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Join us for a panel discussion exploring the dynamic exchange of theatrical ideas between the United Kingdom and the United States. Chaired by actor, filmmaker and Fulbright-John Wood LAMDA awardee, Ramsden Madeus, with playwright, screenwriter and Fulbright Scholar, Ade Solanke, and historian of Black Theatre, Kate Dossett, the panel will examine how transatlantic collaboration has shaped performance, production, and cultural narratives on both sides of the ocean.

Meet one of the editors of the EUP series "Interventions in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture" at BAAS Glasgow 2026.

BAAS and the Journal of American Studies are pleased to announce that they will be recruiting for the following roles at JAS in Summer 2026, for start dates of 2 January 2027. All appointments are for a four-year period.

However one defines or measures it, political violence is on the rise in the USA. But why? Join Kate Ballantyne, Shannon Carter and Luca Trenta for a discussion of the descent into - or resurgence of - political violence.

Baptist methodically navigates the Black experience, demonstrating that music serves as both a crucial repository of collective memory and a mechanism of resistance. Through detailed explication and analysis, Baptist reveals how political movements have been shaped by pivotal events—including murders, protests, and elections—where song and music were employed to articulate Black 'spiritual strivings,' mediating the complex interplay between personal identity and political action." ~Maurice J. Hobson, author of The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Culture and the Making of Modern Atlanta

Lisa Marie Cacho raises the stakes of critical cultural analysis by purposing it toward a rigorous, activist-intellectual interpretation of law and the state, reframing jurisprudence as an insidious extension of police power. This is a book about stories at war with each other: Complex Innocence honors those targeted and stolen by deadly state violence by centering their testimonies, grounded analyses, and historical truth-telling as dynamic sites of knowledge production that resist and confound institutionalized erasure." ~Dylan Rodríguez, University of California, Riverside