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To mark the start of the new academic year, please join us for an informal networking event about all things teaching American Studies. Come along to share tips, advice, and questions, or just have a good chat about pedagogy. New members of the network or those new to teaching are particularly encouraged to join our conversations.
The Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri currently inviting applications for two job openings. One is an open-rank position in the History of Missouri in the United States/World (deadline for applications, 15 Oct). The other is for an Assistant Teaching Professor in History with a preference for subject expertise in Early America, Trans-Atlantic world, women’s history, and/or political thought (deadline for applications, 18 Oct). Both posts are ongoing, renewable, and eligible for promotion.
The Irish Association for American Studies Postgraduate Symposium will take place on Friday, November 22nd 2024. For this one-day in-person event, we invite scholars across all disciplines of American Studies to reflect on the theme of ‘American Carnage.’ 300-word proposals for fifteen-minute papers or 500-word proposals for three-person panels, along with a short academic biography (150 words) in the same document should be sent to postgrad@iaas.ie by Monday, 21st October 2024.
Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the Dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthrall us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US, and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Walking in the Dark interweaves Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory, and place with a meditation on his father’s illness.
The association of British Americanist Nineteenth Century Historians still welcomes registrations for their upcoming conference at Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge - October 10-12, 2024.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery encourages applications for its 2025-2026 research fellowships, awarded through the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP). Residencies are available at the graduate, doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior levels. The deadline to apply is October 15.
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