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Please join visiting author and filmmaker Curtis Chin at one of the 12 stops on the UK Book Tour of his award-winning memoir about growing up Asian and gay in Detroit in the 80s during Reagan and the AIDS years. Here is a recent profile in the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/books/curtis-chin-everything-i-learned-i-learned-in-a-chinese-restaurant.html
We welcome paper proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on the practises, histories, and theories of place-based photography, taking place at the University of Warwick on 13 September 2025.
17th April 2025 is the deadline to submit a paper to the 'Black Atlantic Periodicals and Space' symposium. This symposium invites scholars, librarians and researchers from a variety of disciplines whose primary objects of study are Black periodicals (magazines, newspapers, etc) published 1900-2000 in the Americas, Europe, and Africa to submit papers that ask about what it means to traverse the space of 20th Century Black Atlantic periodicals and what spaces these periodicals themselves traverse. The Symposium will be held at the British Library on 8th May 2025.
Join us to celebrate our 2025 winners at our digital award ceremony on Friday 11 AprilBAAS! You’ll find out who won the coveted best book/best first book prizes and much, much more!
Contact j.porter.6@bham.ac.uk to informally discuss an open 2-year Research Fellow role working with treatiedspaces.com- the Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Birmingham. Remote working possible by agreement. Your chance to work on exciting interdisciplinary grant development with a team collaborating internationally, advancing thinking within heritage & resource use. Backgrounds in any discipline welcome.
We are pleased to announce that an international conference entitled "America and the World in the 1960s: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on American Foreign Relations during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations (1961-1969)" will be hosted at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Université Paris-Saclay on 22-24 October, 2025.
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