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This interdisciplinary special issue invites contributions which consider the role of the mask within and beyond America, in international and comparative contexts. Articles may consider masks as material object or metaphor, and as represented in any discipline. You could consider the following: -masks and crime and / horror -masks and superheroes -masks in celebrity culture -masks in theatre -masks and the posthuman -masks and the wellness industry

Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Each year we invite researchers and staff from universities and research organisations to take part in our national festival by organising a public engagement event or activity, rooted in humanities research.

An asynchronous short course is offered by the Center for Education and Lifelong Learning of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, this spring with emphasis placed on Multimodality and American Literature under the following title: Multimodality: Print and Digital Anglophone Narratives (3,5 ECTS). The 100-hour program is delivered by the members of the “Multimodal Research and Reading Group” of the Department of American Literature and Culture of the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

In People's Diplomacy, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations.

When we think about religion and politics in the United States today, we think of conservative evangelicals. But for much of the twentieth century it was liberal Protestants who most profoundly shaped American politics. Leaders of this religious community wielded their influence to fight for social justice by lobbying for the New Deal, marching against segregation, and protesting the Vietnam War.

The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them.