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Eccles Centre Summer Scholars Series: Progressive Era World’s Fairs/Black Activists in Britain

Free Entry, Conference Centre Chaucer Room, 12.30-2.00pm on stated dates The Eccles Centre Summer Scholars series runs through July and August.  The series highlights the work of the Eccles Visiting Fellows and Postgraduate Researchers have done during their residency in the British Library, bringing the latest research related to the North Americas collections to a public audience.   Representation and Participation in Progressive Era World's Fairs Emily Trafford explores the activities of Chinese and Chinese-American people at world’s fairs, examining the ways in which world’s fairs became key sites of battle over the representation of the Chinese in America.   “The Low Growl of the Lion:" Black Activists in Britain 1830-1895  Hannah-Rose Murray discusses the impact of Frederick Douglass and other black activists on British society and her creation of the world's first digitised map of their speaking locations in Britain.

Registration Deadline: The US and Us: American History in Britain in the Twenty-First Century Workshop (University of Leicester)

A Workshop for Early Career Researchers 15-16 September 2016   The United Kingdom has long been home to a number of world renowned historians of the United States. However, historians of the U.S. based in the United Kingdom face a number of distinct challenges. The aim of this workshop is to consider those challenges in detail, and specifically to develop the skills of early career historians of the U.S. in Britain. This event will bring together early-career researchers to consider the state of U.S. history in Britain and enable the participants to play a leading role in confronting the challenges of higher education in the twenty-first century. In addition to considering the state of the field, specific sessions will consider key challenges such as public engagement and impact, research projects and grants, publishing strategies and the future of publishing, and teaching strategies and resources. A small number of more established […]

Appalachian Conference (Cecil Sharp House, London)

Cecil Sharp House 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, United Kingdom

Saturday 16 July, 10:00am - 5:00pm Cecil Sharp House, London Pastoralism and modernity in the southern mountains: a centenary symposium on Cecil Sharp's 1916 Appalachian journey. 2016 marks the centenary of song collector and folklorist Cecil Sharp's Appalachian fieldtrip, an event that shaped both North American and European conceptions of the history and culture of the southern mountains of America. To celebrate, Cecil Sharp House is hosting a weekend of Appalachian music and a conference exploring the culture of the region. Friday 15th July, 7:30pm Sharp's Appalachian Harvest - Brian Peters Brian Peters opens the weekender with his show ‘Sharp's Appalachian Harvest’. It tells the epic story of the trips made by Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles into the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, portrayed in music, narrative and image by leading ballad singer, musician and researcher Brian Peters. Brian Peters sings some of the best of the ballads, reads fascinating excerpts […]

Eccles Centre Summer Scholars: The Lies of Summer

Free Entry, Conference Centre Chaucer Room, 12.30-2.00pm on stated dates The Eccles Centre Summer Scholars series runs through July and August.  The series highlights the work of the Eccles Visiting Fellows and Postgraduate Researchers have done during their residency in the British Library, bringing the latest research related to the North Americas collections to a public audience. Chris Birkett looks at the 1998 Lewinsky scandal that plunged America into cultural turmoil, and explores how the Home Run Race of the same year deployed baseball mythology to reaffirm beliefs in idealised American values of morality, masculinity and confession during a time of political and moral crisis.

Job: Departmental Lecturer in American History, Fixed Term (University of Oxford)

Oxford University is seeking a Departmental Lecturer in American History (1776 – 1914), tenable from 1 October 2016 for a fixed-term of 1 year. Applications are invited from scholars with active research and teaching interests in any area of American History of that period. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability and willingness to give tutorials, lectures, classes and supervision at both undergraduate and graduate level across a range of papers in American History. The Lecturer will also be required to undertake examining and administrative work, and will engage in advanced study and original research in American History. The successful candidate will hold a doctorate in a relevant field or show evidence that a doctorate is imminently expected. S/he will have a strong research record and a record of successful teaching within the field, the ability to teach and lecture at an appropriate level in an interesting and engaging manner […]

CFP: IJAS Special Issue on Marilynne Robinson

The editorial committee now invites submissions for inclusion in a Special Issue of the journal on the work of Marilynne Robinson. To be published in Spring 2017, this Special Issue will explore the literary, historical, political, and religious contexts of Robinson’s writing, both fiction and non-fiction. Considering her role as a cultural figure and public intellectual in American society, this issue welcomes proposals on all aspects of Robinson’s writing.   Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to the Editors atirishjournalofamericanstudies@gmail.com by 22 July 2016. Successful contributors will be notified by 5 August 2016. Completed drafts of essays will be expected by 1 December 2016.   All contributions will be subject to anonymous peer review. Submissions should follow the 8th edition of the MLA style guide. Writers are asked to maximise the use of parenthetical citations, include a Works Cited list, and footnotes/endnotes should be avoided where […]

Eccles Centre Summer Scholars: Cabin-Fever: deconstructing the log-cabin myth of Appalachia

Free Entry, Conference Centre Chaucer Room, 12.30-2.00pm on stated dates The Eccles Centre Summer Scholars series runs through July and August.  The series highlights the work of the Eccles Visiting Fellows and Postgraduate Researchers have done during their residency in the British Library, bringing the latest research related to the North Americas collections to a public audience. Kevan Manwaring explores the iconic ‘log-cabin’, synonymous with the pioneering spirit of North America. Tracing influences back to Scots-Irish and Scandinavian settlers, this illustrated talk will show log-cabins in a new light.

