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PhD Scholarships in American and Canadian Studies (University of Nottingham)

PhD Scholarships in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for UK/EU students The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C DTP) is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. M3C is awarding up to 87 PhD Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2017 entry. M3C provides research candidates with expert supervision (including opportunities for cross-institutional supervision), research training and access to a wide range of facilities, cohort events and placement opportunities with regional, national and international partners in the creative and cultural sectors. The Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham is inviting applications from students whose research interests include: •             African-American Literature, History and Culture •             American Art and Visual Culture •             American Intellectual History •             American Labor History •             American Music […]

CFP: Hardboiled History: A Noir Lens on America’s Past (University of Warwick)

Call for Papers: HARDBOILED HISTORY: A NOIR LENS ON AMERICA’S PAST University of Warwick, 19th May 2017 Confirmed Speaker: Warren Pleece, comic artist and graphic novelist (more to be announced) Abstracts are invited for a one-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Warwick, supported by the Department of History and the Humanities Research Centre. Hardboiled History seeks to bring together scholars interested in the ways contemporary media represents and reinterprets history, by exploring how and why “noir” resurfaces in depictions of America’s past across a variety of mediums. Since the 1940s, when critics began to recognise Hollywood was producing a new “cycle” of films distinct in their visual style and cynical worldview, a wealth of scholarship has explored film noir as a genre (or “mood”, “phenomenon”), its ties to hardboiled literature, the industrial conditions that fostered it, and the tropes it codified. With their inherent darkness and existentialist explorations, the […]

CFP: British Group in Early American History Postgraduate & Early Career Conference (IHR)

Call for Papers. 2017 British Group in Early American History Postgraduate & Early Career Conference The above event will take place on Friday March 31st 2017 at the London-based Institute of Historical Research, the UK’s national centre for history. London, with its unique colonial archival resources and lively research student populati­­on, is one of the leading centres of early American scholarship in Europe, and the IHR is a natural location for this event. The IHR Library’s North American Room houses one of the foremost UK collections of published material relating to the early history of the United States, Caribbean, and Canada. We welcome proposals that embrace the broad field of North American history, including the Caribbean, from the seventeenth century through to, but not including, the American Civil War. Proposals for panels and papers of many types are sought: from traditional panels to roundtables to “state-of-the-field” or teaching panels. We will accept individual […]

Obama’s Urban Policy: A First Appraisal (Cambridge American History Seminar)

Sidney Sussex College Sidney Street, Cambridge

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. 16 January: Thomas Sugrue, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, and History, New York University Obama’s Urban Policy: A First Appraisal  Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper

CFP: Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference (Ulster University, Belfast)

Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference 28-29 April 2017 Belfast Campus, Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Call for Papers In 2013, Timothy Garton Ash wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian which stated that: ‘The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world’s view of America.’ Garton Ash was writing about the US budget crisis but three years on, as the new Administration-Elect readies itself to take over the White House, the  IAAS wonders if the America the world thought it knew ever really existed. This year’s conference will challenge us to re-discover and re-engage with America – explore the changing political and cultural landscape, uncover previously unheard voices, challenge conventional wisdom, and examine the role of the academic in a post-factual world. This conference represents a unique opportunity to reorient American Studies, both in Ireland and beyond. With this in mind, […]

Job: Associate Professorship or Professorship of North American Women’s History (University of Oxford)

University of Oxford – History Faculty Location: Oxford Salary: £45,562 to £61,179 per annum (plus allowances) (Grade E0S) Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 20th December 2016 Closes: 19th January 2017 Job Ref: 126793 George Street Oxford We are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) in North American Women’s History from 1 October 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment will be made in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Corpus Christi College. The combined salary will be in the range £45,562 – £61,179 p.a. plus additional benefits as detailed in the job description; additional salary of £2,626 p.a. will apply if the title of Professor is awarded. The appointee will also be eligible for a housing allowance (£12,144), tutorial book allowance (£742), research allowance (£2,024), hospitality authority (£415) and junior member entertainment allowance. Applications from candidates with research and teaching expertise in North […]

