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UCL's Institute of the Americas is proud to announce the launch of attendee registration for its annual Americas Research Network conference on June 28th 2024 (this Friday) via Zoom. We have an exciting lineup of four panels, a collaborative book hour with USSO, and a distinguished keynote from Dr. Alvita Akiboh (Yale). Through the support of BAAS, we're proud to offer free registration to all attendees and particularly welcome PGRs and ECRs.

Join the LSE Webster Review of International History to celebrate the centenary of James Baldwin's birth, honouring his incredible legacy and impact on literature and civil rights.

For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’ long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this—written by an ex-slave and ex-American, in language charged with all that can be said about America outside America, untampered with and unedited by white abolitionists—has never been seen before. Published together with a full biography. Available now, £16, PB.

The GREEN BAAS steering committee recently released BAAS' first ever Climate Action Plan. This document, which is meant to be updated every year, reflects our ongoing commitments to global climate action. Please have a read and send your comments, encouragements and suggestions to the GREEN BAAS co-leads, Rebecca Tillett and Elsa Devienne.

We welcome proposals that think through, reflect upon, and reconsider the significance of Aspirations in the pasts, presents, and futures of the United States. Aspirational ideals and beliefs have always been at the crux of the United States’ national ethos, but they have also evolved during the course of history. Abstract Submission: Abstracts for individual papers are max. 250 words and for panel/workshop/ alternative sessions max. 500 words. Extended deadline: August 16, 2024. Inquiries: naasturku2025@gmail.com Twitter: @naas2025 #NAASpirations2025

Reframing Hollywood series at Mississippi University Press The Reframing Hollywood series features dynamic and original short monographs and edited collections, each of which explore a single film of significant cultural impact which has emerged from the American film industry since the turn of the new millennium. These vibrant critical explorations of contemporary American film will offer a stimulating, academic, yet accessible interrogation of a single work from a variety of critical perspectives.