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    Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies by edited by Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly

    The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique.

    AAAS Annual Conference “Education, the Arts, and American Studies” – Feldkirch 2024

    Call for Papers The 51st AAAS conference will take place from October 17-19, 2024, at the University College of Teacher Education Vorarlberg, Austria. It will explore “Education, the Arts, and American Studies.” Teachers and scholars interested in presenting a paper are asked to submit their proposals until May 31, 2024.

    The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) 2024 Conference

    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.

    Call for papers & book proposals

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

    Unfolding Our Shared Future – 26th April 2024, University of East Anglia

    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

    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.

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