYER 9.30-10.15  KEYNOTE Cinema 1 Samantha Moore (University of Wolverhampton) - Metamorphosis and the Body in Animation 10.15-11.15 PANEL 1 ANIMATED BODIES Cinema 1 Christopher Holliday (King’s College, London)  - Tim Burton’s Unruly Animation Emily Mantell (University of Wolverhampton) – A Case Study: The Embodiment of Character and Story as a Creative Crew Member on Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride 11.15-11.30 COFFEE Foyer 11.30-1.30 PANEL 2 FRAGMENTED BODIES Cinema 1 Elsa Colombani (University of Paris-Nanterre) – In the Footsteps of Frankenstein: The Fragmented and Disintegrating Bodies of Tim Burton’s Creatures Rob Geal (University of Wolverhampton) –  Tim Burton’s Benevolently Monstrous Frankensteins Helena […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “Temporal Claustrophobia at the Continental Congress, 1774-1776”

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. 19 February: Rhys Jones, Junior Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge Temporal Claustrophobia at the Continental Congress, 1774-1776 

Cambridge American History Seminar: “Secrets, Lies, and the ‘Special Relationship’ in the Early Cold War”

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. 26 February: Jennifer Luff, Associate Professor of Modern American History, University of Durham Secrets, Lies, and the 'Special Relationship' in the Early Cold War  Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper

CFP: DISCO! An Interdisciplinary Conference (University of Sussex)

DISCO! An Interdisciplinary Conference University of Sussex 21-23 June 2018 From its origins as a New York City subculture amongst gay, black and Latino/Latina practitioners, and its transition into the mainstream, to its subsequent lives across international scenes, disco poses pivotal questions about the entanglements of art, industry, identity, and community. Disco is the site of many significant and lasting debates in popular culture, including those surrounding the figures of the DJ and the diva, the status and significance of dancing bodies, the tension between what is authentic and what is synthetic, and the historic maligning of society’s others. This major interdisciplinary international conference aims to examine and expand these debates. We therefore invite researchers from a range of academic backgrounds to re/consider disco cultures in their shifting historic and social contexts. We hope to explore disco as a tentacular phenomenon that reaches across multiple sites of production and consumption, […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “The US Marine Empire in the Caribbean and Central America, c.1870-1920”

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. 5 March: Alex Goodall, Senior Lecturer in History, University College London The US Marine Empire in the Caribbean and Central America, c.1870-1920 

Cambridge American History Seminar: “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century”

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. 12 March: Beverly Gage, Professor of History and American Studies, and Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy, Yale University G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century 

CFP: The Image and the Word: Interactions between American Literature, Media, Visual Arts and Film (University of Salamanca, Spain)

Call for Panels The 14th International Conference of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) April 10-12, 2019 University of Salamanca, Spain Word and image play an important role in perception. Under the landslide of innovation in the domain of communication and representation in the last half-century, the visual turn of culture enhanced by the postmodern digital turn has fundamentally changed traditional means of understanding culture and the expression of literature, image, film, and photography. Various philosophers and theoreticians, such as James Heffernan, Wendy Steiner, Barbara Stafford, W.J.T. Mitchell, have analyzed the “pictorial turn” of our present, claiming that the long dominance of the written book is giving way to the visual image—cinema, video, photography, and other forms of pictorial and digital representation. The mutual exchange of literature and visual arts has a longstanding history that goes back to classical debates on sister arts or the paragone. Postmodern paradigmatic changes […]

CFP: Women in Hollywood (DeMontfort University, Leicester)

