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an award-winning true crime podcast meets bluegrass musical about the Lizzie Borden case. Following a smash-hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and ahead of an international tour to Canada, Bury The Hatchet will be coming to Southwark Playhouse Borough (August 12 - Sept 5).
Marianne Moore: An International Conference, 15-17 April 2027, University of Cambridge Call for papers deadline: 1 September 2026 Exactly 100 years after Moore herself visited Cambridge, the purpose of the conference is to bring together an international and various group of readers with a strong predilection for thinking and writing about poetry, and put them to work newly and again on this singular, difficult, and discriminating poet. The schedule will take shape around readings between Marianne Moore and other writers. Send proposals for 15-20 minute papers to
Submit to the Metropolitan Museum Journal (vol. 62, published December 2027)
On 2nd July, UCL will be hosting a Graduate Workshop on Early America. All are welcome to join, and it will be followed by the Commonwealth Fund Lecture by Eliga Gould.
The IHR Migration and Mobility Seminar presents Dr Connie Thomas on Performing Citizenship: Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. This formative moment was not a mere partisan dispute, but a genuine disagreement on the nature of US citizenship that spilled out into the public arena.The seminar takes place on 16th June 2026 5.30pm-7.30pm, and attendance is online and in-person.
This panel explores speculative fiction in US culture as a critical lens for examining power, history, and futurity across literature, film, television, and digital media. Drawing on Cultural Studies, feminist, queer, posthuman, and decolonial frameworks, it highlights speculative narratives as tools for interrogating late capitalism, technological mediation, racialized and gendered subjectivities, and ecological crises.
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