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The editors of JAS are delighted to share the news that Sian Round's article "Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships," (JAS, 59:2, 2025) has been awarded the Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize for 2024-25.
February 2026 commemorates the centenary of establishment of Negro History Week, which became Black History Month in the US in 1976. Founded by Carter G Woodson, to give recognition to the largely overlooked, ignored or suppressed achievements of Black Americans, the week was chosen to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
Join Trump scholars from across the UK as we discuss the challenges posed by Trump 2.0. With executive power expanding at home and US influence being reshaped abroad, this event examines whether America is moving toward executive dominance, and what this could mean for democratic governance in the US and for Europe. In this midterm election year, we’ll explore what, if anything, might check presidential overreach. The discussion draws on chapters from the forthcoming volume Trump Unbound (out October 2026), with two panels on Winning at Home and Winning Away.
The deadline to submit to the "UK American Studies Against the Genocide!" symposium is fast approaching. Get your abstracts and proposals in by 6 February.
We’re seeking an Impact Associate to join the Dept of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham to support the AHRC Impact Award Accelerator-funded project Reconnecting Stories: Pueblo, Plains and Woodlands Designs in Nottingham Museum’s Indigenous North American Collection. Working with the project team and the Nottingham City Museums and Galleries curator, the role holder will research designs in the collection using a range of historical and contemporary perspectives. Further info: https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=53843&forced=2. Deadline 12 February.
We invite proposals for a two-day workshop that explores how the American Revolution reverberated in the emergence, expansion, and contradictions of settler republics across the Atlantic World. We take the 250th anniversary of 1776 as a point of departure and examine how the rise of settler republics – polities shaped by diverse populations asserting republican sovereignty through migration, land acquisition, and displacement – in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Southern Africa produced new – and often deeply conflicted – forms of political community.
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