Women in Hollywood One day symposium by the Cinema and Television History Research Centre at DeMontfort University, Leicester. We are now accepting proposals for our one-day symposium on the treatment of women in Hollywood.   Date of conference: Bank Holiday Monday, May 28th 2018. Deadline for submissions: midnight, Friday March 16th 2018. Submissions to be sent to: ellen.wright@dmu.ac.uk The focus of this event: 2017 has seen a number of high profile news stories around the poor treatment of women in the entertainment industry, from the Weinstein allegations and the explosion of #MeToo, to revelations about gender pay gaps and the under representation of female labour, both in front of the camera and behind. This symposium seeks to consider the range of intersecting factors that impact upon women working in Hollywood now and in the past and is intended as a platform to discuss the disadvantageous treatment of women and those who identify as female, and an opportunity to […]

CFP: Transatlantic Studies Association 17th Annual Conference (University of North Georgia)

Transatlantic Studies Association 17th Annual Conference University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, Georgia, USA 9-11 July 2018 Call for Papers The TSA is coming to America. For the time since it was established in 2002, the TSA is holding its annual conference on the other side of the Atlantic. TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in political, economic, cultural, historical, environmental, literary, and IR/security studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome. This conference thus welcomes papers in the following areas: *History *International Relations and Security Studies *Literature, Film, and Culture *Planning and the Environment *Economics Proposals that investigate the ‘transatlantic’ and explore it through frames of reference such as ideology, empire, race, religion, migration, political mobilisation, or social movements *Proposals that incorporate perspectives that involve north-south and south-south transatlantic connections, as […]

CFP: Understanding and Examining the Digital Advocacy Pioneers (University of Portsmouth )

Understanding and Examining the Digital Advocacy Pioneers Dates: Thursday, 6 September — Friday, 7 September 2018 Location: University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom Convenors: Dr James Dennis (University of Portsmouth) and Dr Nina Hall (Johns Hopkins University) Sponsored by the Transnational Civil Society Project at the University of Portsmouth and the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group.   Description and Objective A new generation of digital advocacy organizations have emerged around the world including: 38 Degrees in the UK, MoveOn in the US; GetUp! in Australia and Amandla.Mobi in South Africa. These organizations all share the same basic organizational form: they are progressive, multi-issue, and membership-driven. These organizations are at the forefront of digital campaigning. They are pioneering the use of new technologies — be it WhatAapp, analytics, or Facebook — to rapidly mobilise people online and offline.  The activism fostered by these groups has fundamentally changed how groups mobilise […]

CFP – Transnationalism and Imperialism: New Perspectives on the Western (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier)

CFP - Transnationalism and Imperialism: New Perspectives on the Western A conference organized by EMMA (Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone), CAS (Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes) and CORPUS (Conflits, Représentations et Dialogues dans le Monde Anglo-Saxon) Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 Site Saint Charles November 15-16, 2018 Keynote speakers: Matthew Carter (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Andrew Patrick Nelson (Montana State University) This conference is a follow-up to a symposium entitled “Politics of the Western: a Revisionist Genre” organized by Hervé Mayer (EMMA EA741) at Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 on December 8, 2017. The aim of this conference is to question the film genre of the Western as being essentially American by focusing on the transnational dimension of Western narratives and images, as well as the circulation, reception, and production of Westerns outside the United States. The genre has been widely read within the confines of a national culture and cinema in the U.S. […]

Call for Editors: U.S. Studies Online

U.S. Studies Online: Call for editors. As the terms of the current editorial board come to an end, several positions are opening up at the BAAS postgraduate and early career researcher blog U.S. Studies Online. U.S. Studies Online welcomes proactive individuals to join its editorial board as of April 2018. We invite applications from enthusiastic doctoral and early career researchers who are committed to developing U.S. Studies Online in its support of the American and Canadian Studies field. The positions available include Book Reviews Editor, Event Reviews Editor, Social Media Editor and European Relations Editor. The application deadline is 1st April 2018. The duties and skills required for the role are detailed in the application form here: USSO Editorial Positions 2018 To apply for the position please submit your completed application form and CV to Todd Carter (todd.carter@univ.ox.ac.uk) and Jade Tullett (jade.tullett@winchester.ac.uk)