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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. 27 November: Julia Guarneri, Lecturer in American History and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge Book Launch: Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans (University of Chicago Press, 2017) 

The First International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies,.University of Tampere, Finland, August 23-24, 2017 In the wake of two successful international conferences under the auspices of the Helsinki Literature and the City Network, we are welcoming scholars interested in urban writing to the first international conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS), to be organized at the University of Tampere, Finland. This inaugural conference will be devoted to the theme of possible and impossible cities, the links between them, and the complex relationships between city imaginaries and real-world cities. This topic acknowledges the debt that literary cities owe to real-life city plans, and the similar debt that visions of urban development owe to the imaginary scenarios put forth in fictional narratives. The conference theme straddles a variety of fields, including literary urban studies, urban planning theory, cultural geography, and future studies. The two keynote speakers […]

Studying the South: Approaches and Orientations A one-day colloquium organised by the Southern Studies in the UK Network (www.ssukn.com) 26th August 2017, University of Hertfordshire Studies of the U.S. South have radically changed across the last century, and especially so in the twenty-first. As Michael Bibler (2016) has argued recently, southern studies scholars “begin with the assumption that there’s no such thing as a solid South. We are interested in all kinds of Souths, bringing a dazzling range of theoretical approaches” to the region. This one-day colloquium will explore the variety of perspectives or “orientations” (Bibler) that open up discussion of the U.S. South today. Where historically the South has been considered as the “nation’s region” (in Leigh Ann Duck’s words), southern studies scholars see the region in smaller and larger scales and frames. The South can be read in relation to other American regions like the West or Midwest; it can be thought […]

LAND AND WATER: PORT TOWNS, MARITIME CONNECTIONS, AND OCEANIC SPACES OF THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC WORLD. The British Group of Early American Historians will hold its annual conference at the University of Portsmouth, 31 August - 3 September 2017. Drawing on Portsmouth’s historic significance as a port town this year’s conference theme is: “Land and Water: Port Towns, maritime connections, and oceanic spaces of the early modern Atlantic World.” Portsmouth was a site of embarkation for those who shaped (or attempted to shape) the political, social, and demographic contours of the Atlantic World: the Roanoke colonists departed from the town in 1587; as did Admiral Nelson for the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It was a hub of imperial force in the form of the Royal Navy and intimately connected with the imperial conflicts across the globe, and also of the protection and then prevention of the transatlantic slave trade. […]

REMOBILISING MILITANT PASTS: HISTORIES OF PROTEST, UNREST AND INSURRECTION IN POLITICS AND CULTURE Hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London - 31st August & 1st September 2017 Delegates’ Fees: •       Speakers  Free •       Students and Untenured: One Day  £10 •       Students and Untenured: Both Days  £20 •       Tenured Staff: One Day  £20 •       Tenured Staff: Both Days  £40 Deadline for Registration is Thursday, 24 August.  Registration fees include lunch and refreshments. For any queries, contact Dr Dion Georgiou at diongeorgiou@hotmail.co.uk Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remobilising-militant-pasts-histories-of-protest-unrest-and-insurrection-in-politics-and-culture-tickets-36308575928 Programme (correct at time of posting) THURSDAY, 31 AUGUST 9:30 – 10:00: Registration 10:00 – 12:00: Radical Histories in Fictional Texts Matthew Ingleby (Queen Mary University of London) Fantasising 1887: Harkness, Nesbit and the Literary Afterimage of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Ruth Adams (King’s College London) Popular Cultural Representations of the Suffragettes Rebecca Hillman (University of Exeter) Resistance, Representation and Repetition: […]

QUEER SCREENS CONFERENCE 2017 September 2nd and 3rd 2017 The Institute of the Humanities and the Gendered Subjects Research Group at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Keynote speaker: Prof. Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) We seek to tackle diverse aspects of queer representation, and question the extent to which the new influx of queer on-screen visibility works at once both to liberate and obfuscate certain queer identities and cultures. How, for example, should we perceive representations of the legalization of gay marriage in numerous countries, while taking into account that these changes in law also mark the entrance of queer individuals into reproductive and familial time? In England and Wales, 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalized private homosexual acts between male individuals aged 21 or over. As such, this anniversary comes at what is arguably a troubling time; one where right-wing nationalism spreads across the […]

Game of Thrones: An International Conference University of Hertfordshire, De Havilland Campus, 6-7 September 2017   Co-organised by the Media Research Group of the Schools of Creative Arts and Humanities REGISTRATION NOW OPEN:  http://store.herts.ac.uk/conferences-events/conferences-events/conferences/creative-arts/game-of-thrones-an-international-conference The University is in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, which 25 minutes, by train, from central London. The nearest train station is Hatfield (direct route from King's Cross Station). The University is a short taxi journey or bus ride from Hatfield railway station. You can view train times and fares on the National Rail website. There are also bus services available from all the major London airports to the University. ​ Airport bus services  ​ Heathrow Airport (21 miles or 34km away) Arriva 724 service Luton Airport (18 miles or 29km away) National Express JL737 Service Stansted Airport (20 miles or 32km away) National Express JL737 Service Gatwick Airport (40 miles or 64km away) National Express JL737 Service View our maps and directions section for more information on […]