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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: 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 […]

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 […]