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Please find attached the description, registration poster, and programme for AfterWords: Reconsidering Narratives of Trauma and Violence in the Humanities, a conference of the School of English at Trinity College which will take place both in person (Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin) and online on 9 February 2024. Attendants can register through the links in the programme or via the QR codes on the poster for either the online or in person option. For any queries, feel free to contact the conference organsiers at pgengconference2024@gmail.com.
Radical Print Cultures in the US South is a hybrid one-day conference in association with Leeds Centre for the Comparative History of Print held at the University of Leeds. Bringing together researchers from literary studies and history, the hybrid conference will include a keynote speech, given by Professor Sharon Monteith (Nottingham Trent University), author of SNCC’s Stories: The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2020)].
The Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford is is looking to hire a Director of Academic Programmes
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to invite paper and panel proposals for our 2024 annual conference. The conference format will be fully in-person, at the University of Southampton, between 19-21 June, 2024. Our keynote speaker is Professor Randall Stephens of the University of Oslo.
Over the past two years, the Bridging the Resource Gap project has been working to create American Studies resources for students in further education. With contributions from our wonderful American Studies community, these resources are now available to view here: https://baas.ac.uk/community/resources-for-schools/
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