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UCL American Studies Seminar: ‘ Trump’s Triumph and Early Days: a Historian’s Perspective’ (UCL)

Trump's Triumph and Early Days: a Historian's Perspective Feb 21, 2017 6:00 PM - Venue: UCL Malet Place Engineering Building Room 1.02, 2 Malet Place, London WC1E Dr Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University Chicago) Was Donald Trump’s win over Democrat Hillary Clinton really that surprising or unprecedented? It may seem so, given the gaffs, one-liners, and memorable moments, but her loss and his victory were really decades in the making. More about this event. Register to attend this free event

Job: Lecturer in North American Literature (University of Birmingham)

The University of Birmingham wishes to appoint a Lecturer in North American Literature with effect from 1st September 2017. We seek an early career academic with a completed and successfully examined PhD, evidence of teaching experience, and a developing record of outstanding research that will complement and enhance existing Department strengths.  Expertise might include Canadian literature and culture; border studies and hemispheric American Studies; approaches to North American Literature that engage cultural geography; Native American and/or First Nations literature and culture. The successful candidate will be expected to create and disseminate knowledge through initiating and conducting original research, through publication and through developing and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In addition the post holder will contribute to the department and school by undertaking academic administration as appropriate to the appointment. For further information please contact Dr Deborah Longworth, Head of the Department of English Literature, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham […]

Job: Professor of American Studies, Political Culture and Political Theory (University of Groningen)

The Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen invites applications for the position of Full Professor of American Studies: Political Culture and Political Theory to strengthen the growing department. Job description The position involves: teaching – primarily – American Political Culture and Political Theory for the American Studies bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes, and possibly for other relevant bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes coordinating and conducting research in the field of American Political Culture and Political Theory raising external funds for research supervising PhD students performing administrative and organizational duties further cultivating and developing national and international contacts to benefit teaching and research. Qualifications The successful candidate will be an internationally recognized expert in the field of American Political Culture and Political Theory and will have an outstanding knowledge of current national and international debates on and research in the field. The chosen candidate is expected to encourage and […]

CFP: Annual BrANCH Conference (University of Warwick)

24th Annual BrANCH Conference University of Warwick, 6-8 October 2017 Call For Papers Peter Parish Memorial Lecture: Emily West (University of Reading), “Reflections on the History and Historians of the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves” Saturday Night Keynote: Jeff Forret (Lamar University) The BrANCH committee is pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers on all aspects of U.S. history from the period 1789-1917. We particularly encourage panels that open new lines of communication between established thematic specialties as well as individual papers that cut across traditional categories of historical inquiry in imaginative and innovative ways. Postgraduate contributions are especially welcome. Subsidies for UK-based postgraduate participants will be offered on a first come first served basis. Please send a brief CV and a summary of the proposed paper or panel (no more than three speakers per panel and 300 words per paper, please) by Friday 24 February […]

CFP: ‘Voices of Dissent’: Social Movements and Political Protest in Post-war America (Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford)

Call For Papers: “Voices of Dissent”: Social Movements and Political Protest in Post-war America Conference Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford 2 June, 2017 On the evening of April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered a historic speech before a crowd of 3,000 people at Manhattan’s Riverside Church. In his speech, entitled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” King condemned the Vietnam War and American Cold War policy and characterized the U.S. government as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world”. Describing Vietnam a  “victim deadly Western arrogance”, King detailed the war’s devastating effects on both America’s and Vietnam’s poor, and declared that it was a moral imperative for opponents of the war to use “every creative method of protest possible” to halt the war through non-violent means. In 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Riverside Church speech, the Rothermere American Institute at the University […]

Royal Academy of Arts, America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s (Opens)

Royal Academy of Arts, America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s. 25 February – 4 June 2017 With all eyes on America at the moment, this show could not be more timely. Bringing together 45 truly iconic works, it paints an electrifying portrait of the great social changes like immigration, industrialisation and urbanisation, which shook America in the wake of the Wall Street Crash. Artists in the exhibition range from Jackson Pollock, Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper to Thomas Hart Benton, Philip Guston and more. Perhaps the most celebrated work of them all, Grant Wood’s American Gothic, has never been to Europe until now. Tickets can be booked here.

