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BAAS PGR and ECR Public Engagement and Impact Award

BAAS welcomes proposals from Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers in any field of American studies for its new Public Engagement and Impact Award. Recognizing the diversity of public engagement and impact projects by its Postgraduate and Early Career members, this award seeks to encourage and enhance good practice. One award of up to £750 will be made available to a project the purpose of which is to either i) disseminate new research to non-academic audience or ii) work collaboratively with an external organization. Please note that the award is not primarily intended to defray routine research costs such as archive trips or attendance at academic conferences. Awards may be used to cover the costs of meetings including organizing workshops or conferences designed to bring together project partners and to showcase the project. This award is open to all Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers who are BAAS members at the time […]

CFP: Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference (University College Cork)

Transatlantic Studies Association 16th Annual Conference University College Cork, Ireland 10-12 July 2017 Call for Papers Established in 2002, the TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in political, economic, cultural, historical, environmental, literary, and IR/security studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome. This conference thus welcomes papers in the following areas: 1. History 2. International Relations and Security Studies 3. Literature, Film and Culture 4. Planning and the Environment 5. Economics 6. Proposals that investigate the ‘transatlantic’ and explore it through frames of reference such as ideology, empire, race, religion, migration, political mobilisation, or social movements 7. Proposals that incorporate perspectives that involve north-south and south-south transatlantic connections, as well as north-north Both panel proposals and individual papers are welcome. Panel proposals are encouraged to include a discussant. New members […]

CFP: HOTCUS Annual Conference (University College Dublin)

HOTCUS Annual Conference: Call for Papers University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 16-18th June 2017 Plenary Speaker: Professor Penny Von Eschen (Cornell University) Papers from members or non-members are requested on all topics concerning the history of the United States from 1890 to the present. Individual or panel proposals are welcome (panels should have no more than three presenters in total). Topics for papers or panels might include: Political and policy history Race and racism Gender and sexuality Citizenship and immigration Capitalism and economics Religion Domesticity and the home Conservatism and liberalism Environmental history Urban history Border history Native American history Cultural and intellectual history International and transnational history “State of the field” debates Please send a brief CV and a summary of the proposed paper or panel of no more than 300 words per paper by 4 February 2017 to the HOTCUS Events Secretary, Nicholas Grant: Nicholas Grant (n.grant@uea.ac.uk)

Premature Independence: College Violence in Virginia, 1750-1826 (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. 6 February: Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair, University of Virginia and 2016-17 Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor, University of Oxford Premature Independence: College Violence in Virginia, 1750-1826  

Public Lecture: Why the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) Backfires (And How to Fix It) (University of Cambridge)

You are kindly invited to attend a public lecture by Professor Alan Kuperman, University of Texas, USA Why the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) Backfires (And How to Fix It) Thursday, 9 February 2017 4.00pm Alison Richard Building, Room S1 POLIS Department, University of Cambridge ABSTRACT: The moral hazard of humanitarian intervention, a controversial hypothesis when originally proposed nearly 20 years ago, is now a well-documented phenomenon in multiple conflicts spanning several decades and continents.  The prospect of intervention may spark or prolong rebellion and thereby increase the risk of brutal counter-insurgency that harms civilians.  Sadly, many scholars and activists still deny this reality, fearing that by acknowledging it they might undermine public support for their cherished humanitarian norms.  This is ironic, because nothing could undermine these norms more than failing to reform their implementation to reduce such tragic unintended consequences. This lecture is part of a public lecture series on […]

The Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture: Sir Keir Starmer MP, on Human Rights (UCL)

The Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture: Sir Keir Starmer MP, on Human Rights Start: Feb 09, 2017 06:00 PM Location: UCL Main Quad Pavillion, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT The UCL Institute of the Americas is pleased to announce that its 2017 annual Eleanor Roosevelt lecture will be delivered by Sir Keir Starmer MP. Keir Starmer's maiden parliamentary speech after his election in 2015 referenced Eleanor Roosevelt's inspiration to modern advocates of human rights. This was in recognition of her role as chair and driving force of the United Nations Human Rights Commission that created the 1948 charter of liberties, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Keir Starmer will discuss the development of human rights under this charter and comment on the significance of Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy. Sir Keir Starmer, KCB, QC, has served since 2015 as Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras and is presently a member of Labour front-bench team as spokesperson on Brexit. He has been a […]

