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The items below include news from BAAS itself and submissions from other institutions and organisations. You will find posts organised by category below. Each week, the news and events submitted to BAAS, are included on the Weekly Digest mailing. You can sign up to receive the weekly mailing by completing this form.

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Latest News and Events

    DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH: Energy for What? Ideas and Ideologies in US environmental history

    Join us on zoom on Thursday 26 June 2025, 3-4pm for a conversation with the authors of two exciting new books in US environmental history: Dr Rebecca K. Wright (Northumbria) author of Moral Energy in America (John Hopkins UP, 2025) Dr Pollyanna Rhee (Illinois Urbana-Champaign) author of Natural Attachements: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970 (Chicago UP, 2025) Chaired by Dr Elsa Devienne (Northumbria and GREEN BAAS co-lead).

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    Facebook Live Book Launch: Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic by Bridget Bennett

    LSU Press is hosting a Facebook Live launch for Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic by Bridget Bennett on Thursday 6 June at 20.00 BST. A recording will be available on Facebook and will then migrate to YouTube.

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    ☀️ Your summer writing inspiration: Submit to the Metropolitan Museum Journal

    Submit to the Metropolitan Museum Journal by September 15, 2025

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    Trans Liberation Now Conference – Registration Open

    King's College London, June 21st: A one-day conference bringing to discuss and strategise on how to fight for trans rights in the UK today.

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    BrANCH Travel Awards

    The association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians invites applications for PGR & ECR Travel Grants of up to £1000. Deadline: July 1.

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    2nd International Conference on Agriculture & Natural Resources

    2nd International Conference on Agriculture & Natural Resources (ICANR 2025), on November 17-18, 2025, in Rome, Italy.

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