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BAAS Conference Attendance Hardship Fund

BAAS Conference Attendance Hardship Fund BAAS is pleased to announce a Hardship Fund has been made available to support attendance at the BAAS Annual Conference in April 2017. Up to 5 awards of up to £300 each will be made and applications are invited from any postgraduate students and early career researchers who are members of BAAS. For the purpose of this fund, an early career researcher is defined as someone: Within 5 years of award of PhD* Working on sessional contracts OR a full-time contract of 12 months or less. * An applicant who completed their PhD more than 5 years ago may be considered if personal circumstances have prevented them from devoting themselves full-time to teaching and research activities e.g. long periods of ill health / paternity or maternity leave / caring duties. This will need to be outlined in the application. Applicants will be asked to declare: […]

‘I Fear I Have No Papers of Historical Interest’: Women’s History and Feminist Archives Since the New Deal (Cambridge American History Seminar)

The Lent term schedule for the Cambridge American History Seminar and American History events, including details of which seminars have pre-circulated papers,  is now available here: http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars/american-history-seminar  All seminars are held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. 20 February: Kate Dossett, Senior Lecturer in US History, University of Leeds “I Fear I Have No Papers of Historical Interest”: Women’s History and Feminist Archives Since the New Deal

UCL American Studies Seminar: ‘ Trump’s Triumph and Early Days: a Historian’s Perspective’ (UCL)

Trump's Triumph and Early Days: a Historian's Perspective Feb 21, 2017 6:00 PM - Venue: UCL Malet Place Engineering Building Room 1.02, 2 Malet Place, London WC1E Dr Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University Chicago) Was Donald Trump’s win over Democrat Hillary Clinton really that surprising or unprecedented? It may seem so, given the gaffs, one-liners, and memorable moments, but her loss and his victory were really decades in the making. More about this event. Register to attend this free event

Job: Lecturer in North American Literature (University of Birmingham)

The University of Birmingham wishes to appoint a Lecturer in North American Literature with effect from 1st September 2017. We seek an early career academic with a completed and successfully examined PhD, evidence of teaching experience, and a developing record of outstanding research that will complement and enhance existing Department strengths.  Expertise might include Canadian literature and culture; border studies and hemispheric American Studies; approaches to North American Literature that engage cultural geography; Native American and/or First Nations literature and culture. The successful candidate will be expected to create and disseminate knowledge through initiating and conducting original research, through publication and through developing and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In addition the post holder will contribute to the department and school by undertaking academic administration as appropriate to the appointment. For further information please contact Dr Deborah Longworth, Head of the Department of English Literature, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham […]

Job: Professor of American Studies, Political Culture and Political Theory (University of Groningen)

The Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen invites applications for the position of Full Professor of American Studies: Political Culture and Political Theory to strengthen the growing department. Job description The position involves: teaching – primarily – American Political Culture and Political Theory for the American Studies bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes, and possibly for other relevant bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes coordinating and conducting research in the field of American Political Culture and Political Theory raising external funds for research supervising PhD students performing administrative and organizational duties further cultivating and developing national and international contacts to benefit teaching and research. Qualifications The successful candidate will be an internationally recognized expert in the field of American Political Culture and Political Theory and will have an outstanding knowledge of current national and international debates on and research in the field. The chosen candidate is expected to encourage and […]

CFP: Annual BrANCH Conference (University of Warwick)

24th Annual BrANCH Conference University of Warwick, 6-8 October 2017 Call For Papers Peter Parish Memorial Lecture: Emily West (University of Reading), “Reflections on the History and Historians of the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves” Saturday Night Keynote: Jeff Forret (Lamar University) The BrANCH committee is pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers on all aspects of U.S. history from the period 1789-1917. We particularly encourage panels that open new lines of communication between established thematic specialties as well as individual papers that cut across traditional categories of historical inquiry in imaginative and innovative ways. Postgraduate contributions are especially welcome. Subsidies for UK-based postgraduate participants will be offered on a first come first served basis. Please send a brief CV and a summary of the proposed paper or panel (no more than three speakers per panel and 300 words per paper, please) by Friday 24 February […]

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

Call For Papers: “Voices of Dissent”: Social Movements and Political Protest in Post-war America Conference Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford 2 June, 2017 On the evening of April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered a historic speech before a crowd of 3,000 people at Manhattan’s Riverside Church. In his speech, entitled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” King condemned the Vietnam War and American Cold War policy and characterized the U.S. government as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world”. Describing Vietnam a  “victim deadly Western arrogance”, King detailed the war’s devastating effects on both America’s and Vietnam’s poor, and declared that it was a moral imperative for opponents of the war to use “every creative method of protest possible” to halt the war through non-violent means. In 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Riverside Church speech, the Rothermere American Institute at the University […]

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

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.

CFP: Interrogating Commodity Cultures | Exploring Global Connections (UCD)

CALL FOR PAPERS Interrogating Commodity Cultures | Exploring Global Connections 5 May 2017 This one-day interdisciplinary workshop will interrogate the cultural transformations effected by global commodity histories in the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Colonial conquest, advancements in travel technologies and industrialisation all contributed to creating the material conditions which allowed for the production, consumption, and movement of commodities across the globe. In so doing, the global capitalist system and actors within it changed not only transnational relations, but also local cultures and practices. The increased mobility of commodities, peoples and things introduced new geographies of connection and provided new ways of imagining the contact zones of colonial encounters. This workshop will ask how the global circulation of commodities is mediated through forms such as novels, poetry, drama, advertising and art. It will explore how these literary and visual mediations of the global circulation of commodities have rewritten the map […]

Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution (Cambridge American History Seminar)

The Lent term schedule for the Cambridge American History Seminar and American History events, including details of which seminars have pre-circulated papers,  is now available here: http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars/american-history-seminar  All seminars are held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. 27 February: David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest University, and Visiting Professor, Terra Foundation for American Art, University of Oxford Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution

CFP: Postcolonial Studies Association Convention (University of London)

Postcolonial Studies Association Convention School of Advanced Study, Senate House,University of London 18–20 September 2017 We are pleased to announce that the 2017 PSA Convention will be held at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, from 18th to 20th September 2017. Paper and panel proposals are invited from academics, scholars and postgraduates with research interests in any area of postcolonial studies from any disciplinary, cross- or interdisciplinary perspective. Confirmed keynote speaker:  Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin) Other keynotes to be confirmed shortly The Special Topic of the 2017 Convention is Globalisation. Proposals for panels and papers on this theme are particularly encouraged (click here for CfP). While the transregional history of globalisation can be traced back to antiquity, its discursive entanglement with the temporal realm of the ‘postcolonial’ has been the subject of much discussion and analysis in recent times. The 2017 convention seeks to investigate the crucial role of postcolonial studies in furthering newer understandings of economic, […]