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Funding: Monticello College Foundation for Women at the Newberry Library (Chicago)

Long-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars who wish conduct research at the Newberry; applicants for long-term opportunities must hold a PhD by the application deadline, which is November 15. Long-Term Fellowships are intended to support individual scholarly research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Newberry’s scholarly activities, including fellows’ seminars and the weekly colloquium. Stipends for Long-Term Fellowships are $4,200 per month. The Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women is designed for a postdoctoral woman at an early stage (pre-tenure) of her academic career, whose work gives clear promise of scholarly productivity and who would benefit significantly from research, writing, and participation in the intellectual life of the Newberry. The applicant’s topic must be related to the Newberry’s collection. Preference will be given to proposals particularly concerned with the study of women. Applicants must request at least four and no more than six months of […]

CFP: 2017 Federal History Conference (Washington D.C.)

"A Return to the Archives” The Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) will hold its annual meeting on April 13, 2017, at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Building in Washington D.C. Throughout its 37-year history, SHFG has enjoyed a unique & fruitful relationship with the National Archives. As one of the nation’s primary stewards of its records, NARA’s holdings are indispensable to federal historians and public history professionals across the nation. In turn, SHFG members have used NARA’s resources for official work duties and personal projects. Thus, the Society’s annual meeting will highlight the interplay among archivists, historical researchers, and public history professionals that enables a greater understanding of our collective past. The program committee invites participants to broadly interpret the conference theme, “A Return to the Archives.” Topics might include: the impact of technology and archival resources on the sharing of public history; the challenges […]

CFP: Jimmy Carter and the ‘Year of the Evangelicals’ Reconsidered (New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Saint Anselm College)

CFP  Jimmy Carter and the ‘Year of the Evangelicals’ Reconsidered April 6-8, 2017 New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Saint Anselm College Manchester, New Hampshire In 1976 Newsweek magazine borrowed a phrase from pollster George Gallup and proclaimed that year the “Year of the Evangelicals.”  Both presidential candidates – Republican Gerald Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter – claimed to be “born again” Christians, a claim made by one third of all Americans; and significant proportions of Protestants and Catholics told Gallup’s pollsters that the Bible should be taken literally, a marker of conservative evangelical Christianity.  This phenomenon caught journalists by surprise, and they struggled to understand this new segment of the electorate, beginning at the top with the candidacy of Jimmy Carter. The election of 1976 brought evangelicals back into the political arena. While many of these people supported Carter’s candidacy and made the difference in his election, the ways in […]

UCL US Studies Event: The 2016 Presidential Election: a Post-mortem

UCL Darwin B40 Lecture Theatre Gower Street (entrance is via Malet Place), London, United Kingdom

15 November 2016, 1:15pm-2:00pm, UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre, Malet Place THE 2016 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: A POST-MORTEM Nick Witham will provide an accessible overview of the controversial 2016 US presidential election campaign as a part of the UCL Lunch Hour Lectures series. More information.

Cambridge American History Seminar: ‘Between Neighborhoods’

Cambridge American History Seminar For further details, pre-circulated papers and other seminars see the CAHS webpage. Thursday 17 November (Room TBC): Seth Fein, Historian and Filmmaker, Seven Local Film Film Screening: Between Neighborhoods Seth Fein’s new film is a history of Queens (New York City) as a transnational hub for people and commerce from the 1964 New York World’s Fair until today.

UCL US Studies Event: The 2016 Presidential Election: A Roundtable

UCL-Institute of the Americas 51 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

17 November 2016, 5:30pm-7:00pm THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: A ROUNDTABLE Clodagh Harrington (De Montfort), Tom Packer (Oxford) and Timothy Stanley (The Telegraph) will discuss the results of the 2016 elections with Iwan Morgan. More information.

Cambridge American History Seminar: ‘Throwing Away the Gods’

Cambridge American History Seminar For further details, pre-circulated papers and other seminars see the CAHS webpage. 21 November: Seth Archer, Mellon Fellow in American History, University of Cambridge Throwing Away the Gods: Hawai‘i, 1818-1825 Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper

UCL US Studies Event: Film Screening and Discussion – Between Neighborhoods

25 November 2016, 5:30pm-7:30pm, Chadwick Building, B05 Lecture Theatre BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS: FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION Filmmaker Seth Fein will screen and discuss his new film, Between Neighborhoods, a history of Queens (New York City) as a transnational hub for people and commerce from the 1964 New York World’s Fair until today. More information.

‘My Dream or Yours: Make America _____ Again’ (University College Cork)

My Dream or Yours: Make America ___ Again? University College Cork 26th November, 2016 The Irish Association for American Studies draws together scholars and researchers, new and experienced, on the island of Ireland, to bring fresh perspectives to the field of American Studies. The 2016 IAAS Postgraduate Symposium, “My Dream or Yours: Make America ___ Again?” encourages scholars to question cultural, political and social perspectives of the United States, historically, today, and tomorrow. The concept of American identity is one which has been continuously interrogated since the first colonies were established, and remains a pressing question in all facets of American life today. “My Dream or Yours: Make America ___ Again” is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium that seeks to provide an opportunity for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Scholars to share their ideas and add their individual voices to this melting pot of academic exploration. Contact postgrad@iaas.ie for more information.

CFP: ‘Cold War Geographies’ (Eccles Centre, British Library)

The Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library, London Monday 16 January 2017 Cold War Geographies Keynote Speaker: Professor Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway The British Library’s next major exhibition will focus on ‘Maps and the Twentieth Century.’ The Cold War had a seismic impact on global geographies during the second half of the twentieth century. Not only did it physically impact lands from the barren Nevada desert to the jungles of South East Asia, but the ideological conflict of the Cold War also had a significant impact on national borders, global cities and imagined geographies. The legacy of the Cold war on global geographies has had a profound effect upon the way in which nations now think about their place in the world and their relationships with each other. From an American point of view, this has had a particular influence on how the U.S. is […]

Cambridge American History Seminar: ‘Peculiar Institutions’

Cambridge American History Seminar For further details, pre-circulated papers and other seminars see the CAHS webpage. 28 November: Loïc Wacquant, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, and 2016-17 Pitt Professor, University of Cambridge Peculiar Institutions: Four Centuries of Race-Making in the United States Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper

CFP: Entertainment – Journal of Media and Movie Studies, Vol. 2: Conspiracy Theories in Film, Literature and Social Media

15 years after 9/11 there are many conspiracy theories related to the events that have been discussed in films, literature and social media. However, this is not the only conspiracy theory of such long endurance. Many more, like the Jewish world conspiracy, the survival of Nazi Germany on the dark side of the moon, Area 51, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and many more have led to a large production of films, literature and social media (blogs or vlogs). For the second volume of Entertainment we are interested in papers that analyze these conspiracy theories and in how far they are created, stimulated or re-defined by these media. Articles should range between 5000 and 8000 words and use footnotes (following the latest Chicago Manual of Style). For detailed information on the journal and the submission procedure, check: http://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/entertainment/about The deadline for an initial proposal (250 words and a short CV) […]