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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 Friday 11th April 2025.
The sixth episode of the BAAS How To series has been released! In this video, Sian Round talks to Tom Cryer, PhD student in American History at UCL, about publishing your first journal article.
This British Academy funded project investigates contemporary dominant discourses of higher education and academics’ experiences of teaching in the current context. Those currently teaching in the UK in Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines are welcome to participate through an online survey and / or interviews.
This Summer School and Simulation is focused on the impact of emerging technologies on journalism and will be led by CNN journalists, industry experts and leading media analysts. It will take place at University College Dublin from 29 June to 12 July.
Temple University Press Christian Right organizations have darkened America’s political soul by strategically constructing a theological justification for hate. Angelia Wilson supports this claim in The Politics of Hate by detailing how Christian Right organizations have pushed voters toward polarization and primed religious conservatives to support Donald Trump.
The Canadian Review of American Studies is actively seeking submissions from scholars in various disciplines on topics related to American literature, culture, history, and more.
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