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The Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for its three-year doctoral program.
SHAW 2026 Annual Conference Friday 26th June 2026, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, hosted by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. This year's conference invites papers on any topic relating to histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas, but encourages proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that explore the subject of confinement. Please submit abstracts along with a 100-word biography of each speaker to shawsociety@gmail.com, by Monday 12th January
We are pleased to announce the first edition of the Postgraduate Symposium “Challenging Literary and Cultural Practices, Now: Contemporary Approaches to the Humanities” , to be held on 26-27 March 2026 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC), Portugal. This symposium intends to bring together postgraduate students (MA and PhD levels) and early-career researchers from various academic backgrounds in the Humanities and Liberal Arts to discuss their research projects or other works in progress related to literatures and cultures.
The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250 A one-day winter research symposium at the University of Liverpool, Friday 27 February 2026 Organisers invite proposals for papers and panels that explore how nation, citizenship, and freedom were redefined in the United States across the twentieth century. Submissions are due January 10, 2026.
"An enlightening and insightful assessment of the foreign policy statecraft of several American presidents." —New York Journal of Books "This is an interesting read, packed with insight. Students at all levels and general readers will find it a useful counter to the simplistic soundbite pontifications of many contemporary aspirants for political leadership." —Choice
"Rings of Dissent is a knock-out! A masterful collection that rightly recenters boxing at the center of the American story and struggles to retell it. Passionate and smart, it reinvigorates the study of sport, bringing voices and visions from beyond the academy to speak on the entanglements of power, performance, and possibility." —C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand
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