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The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery encourages applications for its 2025-2026 research fellowships, awarded through the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP). Residencies are available at the graduate, doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior levels. The deadline to apply is October 15.
BAAS member Sarah Layzell's debut children's novel Cottonopolis has now been published by Northodox Press. Cottonopolis is an LGBTQ+ middle grade story set in 1840s Manchester, mixing social history with a magical story of friendship and first love. Among other topics, the book addresses the historical relationship between Manchester, the Industrial Revolution, the cotton trade and enslavement in the United States.
The Mississippi River, often regarded as America’s central artery, has been instrumental in shaping the nation’s geography, culture, and history. This edited volume, The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s arterial River, aims to explore the river’s vast influence, tracing its course from the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its expansive delta at the Gulf of Mexico. Through a multidisciplinary approach—encompassing geography, ecology, history, culture, and literature—we invite contributors to examine the river’s profound impact.
Taking into consideration recent developments toward a Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies, this special issue of The European Journal of American Studies aims to rethink and recontextualize the American project not through the homogenizing impulses of the global sublime but through the decentered relationality of planetarity—the act of “making our home unheimlich or uncanny” (Spivak 74). Potential contributors should send a 500 word abstract and a short biographical note to dominik.steinhilber@uni-konstanz.de and florian.wagner@uni-jena.de by December 31, 2024.
Hi, Please find attached the CFP for an international conference entitled "After November 5th: The Challenges to U.S. Democracy in the Era of Trumpism," which will take place at the Chicago University in Paris (France) on January 23 & 24, 2025. Paper proposals (which should include the title of the paper, author(s), and a 10-line abstract) must be submitted before October 2, 2024, to the following address: USdemocracyjan25@gmail.com. Acceptance will be notified by October 21, 2024. Thanks!
All environmental humanists broadly conceived are invited to join us for the launching event of the 2024-2025 GREEN BAAS Online Roundtable Series: Writing in/for the Environmental Humanities. This free online roundtable will be held on zoom on Thursday 12 September, 4pm BST. Conceived with the needs and questions of ECRs in mind, this session brings together five experienced scholars who edit journals and/or book series about the environmental humanities to share with us their reflections on the field and the challenges and opportunities of writing in/for the environmental humanities.
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