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Transformers: All that is solid changes into something else (University of Aviero, 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 […]

Job: Lecturer in American Literature in English to 1900 (University College London)

The Department of English Language and Literature invites applications for a full-time, open-ended Lectureship in American Literature in English to 1900. The successful candidate will have a proven record of high-quality research and publication in some field of pre-twentieth-century American literature in English.  The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the teaching of the Department's second and third-year undergraduate course, American Literature to 1900, as well as, where appropriate, to other period courses; to give seminars on the Master of Arts (MA) in English: Issues in Modern Culture; and to teach on the following first-year undergraduate courses:  Narrative Texts, Criticism and Theory, Intellectual and Cultural Sources. Additional duties will include: delivering tutorials/supervisions to undergraduate and postgraduate students; the provision of pastoral care and support; interviewing UCAS candidates; setting and marking examinations; the performance of various administrative tasks and roles. Candidates must hold a PhD by the time they begin their appointment and have a proven track record of high-quality research […]

CFP: Exploring Identity: Between Being and Belonging (University of Liverpool)

Exploring Identity: Between Being and Belonging AHRC NWCDTP Postgraduate Conference 2017 Dates: 25-26 October 2017 Venue: The University of Liverpool and FACT The AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership is delighted to announce that this year’s postgraduate conference, Exploring Identity: Between Being and Belonging, will be hosted by The University of Liverpool and FACT on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th October 2017. The conference aims to bring together postgraduate researchers and academic staff in the Arts and Humanities to explore the concept of ‘identity’ from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. Scholars, performers and creative practitioners are invited to reflect on ‘identity’, as representing a stable condition of being, a collective notion of belonging, and a continual process of becoming, in the light of current, progressively challenging contexts. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the concept of ‘identity’ against this backdrop as it manifests across literature, language, and culture. We […]

Job: Teaching Fellow in US Politics, Part-time, Fixed-term (University of Durham)

Contract Type: Part Time, Fixed Term (planned end date 31 August 2018) Working Arrangements: This role is a 0.5 appointment (17.5 hours per week). As such it is not open to job share arrangements. Closing date: 30 June 2017 (Midday) This post is Fixed Term with a planned end date of 31 August 2018 and Part-time (17.5 hours per week) therefore, the salary will be pro rata to the salary shown. The School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) seeks to appoint an exceptional scholar as a Teaching Fellow with teaching interests and experience in US politics. The successful candidate will teach a final year module entitled Culture and Conflict in American Politics. In addition, applicants with expertise in the field of nationalism studies will be at a considerable advantage. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a contribution to the development of SGIA’s teaching and curriculum. The successful candidate will have […]

The Trump Revolution (Institute of Historical Research, London)

Senate House, University College London Malet Street, London , United Kingdom

The Trump Revolution: A Passing Fad or Permanent Change in U.S. Presidential Politics Date: 30 Jun 2017, 15:00 to 30 Jun 2017, 17:00 Venue: IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Description Speaker: Professor Bruce Newman (DePaul University) Since Donald Trump won the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, there have been 2 opposing views on what it represents. His supporters have argued that he has broadened the base of the Republican Party to include a wide cross-section of voters who are fed up with Washington insiders and sought a fresh approach to running the country. His detractors believe that his victory is one-time occurrence that is the result of dirty politics that struck a populist cord at a vulnerable point in time for the Democrats with American voters. Both views will be analysed from a political marketing perspective as the campaign unfolded at key junctures […]

CFP: American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact On U.S. Policy and Culture

Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2017 Full name/name of organization: Jody Baumgartner, editor Contact email: ABCCLIOSATIRE@GMAIL.COM Seeking contributors for ABC-CLIO’s two-volume forthcoming encyclopedia, “American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact on U.S. Policy and Culture.” This two volume set, due out in the fall of 2019, will have a total of approximately 110 profiles, 2,000 words in length, of important individuals or media outlets (specific magazines, television shows, websites, and specific vehicles of political humor). These will be divided into 12 chronological chapters. In exchange for agreeing to contribute, all authors will have complimentary e-book access to the set and an ABC-CLIO gift card worth $100 as a token of appreciation. The complete list of the topics to be covered in the encyclopedia can be found at http://satire.jodyb.net (entries that are already “claimed” are in strike-out, italicized text). If you are interested, send an email to ABCCLIOSATIRE@GMAIL.COM listing […]

The American New Wave: A Retrospective (Bangor University, North Wales)

