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CFP: Native American Narratives in a Global Context

Call for Papers: Native American Narratives in a Global Context Special Issue to Appear in Transmotion http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/announcement/view/19 Deadline for Abstracts: 1st October 2017 In the contemporary moment, the world has seen an increase in transnational and decolonial activist movements around indigenous rights. Idle No More, Rhodes Must Fall, the BDS movement for a Free Palestine and the Dakota Access Pipeline protests have all garnered international attention and trans-indigenous calls of solidarity. These politics have found their ways to literary productions, and many have dubbed the increase in Native American writings and the rapid growth in Indigenous Studies a cultural, literary, and academic renaissance. Building on this historically significant moment, Transmotion is currently seeking submissions for a cross-disciplinary special issue on the topic of Native American Narratives in a Global Context: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives. The special issue builds on a panel entitled “Native American Literature in a Global Context” that took place at the 2017 […]

Job: Lecturer in Literature in English (University of Reading)

The Department of English Literature at the University of Reading is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Literature in English. The successful candidate will contribute to teaching and research in one or more of the following specialisms: race and literature; postcolonial writing; Caribbean/North American writing; writing in an Atlantic or hemispheric perspective. This permanent, full-time post will involve all aspects of academic employment, including teaching, examining, administration, research and publication of assessable outputs, cultural outreach and impact activity. You will have: A track record of high-quality research publications suitable for submission to REF2021. Appropriate higher educational qualifications. Experience of teaching at university level in a relevant area. Collaborative skills, and a willingness to work as part of a team. The willingness and ability to contribute to outreach and recruitment activities. Informal contact details Contact role: Head of Department Contact name: Peter Stoneley Contact phone: 0118 378 5095 Contact email: p.stoneley@reading.ac.uk Closing date: 06/10/2017 Interviews […]

A Training Day for Students of the US and Canada (British Library)

British Library 96 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom

A training day for students of the US and Canada Mon 9 Oct 2017, 09:45 - 16:00 The British Library’s North American collections are the largest outside of the US, and hold huge research potential for those working in the social sciences and humanities. For the same reasons, researchers new to the Library may find the experience daunting and not know how to best approach using the Library. This training day will prepare researchers to navigate these vast holdings. It is aimed at American and Canadian studies postgraduate students, and third year undergraduates working on a relevant dissertation topic. The Library's North American curator and the Assistant Head of the Eccles Centre for American Studies will lead the day, guiding students through the collections, and giving tips on how to be an effective researcher in the Library. The day will include a look at our often overlooked electronic resources, rich literary holdings, historic […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “How Black Suffering Became Visible: The Racial Politics of Gulf Hurricanes Since 1945”

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. Gareth Davies, Associate Professor of American History and Fellow of St Anne’s College, University of Oxford How Black Suffering Became Visible: The Racial Politics of Gulf Hurricanes Since 1945  Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper

Black Art, Black Power: Responses to Soul of a Nation (Tate, London)

13 October 2017 This day-long conference brings together acclaimed contributors from the UK and USA for a series of unique presentations and rich panel discussions that explore the art, artists and social histories featured in the exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. Topics of discussion include the role of key cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and New York in the development of American art in the 1960s and 70s, the influence of American art on British artists in the 1980s and beyond, and contemporary artistic responses to new forms of social and political change. Contributors include: Sampada Aranke (San Francisco Art Institute), Barby Asante (artist), Dawoud Bey (artist), Margo Natalie Crawford (Cornell University), Elvira Dyangani Ose (Creative Time and Goldsmiths, University of London), Tuliza Fleming (National Museum of African American History and Culture), Mark Godfrey (Senior Curator, International Art, Tate), Lubaina Himid (artist; University […]

CFP: Aspeers Journal

aspeers, the first and currently only MA-level peer-reviewed journal for American studies in Europe, will accept submissions by October 15, 2017. In its eleventh issue, aspeers will feature a general section and a topical focus. While the general section accepts submissions on any American studies topic (e.g. revised versions of term papers or chapters from BA theses), the topical section will focus on the theme of "Alternative Americas," calling for submissions that reflect on the diverse roles and meanings of alternative constructions of 'America.' Please find the two calls for papers below. More information can also be found at http://www.aspeers.com/2018 === General Call for Papers === For the general section of its eleventh issue, aspeers seeks outstanding academic writing demonstrating the excellence of graduate scholarship, the range of concerns scrutinized in the field of American studies, and the diversity of perspectives employed. We thus explicitly invite revised versions of term papers or chapters from […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: “Peace, Pact, and Nation: The U.S. Constitution as a Federal Treaty”

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 16 October: Max Edling, Reader in Early American History, King’s College, London Peace Pact and Nation: The U.S. Constitution as a Federal Treaty  Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper

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)