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Performing America, Polish Association for American Studies Conference (Szczecin University)

PERFORMING AMERICA Institute of English, Szczecin University, 18-20 October 2017 "We are part of an ontohistorical formation which, in accordance with my geological metaphor, might be called the 'performative deposit'" — writes Tomasz Kubikowski, translator of Perform, Or Else. From Discipline to Performance in the "Foreword" to the Polish edition of Jon McKenzie's 2001 book. Introducing performance in the "rhizomatic" language of Deleuze and Guattari, Kubikowski further admits that translating a book on the idea of performativity, the idea which plays out theory as an (aesthetic/ethical) aspect rather than an explanation of the existing knowledge, was one of his most difficult professional challenges. It was neither McKenzie's writing style, Kubikowski divulges, nor the many exotic theoretical concepts that Perform, Or Else... re/constructs that turned out unruly in translation — the basic vocabulary pertaining to performance did. Apart from having about twenty Polish translational equivalents, the English term "performance" is also […]

CFP: American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association Conference 2018 (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford)

American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2018 Call for Papers The forty-fourth annual conference of the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association will be held at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford from Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 January 2018. The keynote speaker will be Professor Marc J. Hetherington (Vanderbilt University) http://www.vanderbilt.edu/political-science/bio/marc-hetherington There is a broad conference theme: “The US Constitutional and Political Order: Challenges and Constraints”. This can be approached in various ways, and we will also be happy to receive proposals considering subjects and material beyond this particular theme. For example, papers or panel proposals examining contemporary US political institutions or processes, foreign policy issues or political history are invited. The conference organizers would also welcome papers addressing comparative themes or relevant theoretical or methodological issues. Proposals (no more than 150 words for single papers, 300 words for panels) should be sent […]

CFP: Rendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity (Atlanta)

Call For Papers Rendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity Atlanta, February 8-10, 2018 Deadline: October 20, 2017 Since the early 2000s, the idea of “liquidity” has been mobilized in discourses ranging from social theory to aesthetics, from informatics to architecture, to describe a new relationship with the networked environments of life within global capital. More specifically, within the study of moving image culture, we have seen an increasing turn toward affective relations, plasticity, resonances and flows, whereby images and sounds—no longer grounded in an analogical relation to the real—are seen variously as malleable, untethered, “viral,” or fluid. The graduate program in Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University has, over the past several years, been exploring some of the implications of these ideas, specifically in relation to race, via our research group “liquid blackness.” Now, however, we wish to explore the ways in which the concept of liquidity might begin to chart […]

Job: Lecturer in English Literature (Aston University)

Closing Date: 23.59 hours BST on Friday 20 October 2017 Interview Date: Tuesday 21 November 2017 The School of languages and Social Sciences is an ambitious, expanding, multidisciplinary School with an established reputation in teaching and research. The English Department is seeking to make an appointment of a Lecturer in English Literature from 1stApril 2018. This is to support the introduction of new undergraduate and research degree programmes in English Literature. Strong candidates in the areas of 20th century and/or contemporary literature with specialisms in corpus and other computational approaches to the study of literature and/or creative writing are particularly welcome. Please visit our website www.aston.ac.uk/jobs for further information and to apply online. If you do not have access to the internet telephone 0121-204-4500 and leave your name and address quoting the reference number R170377

Cambridge American History Seminar: “The Chinese Question and Global Politics 1850-1910”

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 23 October: Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University The Chinese Question and Global Politics 1850-1910  Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper (This will be a joint seminar with World History)

CFP: HOTCUS Winter Symposium 2018 (University of Nottingham)

HOTCUS Winter Symposium 2018 We are particularly interested in using the symposium to showcase examples of the latest historical research in twentieth century American political history. This includes (but is not limited to): ·         Political ideas and ideologies ·         Social movements and the state ·         Race, class, gender and sexuality ·         Public policy and political development ·         Foreign affairs and diplomacy ·         Political economy, business and capitalism ·         Mass incarceration and the carceral state ·         The environment and environmentalism ·         The state and transnationalism ·         State of the field debates Please send any proposals and one-page CVs to Joe Merton (joe.merton@nottingham.ac.uk), Vivien Miller (vivien.miller@nottingham.ac.uk) and Bevan Sewell (bevan.sewell@nottingham.ac.uk) by Friday 27th October 2017. Further information is available at https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/history/events/2018/hotcus-symposium.aspx.

