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In this episode, we’re joined by Gary Younge — an award-winning journalist, author, and academic whose work has long challenged the way we think about power, race, democracy, and justice. Join us, Dr. Nicole M. Gipson and Dr. Ahmed Honeini, for a thoughtful and compelling conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DX7y1odV7g
Please join us for our ESO Summer Seminar where Dr. Ahmed Honeini will discuss his new book, Tennessee Williams’s America (Routledge 2025), the first full-length study of homes, families, and familial exile in the plays of Tennessee Williams. This talk, drawn from the book’s introduction, examines Williams’s most famous plays: his first masterwork, the autobiographical The Glass Menagerie, and his magnum opus, the tragic A Streetcar Named Desire.
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, join History Lab on 7th May at 5:30pm for this special online roundtable event discussing the significance of the Founding Era (1763–1801) in American history today.
"Get It While It's Hot is the rare book that is at once both a monumental intellectual intervention and one of the greatest books on food and community I've read in decades. As a Black southern writer who was fed by the communities explored here, I'm thankful the editors made this offering possible." - Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir
The Netherlands American Studies Association invites submissions for its 2026 annual conference, "American Protest Cultures: Protest, Dissent, and the Cultural Politics of the United States," to be held 4–6 November 2026 at Radboud University (Nijmegen). The conference welcomes interdisciplinary work on protest, dissent, activism, media, memory, environment, labor, gender, race, Indigenous sovereignty, digital mobilization, and related topics in U.S., hemispheric, transnational, and comparative perspectives. Submission deadline: Friday, 8 May 2026.
African Atlantic Lives and Visual Culture Research Network - Spring Talks Tuesday 28th April, 16.00-17.30, online Dr Mary Shannon - 'Regency Visual Culture and the Black Atlantic: Finding Billy Waters' Tuesday 5th May, 16.00-17.30, online and in person at Durham University Dr Indie A. Choudhury - ‘Sublimating Time & Afro-Atlantic Remapping: Frank Bowling’s Who’s Afraid of Barney Newman?’ Tuesday 19th May, 16.00-17.30, online Prof. Alan Rice - ‘Guerrilla Memorialisation and the Archive of the Black Atlantic in Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Praxis’ Click through for further info.
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