Job: Teaching Fellow in American Historical Cinema (University of Warwick)

Fixed Term Contract until 14 July 2017. The Department of History at the University of Warwick seeks to appoint a full-time Teaching Fellow in American Historical Cinema. You will convene, taking lectures and seminars, the second-year undergraduate module ‘American Historical Cinema’ and you will take seminars on the first-year undergraduate module ‘Making History’, for a total of nine seminar groups of approximately fourteen students per group. You will also teach occasional lectures for other undergraduate modules as required by the Head of Department and as appropriate to subject knowledge. You will undertake lecturing, seminar teaching, essay tutorials, office hours, marking of undergraduate work, exam invigilation, and monitoring of student attendance in accordance with the Department’s quality assurance practices. You will also act as personal tutor to an assigned group of undergraduate students, providing pastoral support and guidance during the academic year. You will be actively engaged in research in American […]

CFP: Intersections of Whiteness (Ruhr-University Bochum and TU Dortmund)

The protests against racial profiling and racist police brutality in the U.S. and Britain, Donald Trump's alarming comments about Muslims, the Confederate flag controversy in South Carolina, the all-white Academy Award nominations, the organization "Operation Black Vote" feeling compelled to urge people of color not to leave the political field to white people in the wake of the UK General Elections, the reactions of the European Union to the masses of refugees and many Europeans' xenophobic reactions to those seeking refuge: the specters of whiteness are still urgently haunting the western world. According to France Winddance Twine and Charles Gallagher, Critical Whiteness Studies is currently in its third stage, riding its third wave so to say, questioning "the tendency towards essentializing accounts of whiteness by locating race as one of many social relations that shape individual and group identity" (2011: 3). While the discipline has established itself as an anti-racist […]

Eccles Centre Summer Scholars Series: The Poetics of Reticence/The Modern Consuming Housewife

Centre for Conservation, Foyle Room British Library, United Kingdom

SUMMER SCHOLARS British Library, Free Entry, 12.30-2.00pm on stated dates The Eccles Centre Summer Scholars series runs through July and August.  The series highlights the work of the Eccles Visiting Fellows and Postgraduate Researchers who have done during their residency in the British Library, bringing the latest research related to the North Americas collections to a public audience.  The full schedule can be seen athttp://www.bl.uk/eccles/events.html#summerscholars   The Poetics of Reticence: Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries Eve Grubin discusses Emily Dickinson’s poems and their characteristic style against the backdrop of poetry written by other American women during Dickinson’s time. The Modern Consuming Housewife From feminine vice to essential feminine interest, Rachael Alexander explores changing attitudes to makeup and fashion as seen in, and encouraged by, the Ladies' Home Journal and Canadian Home Journal of the 1920s.

Job: Lecturer in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature (University of Exeter)

College of Humanities English The University of Exeter is a Russell Group University in the top one percent of institutions globally. In the last few years we have invested strategically to deliver more than £350 million worth of new facilities across our campuses with plans for significant investment in the future. The College wishes to recruit a Lecturer in Twentieth-Century/Contemporary Literature (Education and Scholarship). This full time post is available from 1st September 2016 to 30th June 2017. The post will involve teaching within the English department, both on general survey modules (such as The Novel and Beginnings) and on modules concerned specifically with recent North American literature (such as Empire of Liberty and Crossing the Water). Details of all our modules are available online. The successful applicant will possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist and core knowledge in the discipline, demonstrated by a PhD (or nearing completion) or equivalent in […]

CFP: Cultures of Conservatism in the United States and Western Europe between the 1970s and 1990s (German Historical Institute London)

Cultures of Conservatism in the United States and Western Europe between the 1970s and 1990s Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University, Washington D.C.), Martina Steber (University of Konstanz), Tobias Becker (German Historical Institute London)   In recent research the decades between the 1970s and the 1990s are interpreted as a time of revolutionary change triggered by economic crises, in which the parameters and conditions for our present times were set. Conservatism looms large in this quite influential narrative; after all, the Reagan and Thatcher governments in the United States and in Britain implemented economic and social policies that fundamentally changed the welfare state economies of the boom years. Conservatism is therefore often interpreted as neoliberalism in conservative guise, as the defining political ideology of finance capitalism. However, conservatism was a much more diverse phenomenon than these interpretations suggest. While economics and politics were certainly crucial in the fashioning of a […]