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Latest News and Events

    SHA Southern Exchanges: Lightning Round Edition | May 13th 2024

    The SHA Graduate Council invites you to share your research in 5-minutes or less. Being able to distil and articulate your research and its significance is an important networking skill. Come practice your research “elevator speech” in front of your fellow graduate students (and add a line to your CV). The mission of Southern Exchanges is to build community among graduate students by providing an informal, supportive setting for students to share their work/work-in-progress with graduate students from a wide range of institutions. You may even find your next co-panellists for The Southern!

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    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship Creative Writing and Atlantic Slavery Through Library Collections (UCLan and the British Library)

    The Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR) and the Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora & Exile (MIDEX) at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and the British Library are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded four-year Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2024 under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme. The application deadline is 6 May 2024.

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    Edith Wharton Review

    The Edith Wharton Review, the refereed journal of the Edith Wharton Society announces a new section for shorter works, "Notes On..." and continues to welcome the submission of full-length critical scholarly essays.

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    BLACK REPARATIONS: A TRANSATLANTIC CONVERSATION

    Event co-chairs: Nicole Gipson (University of Bristol) and Ahmed Honeini (Royal Holloway University of London) Featured Speakers: Lucas Hubbard, William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, Nicola Frith, Esther Stanford-Xosei TIME: 16.05.2024 : 19:00 - 20:30

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    BAAS Teaching Prize

    Are you an American Studies undergrad or postgrad teacher? Has something worked really well lately? If yes, please tell us about it! The new BAAS Teaching Prize is accepting submissions until 1 May!

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    Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest by Casey A. Huegel

    In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots activists, regulators, union workers, and politicians that responded to the event with a new kind of environmental movement.

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