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American Colors: Across the Disciplinary Spectrum (University of Southern Denmark)

American Colors: Across the Disciplinary Spectrum (University of Southern Denmark) Color defines America. First of all color defines America through ideas of slavery, race, and civil rights. W.E.B. Du Bois’ claim that ‘The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line’ is certainly hard to deny in an American context. Yet American Colors are far from all about race. The respective colors of the Democratic and the Republican Party, since 1976 partitioning the country into demographics of blue and red, are significant reminders of the power of American Colors to divide and contrast. On the other hand, American Colors are not necessarily divisive, even if they stay distinct. Whether it is in the color of the rainbow, as seen on the pride flag of the LGBT community, or in the idea of ethnic and racial diversity, the notion of colors mixed as well as existing in diverse […]

Purple Reign: An interdisciplinary conference on the life and legacy of Prince (University of Salford)

“Purple Reign: An interdisciplinary conference on the life and legacy of Prince” A two-day international conference hosted by The School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK and the Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University, USA 24th- – 26th May 2017 Media City UK, University of Salford, UK. Convenors: Dr Mike Alleyne, Dept of Recording Industry, College of Media & Entertainment, Middle Tennessee State University Dr Kirsty Fairclough, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK Tim France, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK A two-day international conference on the life and legacy of Prince. This conference aims to provide fresh perspectives on the creative and commercial dimensions of Prince’s career, re-examining the meanings of his work in the context of his unexpected death. This conference seeks to address the issue of Prince’s significant influence and lasting appeal from a number of multi-disciplinary perspectives.  We welcome […]

Border Control: On the Edges of American Art (Tate Liverpool)

Border Control: On the Edges of American Art Thursday 25 and Friday 26 May 2017 Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 4BB, UK Convened by Julia Tatiana Bailey (Tate) and Alex J. Taylor (University of Pittsburgh) Supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art Reserve your place now for this major international conference. Led by Tate Research, the two-day event brings together historians of art and visual culture, to share new scholarship exploring the crossed boundaries and expanded limits of art from the United States. Border Control: On the Edges of American Art is presented as the culmination of the three-year Tate Research project Refiguring American Art and coincides with a related display at Tate Liverpool. As space is limited, attendees must RSVP to julia.bailey@tate.org.uk by 5 May 2017. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Remembering Annie Hall: A One Day Conference (University of Sheffield)

Remembering Annie Hall: A One Day Conference University of Sheffield 31st May 2017 Confirmed plenary speaker: Professor Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary, University of London) Since its release on 27th April 1977, Annie Hall has established itself as a key film for Woody Allen’s career and the history of romantic comedy more generally. At the 1978 Academy Awards, it won Oscars for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress. In addition to its central place in Allen’s oeuvre (film critic Roger Ebert called it “just about everyone’s favorite Woody Allen movie”), it is regularly cited as one of the greatest film comedies. In 2015 it was voted the funniest screenplay ever by the Writers Guild of America. To mark the fortieth anniversary of the film’s release, the University of Sheffield is hosting a one-day conference to consider the importance of Annie Hall and its cultural influence. We are particularly interested in conversations […]

CFP: Special Issue of Comparative American Studies – American Networks: Radicals Under the Radar (1868-1968)

Call for Papers for a special issue of Comparative American Studies: American Networks: Radicals Under the Radar (1868-1968) Networks are the life-blood of many collaborative artistic and political movements. The aim of this special issue is to explore the confluence of American art and radicalism transnationally in the hundred-year lead up to 1968, a high-point in radical artistic and political expression. In focusing on the precursors to this watershed, its editors seek essays that investigate American networks and challenge conventional scholarship about the makeup, shape and associations of such artistic and political collaboration. Affiliations between American artists and radical thinkers have led to paradigm shifts that have changed world history. Communists, Wobblies, revolutionaries, socialists, Fabianists, Pan-Africanists, Pan-Americanists, revolutionaries, anarchists, political exiles and Garveyites all played their role in shaping American literature, art and politics. Whether such networks existed in tangible social enclaves—homes, bars, cafés, offices and neighbourhoods—or virtually in an […]

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 […]