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What, when & where The awards are offered to scholars in the UK who need to travel to conduct research, or who have been invited to read papers at conferences on American Studies topics. It is intended that the grants be awarded for the study of subjects where the principle aim is the study of … Read More “02/12/2019 – 4 research grants BAAS for american studies” »
What, when & where Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television 16 – 17 September 2020De Montfort University, Leicester. Keynote speakers: Dr Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton), Professor Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), and others to follow. Unmade films and TV programmes have become a subject of both academic and popular … Read More “31/1/2020 – CFP: “Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television”” »
What, when & where Norwegian Petroleum Museum, Stavanger, Norway. In petrocultures2020 we will host presentations, exhibits and conversations regarding the transformations needed to influence the transition from our current culture and dependency on oil. Looming over these discussions we recognize the wealth and progress enabled by our exploitation and use of oil. We acknowledge the … Read More “20/1/2020- CFP: “Petrocultures 2020: transformations”” »
What, when & where World Weary: Cultures of Exhaustion 21-22 May 2020, University of York, UK Keynote Speakers:Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Penn State University, USADaisy Hildyard, author of The Second Body (2018) How does contemporary culture make sense of weary worlds? Exhaustion can be used to describe both the depletion of planetary resources … Read More “10/1/2020 – CFP: “World Weary: Cultures of Exhaustion”” »
What, when & where Camp/camp: the collision of style and biopolitics The Department of Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University invite abstracts for the 22nd annual Graduate Student Conference on “Camp/camp,” which will be taking place March 26-28, 2020. The ambiguous nature of ‘camp’ … Read More “7/1/2020 – CFP: “Camp/camp: the collision of style and biopolitics”” »
The History Graduate Student Organization at Kansas State University is proud to announce that it will be hosting the Flint Hills History Conference in Manhattan, Kansas on Saturday April 18, 2020. This conference serves as an opportunity for graduate students from the Flint Hills region and beyond to gain valuable experience presenting their original research in … Read More “01/02/2020 – CFP: 2020 Vision: Writing Tomorrow’s History Today”” »