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2017 Eccles Centre Fellowship Competition (British Library)

The 2017 Eccles Centre Fellowship Competition is now open. The British Association for American Studies will manage the detailed administration of these awards. Eccles Centre Visiting US Fellow in North American Studies 2018 This award is for post-doctoral scholars resident in the USA whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The award holder must plan to be in research residence at the British Library for a minimum of one month. The Eccles Centre Visiting US Fellow will be entitled to an award of £2,500 for travel and other expenses connected with the research visit to London. The award holder will have privileged access to the collections and the curatorial expertise of the British Library. Eccles Centre Visiting Canadian Fellow in North American Studies 2017 This award is for post-doctoral scholars resident in the Canada whose research, in any field of […]

The Arthur Miller Centre Prizes 2018

The Arthur Miller Centre Prizes 2018 The Arthur Miller Centre Prize for Best Journal Length Article The Arthur Miller Centre Prize of £500 is awarded for the best journal length article on any American Studies topic by a United Kingdom citizen based at home or abroad or by a non-UK citizen who publishes their essay in a United Kingdom journal, providing that the entrant is a member of the British Association of American Studies in the year of submission. Submissions, including the article and publications details, should be e-mailed to Emma Long at Emma.Long@uea.ac.uk or, if preferred, three hard copies should be mailed to the address below. The Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize The Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize of £500 is awarded for the best first book on any American Studies topic in the preceding calendar year by a United Kingdom citizen based at home or abroad […]

CFP: Media, War and Conflict Journal Anniversary Conference (University of Sussex)

Call For Papers Media, War and Conflict Journal 10th Anniversary Conference Spaces of War, War of Spaces May 22nd-23rd 2018 Media, War & Conflict Journal’s tenth anniversary conference will be held on 22-23 May 2018at Accademia Europea Di Firenze, Florence, Italy. Deadline for abstracts: 10th January 2018 Keynote: Professor Andrew Hoskins: MWC Founding Editor and Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Glasgow Film Screening: ‘The Faces We Lost’ Film Screening with Q&A with Director and Scholar Piotr Cieplak, University of Sussex  Editor’s Special All Women Plenary on Women, Conflict and Journalism: Organised by MWC editors Sarah Maltby, Ben O’Loughlin, Katy Parry and Laura Roselle. Details to be confirmed. The journal was born in the midst of a global war on terror that locked down time and space such that all conflicts seemed to become part of a single campaign. Since then there have been significant transformations in the way war and conflict is produced, enacted, negotiated, remembered and ‘felt’ in, through and with […]

AHRC Midlands3Cities PhD funding for UK/EU students

AHRC Midlands3Cities PhD funding for UK/EU students The AHRC-funded Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C) brings together six leading universities in the Midlands region: the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham. M3C provides combined research expertise for the professional and personal development of the next generation of arts and humanities doctoral researchers. For 2018 entry, M3C is awarding up to 80 PhD Arts and Humanities Open Doctoral Competition studentships and is offering seven Midlands3Cities Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) for UK/EU applicants. The Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham is inviting applications from students whose research interests include: African-American Literature, History and Culture American Art and Visual Culture American Intellectual History American Labor History American Music American Popular Culture American Political History American Print Culture and Book History Asian-American Literature and Culture Canadian Literature and Culture Civil Rights and  Social Justice […]

CFP: William Birch and the Complexities of American Visual Culture: A Symposium Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Visual Culture Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia

CFP: William Birch and the Complexities of American Visual Culture: A Symposium Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Visual Culture Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., October 5, 2018 “This country is new and flourishing. The mechanical arts are at their highest pitch, but the fine arts are of another complexion. They are the last polish of a refined nation… From an insignificant conceit of merit we have generally no knowledge of or feeling for, our imitations of nature, however beautiful, are mechanical altogether. But may be considered as the first lesson necessary for the fine arts... I do not profess myself a member of the fine arts; I am a copyist only, but from my knowledge of them have been allowed judgment and taste, which is competent to give me a relish for them …” --William Birch In celebration of the tenth anniversary […]

CFP: ‘Foreign Bodies and Native Sons’, IAAS Annual Conference (University College Dublin)