Call for Applications: Visiting Researcher Stipends at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum (University of Exeter)

Call for Applications for Visiting Researcher Stipends at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter http://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/ The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University Exeter, UK is both a public museum and a rich research resource for scholars of moving image history. The museum is named after the renowned filmmaker Bill Douglas and was founded on the extraordinary collection of material he put together with his friend Peter Jewell. In the twenty years since its opening, the museum has received donations from many sources and now has over 75,000 artefacts on the long history of the moving image from the seventeenth century to the present day. Thanks to the support of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Trust we are able to offer stipends to enable research using the collections at The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. We are inviting applications for two categories of award:  UK stipends are available […]

Arthur Miller Centre Prizes 2017

The Arthur Miller Centre Prizes 2017   The Arthur Miller Centre Prize for Best Journal Length Article The Arthur Miller Centre Prize of £500 is awarded for the best journal length article on any American Studies topic by a United Kingdom citizen based at home or abroad or by a non-UK citizen who publishes their essay in a United Kingdom journal, providing that the entrant is a member of the British Association of American Studies in the year of submission. Submissions, including the article and publications details, should be e-mailed to Emma Long at Emma.Long@uea.ac.uk or, if preferred, three hard copies should be mailed to the address below. The Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize The Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize of £500 is awarded for the best first book on any American Studies topic in the preceding calendar year by a United Kingdom citizen based at home or […]

CFP: Special Relationships: Poetry Across the Atlantic Since 2000 (Oxford University)

Deadline for submissions: February 12, 2017 Full name / name of organization: Rothemere American Institute, Oxford University Contact email: poetrysince2000@gmail.com Special Relationships: Poetry Across the Atlantic Since 2000 We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for Special Relationships: Poetry Across the Atlantic Since 2000, a one-day symposium exploring the interstices of poetics in the circum-Atlantic region since 2000, to be held at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford on May 19, 2017. The symposium aims to consider some of the ways in which poets’ ideas of relatedness in the region complicate the idea of straight lines of influence. In Claudia Rankine’s 2015 Citizen, for example, Rankine recounts an incident at the home of a British novelist shortly after the 2011 London Riots, sparked by the death of Mark Duggan at the hands of the Metropolitan Police. When asked if she will write about Duggan’s death, Rankine […]

More Than A Score: Interest Group Ratings and Polarized Politics (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. 13 February: Emily Charnock, Lecturer in History and Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies, University of Cambridge More Than A Score: Interest Group Ratings and Polarized Politics Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper

CFP: Migration, Diaspora, Circulation and Translation (University College Dublin)

Migration, Diaspora, Circulation and Translation  October 5-7, 2017 University College Dublin, Clinton Institute for American Studies Dublin, Ireland A conference sponsored by the Charles Brockden Brown Society (www.brockdenbrownsociety.ucf.edu) Our conference site in Dublin calls to mind issues of migration, immigration, emigration, colonization, revolution, and other changes that result from the movement of people, ideas, and things from one place to another. Such issues were significant in colonial and early national American writing and thought in the long eighteenth century. The current global migration crisis and the recent “Brexit” vote makes these topics timely for reappraisal: as millions of migrants and asylum seekers cross into Europe, the world confronts questions about borders, resources, community, poverty, wealth, understanding of cultural differences, and human rights. The Eleventh Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society invites papers on all aspects of diaspora, migration, circulation, and translation in the long eighteenth century. The following […]

CFP: Association Française d’Etudes Américaines (AFEA) / French Association for American Studies (University of Strasbourg)

Graduate Student Symposium 2017 – University of Strasbourg, June 6, 2017 Call for Presentations The French Association for American Studies invites doctoral students in American studies to take part in the Graduate Symposium (“Doctoriales”) specifically organized on their behalf during its annual conference. This year’s workshops will be held on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 (9am-5pm) at University of Strasbourg (France). The conference will take place on June 7 to 9, 2017. For further information, please check our website: http://www.afea.fr Since 2008, the AFEA has been encouraging the internationalization of its Graduate Student Symposium by offering grants (up to 500 euros each) for a maximum of ten European candidates (other than French) to help cover their travel expenses. All students are, in addition, invited to attend the whole conference free of registration charges. The symposium provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their research in a less formal session than […]