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In advance of the 2025 AGM (which will be held at the University of Hertfordshire on Thursday April 24th 2025), elections will be held for various posts on the British Association for American Studies Executive Committee. Deadline for nominations: March 24th 2025 (see more for further instructions).
The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) was formed in 1999 to encourage the study of the Americas in Scotland. This year, SASA’s annual one-day conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh on March 1, 2025. Registration is now open.
For the upcoming School of English Postgraduate Colloquium at the University of Sheffield on Friday 30th May, we aim to examine and engage with notions of ‘Archive and Preservation’. This conference seeks to explore unconventional archives and methods of preservation in numerous forms within the humanities. We encourage submissions from postgraduate researchers from all disciplines of English, or from the faculty of Arts and Humanities (if relevant). The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Friday 14th March.
Join Michell Chresfield (Cornell), Katharina Motyl (Mannheim), Oussema Othmeni (Sousse), Myka Tucker-Abramson (Warwick), and author Elsa Devienne (Northumbria) in conversation about her recent, award-winning book Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. We'll be talking, among other things, about what the iconic and much filmed shoreline of a coastal metropolis can tell us about the urban past, present, and future.
Secondary school teachers (particularly those covering A-level modules in US history) are invited to apply for the Barringer/Monticello Teacher Award. A collaboration between BAAS, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF), and the International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJS), the award provides full funding to attend the Monticello Summer Institute, a week-long immersive, professional development programme that provides educators the opportunity to research and learn at Monticello in Charlottesville, VA. Closing: 14 March 2025
SASA's 5th biennial postgraduate workshop will be held at the University of Edinburgh on February 28th, 2025. Covering topics such as pedagogy practices, alternative careers and the academic job market the workshop hopes to support students studying any aspect of the history, literature and/or culture of the Americas.
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