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At the Junction: The Local, Regional, and National in US History

Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 18-19 May 2023   The Rothermere American Institute is pleased to invite paper proposals for a Spring 2023 symposium entitled At the Junction: The Local, Regional, and National in US History, hosted by Bruce Schulman, Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History. A century ago, nearly three decades after enunciating the frontier thesis, Frederick Jackson Turner turned his attention to a different question: ‘Sections and Nation’. Facing abundant evidence of national economic, cultural, and political integration, Turner insisted on the continued vitality and enduring influence of local, state and regional forces in American life. In the twenty-first century historians have continued to interrogate how national, subnational, and transnational forces interact—writing about ‘the politics of scale’, ‘glocalization’, the ‘global heartland’, and the ‘middle tier’ of American federalism. In that spirit, we invite proposals for papers that investigate the relations between and among different scales and levels of […]

Politics, Policy and Publics in the United States and United Kingdom: Exploring Linkages and Making Comparisons

University of Leicester University Rd, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Workshop, University of Leicester, Friday 26th May 2023 Supported by the School of History, Politics and International Relations The University of Leicester invites the submission of proposals for the presentation of research which addresses topics of relevance to both the US and UK, including relations between the two countries in the international context and comparisons of political phenomena or public policy in the two countries’ domestic contexts. It also welcomes research exploring the linkages between the two countries’ societies and peoples. The workshop’s focus concerns the period from World War Two to the present day. The workshop will involve themed panels for the presentation and discussion of current research (15-20 minutes per presentation). The organisers encourage submissions from scholars working within Politics, International Relations, History and cognate areas. The organisers also welcome papers with either a contemporary or historical focus, using different theoretical or conceptual approaches, research methodologies, and source […]

CfP: Sex in Contemporary Media: An Interdisciplinary Conference

The University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom

The organisers invite scholars, researchers, artists, and activists engaging with media studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, law, social sciences and the arts to submit proposals. They also welcome and encourage proposals from artists, writers, media practitioners, sex workers and activists who encounter and engage with sex and issues around sexual practices in their work. The conference seeks to explore modern notions of sex and sexuality and the politics of their representations in various forms of media, including film, television, literature, music, social media, and more from both local and global perspectives. The organisers encourage submissions from around the world and hope to create an international conversation which addresses various national and local contexts. They aim to foster an engaging and critical discussion surrounding the current discourse about sexuality, sex work, and the relationship between sexual practices and gender both within and beyond Academia. Topics might include but are […]

CFP- Pro- and Anti-War Voices, University of Worcester

University of Worcester City Campus, Castle Street, Worcester , United Kingdom

Call for Papers: Pro- and Anti-War Voices, 11 November 2023, University of Worcester. Deadline May 31st. This conference is dedicated to illuminating both negative and positive responses to war in the United States, and welcomes proposals from academics, postgraduate researchers (PGRs), and early career academics (ECAs) who focus on either of these perspectives in any historical period. Whilst war has often been analysed by focusing on the important decision makers, both civilian and military, we seek to challenge this lens by concentrating on a “bottom-up” approach to history. This will be done within this conference by focusing on both the pro- and anti-war voices of a range of different “regular” people during war time. The parameters of this conference are therefore expansive and hope to shed light on the perspectives of those who have been ignored and neglected by a previous dedication to “top-down” history. The organisers hope that these […]

CFP: Virtual Conference: Darkness in the American Imagination

Online

Darkness has always been defined in binary opposition to light. As Toni Morrison puts it in Playing in the Dark (1992): “Whiteness, alone, is mute, meaningless, unfathomable, pointless, frozen, veiled, curtained, dreaded, senseless, implacable.” While darkness and light are mutually constitutive, the threshold between the two is ambivalent; it is blurry and changing. In addition to its symbolic dimensions, the darkness-vs.-light binary can also be taken literally: the early settlers feared the dark while electricity effectively banished darkness from cities, for example. The dark may be rife with danger, a metaphorical space of erasure, and a tool of obfuscation, but at the same time, the dark may provide protection, a space for subversion, and a place of beauty. In view of the multiple meanings of darkness in the American imagination, we invite papers on topics including—but not limited to: darkness and the racial imagination darkness and oppression/marginalization/erasure the surveillance of darkness dark bodies […]

American Politics Group 2023 Postgraduate and Early Career Conference

Vere Harmsworth Library Rothemere American Institute, 1a S Parks Rd, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Are you polishing a dissertation chapter, turning it into a journal article, thinking about your first book manuscript, drafting or re-drafting a work you currently have in progress?  This conference is for you! Join the American Politics Group on Friday, June 23rd, at the Vere Harmsworth Library in Oxford to share your research in US Politics. The APG embraces a broad definition of US Politics to include, for example, social, cultural, and institutional politics, governance, political history, domestic policy at federal, state and local levels as well as foreign policy and international relations. To submit your paper proposal, please complete the Google Form before Wednesday, 10th May. An automated response will confirm the safe receipt of your submission. After the deadline, you will be notified by e-mail of the outcome. Proposals for individual papers or panels are welcome (4 presenters max) through the Google Form. If you are suggesting a panel, please […]

