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CfP: HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium: Americans in the World (Online)

HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium: Americans in the World, February 20, 2021, on Zoom. Jane Adams presided over the International Congress of Women in The Hague in 1915, Jesse Owens made sporting history at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, Eslanda Robeson attended the All-African Peoples’ Conference in Ghana in 1958, and in 1968 Dale Smith marched with German student activist Rudi Dutschke in Berlin. These individuals all played a crucial role in connecting America to the world and likewise played a central role in complicating the ideological underpinnings of the American Century abroad. In a field long dominated by an institutional focus on diplomatic exchanges, military interventions, and foreign trade, diplomatic history’s cultural turn has significantly shifted its gaze to the role of non-state actors—students, artists, missionaries, athletes, and scholars,  among others—to examine their impact on the United States’ connections with the world and their multivalent role in the creation of […]

BrANCH Grants for Postgraduate Research

The Peter Parish Memorial Fund aims to help the next generation of British American historians to embark successfully on a career of scholarly historical research into the nineteenth-century United States. The Fund Committee welcomes applications for grants to help with the cost of travel to the United States for the purpose of research or participating in a conference. It is envisaged that grants will not normally exceed £750. *Please note* for the forthcoming 1 January 2021 deadline, in recognition of the difficulties for research posed by Covid-19, BrANCH is widening the remit of the Grants for Postgraduate/Early Career Research scheme to include help with the cost of remote research into the nineteenth-century United States, such as: Reproduction of archival materials Microfilm (if you can read/access this) Subscriptions to online resources Copies of published material, or unpublished dissertations, if critical to a project and unavailable either on-line or in the UK Applicants for help […]

Ellen Craft Essay Prize

Ellen Craft Essay Prize The Scottish Association for the Study of America The Ellen Craft Essay Prize for an outstanding piece of work in gender, minority or women’s studies relating to the Americas. The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce this year’s Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions. The Ellen Craft Essay Prize is awarded to the best essay by a graduate student or early-career researcher on a topic relating to women, gender or minority studies within the Americas. SASA recognises a broad definition of the Americas and includes anything situated within North, South or Latin America, at any point in history. Following the success our inaugural competition, we cannot wait to read your submissions this year. Entrants are invited to produce an essay on any topic relating to women, gender or minority studies within the Americas. The work should be […]

HOTCUS Travel Award

HOTCUS welcomes applications from doctoral students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts for its 2021 Travel Award competition. HOTCUS welcomes applications from doctoral students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts for its 2021 Travel Award competition.  We especially encourage applications from BIPOC scholars. HOTCUS Travel Awards support research in any area of twentieth century United States history. Applications may be made for up to £500 for research travel and/or research expenses more generally during the 2021 calendar year.  There are no residency restrictions and travel may be to, or within, any country.  Given the current pandemic-related uncertainty surrounding research travel, if you plan to apply for research travel expenses we strongly recommend that you […]

CfP: SASA Annual Conference (Online)

22nd Annual Conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America 6 March 2021, Online Conference The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) was formed in 1999 to encourage the study of North America in Scotland. Due to ongoing concerns over COVID-19, the committee has decided our annual conference will be held virtually this year. The conference will take place on Saturday, 6 March 2021. The virtual nature of the conference has provided us with an opportunity to adapt our standard format. Instead of traditional 20-minute conference papers, we are asking for brief, 10-minute papers, which will be followed by a discussion. These presentations are meant to be informal, and our aim is to provide a welcoming environment for speakers to get feedback on their projects, or specific aspects of their research they would like to discuss. SASA recognizes a broad definition of the Americas and includes […]

CfP: Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference 2021

Transatlantic Studies Association 19th Annual Conference Centre for International Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon 5-7 July 2021 _________ Call for Papers Submissions are invited for the 2021 Annual Conference KEYNOTE LECTURES Professor Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University) “Why meeting NATO’s 2% target would make Europe (and the West) less secure” AND Professor Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia) Mayflower Lecture “From Lima to Lisbon: Earthquake History in the Making” Co-sponsored by the University of Plymouth: ‘Mayflower 400: Atlantic Crossings’ AND Dr Dan Plesch (SOAS, University of London) “Twilight or New Dawn in Transatlantic Relations?” PLUS A Roundtable discussion on: Southern Transatlantic Connections and the Cold War _________ 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 […]

