News & Events

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference. This year's conference will take place at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford on Friday 5th July and will focus on the theme of history from the margins. We encourage proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that engage with the researching, writing, archiving and teaching of untold histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas.

New calls for papers and monograph proposals from Open Cultural Studies, Rowman & Littlefield, and more.

On 26 April 2024, from 17.30 UK time, the University of East Anglia is hosting "Unfolding Our Shared Future: Challenge, Possibility and Potential in the 21st Century," part of a travelling festival organised by the American Politics Group. The theme for the UEA event, which is being co-hosted by the Arthur Miller Institute for American Studies and the Department of Politics is the judiciary and the guest speakers are Baroness Shami Chakrabarti and Professor Steven K. Green. Online and in person attendance are both available.

Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and crisis-prone temporalities had major impacts on writing in the period, as well as on important aspects of visual representation. The conceptions of time - and especially futurity - arising from the theory and practice of speculation provided models for writers' and other artists' aesthetic, intellectual, and political concerns.

Registration is open for postgraduate researchers to attend the British Academy Global Professor Gregory D. Smithers end-of-project in person symposium on July 12, 2024, at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, entitled “Water Futures: Historical Perspectives from Indigenous Ecological Knowledge”. This symposium will bring together scholars at different career stages from around the world to consider water futures through the lens of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge.

On 8 May 2024, from 4.30 UK time, Keele University is hosting "Unfolding Our Shared Future: Challenge, Possibility and Potential in the 21st Century," part of a travelling festival organised by the American Politics Group. The theme for the Keele event, which is being co-hosted by the David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas, is "urban regeneration," and the guest speakers are Professor Loretta Lees and Professor Ray Bromley.