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CFP: William Birch and the Complexities of American Visual Culture: A Symposium Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Visual Culture Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia

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Cambridge American History Seminar: “The Chinese Question and Global Politics 1850-1910”

We are pleased to announce the schedule of seminars and events for the academic year 2017/18. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. Several of the seminars will be based on pre- circulated papers that will be made available two weeks prior to the seminar date. All inquiries should be directed to Jonathan Goodwin, jmg216@cam.ac.uk, 01223 335317 23 October: Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University The Chinese Question and Global Politics 1850-1910  Discussion will be based on a pre-circulated paper (This will be a joint seminar with World History)

Job: Lecturer in English Literature (Aston University)

Closing Date: 23.59 hours BST on Friday 20 October 2017 Interview Date: Tuesday 21 November 2017 The School of languages and Social Sciences is an ambitious, expanding, multidisciplinary School with an established reputation in teaching and research. The English Department is seeking to make an appointment of a Lecturer in English Literature from 1stApril 2018. This is to support the introduction of new undergraduate and research degree programmes in English Literature. Strong candidates in the areas of 20th century and/or contemporary literature with specialisms in corpus and other computational approaches to the study of literature and/or creative writing are particularly welcome. Please visit our website www.aston.ac.uk/jobs for further information and to apply online. If you do not have access to the internet telephone 0121-204-4500 and leave your name and address quoting the reference number R170377

CFP: Rendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity (Atlanta)

Call For Papers Rendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity Atlanta, February 8-10, 2018 Deadline: October 20, 2017 Since the early 2000s, the idea of “liquidity” has been mobilized in discourses ranging from social theory to aesthetics, from informatics to architecture, to describe a new relationship with the networked environments of life within global capital. More specifically, within the study of moving image culture, we have seen an increasing turn toward affective relations, plasticity, resonances and flows, whereby images and sounds—no longer grounded in an analogical relation to the real—are seen variously as malleable, untethered, “viral,” or fluid. The graduate program in Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University has, over the past several years, been exploring some of the implications of these ideas, specifically in relation to race, via our research group “liquid blackness.” Now, however, we wish to explore the ways in which the concept of liquidity might begin to chart […]