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The Fourth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium: Faulkner, Transgressive Fiction, Postmodernism (Online)

January 29th and 30th, 2021, online via Zoom With keynote addresses by: Dr Phillip Gordon (author of Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond ) and Dr Julie Beth Napolin (author of The Facts of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form ) William Faulkner (1897-1962) has long been considered one of the foremost modernist authors to emerge from the United States. Faulkner’s authorial obsessions have typically been described as including time, history, and the fraught definition of “Southernness” in the aftermath of the Civil War, emancipation, and the quest for Civil Rights. However, starting with the publication of the edited volume Faulkner and Postmodernism (1997), critics have sought to recontextualise Faulkner as a “postmodernist” and even “transgressive” author, whose work explores the darker side of humanity and sets a precedent for writers including William S. Burroughs and Cormac McCarthy to explore the nature of sexuality, racial identity, […]

CfP: HOTCUS 2021 Annual Conference (Online)

HOTCUS 2021 Annual Conference: Call for Papers Digital Conference – 7-11 June 2021 Plenary Speaker: Professor Connie Chiang (Bowdoin College) Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to invite paper and panel proposals for our 2021 annual conference. For the first time, the annual conference will take place digitally in order to provide the safest and most accessible venue for attendants. Despite the global context, we still hope to provide a space for scholars to share their research and socialize virtually with colleagues studying the history of the United States. Papers from members or non-members are welcomed on all topics concerning the history of the United States – broadly conceived – from 1890 to the present. The committee welcomes proposals for papers and panels covering all aspects of U.S. history, including (but not limited to): Citizenship, immigration, and migration Cultural and intellectual history Economic history Environmental history […]

HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium: Amerians in the World (Online)

The HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium will be held via Zoom on February 20, 2021. The theme of this year’s event is Americans in the World, and we are delighted to announce that the plenary speaker will be Dr Kaeten Mistry (University of East Anglia ), author of The United States, Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and co-editor of Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of Secrecy (Columbia University Press, 2020).

RAI: the RAI Goes to the Movies – I Am Not Your Negro

The sixth of a series of film discussions exploring important movies by African American filmmakers. I am Not Your Negro (2016, dir. Raoul Peck, 95 min) Introduced by Dr. Nigel Hatton (University of California, Merced.) Phil Bertelsen and Rachel Dretzin, award-winning filmmakers and executive producers of Netflix docuseries 'Who Killed Malcolm X?'  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rai-goes-to-the-movies-i-am-not-your-negro-2016-dir-raoul-peck-tickets-139975332989

CFP: Movement and Mobility in America (Online)

WHAT, WHEN & WHERE American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT) 40th International American Studies Conference Movement and Mobility in America Online Conference June 28-29, 2021 Movement and mobility lie at the core of American society. Whether through immigration, internal migration, social mobility, or domestic and global expansionism, the United States has always been defined as a nation of frontiers and pioneers, a country that is constantly (re)defining itself, where self-(re)invention is part of the American dream. Movement and mobility in the American context can also be physical, sociological, psychological, or political, as in the case of mobilizing for racial justice, such as with the Black Lives Matter movement that is sweeping the nation. The Trump Administration has prompted a reevaluation of movement and mobility across the political spectrum. While some argue that this has stimulated a visible resurgence in activism and a revival of social movements in the United States, […]

The Profits of Slavery and the Wealth of Universities: A Transatlantic Conversation (Online)

Join Dr. Afua Cooper for a presentation on the Lord Dalhousie Scholarly Panel on Slavery and Race, followed by conversation with Danni Ebanks-Ingram and Dr. Asha Rogers. Dr. Michell Chresfield will chair. The Report on Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race, headed by historian and artist Dr. Afua Cooper, was submitted in 2019 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. The panel looked into Lord Dalhousie’s views on race and put forward recommendations for how campus might be accountable for past and present connections to anti-Black racism. The University of Birmingham’s Centre for the Study of North America is delighted that Dr. Afua Cooper has accepted our invitation to tell us about the work of the panel she chaired, and engage in dialogue about that panel’s report and its resonance for universities and wider communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Chaired by Dr. Michell Chresfield, this event will begin with a presentation by Dr. Cooper on the Report, followed […]

Cultural Histories, Cultural Studies Seminar

A fortnightly seminar series to explore methodologies and theory relating to cultural studies across a range of disciplines. The seminar is aimed at graduate students, ECRs, and interested faculty but all are welcome.   March 4th  at 2PM we welcome writer, film programmer, and PhD candidate in Communication and Culture, Ryerson and York Universities. 'On Anti-Black Visual Economies and Brutal Aesthetics.'   Please email sage.goodwin@history.ox.ac.uk for the zoom link and/or to be added to the seminar mailing list.

22nd Annual Conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America 6 March 2021, Online Conference The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) was formed in 1999 to encourage the study of North America in Scotland. Due to ongoing concerns over COVID-19, the committee has decided our annual conference will be held virtually this year. The conference will take place on Saturday, 6 March 2021. The virtual nature of the conference has provided us with an opportunity to adapt our standard format. Instead of traditional 20-minute conference papers, we are asking for brief, 10-minute papers, which will be followed by a discussion. These presentations are meant to be informal, and our aim is to provide a welcoming environment for speakers to get feedback on their projects, or specific aspects of their research they would like to discuss. Details of the finalised conference will be posted here once […]

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Immunity in Antebellum New Orleans (Online)

Antebellum New Orleans was the nation’s ‘necropolis,’ with yellow fever routinely killing about eight percent of the population. With little epidemiological understanding of mosquito-borne viruses, a person’s only protection against the scourge was falling sick with and surviving the disease. Over time, repeated epidemics generated a hierarchy of immunocapital whereby ‘acclimated’ survivors leveraged their immunity for social, economic, and political power, while ‘unacclimated’ individuals languished in social and professional purgatory. By drawing parallels between the story of yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans and the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, Kathryn Olivarius provides keen insights into the politics of our present moment, when immunoprivilege has become firmly embedded in discussions about easing lockdowns and reopening the economy. Speaker: Kathryn Olivarius is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford and is an affiliated member of the Stanford Center for Law and History. She is the author of the forthcoming “Necropolis: Disease, Power, and […]

RAI: the RAI Goes to the Movies – Sorry to Bother You and Blindspotting

Sorry to Bother You (2018, dir. Boots Riley, 102 min) + Blindspotting (2018, dir. Carlos Lopez Estrada, 96 min) Introduced by:  Dr. Brittney Edmonds (Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison Brandi Thompson Summers, Assistant Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley Denzel Whitaker, award-winning actor and filmmaker https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rai-goes-to-the-movies-sorry-to-bother-you-blindspotting-tickets-139993226509

CfP: Radicalisation and the Media: From Television to Twitter

CfP DEADLINE: FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2021 Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford 20-22 April 2021   In the mid-twentieth century two mutually influencing revolutions took place, one technological and one socio-political; the emergence of television and the advent of the civil rights movement both fundamentally altered American society and the wider world. Today, social media and digital technologies are reshaping social relations, while the renewed visibility of white supremacist activism has precipitated a new chapter in the long struggle for racial equality. This conference will put the study of the past in conversation with current debates about media, technology, and race. The first day of the conference is dedicated to research development workshops. Participants will have the opportunity to give and receive feedback on in-progress work and meet scholars researching similar topics across a range of disciplines. Abstracts may consider issues of race and ethnicity across news, entertainment, and social media. […]