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The 2026 BAAS Postgraduate Symposium invites proposals from postgraduate researchers at all levels and across all disciplines on the topic of Transatlantic Connections and the ‘Special Relationship[s]’. By using the term ‘Special Relationship[s]’, we intend to explore the relationship between not only the US and the UK, but also between the US and other countries. We invite panels and individual papers on this theme and encourage you to interpret it as broadly as you wish, including any aspect of the US’s transnational cultural, political and literary connections, influences or contrasts. We w

"The National Comedy Center and Smithsonian approach comedy's history with the same rigor and reverence we bring to it as artists." - Lily Tomlin "A one-of-a-kind trip through the archives of the National Comedy Center and Smithsonian Institution that shines a new light on America's funniest moments." - Carol Burnett

"The Fenian Empire strikes at the homogeneity of Fenian associationalism and rhetoric and elaborates on its many contradictions and complexities in the United States and across the western hemisphere. Teeming with individual Fenians, splits, spies, and swagger, it is a captivating read contending with ideas which are at once both historical and contemporary." - Úna Ní Bhroiméil, author of Building Irish Identity in America 1870-1915

"By centering the ways of knowing and being of Black gay men and elaborating on the practices they use to refashion their identities, Winder intervenes in the social science and public health tendency to obscure or dismiss Black gay men's agency in their own self-recognition, affirmation, and care; this is a crucial contribution that Shameless makes." – Marlon M Bailey, author of Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

“Bezio offers an insightful and compelling way to argue for the relevance of early American texts in providing nuanced, epidemiologically attuned readings of outbreak stories in the present.” - Louise Penner, author of Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists

"Many authors have written of Atlantic City with nostalgia for bygone vacations or with criticism of the gambling industry and political corruption, but until now, no one has attempted to capture the multiplicity of viewpoints and commentary on the city across time in one volume. An Atlantic City Reader provides history, entertainment, and social commentary on 'America's Famous Playground' through a variety of lenses and voices." - Heather Perez, Stockton University and Atlantic City historian