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Moral Energy in America: From the Progressive Era to the Atomic Bomb by Rebecca K. Wright shows how a distinctly American way of thinking about energy shaped US culture and society from the Progressive Era to the atomic bomb.
In this online seminar, Brendan McGeever (Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Swarthmore College) explores how Black radicals in Harlem began to articulate a new analysis of race and class which drew them, increasingly, to analyse anti-Jewish violence in revolutionary Russia, and uncovers a multidirectional account of the pogrom; one that envelops both Black and Jewish histories.
All are welcome to the launch of my new book, Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic: Archives and Unquiet Libraries, 1776-1865. It tales place on 14 May from 17.15 onwards in person or on Teams. I hope you can join me.
We invite contributions for the interdisciplinary volume Cognitive Literary Urban Studies. Grounded in the framework of 4EA cognitive science, the volume explores how recipients experience built environments in narratives and make sense of urban issues through affordances, including story and form. Following recent cognitive approaches to narratives (Kukkonen and Caracciolo 2014), we seek contributions that demonstrate a clear application of key concepts from embodied cognition in their discussions of the processes and aftermath of interactions with affordances in (urban) narratives.
Why is there something so male about MAGA? And what are the historical roots of the coalition that has brought us to this point?
Our in-person conference is back with a focus on the notion of un/belonging and the re/shaping of US Americanness, intended as a diverse constellation of national understandings that construe individual and collective identities. The conference invites reflections on the multimodal representations of the notions and issues at hand in popular culture and discourses, focusing on the intrinsic diversity of belonging, inclusionary/exclusionary identities, supremacist as well as disenfranchised experiences of US Americanness. We look for evolving notions of belonging and unbelonging, situating the
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