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International conference “Fifty Years and Counting: The Global Memory and Legacy of Martin Luther King” organized by Centro di studi Americani e Transatlantici Bairati. April, 12-13, 2018 – Campus Luigi Einaudi Lungo Dora Siena 100 – Torino If you’d like to read more about MLK heritage, here’s a post serie by Robert Greene II on … Read More “13-14/04/18, Turin (IT). International conference “Fifty Years and Counting: The Global Memory and Legacy of Martin Luther King”” »
Nationalism: Hyper and Post
The first issue of JAm It! will try to explore the intricacies of contemporary U.S. politics by addressing notions of hyper-nationalism and post-nationalism.
Read More “15/06/2018 – Deadline Extended! CFP: JAm It! (Nationalism: Hyper and Post)” »
Call for papers for a three-day workshop on anti-Catholicism in Europe and America. The aims of the workshop are
Read More “30/04/18 – CFP “Anti-Catholicism in Europe and America, 1520-1900”” »
In the 1993 inaugural issue of Southern Cultures Harry Watson and John Shelton Reed claimed in “The Front Porch” that “although it may be said that there is one South, there are also many Souths, and many cultural traditions among them … There is one South spawned by its many cultures”
Read More “31/03/17 – CFC “Other Souths on page and screen”” »
Issues of identities and connections were as pertinent to the inhabitants of early America and the Atlantic World as they remain today. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, the geopolitics of the Americas were in constant flux
“How does an elite group of nine people shape everything from marriage and money, to safety and sex for an entire nation?”
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Read More “More Perfect – Alla scoperta della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti” »
The Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS) is promoting a Conference about Challenging America, American Challenges. Culture, Society, Politics, held and hosted by the Department of American Studies and Mass Media.
What is the current state of Blues Literature? It has been well over thirty years since Houston Baker Jr.’s Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1984) put blues back on the critical map. Much has changed since then.
Read More “21/03/18 – MLA2019. CFP “Sweet Home Chicago? Rethinking Blues Literature”” »
BrANCH, the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians, was established in 1993 in order to promote the study in Britain of the history of the United States between 1789 and 1917. Membership is open to anyone with a scholarly interest in this period of American history.
Read More “24/02/18 – CFP and CFPanel of the annual BrANCH Conference.” »