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CALL FOR PAPERS Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June 2025 Keynote Speakers – Prof. Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University) Prof. Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)
History Lab is proud to announce three exciting opportunities that may be of particular interest to PGRs & ECRs! We are delighted to announce that the 2024/2025 instalment of our Olivette Otele Paper Prize for Black PhD students is now open for submissions. We're also proud to launch our call for papers for two exciting upcoming PGR-focused conferences: "Teaching History in a Time of Crisis" in Warwick on 29 May 2025 and our 2025 Annual Conference at the Institute of Historical Research on 24 July 2025.
The 2025 HOTCUS Winter Symposium coincides with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and a number of important commemorative events in the United States and across the world. This anniversary provides an opportunity to reflect on the varied effects of this global conflict which triggered profound social and economic shifts in the United States, and also saw millions of American military personnel stationed abroad.
Building upon theories of affect and the everyday, Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 analyses minimalist aesthetics within the writings of Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo, among others. The book argues that writers of American literary minimalism are uniquely privileged in their ability to formalize precarity and threatening cultural currents into the fragile construct that is ordinary life.
I am delighted to announce that SILENCE IN THE QUAGMIRE: THE VIETNAM WAR IN US COMICS by Harriet EH Earle is now available to pre-order. See here for more information: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496240545/silence-in-the-quagmire/
The journal American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH) seeks a social media editor to work approximately 4-5 hours per month (flexible schedule). The incoming social media editor, as the first person to hold this position, will have the opportunity to shape the social media strategy for ANCH. Minimum qualifications: experience using relevant social media platforms; excellent professional writing skills; attention to detail; and at least some work at the postgraduate level in nineteenth-century U.S. history. This is a one-year, possibly renewable, position with a stipend of £700 annually.
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