Transatlantic Studies Association 2023 Annual Conference

University of Plymouth Drake Circus, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Transatlantic Studies Association 21st Annual Conference University of Plymouth, UK 3-5 July 2023 _______ Call for Papers Submissions are invited for the 2023 Annual Conference KEYNOTE LECTURES Professor David Haglund (Queen’s University) “What is So ‘Special’ About the Franco-American Relationship? The View from Lake Wobegon” AND Professor Faye Hammill (University of Glasgow) “Ocean Modern: Poetics and Geometries of the Transatlantic Liner” AND Professor Michelle Wright (Emory University) “Exchanging Blackness in Afroeuropolis: Questions of Race, Gender and Fungibility in 20th Century Europe” PLUS A Roundtable discussion on: Transatlantic Memorialisation and Heritage AND An Early Career Workshop on: Impact and Engagement The TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in a variety of disciplines, including (but not limited to): history, politics and international relations, and literary studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome. The conference […]

July 7 2023 SHAW Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, United Kingdom

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) will be holding its 2023 annual conference at Manchester Metropolitan University on July 7th 2023. The conference is open to papers on any topic, geographical period, chronological time, or themes related to the history of women and gender non-conforming individuals in the Americas. However, SHAW would particularly encourage papers that explore ‘Reproduction, Bodily Autonomy and Law’. This will be an in-person conference and SHAW would love to see as many colleagues and friends as possible!

Manchester Metropolitan University and the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements

Imperial War Museum North Trafford Whard Rd, Trafford Park, Stretford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Since the end of the Cold War, its imagery, atmosphere, and music have been repeatedly appropriated and reappropriated within contemporary popular culture. More than thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, these images continue to appeal to generations with no memory of the original tensions of the time. From the early Cold War imagery of games such as the Fallout series, or the mid-1980s backdrop of Soviet infiltration in Stranger Things, visual culture, music, and ideas from the period are constantly recycled in popular culture. These images are often linked to fears of nuclear destruction or disturbing post-apocalyptic settings, while also recalling nostalgic and often patriotic images of a lost world of the West. With the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine and heightened fear of nuclear war, these images are being appropriated and applied in new ways online and in popular entertainment. This conference invites participants to examine this theme and to explore […]

CFP: Love and Lenses: Photographic Couples, Gender Relationships, and Transatlantic Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century

Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Event: 12– 13 October 2023 CFP Deadline: 21 July 2023 Maison Française d'Oxford and Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford The Maison Française d'Oxford and the Rothermere American Institute are delighted to invite paper proposals on the theme: ‘Love and Lenses: Photographic Couples, Gender Relationships, and Transatlantic Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century.’ This conference is being organised by Dr. Emily Brady (Broadbent Junior Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute) and Martyna Zielinska (DPhil, Université de Paris Cité, LARCA). The Canadian photographers Hannah and Richard Maynard outside Hannah Maynard's studio c.1880, via Wikimedia Commons. This two-day conference invites papers that explore photographic partnerships as a main object of study. Since the invention of the camera, men and women – spouses, friends, members of the same family – have learned and practiced photography together for business, pleasure, educational and scientific purposes. This conference aims to bring new light on how the practice […]

Resisting Toxic Climates: Gender, Colonialism Environment

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Whether it’s the spectacular event of an oil spill or the scarcely perceptible pollution of micro-plastics, toxicity is central to the environmental concerns of today. To exist in the world means being vulnerable to multiple forms of toxicity. Yet, conditions of vulnerability are unequal, shaped by enduring global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Held at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh on July 26th and 27th, this two-day event will highlight the toxic valences of coloniality, asking how toxicity manifests and mutates with particular regard to gender across variously situated bodies, lands and waterscapes. While we are concerned with the interrelated forms of material toxicity that threaten the wellbeing of human and more-than-human communities, we also seek to facilitate dialogue around pertinent social, political and cultural discourses of toxification. Operating at the intersections of the medical and environmental humanities, and centering feminist, queer, decolonial and Indigenous paradigms, this interdisciplinary event […]

CFP: Individuality and Community in Mid-Century American Culture (1945-1968)

Lund University Lund, Sweden

Mid-century US culture tends to be described in both simplified and paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it is thought of as a period of ‘containment’ culture, ‘Red-Scare’ rhetoric, and McCarthyism: a time when norms were strong, and it was difficult to be different. On the other hand, it is a period romanticized as the great era of American exceptionalism and industry. As today’s politicians from left to right increasingly rely on nostalgia for an idealized past, it becomes relevant to ask questions about the culture and values of mid-century America, and to challenge stereotypical images of this time, especially that of the white, churchgoing nuclear family, which has become an almost indelible image of the ‘long’ 1950s. At this pivotal moment in American history, the individual was often seen as being in conflict with society. Early Cold-War culture saw an increased focus on the negative effects of social conformity […]