The American New Wave: A Retrospective This conference will consider The American New Wave’s cultural, political and aesthetic legacies fifty years since its birth. It will seek to look afresh at the films produced during its short lifespan and assess their continued significance. It will explore the films these directors produced in the years after 1980 to consider how far the values and ideals of the earlier period persisted or whether they were subsumed by the cultural conservatism that has dominated mainstream cinema since then. It will also investigate those filmmakers we might consider to have picked up the baton from their predecessors and pursued challenging material in more recent times. The conference will be held from 4th-6th July 2017 at Bangor University in North Wales. It is planned to publish the proceedings. A series of complementary screenings will be held at our new Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre Confirmed […]

The American New Wave: A Retrospective (Bangor University)

Registration still open until June 27! The American New Wave: A Retrospective Bangor University 4-6 July 2017 Sponsored by the British Association for American Studies and US Embassy Keynote speakers Professor Robert Kolker (University of Maryland) Professor I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University) Professor Linda Ruth Williams (University of Southampton) Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia) Please register by visiting http://americannewwave.bangor.ac.uk/register/php.en, complete the form and visit the online shop to make your choices. A draft programme for the conference is available here: http://americannewwave.bangor.ac.uk/programme.php.en. You can reserve accommodation in the university’s halls of residence here: http://americannewwave.bangor.ac.uk/accommodation.php.en Other options are available, such as the university’s Management Centre (https://www.bangor.ac.uk/management_centre/), or hotels and guesthouses in the local area (www.visitwales.com). There are still places available at the conference buffet meal on July 4, so book this as soon as you can through the online shop. Registration is £150.00 for full-time faculty, and £75.00 for postgraduates and colleagues on part-time contracts. […]

English: Shared Futures (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

English: Shared Futures, 5-7 July 2017, Newcastle-upon-Tyne http://www.englishsharedfutures.uk What is English: Shared Futures? ‘English: Shared Futures’ (E:SF) is a the first time that all the branches of English – literature, language and creative writing – have come together to talk about and celebrate their subject, and to explore its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world. Writers, critics, academics, teachers, and linguists will unite in a festival event, part celebration, part conversation, part cultural fringe. E:SF is being held in Newcastle and will show-case the excellent literary culture of the region, its writers, and  publishers (e.g. Bloodaxe). We’ll also be joining in with the 50th anniversary commemorations of Newcastle University’s awarding Dr Martin Luther King an honorary degree in 1967. Content Alongside over 150 panels, readings, and workshops, we have: Talks on literary biography from Hermione Lee, Kathryn Hughes, Andrew Hadfield; Deborah Cameron on 'Language and […]

Job: Two Research Associates in Native American Studies (University of East Anglia and University of Kent)

TWO RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSTS: TWO, THREE-YEAR POSTS (post-docs) in INDIGENOUS STUDIES,  ONE AT UNIVERSITY OF KENT, AND ONE AT UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA The TWO Research Associates will contribute to the AHRC funded research project, Beyond the Spectacle: Native North American Presence in Britain, starting September 1st, 2017 and ending August 31st, 2020. Working as part of a team of four, one will be based at Kent, under the supervision of Dr. David Stirrup (PI) and the other will be based at UEA, under the supervision of Prof. Jacqueline Fear-Segal (Co-I),. Applicants wishing to be considered for both posts should submit applications to both institutions. Applicants for both posts will hold a PhD in Indigenous Studies (or equivalent), have familiarity with archival research, as well as experience of conference presentations. This project will explore, assess, and realign British understanding of Native North American Indigenous peoples in the twenty-first century, by examining complex […]

Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference 2017 (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)

Border Crossings: Translation, Migration, & Gender in the Americas, the Transatlantic, & the Transpacific Society for the Study of American Women Writers & Université Bordeaux Montaigne Dates: 5th – 8th July 2017 Venue: Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France Conference director: Stéphanie Durrans Conference website: https://ssaww2017.sciencesconf.org/  To maintain a continuity with our previous conference (in Philadelphia, November 2015) on liminality and hybrid lives, we would like this first SSAWW conference in Europe to address the significance of “border crossing” in the lives and works of American women writers. Such experiences have always been important to American women. Early diaries and travel notes left by 17th– and 18th-century women provide us with valuable records of and about their migratory experience to the New World and their lives and experiences in America. Besides offering more records of such experiences, the 19th century also witnessed an explosion in travel writing, fiction, and poetry treating with travel, as […]