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Job: Curator, North American Published Collections (British Library)

New Job Posting: Curator North American Published Collections, The British Library For full details visit: http://bit.ly/BL_curator The British Library holds one of the largest and most important collections from North America in the world, from the colonial period to the present day. As a core member of the Americas and Australasian team, you will help to build these collections through acquisition and donation and seek to make this intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment. You will help to manage the post-1850 American collections and approval plans for contemporary acquisitions from the USA and Canada, and will assist those using the collections across all periods. You will work closely with the Eccles Centre for American Studies, and encourage use of our USA and Canadian collections on site and online You will have experience of relevant work in a research library or similar institution and, ideally, a library and […]

CFP: ‘Violence Interpreted’ (European Journal of American Culture)

Violence interpreted: Connections between the Violent Past of the United States and Conflict Today. Violent confrontations and racial discrimination have influenced the United States on multiple levels. At the beginning of the twentieth century the country confronted a wave of violent unrests that molded American society and prepared the ground for massive changes in political, social and financial realms. After a century, the country seems to still be affected by racial discrimination and police violence; the current global upheavals and the political rhetoric for the 2016 presidential election intensify the polarisation within American society. Scholarly interpretation of violence will lead to a better understanding of both past and present of conflict in the United States. We seek submissions for a forthcoming special issue of the European Journal of American Culture focusing on interpretations of violence in American society and the examination of possible historic recurrences. We are particularly interested in […]

The American Presidential Election of 2016 (so far): Sore Losers and Glass Ceilings (UCL Institute of the Americas)

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

Professor Andrew Rudalevige (Bowdoin College) - Eminent US political scientist gives an assessment of the US presidential election to date, explains why Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won their respective party’s nominations, and evaluates their prospect for the presidential election.  He also offers thoughts on the current state of American politics and the challenges facing the 45th president when he/she takes office.  This is bound to be a fascinating talk and anyone with an interest in US politics is welcome to attend. Attendance is free of charge but registration is required. IMPORTANT NOTE on access to 51 Gordon Square: in order to secure the smooth delivery of the lectures or presentations, and for ease of logistics, access may be restricted after the start of the event. We will endeavour to accommodate late arrivals within our possibilities, but an early arrival is recommended to avoid disappointment. Further information available here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/us-election-glass-ceiling  

Fulbright Lecture: ‘Jaw Jaw is Better than War War’ (British Library)

British Library Conference Centre 96 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom

Fulbright Lecture: Jaw Jaw is Better than War War When Thursday 8 September, 18.30-20.00 Where The British Library Conference Centre Price £10/£8/£7 http://www.bl.uk/events/jaw-jaw-is-better-than-war-war Former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell will be in conversation with Gabrielle Rifkind. Jonathan Powell, founder and director of Inter/Mediate an organisation dedicated to conflict resolution around the world, discusses whether an army of mediators would be better than an airforce of bombers. Powell was the British Government’s chief negotiator on Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007 and played a key part in leading the peace negotiations to a successful conclusion over that decade, from the triumph of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 though the nine year battle to get its implementation agreed and a lasting settlement in place. Before working for Tony Blair, Jonathan was a British diplomat from 1979 to 1994, specialising in negotiations. His new book Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflict was […]

CFP: 8th International Conference on American Studies (Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia)

 Organized by: ATSU Foreign Affairs and Development Office, Prof. Vakhtang  Amaglobeli Center for American Studies & John Dos Passos Association of Georgia.  Supporters: US Embassy in Georgia & Akaki Tsereteli State University We invite a variety of contributions that address any of the following topics: U.S. Literature U.S. Education System U.S. Culture Art Philosophy Mass Media Social and Women’s Issues U.S. History U.S. Politics Religion Law Economics Healthcare Ecology Georgian-American Relations Working Languages: Georgian and English  Style guides for papers: Conference proceedings will be published as a journal. Manuscripts should not ordinarily exceed fifteen standard pages (A4) including the abstract and the contributor’s short bio. All papers must conform to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition in all matters of form and should be typewritten in MS Word 2003. Use Times New Roman: 12 pts fonts for the main text and all additional parts except endnotes and index (where you […]

CFP: BAAS Panel at ‘English: Shared Futures’ (Newcastle)

CFP: Writing Shared Futures: African American Literature and Racialisation BAAS Panel at 'English: Shared Futures,' 5-7 July 2017, Newcastle, UK Contributions are invited for a BAAS panel at 'English: Shared Futures,' a large-scale conference spanning across the discipline. The panel 'Writing Shared Futures: African American Literature and Racialisation' will explore the significances of, and engagements with, racialisation in post-Civil Rights writing by African Americans. It will seek to ask how understandings of racialisation are connected with understandings of the future, and to examine the ways in which literary texts have questioned categories and binaries of race and have complicated views of the processes by which racial identity comes into being. Such processes might be made visible in contexts such as: migration and immigration multi-ethnic coalitions intersectional politics future worlds internationalism coming of age narratives popular culture/music/sport contemporary politics, especially the Obama years new technologies and social media Possible writers include […]

Radical Americas Symposium 2016 (UCL)

UCL Institute of the Americas Gower Street, London, United Kingdom

The theme of this year’s Radical Americas symposium is ‘Decolonizing Americas’, acknowledging the long arc of struggle for freedom since the period of European colonization of the Western Hemisphere in the 15th century. Our collaborative effort will be to consider how histories within the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean converge and depart in relation to the experience of anti-colonial and decolonizing social movements, many of which continue today. We will also consider the ways that cultural efforts, collectives, art, and intellectual projects shape radical imaginaries of freedom. Draft programme and further information available here: http://www.community-languages.org.uk/radical-americas/index.html

CFP: Thoreau from Across the Pond (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

International Symposium October 19-20, 2017 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon (France)  Thoreau from across the pond   Organized by Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon) François Specq (ENS de Lyon) and Laura Dassow Walls (University of Notre Dame) Guest speakers (confirmed): -        Professor Branka Arsić (Columbia University) -        Professor William Rossi (University of Oregon)   In honor of Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday in 2017, this conference would like to interrogate the multiplicity of viewpoints from which he is read today. In recent years, Thoreau’s writings have been approached from a variety of perspectives: he has been envisioned as a poet and a philosopher, but also as a political thinker, a scientist of sorts, a surveyor, a lover of nature and an environmentalist. While these different perspectives complement each other to a certain extent, they also reveal how multifaceted his writings are, and how elusive his figure remains. Something resists in his texts, […]

US Embassy (London)/BAAS Small Grants Programme

The British Association for American Studies (BAAS), with the support of the United States Embassy, London, is delighted to announce a new Small Grants Programme for cultural, educational and outreach activities that will foster American Studies and otherwise enhance the understanding of the United States in the United Kingdom. Grants may be requested for a range of activities, including (but not limited to): Curriculum development, including schools activities; Student exchanges; US and UK Speaker programs; Film and arts programming; Conferences and symposia; Faculty development and exchange; Public dissemination of academic research. Applications for activities that introduce new audiences to American studies and / or have a focus on children, young people, and disadvantaged communities are welcome. Applicants need to show how they intend to actively promote an understanding of the United States and how they will engage with American studies communities and the wider public. Deadlines for the US Embassy […]

College Art Association and Terra Foundation for American Art Publication Grants

The College Art Association and Terra Foundation for American Art Announce Opening of 2017 Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant The College Art Association (CAA) and Terra Foundation for American Art invite applications for the 2017 Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant. The grant provides financial support for the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts on the history of American art from circa 1500 to 1980 in the current-day geographic United States. The deadline for applications is September 15, 2016. “Now in its sixth year, this international grant program helps to ensure that the field of American art history includes a wide range of culturally and geographically diverse voices,” stated Terra Foundation Publication Program Director Francesca Rose. “For example, Angela Harutyunyan’s Armenian translation of Erika Doss’s book Twentieth-Century American Art increases awareness of the historical art of the United States by making important scholarship available to a broader audience […]

American Studies After the Digital Turn (Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, NL)

Roosevelt Study Center Abdij 8 , Middleburg, Netherlands

The Netherlands American Studies Association The RSC hosts the NASA conference in September 15-16 2016, which will look at the practical, theoretical, and polemical aspects of doing research digitally. How do Americanists use digital sources in their work? How do they combine the reading of texts with  digital tools? What new results did digital research deliver? Which unintended consequences can digitization have for the discipline? How do Americanists view the possibilities of the digital in education? Further details available here: https://roosevelt.nl/activities/conference-digital-trends-american-studies

CFP: ‘US Elections in Historical Perspective’ (UCL)

‘US Elections in Historical Perspective’ Symposium 8th November 2016, The Institute of Americas, UCL No one needs reminding that the 2016 election has been a race like no other. Two historically unpopular candidates are claiming democracy is under threat. Ideological coalitions are breaking apart and the spectre of re-alignment hangs over the party system. To make some sense of it all, we’re organising a half-day symposium on ‘US Elections in Historical Perspective’ at the Institute of Americas on Election Day itself - Tuesday November 8th. We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers on American elections from any period of the nation’s history. Although we’re keen to look at elections in historical perspective, we do not require speakers to explicitly link back to the 2016 race. Given the nature of the event and the limited time frame, presentations can be fairly informal. In addition to the presentation of papers, there will be […]