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"...evokes the sense of urgency and commitment among Black activists and journalists who launched the innovative and foundational Positively Black in 1970. It is rooted in invaluable oral histories and rich context, stretches beyond the crucible of civil rights and Black Power, offering a lens into a half-century of Black history and a nuanced analysis of media representation and social change. It is a critical source for readers interested in journalism and media, history, and activism." - Julia Rabig, author of The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark.

Academic conference on the subject of nonhumankind - what it means, who it includes, and where humanity stands in relation. Organised by New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Network and hosted at the University of Westminster.

EUP and BAAS are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Jo Metcalf as the new co-editor of the Critical Insights in American Studies series. Jo is a senior lecturer and co-founder and co-director of the Cultures of Incarceration Centre at the University of Hull.Jo replaces the outgoing series editor Martin Halliwell, who has worked wonders in transforming CIAS from its previous guise as BAAS Paperbacks, offering a brilliantly perceptive, supportive, and thoughtful editorial hand to over a dozen books, not to mention being a joy to work with, both at professional and personal levels.

Comics and graphic narratives have become a powerful medium for representing embodied disability experience. This special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly seeks to expand the field by foregrounding transnational, multilingual, and Global South perspectives. We invite essays that examine how contemporary comics and graphic narratives engage core concepts from disability studies—such as crip time, interdependence and collective access, disability justice, debility and slow death, crip ecologies, and speculative crip futurities—across diverse cultural and geopolitical contexts.

A two-day symposium, Time, Memory and Forgetting in the Western, will take place at University of Essex on 10–11 September 2026. Organised by Richard Parker and Jordan Savage, the event explores temporality and memory and in Westerns. Keynotes include Erin Murrah-Mandril, Neil Campbell and Jonathan Skinner. A special “Dorn in Essex” strand examines poet Edward Dorn and his connections to Essex in the 1960s and 70s. Abstract deadline: 29 May 2026.

"The United States of America at 250" - May 29, 2026, 12.30 - 7pm, at the Ray Dolby Centre, University of Cambridge. Three distinguished panels of journalists, artists, politicians and academic experts will debate the meaning of the Declaration of Independence in its own historical moment; the effects of the Declaration and the American Revolution on the rest of the world; and the enduring significance of 1776 for the United States in the twenty-first century. https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-united-states-of-america-at-250