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The First Anglistics International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological and Related Studies in the English Language invites academics, researchers, educators, and postgraduate students to come together to explore English philology in all its dimensions. This event will be held entirely online and aims to foster dialogue and intellectual exchange on the dynamic linguistic, literary, and cultural landscapes of the English language. The conference, covering a wide range of academic perspectives

Please see below a Call for Papers for Common Sense at 250: Legacies of Democracy from Paine to Today, a conference marking the 250th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. The event will take place on 9–10 January 2026 at the University of Sussex and in Lewes, where Paine lived from 1768 to 1774.

‘African Atlantic Lives and Visual Culture’ is a new network that seeks to build research community, foster dialogue and advance knowledge of visual cultures of and in the African Atlantic. AALVC’s interdisciplinary focus on visual culture brings together participants from film and screen studies, art history, print culture, and stage and performance studies backgrounds. Researchers at all career stages, including postgraduates, are invited to be in touch if they are interested in joining the network. Contact: Dr Jenny Terry  j.a.terry@durham.ac.uk

Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare

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.