BooksBooks within the American Studies community. |
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New Book Announcement: A Nation’s Undesirables by Tracey Owens Patton |
A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era Tracey Owens Patton, topatton@uwyo.edu |
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Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest by Casey A. Huegel |
In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots activists, regulators, union workers, and politicians that responded to the event with a new kind of environmental movement. |
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Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities by Matt Hooley |
In Against Extraction Matt Hooley traces a modern tradition of Ojibwe invention in Minneapolis and St. Paul from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as that tradition emerges in response to the cultural legacies of US colonialism. |
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Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America: Parish, Church, and Mission Edited by Kathleen Deagan |
Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America interrogates the profound cultural impacts of Catholic policies and practice in La Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
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Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit by Say Burgin |
Organizing Your Own shows that the Black freedom movement never experienced a “white purge,” and it offers a new way of understanding Black Power’s relationship to white America. |
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People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War by Kazushi Minami |
In People's Diplomacy, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations. |
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Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States by Gene Zubovich |
When we think about religion and politics in the United States today, we think of conservative evangelicals. But for much of the twentieth century it was liberal Protestants who most profoundly shaped American politics. Leaders of this religious community wielded their influence to fight for social justice by lobbying for the New Deal, marching against segregation, and protesting the Vietnam War. |
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Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers by Marie Carter |
The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them. |
Call for PapersCall for papers from within the American Studies community. |
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Call for Articles – Gaming and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Essays on The Last of Us (2013-), Open Library of the Humanities Journal |
This Special Collection with OLHJ centres on The Last of Us (2013-) franchise. In it, we aim to explore the generative potential of gaming for the humanities, using The Last of Us as a compelling case study for this. How might the games stretch, challenge, or even transform the epistemological paradigms of humanities research? And can an interdisciplinary conversation between scholars, focussed on a single game, procure new questions or ideas for the humanities? |
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CFP Virtual Conference Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture |
US American imaginaries related to neo/noir and thriller narratives broadly intended, including true crime. We accept proposals that look at texts across popular culture media, including film, graphic narratives, TV series, genre literature, music, games, podcasts, and mocku/documentary. |
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SHA Southern Exchanges: Lightning Round Edition | May 13th 2024 |
The SHA Graduate Council invites you to share your research in 5-minutes or less. Being able to distil and articulate your research and its significance is an important networking skill. Come practice your research “elevator speech” in front of your fellow graduate students (and add a line to your CV). The mission of Southern Exchanges is to build community among graduate students by providing an informal, supportive setting for students to share their work/work-in-progress with graduate students from a wide range of institutions. You may even find your next co-panellists for The Southern! |
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Edith Wharton Review |
The Edith Wharton Review, the refereed journal of the Edith Wharton Society announces a new section for shorter works, "Notes On..." and continues to welcome the submission of full-length critical scholarly essays. |
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BAAS PG Roundtable Series 2024 |
Submissions are now open for a series of online postgraduate roundtables! |
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Decoloniality: Difficulties and Multiplicities: Teaching American Studies Network Symposium Call For Papers |
The Teaching American Studies Network invites proposals for a one-day symposium to be held at the University of Warwick on 9 July 2024. The theme for the 2024 Symposium is “Decoloniality: Difficulties and Multiplicities”. |
ConferencesDetails on conferences taking place within the American Studies community. |
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HOTCUS 2024 Annual Conference: Schedule and Registration |
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to release the provisional handbook and schedule for the HOTCUS Annual Conference 2024, which will be hosted at the University of Southampton from June 19-21. Our keynote speaker is Prof. Randall Stephens of the University of Oslo, with a paper entitled, "‘Socialism has been steadily battering at our gates’: The Roosevelt Administration and Religion in the Dust Bowl.” |
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The Hulu Adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2024): A one-day multidisciplinary symposium |
We are inviting proposals for 20-minute papers on the Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood’s famous dystopia. The symposium is multidisciplinary, so we invite papers from the fields of literature, language, social and political sciences, film studies, fashion, and music. Papers can approach the adaptation with reference to the following concepts, though the list is not exhaustive: • Dystopian and Speculative Fiction • Theory of Adaptation – creating the novel on screen • Exploring Gender • Sex, Desire, and Consent • Eco-Criticism • Music and its significance • Immigration |
EventsEvents taking place within the American Studies Community and those run by BAAS. |
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BLACK REPARATIONS: A TRANSATLANTIC CONVERSATION |
Event co-chairs: Nicole Gipson (University of Bristol) and Ahmed Honeini (Royal Holloway University of London) Featured Speakers: Lucas Hubbard, William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, Nicola Frith, Esther Stanford-Xosei TIME: 16.05.2024 : 19:00 - 20:30 |
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Olivette Otele Paper Prize Lecture | May 30th 17.30-19.00 | “Black Women Radicals and Networks of Transnational Resistance in the Twentieth-Century” Tionne Alliyah Parris (University of Hertfordshire) |
The Institute of Historical Research's History Lab is delighted to announce the winner of our 2024 Olivette Otele Paper Prize: Tionne Alliyah Parris (University of Hertfordshire). Tionne's prize-winning talk will be a must-attend for anyone interested in Black history, transnational feminism and social justice movements. |
FundingFunding opportunities within the American Studies community. |
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Research/Publication Funding Opportunity |
The journal History is offering two awards (one early career, one mid-career) for up to £1500 leading to creation of a journal article in any field of history from any time period or geographical location. Articles will be published in the journal and are expected to be submitted within 18 months of the award. |
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EAAS Postgraduate Travel Grants |
Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university in the country/territory of the national/regional association, and have been members of an American Studies association belonging to EAAS for at least one year may apply. The Transatlantic Grant will permit the holder to conduct research which illuminates a particular area of American Studies in a designated university, independent research organization or archive in the United States. |
OpportunitiesOpportunities for those in the American Studies community. |
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CALL FOR PHD AND ECR BOOK REVIEWERS FOR THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES |
The Associate Editors of the Journal of American Studies are looking for book reviews from doctoral candidates and early career researchers with expertise in any aspect of American Studies and its related sub-disciplines. |
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REF 2029 People, Culture and Environment indicators workshops |
Register for a series of workshops to co-develop indicators to be used in the assessment of the People, Culture and Environment (PCE) element of REF 2029. This is an opportunity to shape how the conditions for high-quality research and impact are understood and assessed. We invite you to consider registering for one of the workshops and to circulate this opportunity with colleagues and networks. The closing date for expressions of interest is Wednesday 8 May 2024. |
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Job Opportunity: Research Events Producer, British Library |
The British Library is looking for a p/t Research Events Producer (Fixed term: 18 months - 21.6 hrs per week, salary £33,600 pro rata). Deadline 12 May. |
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