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Sam Ladkin, Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism: Perfectly Disgraceful (Oxford University Press): offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural blossoming O'Hara catalysed, namely the mid-century experimental and multi-disciplinary arts scene, the New York School. Fresh accounts of canonical figures (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, George Balanchine, Fred Astaire) and original work on those too little discussed (Edwin Denby, Elaine de Kooning) resound with analysis of queer iconology from Michelangelo's David to James Dean.

The Associate Editors of the Journal of American Studies are looking for book reviews from doctoral candidates and early career researchers with expertise in any aspect of American Studies and its related sub-disciplines.

The award-winning university access charity, The Brilliant Club, is offering a part time opportunity for PhDs and ECRs.

The Southern Historical Association’s Graduate Council and Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States are proud to announce our collaborative online event ‘Contested Legacies and Continuing Struggles: Brown v. Board, 70 Years On’, to be held at 13.00 EDT/18.00 BST on Wednesday 15th May, via Zoom.

The New Area Studies Research Centre, the East Centre and the School of Global Development at the University of East Anglia are calling for papers between 5000-8000 words to be presented at a symposium on 2nd and 3rd October 2024 on the topic of Imagined Geographies: from Past to Future.

The first history of the formidable campaign that transformed Los Angeles into one of the world's greatest coastal metropolises, revealing how the city's man-made shores became the site for the reinvention of seaside leisure and the triumph of modern bodies.