CFP: Interrogating Commodity Cultures | Exploring Global Connections (UCD)

CALL FOR PAPERS Interrogating Commodity Cultures | Exploring Global Connections 5 May 2017 This one-day interdisciplinary workshop will interrogate the cultural transformations effected by global commodity histories in the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Colonial conquest, advancements in travel technologies and industrialisation all contributed to creating the material conditions which allowed for the production, consumption, and movement of commodities across the globe. In so doing, the global capitalist system and actors within it changed not only transnational relations, but also local cultures and practices. The increased mobility of commodities, peoples and things introduced new geographies of connection and provided new ways of imagining the contact zones of colonial encounters. This workshop will ask how the global circulation of commodities is mediated through forms such as novels, poetry, drama, advertising and art. It will explore how these literary and visual mediations of the global circulation of commodities have rewritten the map […]

Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution (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. 27 February: David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest University, and Visiting Professor, Terra Foundation for American Art, University of Oxford Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution

CFP: Postcolonial Studies Association Convention (University of London)

Postcolonial Studies Association Convention School of Advanced Study, Senate House,University of London 18–20 September 2017 We are pleased to announce that the 2017 PSA Convention will be held at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, from 18th to 20th September 2017. Paper and panel proposals are invited from academics, scholars and postgraduates with research interests in any area of postcolonial studies from any disciplinary, cross- or interdisciplinary perspective. Confirmed keynote speaker:  Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin) Other keynotes to be confirmed shortly The Special Topic of the 2017 Convention is Globalisation. Proposals for panels and papers on this theme are particularly encouraged (click here for CfP). While the transregional history of globalisation can be traced back to antiquity, its discursive entanglement with the temporal realm of the ‘postcolonial’ has been the subject of much discussion and analysis in recent times. The 2017 convention seeks to investigate the crucial role of postcolonial studies in furthering newer understandings of economic, […]

CFP: Encounters in the ‘Game-Over Era’: The Americas in Video Games

Call for Submissions Encounters in the ‘Game-Over Era’: The Americas in Video Games Research done in the frame of the ‘new imperial studies’ has made it clear that in the past half century our everyday relationship to and encounters with ‘empire’ and our (post)colonial heritage have changed almost entirely. On the one hand, the contemporary experience, myths, and memories of/about empires in the former colonies has opened spaces for the colonized to record the otherwise unheard or suppressed voices from the margins. On the other hand, in the so-called metropole, unprecedented geopolitical ruptures, disruptions in the colonial economic (im)balance, and new narratives of (post)coloniality and of relating to, representing, and imagining (post)colonial identity have altered the perspectives and experiences of empire and the settings in which it is re-enacted. The special issue Encounters in the ‘Game-Over Era’: The Americas in Video Games seeks to investigate this changed everyday experience and […]

CFP: Transformers: all that is solid changes into something else (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

TRANSFORMERS: all that is solid changes into something else INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON  PRACTICES AND MEMES IN CONTEMPORARY MEDIA & CULTURE Department of Languages and Cultures University of Aveiro, Portugal 29, 30 June & 1 July 2017 Keynote addresses by: Roz Kaveney, Author and Activist Toby Miller, University of California Riverside & Loughborough University London The movement of narratives and characterisations across forms, conventionally understood as adaptation, has been commonly carried out from the high-status classical forms (drama, epic, novel) to recorded and broadcast media (film, radio and television), or from the older recorded media to the newer ones. The advent of new convergent digital platforms has further transformed hierarchies. Now source texts can move in any direction and take up any configuration, as emergent interacting fan bases drive innovation and new creative and commercial possibilities are deployed. “Transformers” is the guiding metaphor for this conference, as the Transformers toy franchise […]