News & Events

The Margaret Fuller Society is pleased to sponsor a panel on "Trouble and Recovery: Health in Margaret Fuller’s Life and Society" for the upcoming Thoreau Society Annual Gathering in Concord, MA, July 8-12, 2026. The words of our title, “Trouble and Recovery,” encompass both obstacles to health and its restoration, in Fuller’s personal life or the family and society within which she lived, in body or “head and heart,” whether descriptive or metaphoric in significance.

The American Politics Group has extended its deadline for its call for papers to December 10th for the annual conference at the University of east Anglia from 7th to the 9th of January.

Is US imperialism back? Did it ever go away? Join us at the British Library on 8 December for a discussion of the place of empire in US culture and geopolitics. British Library Eliot Room | Monday 8 December, 18.30-19.30 Free | Reserve a place by emailing eccles-institute@bl.uk

Invitation to launch event for: Emotionally Engaged: A Toolkit for your Archival Journey:

The 2025 edition of the BrANCA biannual symposium will be taking place at Université Paris Cité on December 12 and 13. Gathering for the first time outside the UK since the Association's founding, the participants will reflect on "Borders and Ethno-Nationalism: The State of/in Americanist Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century."

“Finally, the book we all need to read to understand racial categories in the twenty-first century. Amid the rise of artificial intelligence and new technologies we barely understand, Marcel Rosa-Salas offers a lucid analysis of the structures behind racial thinking—examining the power of marketing and racial capitalism in shaping how we conceive of ourselves and other Americans.”—Arlene Dávila, author of Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People