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The University of Manchester Americans Studies programme is delighted to announce its annual Henry Box Brown Lecture, which this year will be given by Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership'
Keele University and the British Library are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2025 under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme. The application deadline is 5pm on May 12.
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
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