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The Institute of Historical Research's History Lab is delighted to announce the winner of our 2024 Olivette Otele Paper Prize: Tionne Alliyah Parris (University of Hertfordshire). Tionne's prize-winning talk will be a must-attend for anyone interested in Black history, transnational feminism and social justice movements.

The journal History is offering two awards (one early career, one mid-career) for up to £1500 leading to creation of a journal article in any field of history from any time period or geographical location. Articles will be published in the journal and are expected to be submitted within 18 months of the award.

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.