BAAS PG Roundtable Series 2024
Submissions are now open for a series of online postgraduate roundtables!
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Submissions are now open for a series of online postgraduate roundtables!
Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university in the country/territory of the national/regional association, and have been members of an American Studies association belonging to EAAS for at least one year may apply. The Transatlantic Grant will permit the holder to conduct research which illuminates a particular area of American Studies in a designated university, independent research organization or archive in the United States.
For over a century, automobility has been at the center of complex and far-reaching technological, scientific, social, and cultural transformations. Cultural production has consistently been engaged with and shaped by automobility. We invite proposals that engage with the local, national, and global cultures of automobility, from literature and film to visual art, video games, and social movements. We hope to bring together perspectives on the cultures of automobility in various countries and from various disciplines, including literature, history, geography, sociology, and cultural studies.
The show-runner of HBO's "Succession" on writing America from the outside-in.
On 8th May 2024, the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism is hosting a public lecture during Birkbeck's Arts Week 2024, where Professor Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading) will bring together the narratives and memories of two groups of people who suffered under slavery: the victims of the slave plantations in the American South before the American Civil War; and those who underwent forced labour in the concentration camps in Europe. He will focus on two icons: Frederick Douglass and Primo Levi.
Civil Rights Movement activist, organiser and photographer Maria Varela's work will be exhibited at St John's College from the 29th of April 2024 to the 18th of May 2024. There will also be a talk with Maria Varela on the 30th of April at the Rothermere American Institute, where she will share her experiences photographing the South during this time. From events such as the Meredith March Against Fear, to profiling leaders such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Varela’s photography offers an important perspective on one of the most significant periods of reckoning in American history.
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