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Settler Colonialisms / British Empire is a UK-based research network, workshop series and conference for the study of British settler colonialisms, ‘at home’ and abroad. By bringing together researchers across institutions, disciplines and career stages, we hope to advance critical, materialist, comparative and transhistorical approaches to the study of empire and its afterlives.
"Critical Health," a two-day international conference, will be held at Sorbonne Université (and online) on 17-18 October 2025. Registration (in person/online) is free, but mandatory: please visit our website for more details (www.criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com)
Join us for a mini-break to the world of US culture's fantasy vacations. Thursday 25 September, 18.30-19.30 The British Library (Eliot Room) | Free
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual one‐week Spring Academy conference, which provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects. The twenty-third HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics & Religion will be held from March 23-27, 2026.
Join Nadra Abada (Sousse), Kafui Attoh (CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies), George Edwards (Zetkin Collective), Leigh Claire La Berge (BMCC-CUNY), and author Myka Tucker-Abramson (Warwick) in conversation about her recent book Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony.
The University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy welcome applications from candidates with expertise in American political development; political thought or intellectual history with a US focus; comparative politics (including the USA); or Anglo-American relations for a fixed-term postdoctoral position commencing in January 2026.
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