BAAS Postgraduate Essay Prize

The prize is offered annually by the British Association for American Studies. It is awarded for the best essay-length piece of work on an American Studies topic written by a student currently registered for a postgraduate degree at a university or equivalent institution in Britain. The value of the prize will normally be £500. The 2017 Awards competition is now open. The closing date for applications is 20 January 2017. The essay should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words in length, and should be accompanied by a letter from an institutional representative, tutor or supervisor, as attestation that the candidate is registered for a postgraduate degree course, or has been accepted for a course. Membership of BAAS is mandatory in order to be eligible to receive the prize. Applicants will need to supply their membership number, which can be found by logging into the BAAS website and navigating to Member-BAAS Community-Profile. Care should […]

Adam Matthew Digital Essay Prize

Adam Matthew Digital essay prize – DEADLINE 20th January 2017 BAAS is pleased to announce the second Adam Matthew Digital essay prize consisting of £500 plus one-year’s access to one Adam Matthew Digital archival collection chosen by the author. This prize, which began in 2015, will be awarded to the best essay submitted on any subject that relates to the Adam Matthew North American collections. Adam Matthew has published unique, award-winning primary source collections from archives around the world since 1990. This award is eligible to postgraduates, early career researchers, and independent researchers, although the latter two groups will be prioritised on the grounds that this unique prize offers access to resources they may not otherwise have. Candidates should submit their essays by 20th January 2017 by e-mail to: awards@baas.ac.uk The essay should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words in length and relate to a topic covered by any one of Adam Matthew’s North […]

CFP: New Perspectives in English and American Studies (Jagiellonian University)

The April Conference, to be held April 20-22 2017, is a triennial international conference organized by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Poland since 1978. It presents a valuable opportunity to bring together scholars working in various fields of English and American Studies. Speakers are kindly invited to submit papers on a variety of topics. Our usual General Sessions on British and American Literature, General and Applied Linguistics, Translation and Cultural Studies, Teaching of English as a Foreign Language will be accompanied by a selection of Thematic Sessions as follows: 1. James Joyce 2. Medievalism in Literature 3. New Perspectives on the American South 4. Variation, Variety, Variable – Facets of English in the Contemporary World 5. Stylistics of Multimodality /Intermedial Texts and Discourses (Artistic and Applied) 6. Teaching English in Academia 7. Stance and Evaluation in Discourse 8. Digital Humanities 9. Audiovisual Translation 10. The Contemporary Historical Novel Plenary lectures […]

The Rise and Fall of the Fact (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  Friday 20 January (ROOM TBA), 4:00pm: Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard University and staff writer for The New Yorker The Rise and Fall of the Fact

Society and Social Movements (University of Cambridge)

Girton College are delighted to invite you to a conference to celebrate the work of Betty Wood and Alastair Reid will take place in the Stanley Library.   The conference is entitled 'Society and Social Movements', and will have sessions on labour history, slavery, the colonial American South, gender history. It will be the College occasion to congratulate Betty and Alastair on their retirement.   To RSVP please email, Dr Simone Maghenzani ( sm955@cam.ac.uk), by Sunday 15 January 2017.   Programme of events 10.00 am Welcome Dr Simone Maghenzani The Mistress of Girton College, Prof. Susan J. Smith   For Betty Wood HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL AMERICAN SOUTH Chair: Dr Nick Guyatt (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) Speaker: Prof. Tim Lockley (Warwick) Discussant: Dr Ben Marsh (Kent)   HISTORY OF GENDER AND SLAVERY Chair: Dr John Thompson (St Catharine’s College, Cambridge) Speaker: Dr Inge Dornan (Brunel) Discussant: Dr Sarah Pearsall (Robinson College, […]

Hidden in Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves in Jamaica (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. 23 January: Simon Newman, Professor of History, University of Glasgow Hidden in Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves in Jamaica Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper