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PHD STUDENTSHIP: American Political Pamphlets, 1920-1945 (University of Sussex and the British Library)

Collaborative Doctoral Project Studentship Sussex University and the British Library: American Political Pamphlets 1920-1945 (2017) The project: This project will draw on the British Library's extensive holdings of American political pamphlets to study and contextualise the writing, printing, distribution and dissemination of political pamphlets produced in the years preceding and during the Second World War. The Library's collection of American pamphlets from the interwar period contains publications by different anti-fascist, anti-capitalist and pacifist societies. These include the Socialist Party of America, the Young People's Socialist League, the American League Against War and Fascism, the Jewish People's Committee, the War Resisters League, the World Peace Foundation, as well as anti-imperialist societies such as the United Aid for Peoples of African Descent, among many others. The researcher will also benefit from access to the extensive collection of US political pamphlets at the Marx Memorial Library, a partner of the project. Further details at: […]

CFP: Studying the South: Approaches and Orientations (University of Hertfordshire)

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 […]

CFP: The Apollonian, Special Issue on Troubled Identity and the Continuing Relevance of Cultural Studies

The Apollonian Vol. 4, Issue 3 (September 2017) Special Issue on Troubled Identity and the Continuing Relevance of Cultural Studies Deadline: 1 June 2017 Guest edited by Jonathan Wright and Susan Flynn (London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London) Our increased attention with new forms of citizenship, changing social landscapes and emergent sets of social relations suggest that Cultural Studies and its analyses of cultural products must rapidly evolve in order to stay relevant.  Our visions of the future seem to be replete with fears of new social realities; new media technologies call us to question privacy, location, marginality, the ability to relate meaningfully with others, and the unequal distribution of material wealth. Are Cultural Studies equipped to deal with the theorization of these new realities? Popular culture would have us believe that traditional identity categories are undergoing profound changes; gendered norms are called into question, the structure of the conventional […]

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

“Voices of Dissent”: Social Movements and Political Protest in Post-war America: Registration Open Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford 2 June, 2017 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Michael S. Foley (Université Grenoble Alpes), author of Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s  Dr Simon Hall (University of Leeds), author of American Patriotism, American Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties To register, please e-mail your name, institutional affiliation, and any dietary or other special requirements to the conference organiser at daniel.rowe@history.ox.ac.uk. There is a nominal registration fee of £15 per delegate, which includes lunch, refreshments throughout the event and a conference dinner on Friday evening. This fee is payable via PayPal (to the account 'daniel.rowe@history.ox.ac.uk') or by cheque. Please send cheques, payable to the 'Rothermere American Institute', to the following address: Daniel Rowe c/o Rothermere American Institute 1a South Parks Road Oxford OXON OX1 3UB The deadline to […]

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

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.

Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) Annual Conference

Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) Annual Conference Programme 6th July 2017 The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford 8.45-9.00: Registration 9.00-9.15: Coffee and Tea and welcoming remarks 9.15-10.45: Panel 1. Alexi Garrett (University of Virginia) “Gender, Slavery, and Capitalism: Feme Sole Masters of Early National Virginia.” Mara Keire (University of Oxford), “Coax Me”: Sexual Coercion and Commercial Recreation in New York, 1900-1920’ Michael Hammond (University of Southampton), ‘Forbidden Zones: Sex, Death and Slang in the War Nurse Production Cycle of the 1930s’ 10.45-11.15- Coffee and Tea 11.15-12.15: Panel 2. William Mouelle Makolle (Paris-Sorbonne University), “Soon you will reach the goal of glorious beauty”: Advertising light skin and early black American feminism Elizabeth Smith (Liverpool Hope University), ‘Loud Voices from the Margins: Alice Childress (1916-1994)’ 12.15-13.00: Lunch 13:00-14:00 Panel 3. Laura MacDonald (University of Portsmouth), “I'll be an opera star yet”: Olive Moorefield's […]

CFP: Social Cohesion in Times of Uncertainty (Cumberland Lodge)

CFP: Social Cohesion in Times of Uncertainty, 24-25 September 2017 The annual Cumberland Colloquium stimulates discussion on areas of pressing social and ethical importance. This year’s theme is ‘Social Cohesion in Times of Uncertainty’. We live in an increasingly uncertain world. In recent years we have seen a chain of overlapping and intersecting crises – from the financial crisis to the refugee crisis, the ecological crisis and the crisis of liberal democracy. These crises pull us unevenly in every direction: pressing strangers together and pulling neighbours apart, creating new forms of hate and new forms of kinship. In these uncertain times, what are the prospects for social cohesion? How do we make sense of these issues from diverse disciplinary positions and professional backgrounds, and where are the commonalities between our understandings? We welcome proposals for presentations of research papers, roundtable discussions, film screenings and other events, from both academics (of all disciplinary backgrounds) and practitioners interested in social cohesion, broadly conceived, from community volunteers to […]

Theorising the Popular Conference (Liverpool Hope University)

Theorising the Popular Conference 2017 Liverpool Hope University, June 21st-22nd 2017   The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its seventh annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2017 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with and within ‘traditional’ subjects. One of its chief goals will be to generate debate that challenges academic hierarchies and cuts across disciplinary barriers. The conference invites submissions from a broad range of disciplines, and is particularly interested in new ways of researching ‘popular’ forms of communication and culture. In addition to papers from established and early career academics, we encourage proposals from postgraduate taught and research students. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Film and Television Media and Communication Politics and Populism Literature (Fiction and Non-Fiction) […]

Job: Lecturer in American Literature, Fixed Term (University of Kent)

The School of English wishes to appoint a Lecturer in American Literature for one year and are seeking a colleague with experience in teaching at University level and someone who will contribute to the School’s undergraduate curriculum in American Literature by teaching seminar groups, offering lectures, and acting as a module convener for our Stage 1 core “Writing America”. The successful candidate will also be encouraged to take on some lecturing in the Centre for American Studies (CAS). This is a vibrant, collegiate department, and we look forward to appointing someone interested in collaborative teaching and thinking and working across and between disciplines. To succeed in this role you will have: A completed PhD or equivalent in a relevant subject area. Experience of successful teaching of relevant literature modules at all undergraduate degree levels. Demonstrable expertise in American Literature 1800 – 2000. Research/teaching interests in one or more of the […]

Job: Teaching Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture, Fixed-Term (Kings College London)

The salary will be paid at Grade 6, £32,958- £39,324 per annum, plus £2,623 per annum London Allowance. This post will be fixed-term for 12 months King’s College London with its 200 years of heritage is recognised today as a world-leading research university, ranked 7th in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. We understand the need to turn original thinking into everyday application, encouraging curiosity to develop work that makes an impact on society and global issues. Great names from King’s are continuing to change the world. The Department wishes to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Twentieth-Century American Literature & Culture for a period of twelve months. The appointment will run from 1 September 2017. The successful candidate will have a strong teaching record to complement our current strengths and will be expected to contribute to our undergraduate modules: American Popular Culture, Introduction to American Studies (and convene), Twentieth-Century American Fiction, […]

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 […]