An event part of the UCL Institute of the Americas series Race and Racism in the Americas. **Event synopsis and registration details to be updated shortly** Dr Lorgia García Peña Mellon Associate Professor at Tufts University
BrANCA 5th Biennial Symposium: Opening Up Friday 13th - Saturday 14th May 2022 King's College London and onlineThe British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists is pleased to announce dates for its much-delayed biennial symposium on Friday May 13th and Saturday May 14th 2022, 1pm-6.30pm.This will be a hybrid event held online and at King’s College London to allow participation for those who may not wish to travel. By starting at 1pm London time we hope to allow for virtual attendance from colleagues around the world. It will cost £20 for full time faculty and is free for all others. In addition, some travel grants might be available for postgraduate students. For those who wish to attend in-person there will be a full Covid risk assessment in advance. The theme of the conference is “Opening Up”. We will likely not have seen many of our friends and colleagues for a sustained period […]
International conference Organised by SEARCH (UR 2325, Université de Strasbourg), MGNE (UR 1341, Université de Strasbourg), CHER (UR 4376, Université de Strasbourg), Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin With the support of the MISHA (Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme - Alsace) and the Institut Universitaire de France CALL FOR PAPERS "Uncertain landscapes": representations and practices of space in the age of the Anthropocene Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace Université de Strasbourg 20-21 October 2022 Keynote speakers: Mark Cheetham, Department of Art History, University of Toronto and Lina Prosa, playwright, Palermo “A working country is hardly ever a landscape. The very idea of landscape implies separation and observation” (Williams, 1973). In this well-known statement, Raymond Williams expresses the view, often reformulated by cultural geographers and philosophers since the 1980s, that the idea of landscape always supposes a distancing process, whether it is a dissociation between the observed […]
A pair of round-table discussions about the successes and failures of the Biden administration so far, and prospects for the midterm elections in November. Organised jointly with the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. This event is taking place in person and will also be live-streamed as a Zoom webinar. To attend in person, please book a place in advance on Eventbrite. To watch the live stream, please register here for the morning session (10.30am to 12pm) and here for the afternoon session (1pm to 2.30pm).
Conference dates: 22-25 June, 2022* Location: University of Edinburgh Plenary Speaker: Professor Melani McAlister (George Washington University ) Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to invite paper and panel proposals for our 2022 annual conference. Following the success of our first online conference in 2021, we are developing a hybrid format for 2022, with a range of both in-person and online events. We hope that this will accommodate those who want to meet in person in the beautiful city of Edinburgh, while also ensuring accessible offerings for all who wish to join us digitally. We will, of course, be keeping a close eye on government advice, and can pivot to an online-only event if necessary. Please consider your availability and preferences if submitting a paper or panel (see below for more information on submissions and the format of the conference). Call for Papers We welcome panels […]
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) annual one-day conference, co-organised with the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library builds upon this year’s Institute of Historical Research seminar series theme of Black Women of the political, financial, social, and intellectual elite. The annual conference will further expand on this theme to include Black Women’s activism at every level, from the grassroots to the elite circles, at any point in the history of the Americas. Papers, panels, and roundtables will engage with the activism, cultural outputs, social and intellectual networks, and life experiences of Black Women activists. Panels will focus on: Angela Davis (and Claudia Jones). Black Women’s Voices. Institutional Activism. A Roundtable on ‘Representations of Black Women: Modern and Historical Depictions’. The conference will also engage with the British Library’s exhibition on Breaking the News and the day will include a private Show and Tell […]
Pandemics, Public Health, and Statecraft in Twentieth-Century U.S. History July 4-5, 2022, Institute of the Americas, University College London Keynote Speakers: Professor Gary Gerstle, University of Cambridge Professor Beatrix Hoffman, Northern Illinois University The literature on modern American pandemics is vast and continues to unfold in new directions, as scholars of medicine pay closer attention to the cultural politics of public health and the complex links between capitalism, racism, and infectious diseases. Yet, coverage of epidemics among historians of U.S. statecraft remains far from even. The historiography of the twentieth-century American state says comparatively little about even world-historic outbreaks like the 1918 Influenza pandemic, probably because of an ingrained assumption that epidemics are peripheral, episodic events that do not influence state formation. This conference aims to repair this neglect by setting forth why the history of infectious disease deserves to figure more prominently in accounts of the twentieth-century state. […]
