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On Thursday 3 September, from 5pm-7pm, at the Brig Cafe in Birmingham, join UK American Studies Against the Genocide for an event on mobility justice and empire, featuring Dr. Dani Abulhawa (University of Leeds), Dr. Nathan Cardon (University of Birmingham) and local activists. For more information and to register: https://buytickets.at/ukamericanstudiesagainstthegenocide/2371671
The purpose of this year’s virtual conference is to open a space for the analysis of the ethical principles (or lack thereof) that seem to guide the construction, circulation and reception of public discourses within the popular culture ecosystem, including both more traditional mediums such as television and comics, but also the products that emerge from generative AI.
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of a document that changed the world: The US Declaration of Independence. We are recognising this momentous period in British American history with a powerful free exhibition that charts the emergence of the United States of America. Original maps, correspondence, first-hand accounts and a rare, original ‘Dunlap broadside’ of the Declaration of Independence, printed on the night of 4 July 1776, will be on display.
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.
James Bultema is the vice president of the board of directors of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. His collection of images, the Bultema-Williams Collection of Ulysses S. Grant Photographs and Prints, is now housed at the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University. He is the author of several books on policing, including The Protectors: A Photographic History of Police Departments in the U.S.
"The brilliance of this work is only enhanced by the knowledge that they come at the start of a radiant future. Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley's combined exceptional eye and ear makes something new in the American theatre—something far more robust, outrageous, and inventive than anything we've seen in recent years, and I for one can't wait for their future." —Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and theater critic for The New Yorker
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