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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.

BAAS invites scholars in any field of American Studies to apply for grants of up to two years in duration. Grants may be requested for up to a maximum of £2000 for a range of American Studies academic activities relating to: American Studies research, pedagogy, or career development; and the development of networks or other organisations that support American Studies scholars in the UK.

On June 1, the University of Georgia Press will release Brett Biebel's companion to Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. Biebel's book is designed to aid readers in examining Pynchon's 1997 masterpiece, a book that touches on colonialism, American history, westward expansion, and the dark side of the Age of Enlightenment, all with typical Pynchonian insight, humor, and tragedy.

This new book examines Kim Stanley Robinson’s concern with literary apprenticeship.

The convenors of 2023’s BAAS Panel Black Feminism(s): Past, Present, and Future’ seek submissions from PhD students and ECRs for the 2024 continuation Panel, ‘Black Feminism(s) and Transnational Solidarity’.