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Moral Energy in America: From the Progressive Era to the Atomic Bomb by Rebecca K. Wright shows how a distinctly American way of thinking about energy shaped US culture and society from the Progressive Era to the atomic bomb.
We invite contributions for the interdisciplinary volume Cognitive Literary Urban Studies. Grounded in the framework of 4EA cognitive science, the volume explores how recipients experience built environments in narratives and make sense of urban issues through affordances, including story and form. Following recent cognitive approaches to narratives (Kukkonen and Caracciolo 2014), we seek contributions that demonstrate a clear application of key concepts from embodied cognition in their discussions of the processes and aftermath of interactions with affordances in (urban) narratives.
Why is there something so male about MAGA? And what are the historical roots of the coalition that has brought us to this point?
Our in-person conference is back with a focus on the notion of un/belonging and the re/shaping of US Americanness, intended as a diverse constellation of national understandings that construe individual and collective identities. The conference invites reflections on the multimodal representations of the notions and issues at hand in popular culture and discourses, focusing on the intrinsic diversity of belonging, inclusionary/exclusionary identities, supremacist as well as disenfranchised experiences of US Americanness. We look for evolving notions of belonging and unbelonging, situating the
The History Department at the University of Sussex is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in US History (Education Focused) for a fixed term position (10 months). You will contribute to a range of modules in nineteenth- and twentieth-century History and American Studies, including delivering specialist options in twentieth-century US history and politics, and the history of the Civil Rights movement. You will deliver lectures, seminars and dissertation supervision, support students, and engage in marking and assessment.
The Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania at the British Library wants to hear from all researchers of the USA about their use (or not!) of the British Library's collections. It's your Library, so have your say!
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