CFP: “Where’s Nora?” Reclaiming the Irish Girl’s Presence in New England literature (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin)

“Where’s Nora?” Reclaiming the Irish Girl’s Presence in New England literature A panel organized by Cécile Roudeau (Université Paris Diderot) and Stephanie Palmer (Nottingham Trent University) and sponsored by the Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society for submission to the Transatlantic Women 3: Women of the Green Atlantic Conference at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, Ireland, June 21-22, 2018. Taking the title of one of Sarah Orne Jewett’s story as its tagline, this panel starts with a simple constatation: in nineteenth century New England literature, Nora, Bridget, Erin and other Irish girls were an ubiquitous presence. They popped in and out of New England sketches— from Louisa May Alcott’s “Work” (1873) to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s “The Tenth of January” (1868) to Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A Little Captive Maid” (1893) or “Elleneen” (1901). And yet, ubiquitous as she is, the Irish girl is also conspicuously absent in major scholarly studies of New England […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “‘As God Rules the Universe’: Tocquevillean Reflections on the People and the State in Early America”

Cambridge American History Seminar 2017-2018  We are pleased to announce the schedule of seminars and events for the academic year 2017/18. 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. 30 October (Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College), 5:00pm:  Ira Katznelson, 2017-18 Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge, and Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture:  'As God Rules the Universe': Tocquevillean Reflections on the People and the State in Early America  (This will be a joint event with Political Thought and Intellectual History) There will be a wine reception after the lecture in the Bateman Room, Gonville and Caius College

CFP: Journal of Festive Studies

The Journal of Festive Studies, a new peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of the H-Celebration network, invites submissions for its first issue, scheduled for March 2018. The journal’s stated aim is to draw together all academics who share an interest in festivities, including but not limited to holiday celebrations, family rituals, carnivals, religious feasts, processions and parades, and civic commemorations. The editors in chief -- Dr. Ellen Litwicki, Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia and Dr. Aurélie Godet, Associate Professor of US History at Paris Diderot University -- welcome submissions of original research and analysis from both established and emerging scholars worldwide. Besides traditional academic essays, authors may submit video and photo essays, archival notes, opinion pieces, as well as contributions that incorporate digital media such as visualizations and interactive timelines and maps. Academic essays should be between 6,000 and 12,000 words; other pieces should be between 2,000 and […]

BAAS Conference Organisation Support

BAAS Conference Organisation Support BAAS invites scholars in any field of American Studies to apply for funding to support the organization and running of conferences, colloquia, and/or conference-related activity. It is not meant to fund the applicant's attendance at a conference. BAAS has access to these funds through membership subscriptions, publications, and particular grants-in-aid from other sources. The Conferences Sub-Committee will prioritize applications that fund postgraduate attendance and that publicize BAAS, the Journal of American Studies, and U.S. Studies Online at the event. Please note that the Conferences fund is not primarily intended to defray costs for visiting speakers, catering, or publicity. BAAS is committed to promoting best practice in matters of equality and diversity and applicants are expected to demonstrate similar consideration when submitting bids to this scheme. The closing deadline for the next round of applications is 1 November 2017 and more information can be found on the […]

CFP: Doing Women’s Film and Television History IV (University of Southampton)

Doing Women's Film and Television History IV: Calling the Shots – Then, Now, and Next May 23 – 25, 2018 University of Southampton, UK Organising team: Shelley Cobb, Linda Ruth Williams, and Natalie Wreyford As researchers of the AHRC-funded project Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK Film Culture 2000-2015 we are proud to host the fourth International Doing Women's Film and Television History conference in association with the Women’s Film and Television History Network – UK/Ireland. The focus for DWFTH-IV is predicated on the idea of the contemporary as an historical formation. The conference will offer a space to think about the interconnectedness of the past, present and future in feminist historiography and theory, as well as across all forms of women’s film culture and film and television production. It will also consider women’s film and television histories and their relationships with the contemporary, framed and read historically, to […]

CFP: Edited Collection: Gender, Sexualities and Queer Identities in American Horror Story

Edited Collection: Gender, Sexuality and Queer Identities in American Horror Story Editors: Harriet Earle, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Jessica Clark, University of Suffolk, UK This call for papers seeks submissions that engage with the television series American Horror Story (produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk) as part of an edited collection on the theme of gender, sexuality and queer identity. Over seven seasons (so far), American Horror Story has received massive popular and academic interest for its bold and often apposite reworkings of a wide range of cultural tropes and folk stories, set against uniquely American backgrounds and played out through a distinct cast of characters. The series has included many nuanced – and also problematic – representations of sexuality and queer identities, as well as brought into question culturally entrenched issues of heteronormativity and mononormativity. Papers should be between 7000-8000 words and the deadline for final submission is 31stJanuary 2018. Papers should be […]