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Terra Foundation Fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

These one-year residential fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Washington, DC, support full-time independent and dissertation research by scholars from abroad researching historical American art (circa 1550–1980) or by US scholars, particularly those investigating international contexts for American art. These awards are administered by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. For more information about deadlines, eligibility, application procedures, and funding, please visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum website: http://www.americanart.si.edu/research/opportunity/fellows/terra/

CFP: Historical Fiction in the United States Since 2000 (University of Nottingham)

HISTORICAL FICTION IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 2000: CONTEMPORARY LITERARY RESPONSES TO THE PAST Call for papers: One-day symposium on 21st-century American historical fiction Date of conference: Saturday 18 March 2017 Location: University of Nottingham, UK Call for papers deadline: 1 December 2016 Historical fiction in English constitutes its own enduring tradition but in recent years, it has enjoyed a surge of critical acclaim and commercial popularity, as such scholars as Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons have argued. This one-day symposium at the University of Nottingham will explore how recent writers in the United States have engaged with the form. In what sense are American writers reinterpreting the past to produce what Elodie Rousselot has termed “neo-historical fiction”? Which periods are they examining? And why do US writers favor particular historical eras and episodes over others? Potential topics for papers (lasting no longer than 20 minutes) might include, but are […]

Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World (University of Montpellier)

Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World University of Montpellier, France, 1-2 December, 2016 Keynote Speakers Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) Christine Chivallon (Research Director, CNRS) In Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (2001),  Ron Eyerman explores the formation of African American identity through the cultural trauma of slavery. While trauma directly affected individuals who experienced slavery, Eyerman argues that, as a cultural process, trauma is "mediated through various forms of representation and linked to the reformation of collective identity and the reworking of collective memory". This international conference seeks to examine the foundation, the mechanisms and the scope of these memorial processes. It endeavors to explore a reality of slavery that rests on human memory, on a (re)constructed memory of individual, collective or family trajectories and migrations transmitted from generation to generation. The Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World conference sets out to interrogate how descendants reconstruct the history of their ancestors […]