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Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to release the provisional handbook and schedule for the HOTCUS Annual Conference 2024, which will be hosted at the University of Southampton from June 19-21. Our keynote speaker is Prof. Randall Stephens of the University of Oslo, with a paper entitled, "‘Socialism has been steadily battering at our gates’: The Roosevelt Administration and Religion in the Dust Bowl.”
We are inviting proposals for 20-minute papers on the Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood’s famous dystopia. The symposium is multidisciplinary, so we invite papers from the fields of literature, language, social and political sciences, film studies, fashion, and music. Papers can approach the adaptation with reference to the following concepts, though the list is not exhaustive: • Dystopian and Speculative Fiction • Theory of Adaptation – creating the novel on screen • Exploring Gender • Sex, Desire, and Consent • Eco-Criticism • Music and its significance • Immigration
A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era Tracey Owens Patton, topatton@uwyo.edu
This Special Collection with OLHJ centres on The Last of Us (2013-) franchise. In it, we aim to explore the generative potential of gaming for the humanities, using The Last of Us as a compelling case study for this. How might the games stretch, challenge, or even transform the epistemological paradigms of humanities research? And can an interdisciplinary conversation between scholars, focussed on a single game, procure new questions or ideas for the humanities?
US American imaginaries related to neo/noir and thriller narratives broadly intended, including true crime. We accept proposals that look at texts across popular culture media, including film, graphic narratives, TV series, genre literature, music, games, podcasts, and mocku/documentary.
Register for a series of workshops to co-develop indicators to be used in the assessment of the People, Culture and Environment (PCE) element of REF 2029. This is an opportunity to shape how the conditions for high-quality research and impact are understood and assessed. We invite you to consider registering for one of the workshops and to circulate this opportunity with colleagues and networks. The closing date for expressions of interest is Wednesday 8 May 2024.
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