The Fourth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium: Faulkner, Transgressive Fiction, Postmodernism (Online)

January 29th and 30th, 2021, online via Zoom With keynote addresses by: Dr Phillip Gordon (author of Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond ) and Dr Julie Beth Napolin (author of The Facts of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form ) William Faulkner (1897-1962) has long been considered one of the foremost modernist authors to emerge from the United States. Faulkner’s authorial obsessions have typically been described as including time, history, and the fraught definition of “Southernness” in the aftermath of the Civil War, emancipation, and the quest for Civil Rights. However, starting with the publication of the edited volume Faulkner and Postmodernism (1997), critics have sought to recontextualise Faulkner as a “postmodernist” and even “transgressive” author, whose work explores the darker side of humanity and sets a precedent for writers including William S. Burroughs and Cormac McCarthy to explore the nature of sexuality, racial identity, […]

CfP: HOTCUS 2021 Annual Conference (Online)

HOTCUS 2021 Annual Conference: Call for Papers Digital Conference – 7-11 June 2021 Plenary Speaker: Professor Connie Chiang (Bowdoin College) Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to invite paper and panel proposals for our 2021 annual conference. For the first time, the annual conference will take place digitally in order to provide the safest and most accessible venue for attendants. Despite the global context, we still hope to provide a space for scholars to share their research and socialize virtually with colleagues studying the history of the United States. Papers from members or non-members are welcomed on all topics concerning the history of the United States – broadly conceived – from 1890 to the present. The committee welcomes proposals for papers and panels covering all aspects of U.S. history, including (but not limited to): Citizenship, immigration, and migration Cultural and intellectual history Economic history Environmental history […]

HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium: Amerians in the World (Online)

The HOTCUS 2021 Winter Symposium will be held via Zoom on February 20, 2021. The theme of this year’s event is Americans in the World, and we are delighted to announce that the plenary speaker will be Dr Kaeten Mistry (University of East Anglia ), author of The United States, Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and co-editor of Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of Secrecy (Columbia University Press, 2020).

RAI: the RAI Goes to the Movies – I Am Not Your Negro

The sixth of a series of film discussions exploring important movies by African American filmmakers. I am Not Your Negro (2016, dir. Raoul Peck, 95 min) Introduced by Dr. Nigel Hatton (University of California, Merced.) Phil Bertelsen and Rachel Dretzin, award-winning filmmakers and executive producers of Netflix docuseries 'Who Killed Malcolm X?'  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rai-goes-to-the-movies-i-am-not-your-negro-2016-dir-raoul-peck-tickets-139975332989

CFP: Movement and Mobility in America (Online)

WHAT, WHEN & WHERE American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT) 40th International American Studies Conference Movement and Mobility in America Online Conference June 28-29, 2021 Movement and mobility lie at the core of American society. Whether through immigration, internal migration, social mobility, or domestic and global expansionism, the United States has always been defined as a nation of frontiers and pioneers, a country that is constantly (re)defining itself, where self-(re)invention is part of the American dream. Movement and mobility in the American context can also be physical, sociological, psychological, or political, as in the case of mobilizing for racial justice, such as with the Black Lives Matter movement that is sweeping the nation. The Trump Administration has prompted a reevaluation of movement and mobility across the political spectrum. While some argue that this has stimulated a visible resurgence in activism and a revival of social movements in the United States, […]

The Profits of Slavery and the Wealth of Universities: A Transatlantic Conversation (Online)

Join Dr. Afua Cooper for a presentation on the Lord Dalhousie Scholarly Panel on Slavery and Race, followed by conversation with Danni Ebanks-Ingram and Dr. Asha Rogers. Dr. Michell Chresfield will chair. The Report on Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race, headed by historian and artist Dr. Afua Cooper, was submitted in 2019 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. The panel looked into Lord Dalhousie’s views on race and put forward recommendations for how campus might be accountable for past and present connections to anti-Black racism. The University of Birmingham’s Centre for the Study of North America is delighted that Dr. Afua Cooper has accepted our invitation to tell us about the work of the panel she chaired, and engage in dialogue about that panel’s report and its resonance for universities and wider communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Chaired by Dr. Michell Chresfield, this event will begin with a presentation by Dr. Cooper on the Report, followed […]