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We are pleased to announce the 69th Annual BAAS Digital Conference 2024, to be hosted this year on Discord. We hope that the use of this platform will provide exciting and imaginative ways to replicate the in-person conference experience. The conference will be held on the 10th-12th April 2024, and registration will open in the next few weeks.
CFP for the special dossier LGBTIQ+ Representations and Media in US Popular Culture: Exploring New Directions, Challenges, and Queer Heritage aimed at examining these representations seeking to foster a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of LGBTIQ+ representations and media in US popular culture.
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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
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