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Fictions of Management (John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin)

John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany

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 […]

Job: Lecturer in US Politics and International Relations, Fixed Term (University of Lancaster)

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 (University of York)

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/

Job: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English (Nottingham Trent University)

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 […]

Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories (COMPACT) Postgraduate Training School

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 […]

CFP: The American New Wave: A Retrospective (Bangor University, North Wales)

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 […]

CFP: Imperial Cultures of the United States (University of Warwick)

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 […]

Call for Applications: Study of the US Institutes for Scholars

The US-UK Fulbright Commission in association with the British Association of American Studies are calling for applicants for the 2017 Study of the US Institutes for Scholars. Six Institutes funded by the US Department of State's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs will run in June 2017 at various universities across the US. Study of the US Institutes are six-week fully-funded intensive academic programmes with integrated study tours whose purpose is to provide foreign university faculty and other scholars the opportunity to deepen their understanding of US society, culture, and institutions. The ultimate goal is to strengthen curricula and to improve the quality of teaching about the US in academic institutions abroad. Institute themes for 2017 are: Institute on American Politics and Political Thought Institute on Contemporary American Literature Institute on Journalism and Media Institute on Religious Pluralism in the US Institute on US Culture and Society Institute on US Foreign […]

Eccles Centre Fellowship Awards (British Library)

The 2017 Eccles Centre Fellowship Competition is now open! Eccles Centre Postgraduate Awards in North American Studies 2017 Five awards to be made to doctoral students normally resident in the UK, outside the M25, whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The Eccles Centre Postgraduate Fellows will be entitled to an award of £600 for travel and other expenses connected with the research visit to London. Eccles Centre European Postgraduate Awards in North American Studies 2017 Two awards to be made to a doctoral student normally resident outside the UK, in a European country that has membership in the European Association for American Studies, whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The Eccles Centre European Postgraduate Fellow will be entitled to an award of £800 for travel and other expenses connected […]

BAAS Postgraduate Short-Term Travel Awards

The resources available are normally modest. It is envisaged that grants will be supplemented by funds from other sources. The maximum of each grant will be £1000. Although there is no specific time limit for the duration of the awards, and it is recognised that awards under the scheme may need to be supplemented, it is not intended that they should be used to supplement or extend much longer-term awards. The duration of the award would typically be up to c. twelve weeks. Applications are invited from persons normally resident in the UK, and from scholars currently working at, or registered as postgraduates at, UK universities and institutions of higher education. Preference will be given to those who are planning to do reserach in the USA, have had no previous opportunities for research-related visits to the USA, and to young scholars, including postgraduate students. BAAS particularly welcomes applications from postgraduates […]

BAAS Founders Awards

Named after the founders of BAAS, these awards offer assistance for short-term visits to the United States. The awards are offered to scholars in the UK who need to travel to conduct research, or who have been invited to read papers at conferences on American Studies topics.  It is intended that the grants be awarded for the study of subjects where the principle aim is the study of American history, politics, society, literature, art, culture, etc., and not subjects with other aims, the data for which happen to be located in the USA. Up to four awards of £1000 are available. Although there is no specific time limit for the duration of the awards, and it is recognised that awards under the scheme may need to be supplemented, it is not intended that they should be used to supplement or extend much longer-term awards. The duration of the award would typically […]

CFP: ‘Black Love: A Symposium’ (University of Kansas)

Black Love: A Symposium The 80th Anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God September 14-16, 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS On September 18, 1937, Zora Neale Hurston’s seminal novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was published. It initially received tepid praise, at best, along with needlessly harsh criticism from fellow fiction writer Richard Wright for its supposed counterrevolutionary minstrel image. Ushering in a new era of protest literature, Wright objected to Hurston’s publication of a love story at the height of Jim Crow oppression during the Depression. Yet Hurston’s work, with themes of sensuality, self-discovery, spirituality, and voicedness inspired by the writer’s own bittersweet love affair, has endured in African American literary history. Black women writers and scholars, such as Alice Walker and Sherley Anne Williams, began to reclaim Hurston as a pivotal writer in the African American literary tradition in the 1970s. By 1980, Hurston’s significance was […]