News & Events

17th April 2025 is the deadline to submit a paper to the 'Black Atlantic Periodicals and Space' symposium. This symposium invites scholars, librarians and researchers from a variety of disciplines whose primary objects of study are Black periodicals (magazines, newspapers, etc) published 1900-2000 in the Americas, Europe, and Africa to submit papers that ask about what it means to traverse the space of 20th Century Black Atlantic periodicals and what spaces these periodicals themselves traverse. The Symposium will be held at the British Library on 8th May 2025.

Join us to celebrate our 2025 winners at our digital award ceremony on Friday 11 AprilBAAS! You’ll find out who won the coveted best book/best first book prizes and much, much more!

Contact j.porter.6@bham.ac.uk to informally discuss an open 2-year Research Fellow role working with treatiedspaces.com- the Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Birmingham. Remote working possible by agreement. Your chance to work on exciting interdisciplinary grant development with a team collaborating internationally, advancing thinking within heritage & resource use. Backgrounds in any discipline welcome.

We are pleased to announce that an international conference entitled "America and the World in the 1960s: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on American Foreign Relations during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations (1961-1969)" will be hosted at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Université Paris-Saclay on 22-24 October, 2025.

The schedule and registration information for the upcoming Eighth Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium, "Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America," is now available.

Inspired by real events, this ‘exceptional Sidney Poitier drama’ (The Guardian) takes place ten years before he becomes the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Actor. Backed by double Oscar and BAFTA nominee Colman Domingo as producer, this gripping drama captures the moment a young Sidney Poitier prepares to sign a career-defining Hollywood contract that could make him a star. But there’s a catch. In a time of betrayals, will he name names? Will he sign his life away?