Black Dance Uncovered: Summer School
Black Dance Uncovered: Summer School is a unique dance training programme that brings together leading professional dance practitioners from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora.
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Black Dance Uncovered: Summer School is a unique dance training programme that brings together leading professional dance practitioners from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora.
Visionary choreographer and MacArthur Fellow Shamel Pitts returns to LDIF with Marks of RED, a powerful Afrofuturistic performance that reimagines memory, embodiment and regeneration through movement, sound and light.
Proposals are welcome for RIAS Vol. 20, Fall-Winter (2/2027), "Digital Americas: Global Perspectives on American Narratives Online". Guest-edited by: Olga Ackroyd and Sara Riccetti Selim Staff Editor: Gabriela Vargas Cetina (Call open until June 30th, 2026)
The executive board of the Hemingway Society welcomes preliminary proposals from teams who wish to host our 2028 international conference.
The Irish Journal of American Studies (IJAS Online) is seeking a new Reviews Editor; to apply, please see https://ijas.iaas.ie/reviews-editor-2026/ Please send all applications and/or enquiries to irishjournalofamericanstudies@gmail.com by midnight on Friday March 13, 2026.
Job advert for a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship in American Studies at Cambridge, application deadline 19th March 2026 https://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/jobs/Keasbey-Isaac-Newton-Fellowship-in-American-Studies-2026
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