The TSA is heading to the University of Kent at Canterbury for its annual conference in 2022. This will be the 20th anniversary conference for the TSA, as well as its first in-person meeting in three years, and they are planning a particularly special conference. They are delighted to be holding the conference in Canterbury, a city steeped in history and culture, and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the UK. CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS Professor Jussi Hanhimäki (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) “Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era” AND Dr Sarah Meer (University of Cambridge) “American Claimants: Transatlantic Tales of Humility and Grandeur” AND Professor Mark Webber (University of Birmingham) “NATO in a Tripolar World: Does the New Strategic Concept Deliver?” PLUS A Roundtable discussion on: The End of an Era? The Transatlantic Alliance in International Politics from 9/11 to Covid-19 Featuring Philip […]
In recent years, the gap between the poorest and the wealthiest in society has increased exponentially and exacerbated the stark inequalities that have long existed in American society. This has been further impacted by the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has also raised a number of questions surrounding the treatment of those that were/are in poverty by the government, employers, educators, and society. Amidst these transformative changes in the United States, gross inequalities only grew. This conference will highlight the intersections between poverty and other facets of 20th century US history, such as; work and work relations, government support and programs, racialisation, the healthcare system and socioeconomic inequalities. Throughout the 20th Century, state initiatives attempted on various levels to reduce the socioeconomic inequality that existed throughout the US, for instance the growth of government programs that either aimed to tackle the gross unemployment levels or the changes that […]
Call posted by Dr Emily Brady, Emma Hall, Keisha Bruce, and Katharina Donn As part of the BAAS outreach research project “Bridging the Resource Gap”, we are looking to commission a small number of educators and researchers to each create a 5-10 minute video lecture on underexplored topics in A-Level curriculums for the following subjects: English Literature, History, Politics, Media, and Film Studies. The selected educators will each be paid an honorarium of £100. Project Aims: Bridging the Resource Gap aims to expand awareness of the discipline of American Studies to students in further education, by bringing resources created by American Studies scholars to the classroom. These mini lectures will supplement teaching materials on the existing curriculum, and show students the range of research areas that American Studies covers. Who We are Looking For: Educators will be required to script, deliver, and assist in the production of a video lecture […]
The 2022 ASANOR conference will be held at Nord University from September 29 to October 1. We welcome papers from a wide range of fields, including literature, history, political science, linguistics, and cultural studies, that explore the role of the sea in the American experience. From the Puritan pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock to the digital nomads stopping over in San Francisco, the multifarious interchange across the seas has, for better or worse, shaped the nation; whether through the unspeakable horrors of the Middle Passage or the grateful arrival of huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the ceaseless, multidirectional traffic of people, ideas, values, expressions, aesthetics, and wares has defined and ceaselessly redefined what we think of as American. This process is sometimes slow and gradual, sometimes precipitate and radical, but whether through generations of involvement with economic and cultural energies or a lightening extension to the imaginative landscape, the […]
The 2022 ASANOR conference will be held at Nord University from September 29 to October 1. We welcome papers from a wide range of fields, including literature, history, political science, linguistics, and cultural studies, that explore the role of the sea in the American experience. From the Puritan pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock to the digital nomads stopping over in San Francisco, the multifarious interchange across the seas has, for better or worse, shaped the nation; whether through the unspeakable horrors of the Middle Passage or the grateful arrival of huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the ceaseless, multidirectional traffic of people, ideas, values, expressions, aesthetics, and wares has defined and ceaselessly redefined what we think of as American. This process is sometimes slow and gradual, sometimes precipitate and radical, but whether through generations of involvement with economic and cultural energies or a lightening extension to the imaginative landscape, the […]