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Call for Papers for the 17th SAAS Conference: American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies, which will be held from 8-10 April 2025 at the the University of Alicante (Spain). Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024.
We are looking for PhD proposals that interrogate the relationship between celebrity and political activism in the twentieth-century North Atlantic. Given the prominence of celebrity-activism as a feature of recent protest movements, there is a need for renewed investigation and historicising of the relationship between media personalities and mass-based political change. The student will work with Dr. Cecilia Brioni and Dr. Owen Walsh (University of Aberdeen) to make a substantial contribution to the scholarship on this topic. Candidates with interdisciplinary training are welcome.
Friday 12 July, 12.30 – 13.20, British Library Knowledge Centre: Two Eccles Institute Fellows examine the cultural exchanges that shaped the musical landscape of early Canada and the vision of the future offered at the New York World’s Fair of 1939. The Summer Scholars season of free in-person lunchtime talks explores the exciting and wide-ranging research into the Americas and Oceania collections at the British Library by Eccles Institute Fellows and Award winners. Free. No need to book.
Cornell University Press
Cornell University Press
The incredible story of the man and legend who has come to symbolize the continuing pursuit of justice for Blacks in the United States
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