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The Trans Liberation Now! conference will be held on Midsummer’s Day, 21st June 2025, in Bush House on the Strand Campus of King’s College London. The conference aims to assemble a wide array of scholars, activists, professionals, both cis and trans, working against organised transphobia and for gender liberation. Proposals should be sent to fgenabstracts@gmail.com 5.00 pm BST on Monday 17th March 2025.
BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled.
Fixed term full time teaching post in History at Loughborough, including a requirement to be able to teach an Atlantic World module.
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.
To mark the centenary of ‘the Scottish Beat’, Alexander Trocchi’s birth, Scottish Literature and the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow will be staging a two-day symposium on 12–13 June, 2025. We welcome proposals for talks of 15-20 minutes on any aspect of Trocchi’s life and works. Please submit these to chris.gair@glasgow.ac.uk including the word ‘Trocchi’ in the heading. To receive updates on the symposium, please email the same address and request being added to the mailing list.
We are seeking a part-time, fixed-term Impact Fellow to join the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. The Impact Fellow will support the AHRC Impact Award Accelerator-funded project Mapping the Indigenous North American Collection of Nottingham City Museums and Galleries. The Impact Fellow will work closely with project researchers and on-site with the museum curator to support the identification and provenance of collection materials and create an updated digital archive of the Indigenous North American collection. The application deadline is 19 March.
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