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BrANCH (British American Nineteenth Century Historians) are pleased to invite paper and panel proposals for their 32nd annual conference, this year held jointly with BGEAH (British Group in Early American History). The conference will be held at Leonardo’s Hotel in Cardiff on September 12-14, 2025.
We are seeking your input on current and future BAAS EDI projects and priorities. Please check your inbox for a link to our 2025 inclusion survey. Please complete the survey by Monday 7 April.
This 90-minute interactive workshop is facilitated by JMC Anderson and Nadia Joseph, creative and heritage practitioners with experience of working with academic researchers. Together we will explore what works, what goes wrong and what we need to learn to do better when designing and carrying out ethical engaged research.
Please join visiting author and filmmaker Curtis Chin at one of the 12 stops on the UK Book Tour of his award-winning memoir about growing up Asian and gay in Detroit in the 80s during Reagan and the AIDS years. Here is a recent profile in the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/books/curtis-chin-everything-i-learned-i-learned-in-a-chinese-restaurant.html
We welcome paper proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on the practises, histories, and theories of place-based photography, taking place at the University of Warwick on 13 September 2025.
17th April 2025 is the deadline to submit a paper to the 'Black Atlantic Periodicals and Space' symposium. This symposium invites scholars, librarians and researchers from a variety of disciplines whose primary objects of study are Black periodicals (magazines, newspapers, etc) published 1900-2000 in the Americas, Europe, and Africa to submit papers that ask about what it means to traverse the space of 20th Century Black Atlantic periodicals and what spaces these periodicals themselves traverse. The Symposium will be held at the British Library on 8th May 2025.
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