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...

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...

University of Plymouth: 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)...

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...

Apocalyptic Nostalgia? Cold War Imagery in Popular Culture : 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...

EAAS Southern Studies Forum 2023: Université de Picardie Jules Verne and Université d’Artois

Université de Picardie Jules Verne Chem. du Thil, 80000, Amiens, Somme, France

In the word "trans-formations", the prefix "trans-" invites us to reflect on changes (from one place to another, from one medium to another, from one genre to another...) The notion of transformation thus prompts us to examine borders, boundaries, limits, even crossings that lead to new experiences, new ways of...

University of Warwick, October 6 2023: Sex in Contemporary Media: An Interdisciplinary Conference

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...

Pro- and Anti-War Voices, 11 November 2023, University of Worcester

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

Pro- and Anti-War Voices, 11 November 2023, University of Worcester. CFP 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...

Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture Conference

Instituto Franklin–Universidad de Alcalá Colegio de Trinitarios, Calle de la Trinidad, 1

The conference, held at the Universidad de Alcalá on November 27-28, 2023, will focus on how the American imagination has shaped—and, in turn, has been shaped by—its frontiers and borderlands, marked by an intrinsic peripheral quality, sociocultural porosity, and a diverse range of experiences and identities. As Lee Bebout (2016)...