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Call for Papers/Call for Art: ‘The Summer of Love’: A One-Day Countercultural Event in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Summer of 1967 (Queen’s University Belfast)

Call for Papers/Call for Art “The Summer of Love”: A One-Day Countercultural Event in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Summer of 1967 Queen’s University Belfast, 28 July 2017 The Summer of Love was not simply an American phenomenon but an occurrence with international and intercultural influence and significant social and political effects, transforming the ways in which the counterculture, intergenerational relationships, class, gender, and race are understood. Thousands of young people ventured to the Bay Area, particularly the Haight-Ashbury district. The media’s overage of the influx of students, hippies, and others considered part of the “counterculture” drew national and international attention. This event will consist of a strong arts and entertainment component. The interdisciplinary focus of the newly formed School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s will be stressed as collaborative research projects in writing, poetry, film, and a number of other disciplines will highlight cooperative learning […]

CFP: America’s southern cultures and identities: language, customs, literature (South Carolina State University)

South Carolina State University’s Department of English and The South Carolina Project on Language and Culture (SCPLC) will host an inter-disciplinary Conference on October  6, 2017. Conference Theme:  America’s southern cultures and identities:  language, customs, literature. The organizing committee is soliciting proposals for 20-minute presentations on topics related to language, culture, dialects, literature, film, communities, and other  areas that highlight research and documentation studies on  South Carolina’s cultures and languages as well as Southern regional cultures, languages and communities.  Please send a 250-300 word abstract by March 1, 2017.  Please send it via email to ssalone@scsu.edu.  Please send the following information with the abstract. Name and affiliation of the presenter. Email address Title of the presentation. Abstract (approximately 250-300 words) AV equipment requests, if any. Possible topic areas: Southern Regional Cultures Southern Regional literatures South Carolina literatures African-American Cultures European ethnic communities of The South Caucasian-American communities of The South Hispanic […]

CFP: The International Ralph Ellison Symposium (Oxford University)

The International Ralph Ellison Symposium September 28-30, 2017 Oxford University The Rothermere American Institute (www.rai.ox.ac.uk) at the University of Oxford and the Ralph Ellison Society (https://ellisonsociety.wordpress.com) are pleased to announce the first International Ralph Ellison Symposium. The symposium will bring together Ellison scholars and readers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and other international locales. The symposium will explore a variety of themes vital to Ellison’s life and work, in particular the relevance that his self-fashioned American and African-American identity has around the world. The likely session topics include: Ellison in translation (Invisible Man is in print in more than twenty different languages, including a Mandarin edition published in 2016). The reception, past and present, of Ellison’s fiction and essays in different countries. The status and future direction of Ellison scholarship. Ellison’s own engagement with the world: for example, his urge (thwarted by tonsillitis) to fight in the Abraham […]

CFP: International Ralph Ellison Symposium (Oxford University)

The International Ralph Ellison Symposium September 28-30, 2017 Oxford University The Rothermere American Institute (www.rai.ox.ac.uk) at the University of Oxford and the Ralph Ellison Society (https://ellisonsociety.wordpress.com) are pleased to announce the first International Ralph Ellison Symposium. The symposium will bring together Ellison scholars and readers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and other international locales. The symposium will explore a variety of themes vital to Ellison’s life and work, in particular the relevance that his self-fashioned American and African-American identity has around the world. The likely session topics include: Ellison in translation (Invisible Man is in print in more than twenty different languages, including a Mandarin edition published in 2016). The reception, past and present, of Ellison’s fiction and essays in different countries. The status and future direction of Ellison scholarship. Ellison’s own engagement with the world: for example, his urge (thwarted by tonsillitis) to fight in the Abraham […]

Job: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English (University of Roehampton)

Applications are invited for a full-time, without-term Lecturer/Senior Lectureship in English Literature. We are looking for suitably qualified candidates with research interests and teaching  experience in one or more of the following areas: Romanticism, American literature (particular expertise in African-American writing may be an advantage), ecocriticism or queer theory. If your specialism falls outside these areas but you would like to be considered for a post please apply through the ‘2017 campaign route’. The University of Roehampton is the most research intensive modern university in the UK, with some of the highest regarded academic departments in the country. This is an exciting time for the university, with investment in new curricula, the construction of a new £35m state-of-the-art library and student accommodation, the development of a number of external partnerships across the globe and plans for more doctoral scholarships. We have a strong emphasis on supporting our students to reach […]

Rethinking the Post-war History of Gay Life and Politics in the US (Cambridge American History Seminar)

The Lent term schedule for the Cambridge American History Seminar and American History events, including details of which seminars have pre-circulated papers,  is now available here: http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars/american-history-seminar  All seminars are held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. 6 March: George Chauncey, Samuel Knight Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University Rethinking the Post-war History of Gay Life and Politics in the US

