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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 […]

Eccles Centre Summer Scholars Series: America, Britain, and the “Islamic Bomb”

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 at http://www.bl.uk/eccles/events.html#summerscholars FRIDAY 5 AUGUST, Centre for Conservation, Foyle Room America, Britain, and the 'Islamic Bomb' Malcolm Craig explores the intersections between America, Britain, Pakistan's nuclear programme, and political Islam's rise in the 1970s. Was Pakistan building an 'Islamic bomb' or was it all just a media scare?

Job: Fixed Term Lecturer in History (University of Glasgow)

Job Purpose To undertake a high-quality teaching role in History, School of Humanities at undergraduate and postgraduate level. To provide replacement teaching cover in twentieth century American history and War Studies. To demonstrate variable expertise in order to teach both a course on 20th Century US History (such as one on the Vietnam War) and a PGT module on the American Way of War. Additionally, to contribute to the teaching in the Level 2A History Module which surveys the history of the United States. Main Duties and Responsibilities To contribute to the planning, organisation, delivery and examination of undergraduate and postgraduate American History and War Studies teaching activities within History Subject Area in accordance with established Subject Area programmes. To supervise individual student projects and dissertations and assist with difficulties e.g. learning support/problems. To contribute to the ongoing development and design of the curriculum, in a manner that supports a […]

Eccles Centre Summer Scholars Series: “What Irish Boys Can Do”/Dreaming of the Orient during the War on Germs

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 ‘What Irish Boys Can Do’ Catherine Bateson analyses more than two-dozen American Civil War songs held in the British Library’s U.S. archives, and explores how ballads sung the story of Irish involvement in the conflict. Dreaming of the Orient during the War on Germs Bianca Scoti discusses oriental rugs in middle class homes and discourses on domestic hygiene in American magazines and periodicals at the turn of the twentieth century.

CFP: The Global Pursuit of Equality: Women, Networks, and Networking 1800-2000 (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities)

Call for Papers The Global Pursuit of Equality: Women, Networks, and Networking 1800-2000 26-27th September 2016, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) Following the interdisciplinary graduate and early career researchers workshop held in May 2016 on the theme of ‘The global pursuit of equality: women, networks and networking 1800-2000’, the next event will be a two-day conference held on the same theme at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) from the 26-27th of September. This conference will bring together graduate and early career researchers alongside senior scholars to explore the ways in which women’s local, national and international networks helped to facilitate equality, drive political, economic, cultural and social change, and challenge overlapping systems of oppression over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During the conference, there will be two keynote lectures by economist and writer Devaki Jain and the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia […]

CFP: American Colors: Across the Disciplinary Spectrum (University of Southern Denmark)

Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies University of Southern Denmark, Odense, May 22-24, 2017 American Colors: Across the Disciplinary Spectrum Color defines America. First of all color defines America through ideas of slavery, race, and civil rights. W.E.B. Du Bois’ claim that ‘The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line’ is certainly hard to deny in an American context. Yet American Colors are far from all about race. The respective colors of the Democratic and the Republican Party, since 1976 partitioning the country into demographics of blue and red, are significant reminders of the power of American Colors to divide and contrast. On the other hand, American Colors are not necessarily divisive, even if they stay distinct. Whether it is in the color of the rainbow, as seen on the pride flag of the LGBT community, or in the idea of ethnic and racial […]

Job: Junior Research Fellowship in 20th Century British or American Fiction or Literary Journalism (Worcester College, University of Oxford)

Worcester College Oxford is pleased to announce a new fixed-term Research Fellowship arising from generous benefactions. The Steven Isenberg Junior Research Fellowship in 20th Century British or American Fiction or Literary Journalism is a 3-year position, commencing on 1 October 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Fellow will receive a stipend of £22,030 per annum with live-in accommodation to a value of £8,000 per annum if required. The main duty will be to pursue research in the specified field, leading to publication and other forms of dissemination. The person appointed will have the skills and experience to do so at an advanced level, as evidenced by a strong academic record of graduate research, experience in conference presentation and potential for high-level publication. Candidates should have completed a doctorate in the past three years or be submitting their thesis by 30 September 2016. Application deadline is 12 August 2016. www.worc.ox.ac.uk/jobs/kadas-senior-research-fellowship-geopolitics […]

Eccles Centre Summer Scholars Series: Selling Black History/About Trauma

Centre for Conservation, Foyle Room British Library, United Kingdom

Summer Scholars When Mondays and Fridays from 4 July - 26 August, 12.30-14.00 Where Check individual listing for room location Price Free, no booking required The Eccles Centre sponsors numerous Visiting Fellowships and Postgraduate Research Awards each year. The Summer Scholars programme highlights the work that they have done during their residency in the British Library, bringing the latest research related to the North Americas collections to a public audience. Selling Black History: from Margins to Mainstream James West examines the content of EBONY magazine as a case study into the production, dissemination and marketisation of popular black history during the second half of the twentieth century. About Trauma - Constructing Medical Narratives of the Vietnam War Nicole Cassie examines how medical Vietnam veterans have engaged with the evolving psychological and social understanding of post-war trauma. It also explores why they often identify as 'resilient' as opposed to 'traumatised,' despite […]

Job: Teaching Fellow in American Studies, Fixed Term (University of Hull)

The School of Histories, Languages and Cultures at the University of Hull seeks to appoint a temporary Teaching Fellow (80% FTE) in American Studies to cover a period of maternity leave (September 2016 - June 2017). This appointment complements our existing provision in American history, literature and culture, and the successful candidate should be able to work in a team-based and interdisciplinary context.  We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive early-career scholar with a commitment to teaching and learning, to provide cover for a colleague on maternity leave.  The fellow will be expected to have interdisciplinary expertise in American historical and cultural studies, capable of delivering modules in recent cultural history, American prison culture and Mexican-American cultural history. Closing date for applications is Saturday 13th August.  Interviews are likely to be held Monday 22nd August 2016. Informal inquiries may be made to Dr David Eldridge (d.n.eldridge@hull.ac.uk). For more information and to apply […]