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Come join us in the dugout at the British Library with an esteemed panel of scholars, authors, and athletes to explore the USA’s relationship with sport on the 23rd November.
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Come join us in the dugout at the British Library with an esteemed panel of scholars, authors, and athletes to explore the USA’s relationship with sport on the 23rd November.
"The Cheer Reader shows that cheer is full of contradictions: it is capitalist, enterprising, feminine, feminist, gender-segregated and co-ed, wholesome and sexualized. These essays, written by authors who clearly know the sport inside out, demonstrate that among many things, cheer is resilient. This book is an amazing source of knowledge and a fascinating read." - Georgia Cervin, author of Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace
Join former members of Congress and US politics experts for analysis and insight into the midterm election results.
Expert discussion and analysis of what happened in the 2026 US midterm elections. In-person at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford or online at 2pm UK time. Featuring the best-selling journalist Molly Ball, the acclaimed analyse and podcaster, Galen Druke, Professor Adam Smith, and Dr Ursula Hackett. All are welcome.
The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce that this year’s Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions. The Ellen Craft Essay Prize is intended to help to promote, encourage and share the study of marginalised voices in American Studies at the postgraduate and early career levels. It hopes, in a small way, to answer some of the current issues facing American Studies scholarship within the UK both in subject matter and participants
Byung-Chul Han’s short, widely translated books diagnose a digital age in which power seduces rather than represses, and in which contemplation, ritual and shared time are vanishing. Yet his ideas have seldom been applied in English-language critical theory. This one-day online symposium, on Friday 19 March 2027, puts Han’s concepts – burnout, psychopolitics, transparency, the infocracy, non-things, the smooth and the crisis of narration – to work as diagnostic tools on specific cultural objects
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