UCL American Studies Seminar: ‘Rating the American Presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump: A UK Perspective’ (UCL)

Rating the American Presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump: A UK Perspective Mar 8, 2017 6:00 PM – Venue: UCL Archaeology Lecture Theatre, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY Michael Patrick Cullinane (Roehampton), Iwan Morgan (UCL), Simon Rofe (SOAS) - This event unveils the results of a poll of 71 UK scholars specializing in American history and US politics. The survey rated the performance of American presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama in five categories: vision/agenda setting; domestic leadership; foreign policy leadership; moral authority; and the positive historical significance of their legacy. More about this event. Register to attend this free event

CFP: Surveillance, Race, Culture (Edited Collection)

Surveillance, Race, Culture Call for Papers Dr Susan Flynn, University of Arts, London. s.flynn@lcc.arts.ac.uk Dr Antonia Mackay, Oxford Brookes University Oxford. antoniamackay@brookes.ac.uk Drawing on huge interest in the upcoming collection Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves which is currently in press this new collection seeks to merge cultural explorations of surveillance with the issue of race. We wish to examine how culture produces or reproduces power relations via the surveillant technologies which have captured the cultural imagination. Through a critical reading of contemporary and historic narratives of race and surveillance, we seek to illustrate the ongoing cultural fascination with technologies of control and surveillance. The current global moment is one of extreme cultural upheaval; political populism, the ‘alt right’ and the greatest movement of peoples since World War 2 are coupled with the increasing salience of surveillant technologies and regimes. At this juncture in history, with exclusionary policies, increasing racism […]

CFP: Trump’s America (University College Dublin)

Trump’s America Clinton Institute for American Studies University College Dublin 5-6 May 2017 Call for Papers This conference will examine the political and cultural significance of Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States, and consider the first 100 days of his administration. Speakers include: Robert Brigham (Vassar College), Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham/EAWorldview), Diane Negra (University College Dublin), Inderjeet Parmar (City, University of London), Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College). Topics may include but are not confined to: “Make America Great Again” – American exceptionalism, nostalgia “America First” – foreign policy and diplomacy “Protect our borders” – immigration and terrorism “Drain the swamp” - Washington elites, lobbying and corruption “A historic movement” – white nationalism, identity politics, protest “American carnage” – dystopian visions of the US, narratives of decline “Crime and gangs and guns” – race and the cities, gun violence, civic anxiety “Fake news” – politics in the […]

CFP: Winning the Western Approaches: Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and the US Navy in Ireland, 1917-18 (University College Cork)

Winning the Western Approaches: Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and the US Navy in Ireland, 1917-18 University College Cork 5 – 7 July 2017 Industrial warfare during the First World War extended underwater, as submarines destroyed up to 5,000 vessels and altered the course of the conflict. Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 brought the United States into the war and created severe Allied shipping losses and dangerous food shortages. A transatlantic convoy system introduced that year relied heavily on US Navy escort vessels based in Ireland and France. These American escorts helped bring Allied shipping losses under control and protect troop ships packed with American soldiers bound for France. The American naval presence in Europe contributed to the final defeat of the Central Powers and announced the arrival of a new military power. This multi-disciplinary conference will explore the consequences of underwater warfare during the First World War, […]

Job: Assistant Professor of American Literature and Cultures (University of Warwick)

The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick intends to appoint an Assistant Professor in American Literature and Culture from 1900 to the present from 15 September 2017. Any twentieth- or twenty-first century period or specialism will be considered, but candidates should demonstrate engagement with the changing dynamics of the field, including (though not limited to) evolving interests in American literature and culture as world literature and culture; critical theory; digital, graphic, and print media studies; gender and sexuality studies; comparative race and ethnicity studies; materialist ecocriticism; televisual or screen narrative; temporal studies; and other innovative frameworks. We seek candidates with an active interest in program building, developing new offerings at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Please note that appointments at Assistant Professor level entail a period of probation (normally 5 years). You will possess a PhD or equivalent; will have an emergent or already […]

America in the ‘Asian Century’ (Nottingham University)

America in the 'Asian Century' Nottingham University Tue, 14 March 2017 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM GMT The future of North America's relations with Asia is uncertain. A recent upsurge in political nationalism on both sides of the Pacific has called into question the capacity, and will, of the United States and Canada to sustain their influence across the region. President Obama’s “pivot” towards Asia polarised opinion at home and abroad, garnering support and suspicion in equal measure. In Canada, Prime Minster Trudeau’s emphasis on “cross-Pacific profit” has been criticised for subordinating issues of security. A one-day symposium convened by the University of Nottingham’s Department of American & Canadian Studies, in association with the Institute of Asia & Pacific Studies, brings together leading scholars from across the globe to historicise and debate, through an array of regional and thematic prisms, North America’s increasingly tumultuous relationship with Asia. Tickets can be […]