‘Foreign Bodies and Native Sons’   The Annual Conference of the Irish Association for American Studies April 27-28, 2018 University College Dublin Call for Papers Although the relationship between the ‘native’ and the ‘foreign’ has been a longstanding, evolving site of contention in American cultural history, the Trump presidency has brought both terms (and their histories) to a new level of exposure and debate. The assumptions about ‘foreign bodies’ that fuelled the recent election and its aftermath—from the ‘wall’ to the travel ban— invite sustained analysis, especially in relation to the construction of a seemingly antithetical body of ‘native sons’ that invokes superficial concepts of white working-class masculinity. The divisions and fault lines such constructions facilitate within the American ‘body politic’, in relation to race, ethnicity, sex-gender, class and sexuality, inform debate about contemporary American culture and form the basis of the conference. Although drawing on contemporary formulations of both […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “The Golden Years? US Capitalism and the Politics of Income after WWII”

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. 22 January:  Jonathan Levy, Professor of History, Fundamentals and the College, University of Chicago The Golden Years? US Capitalism and the Politics of Income after WWII  Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper

Cambridge American History Seminar: “Coincidence and Empire: The United States and the Pacific”

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. 29 January:  Elliott West, Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History, University of Oxford, and Distinguished Professor of History, University of Arkansas Coincidence and Empire: The United States and the Pacific 

CFP: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Conference (Loughborough University)

The BACLS Biennial Conference The inaugural British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN) is on 10th-12th July 2018 at Loughborough University, UK. Keynote Speakers: Dr Sandeep Parmar (University of Liverpool) Professor Alison Phipps (University of Sussex) Baroness Lola Young, in conversation with Dr Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester) We invite contributions to the first official BACLS ‘What Happens Now’ conference. Understanding the contemporary as a fluid and hybrid ‘moment’, contemporary literary studies explores works of culture and their relation to the emerging political and social formations of the present. We welcome contributions on topics from across the field of contemporary literary studies, including modern languages, comparative and world literatures, eco-criticism, postcolonial studies, translation studies, linguistics, performance studies, media theory, comics studies, video games studies, adaptation studies, the study of popular music, cultural studies, critical theory, and digital humanities. BACLS-WHN will include readings and performances, as well as three […]

Call for Editors: Journal of American Studies

Journal of American Studies (Cambridge University Press) Call for New Co-Editors or Editor, and Associate Editors Applications are invited from British Association for American Studies members for the positions of Co-Editors or Editor, and two Associate Editors of the Journal of American Studies. The Journal of American Studies is one of the most important area studies journals in the world. It is genuinely inter-, cross- and multi-disciplinary and attracts submissions from academics across the world. The Editor(s) and Associate Editors play crucial roles in determining the Journal’s direction and contents. BAAS is therefore keen to appoint individuals who can demonstrate the appropriate level of experience and commitment to ensure that the Journal builds on its reputation for publishing innovative and challenging scholarship of the highest quality. The Editor(s) has responsibility for the overall running of the Journal, including (but not limited to) screening initial submissions, appointing peer reviewers, adjudicating across reports, commissioning special […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “Remaking the Public Good in the American Marketplace during the Early Republic”

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 February: Emma Hart, Senior Lecturer in History, St Andrews University Remaking the Public Good in the American Marketplace during the Early Republic  Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper

CFP: Don’t Look: Representations of Horror in the 21st Century (University of Edinburgh)

CFP: Don’t Look: Representations of Horror in the 21st Century One Day Symposium   28th April 2018   University of Edinburgh   Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Manchester Metropolitan University)     We live in scary, uncertain times. In recent years, we have witnessed the rise of hard-line nationalism, the ascendency of racist alt-right politics and attacks on the increasingly fragile-looking institution of democracy. We contend, daily, with the threat of seemingly inevitable ecological catastrophe. The Horror genre has always been understood as a potent mirror and bellwether, able to digest the socio-cultural and political currents of a given moment and feed them back to us in uncompromising and disturbing ways. This conference seeks to consider how representations of horror are changing in our own contemporary moment, where the line between fiction and reality, truth and lies appears to be fraying beyond recognition.   Recent academic scholarship on horror has diverged towards topics […]