1 December 2016, 5:30pm-7:00pm BOOK LAUNCH FOR REAGAN: AMERICAN ICON Iwan Morgan will introduce and discuss his new biography of Ronald Reagan, published by IB Tauris in 2016.
'Borders vs. Bridges: (Trans)nationalism in the Americas since 1968' 3rd Annual Conference, 11-12 May 2017 For a long time, transnational trends have inspired social, political, economic and cultural transformations across the globe. In the Americas, and particularly since 1968, there have been numerous examples of bridge-building across borders. From Human Rights and transitional justice processes to solidarity movements and the international trade agreements of more recent times, building bridges between nations has been seen as a means of progress across the Americas. Today, developments across the region seem to signal a 'centrifugal' tendency towards isolationism and nationalism. Propelled by complex social phenomena such as migration, human displacement, economic instability and political upheaval, many are turning to the erection of barriers - real and imagined - as a means to cope with uncertainty. In the US, discourses based on nationalism are on the rise. Meanwhile, in Latin Americas, the slowdown of […]
Applications are invited for the BAAS Graduate Assistantship in American History at the University of New Hampshire, starting in August 2017 for two years. Candidates will normally be final-year undergraduates in American Studies and related fields and disciplines at a British university, but applications will also be accepted from recent graduates. Teaching Assistants receive a stipend, paid September-May. The stipend for M.A. students is approximately $14,800. Teaching Assistants do not pay tuition. They are responsible, however, for paying for two items: 1) Student fees (for Health Services, the Student Union, etc.), which are approximately $850 for full-time students; 2) Health insurance, which International students are normally required to purchase and which costs approximately $1000. Full details are at http://www.unh.edu/business-services/tuitgrad.html Full details are available at http://www.baas.ac.uk/the-new-hampshire-ta/ Applicants will be received by a BAAS panel, which will draw up a shortlist for an interview in early January. BAAS is committed to promoting best […]
Applications are invited for the BAAS Graduate Assistantship in American Studies at the University of Wyoming, starting in August 2017 for two years. Candidates will normally be final-year undergraduates in American Studies and related fields and disciplines at a British university, but applications will also be accepted from recent graduates. A BAAS Graduate Assistantship is awarded for two years of graduate study, assuming satisfactory progress toward the MA degree and adequate performance of GA duties. During the two years the GA could expect to assist in the teaching of two courses (leading discussions, marking essay exams, etc.), conduct research in support of a faculty member’s project, and participate in grant-supported activities that would lead outside the university. The GA could demand between 15-18 hours of work per week. The Assistantship provides an income sufficient to cover living expenses, plus remission of tuition fees while the recipient of the award pursues […]
The UCL Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA) is seeking to appoint an exceptional scholar to take up the position of Teaching Fellow in African American Civil Rights. UCL-IA is a leading multidisciplinary specialist institution for the study of Latin America, the United States, the Caribbean and Canada. The post is available for 3 months approximately. The postholder will be required to carry out teaching, research facilitation, knowledge transfer and module administration within the Institute relating to the history of the African American Freedom Struggle and to teach on an undergraduate survey course on the making of the modern United States since 1920. Teaching will take place on Thursday and Fridays. Key Requirements The preferred candidate will have a PhD in US History with a focus on the African American freedom struggle. He/she will also have experience of teaching the African American freedom struggle and the ability to do so covering the period from Emancipation to the present, as well […]
Fictions of Management John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, December 8-10, 2016 The theory and practice of modern business management arose in the late nineteenth century in the United States as a response to unstable markets, labor unrest, and organizational challenges in the new massive industrial corporations of the Gilded Age. As a system of efficiency and control, management soon became a generalized principle for dealing with everything from health, housework, and educational reform to imperial expansion, mass immigration, and related processes of racialization and naturalization. Taking a long view, management could also be regarded as integral to American society and culture from the beginning: from Puritan self-rationalization to the quantified self, from the management of slave plantations to technologies of social control, from the first national census in 1790 to the big data revolution, from the human relations movement to happiness engineers in the workplace today. Particularly […]
The Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University seeks to appoint a Lecturer 7/8 in US Politics and International Relations. You are expected to have completed your PhD in an appropriate area, be research active and have excellent teaching abilities at both UG and PG levels and possess the relevant administrative skills. Candidates whose teaching and research is interdisciplinary are particularly encouraged. In terms of teaching, you would be expected to contribute to departmental teaching in the area of US, Politics and International Relations and to develop new modules and possible joint degree schemes in their specialist area. You should base your application on the relevant job description and person specification. This is a fixed term post for 3 years. Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of Department, Dr Patrick Bishop, p.bishop@lancaster.ac.uk Apply at: https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A1704
CFP: Freedom After Neoliberalism 9-10 June 2017, University of York, UK The conference invites proposals for 20 minute papers on the topics of freedom and neoliberalism. We seek specifically to explore the concept of freedom beyond its limited economic function in neoliberal theory, and to consider perspectives on a future beyond neoliberalism and perhaps beyond capitalism. We are interested in papers that engage with neoliberalism and freedom from a variety of disciplinary, theoretical, or thematic perspectives. Submit to: freedomafterneoliberalism@gmail.com Deadline for submissions: 16 December 2016 More information and full CFP: https://freedomafterneoliberalism.wordpress.com/2017-conference/
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English Job Reference : 03519 Location : Clifton Campus Closing Date : 18/12/2016 Salary : Grade H/I (£32,004 - £46,924 p.a.) Department : College of Art Architecture Design and Humanities School/Section : School of Arts & Humanities Post Ref : M1092 Please note that this is a part time position and therefore the salary is pro rata The School of Arts and Humanities delivers inspiring and supportive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and learning; provides doctoral supervision; collaborates and engages with local, national and international industries, professions and communities; and undertakes high quality research. The School of Arts and Humanities seeks to appoint a 0.5 Permanent Lecturer in English from 1 February 2017. Applications are sought from candidates specializing in the following: 19C and 20C American literature, postcolonial literatures, 20C and 21C English literature with a broad knowledge and understanding of the major subject areas within English Studies. You will be able to demonstrate experience […]
The COST Action “Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories” (COMPACT) invites applications for a week-long Training School, “Conspiracy Theory – History and Culture,” which will be hosted by the University of Tübingen from July 31 to August 4, 2017. The Actions, which currently has over 120 members from 36 countries and over a dozen disciplines, aims at synthesizing and moving forward European research on conspiracy theories. One of its goals is therefore to train the next generation of researchers. For this purpose, the Action will organize two Training Schools. The one in Tübingen is geared at scholars employing qualitative methods (history, ethnology, cultural studies, literary studies etc.); it will be followed by one focusing on quantitative methods (psychology, political science etc.) in 2018. Applicants do not need to be or be affiliated with Action members. Every M.A. or Ph.D. student from a COST country can apply. Successful applicants will receive a […]
The American New Wave: A Retrospective An International Conference to be held at Bangor University, North Wales 4 th -6 th July 2017. In 1967, amidst the dying embers of the old studio system, two films were released that extinguished them apparently for good. Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate suggested the nascent promise of an American New Wave, as directors were emboldened by the collapse of the Production Code; inspired by the stylistic flourishes and narrative seriousness of their European counterparts; carried along by the youthful revolutionary fervour embodied by the optimism of the Civil Rights Movement and protests against the Vietnam War, and granted a creative freedom unheard of in Hollywood as producers and executives floundered desperately for the next big hit after a series of costly flops. Arguably, The American New Wave lasted only thirteen years, flaming out in spectacular fashion with the financial disaster of Michael […]
Imperial Cultures of the United States University of Warwick, 5 May 2017 It has been nearly 25 years since the publication of Donald Pease and Amy Kaplan’s seminal collection of essays, Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke, 1993), a volume which built on and expanded in new directions a field of foreign policy and imperial studies initiated largely by William Appleman Williams and the Wisconsin School in the 1950s and 60s. Since then, of course, ‘US imperialism’ has become a familiar (if still deeply contested) concept for historians, political analysts, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of other cultural forms. Meanwhile, U.S. foreign policy itself has moved in decisive new directions: the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, interventions in Libya and Pakistan, the changing relationship with Cuba and Iran, and so on. This one-day symposium seeks to revisit and reassess the continuing currency of ‘U.S. Imperialism’ as a concept and its place […]