Year: 2016

Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of North American Women’s History

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University of Oxford – History Faculty
Location: Oxford
Salary: £45,562 to £61,179 per annum (plus allowances) (Grade E0S)
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 20th December 2016
Closes: 19th January 2017
Job Ref: 126793
George Street
Oxford

We are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) in North American Women’s History from 1 October 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment will be made in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Corpus Christi College.

The combined salary will be in the range £45,562 – £61,179 p.a. plus additional benefits as detailed in the job description; additional salary of £2,626 p.a. will apply if the title of Professor is awarded. The appointee will also be eligible for a housing allowance (£12,144), tutorial book allowance (£742), research allowance (£2,024), hospitality authority (£415) and junior member entertainment allowance.

Applications from candidates with research and teaching expertise in North American history in any era from 1600 to 2000, broadly defined to include areas of the North American continent which did not form part of the USA, and with a strong record of research and teaching in Women’s History are strongly encouraged.

The appointee will conduct advanced research, give lectures, classes and tutorials, supervise, support and examine students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and undertake administrative duties for both the Faculty and College. S/he will also play a strategic role in developing research programmes in Women’s History, building on the success of the Oxford Centre in Gender, Identity and Subjectivity and the University’s Women in the Humanities programme.

The successful candidate will hold a doctorate in history, US history, American history, or a related relevant field. S/he will have primary expertise in one or more aspects of North American Women’s History (1600-2000), and a research record of international standing appropriate to the stage of the candidate’s career. S/he will demonstrate excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching, along with the personal qualities needed to encourage a high level of achievement at all levels. The ability and willingness to undertake administrative duties, and evidence of good interpersonal and organisational skills are essential.

Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.

All applications must be made online. For further information, including details about how to apply, please click on the links below.

The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon on Thursday 19 January 2017. Interviews are expected to be held in Oxford on 20 February 2017.

www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=126793

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CFP: Hoaxes, Humbugs, Pranks, and Play: Functions and Expressions of Foolery in American Society and Culture

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Event: 03/10/2017 – 03/11/2017
Abstract: 01/15/2017
Categories: American, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, African-American, Colonial, Revolution & Early National, Transcendentalists
Location: Boston University
Organization: New England American Studies Association NEASA

New England American Studies Association (NEASA)– Call for Papers Hoaxes, Humbugs, Pranks and Play: Functions and Expressions of Foolery in American Society and Culture

March 10-11, 2017

Boston University

The New England American Studies Association’s (NEASA) annual spring conference offers an opportune moment to pursue connotations of playfulness and trickery, and of enjoyment and leisure. The emergence of myriad manifestations and sites of playfulness across social sectors has profoundly impacted American society and culture. Childhood has become a playful time to be treasured; diversionary activities have come to dominate cultural products; even nostalgia has acquired a pronounced lucidity. Play is also big business: gaming, sports, and other recreation activities are their own sectors of the economy. We therefore invite contributions that interrogate, reflect on, and celebrate the changing functions and sites of playfulness and trickery in American society and culture. Topics to consider include: • The material culture of play (boardgames, cards, videogames, etc.) • Tricksters in literature • Hoaxes and humbugs in history, politics and popular culture • “Playing” in archives and the joys of research • Playfulness and pedagogy • Gamification • The disruptive power of play • Children at play • Leisure culture • Sports and play • April Fool’s Day (history, popular culture representations, etc.) In addition to individual paper proposals, we welcome submissions for roundtable discussions, hands-on workshops, and alternative format sessions (e.g.: film screenings, 5-minute micropapers). Submissions that do not address the conference theme will also be considered. Individual proposals should include: 150-200 word abstract, presentation title, name, institutional affiliation, and contact email. For panel/roundtable proposals, in 200-500 words, please provide: session title, its topic, format, individual paper titles (as appropriate), as well as the names, institutional affiliations, and contact emails for each individual participant. All submissions should be sent to: neasacouncil@gmail.com by January 15, 2017. For more information regarding NEASA, please visit our website: http://newenglandasa.tumblr.com/

CFP: ALA 2017: Endemic: Crisis and Representation in 20th and 21st century American Literature

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Deadline for submissions: January 20, 2017
Full name / name of organization: American Literature Association
Contact email: luke.mueller@tufts.edu
American Literature Association

28th Annual Conference

Boston, May 25-28, 2017

Endemic: Crisis and Representation in 20th and 21st century American Literature

The sense of national crisis has become endemic. From Greek roots, the word endemic means a condition that is constantly present in a “demos,” in a group of people. Today’s democracies face such constant threats as internal division, terrorism, and global climate change, and we are unsure whether any moment of crisis could prove to be the turning point that determined the future. We might wonder, however, when Americans were ever not living in a time of crisis, and whether our decisions really do allow for a different future.

This panel explores the endemic sense of crisis by looking to twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. As Pericles Lewis claims, writers of the early 20th century addressed crises of representation in response to political and institutional crises of war, nationalism, faith, reason, and empire. Even as the iconoclastic energies of modernism have waned, the modernist project continues with an ever-broadening array of literary subjects, forms, and techniques. We seek papers on literary works that represent American life in crisis and that help illuminate current crises. Topics may include the Great Depression or the Great Recession, Civil Rights Protests or the Black Lives Matter Movement, Nazism or ISIS, McCarthyism or the politics of Russian internet hacking.

We hope to understand whether and how such socio-political crises are endemic, how they occur, and whether they persist, recur, and iterate over time. We hope to find answers to questions such as: how does literature register this sense of crisis? Do literary experiences help to create it or escape it? Do they simply present or clarify an era’s crises? How does literature help imagine resolutions or contain threats? And what models, if any, does it offer for survival, stability, or progress?

Submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to luke.mueller@tufts.edu along with a brief description of yourself and your relevant work. The deadline for submissions is January 20, 2017.

CFP: Special Relationships: Poetry Across the Atlantic Since 2000

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Deadline for submissions: February 12, 2017
Full name / name of organization: Rothemere American Institute, Oxford University
Contact email: poetrysince2000@gmail.com
Special Relationships: Poetry Across the Atlantic Since 2000

We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for Special Relationships: Poetry Across the Atlantic Since 2000, a one-day symposium exploring the interstices of poetics in the circum-Atlantic region since 2000, to be held at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford on May 19, 2017.

The symposium aims to consider some of the ways in which poets’ ideas of relatedness in the region complicate the idea of straight lines of influence. In Claudia Rankine’s 2015 Citizen, for example, Rankine recounts an incident at the home of a British novelist shortly after the 2011 London Riots, sparked by the death of Mark Duggan at the hands of the Metropolitan Police. When asked if she will write about Duggan’s death, Rankine responds ‘why don’t you?’. Yet Rankine does write about Duggan: she includes him in her litany of black people killed at the hands of the state. For Rankine, then, the African diaspora becomes one social formation in tension with the national, a common experience of racism creates a community that does not map on to national borders. Even so, Rankine’s long poem’s subtitle is ‘an American Lyric’.

By exploring the way that poetry’s various concepts of relationships simultaneously transgress borders, operate within them, and even reveal hidden borders across societies, the symposium aims to produce new insights into the multifariousness of poetic production since the year 2000. How have poets from the U.S.A., the U.K., Ireland, the Caribbean, and West Africa conceived of their relationships in a time of ever-greater connection, and how has this changed how they think about differences too?

We invite interested parties, whether scholars or poets, to submit abstracts (200-300 words) for 20-minute papers. We will also accept proposals for panels of three papers (up to 700 words). We are equally interested in receiving proposals for 20-minute pieces that depart from the norms of the conference paper form, either in the form of creative responses to the symposium theme, or creative/critical hybrid pieces.

Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:

Communications, the Internet, and other information networks, and their impact on poetic coteries and movements.
Migration and the relationship between poetry and national borders.
The Special relationship, America and Britain’s commitment to the War on Terror.
Race, class, gender and sexuality: how poets have differed on these questions, and how poets are building transnational communities of liberation.
The relationship between poetry, capital, and labour, especially since the 2008 financial crisis.
The relationship between poetry and institutions, such as academia.

Confirmed speakers include Sarah Howe (winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize), Oli Hazzard, and Sandeep Parmar.

Please send abstracts and a short biography to the organizers, Kristin Grogan and Hugh Foley, at poetrysince2000@gmail.com by Sunday, February 12.

CFP: 18th Annual Conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America

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4th March 2017, University of Edinburgh

The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) was formed in 1999 to encourage study of North America in Scotland. This year, SASA’s annual one-day conference will take place in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh on Saturday March 4, 2017. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Daniel Kryder (Brandeis University), the 2016-17 Fulbright-British Library Eccles Centre Scholar.

The conference has no specific theme, but is intended to reflect the range and vitality of American Studies in Scotland and beyond. Participation is open to all scholars. We particularly encourage proposals from masters and doctoral students, who will be able to submit papers to our postgraduate essay prize competition sponsored by Adam Matthew Digital. Abstracts are welcome from all disciplines, including history, literature, politics, international relations, culture, religious studies, music, film studies and cognate fields. As always, the conference is intended to provide a friendly forum in which postgraduate students and academic staff can share and discuss their research.

Proposals for individual papers (20 minutes) and panel sessions should be sent to Catherine Bateson via email at sasaconference2017@gmail.com. Proposals must be submitted by 15 January 2017. Abstracts for paper proposals should not exceed 300 words; panel proposals should not exceed two pages. A brief CV and full contact information must accompany all proposals.

The organisers would like to thank the University of Edinburgh and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology for their generous support.

CFP: Association Française d’Etudes Américaines (AFEA) / French Association for American Studies

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Graduate Student Symposium 2017 – University of Strasbourg, June 6, 2017

Call for Presentations

The French Association for American Studies invites doctoral students in American studies to take part in the Graduate Symposium (“Doctoriales”) specifically organized on their behalf during its annual conference. This year’s workshops will be held on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 (9am-5pm) at University of Strasbourg (France). The conference will take place on June 7 to 9, 2017. For further information, please check our website: http://www.afea.fr

Since 2008, the AFEA has been encouraging the internationalization of its Graduate Student Symposium by offering grants (up to 500 euros each) for a maximum of ten European candidates (other than French) to help cover their travel expenses. All students are, in addition, invited to attend the whole conference free of registration charges. The symposium provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their research in a less formal session than that of a full conference panel, and compare it to that of other European scholars. Doctoral students may be at an early or more advanced stage of their research. The proposals will be responded to by professors specializing in related fields. Candidates are invited to give their presentations in English within one of the two workshops offered: 1) American literature, or 2) American “civilization” (history, sociology, political science…). Proposals relevant to both fields (film studies, visual arts or music, for instance), or to another field (such as translation studies or linguistics) can be sent to either of the co-chairs.

Candidates must send a Curriculum Vitae and a 500-word abstract summarizing their dissertation proposal, plus an estimated budget of traveling expenses and funding otherwise available to them. They must mention when they began their PhD, and the name and affiliation of their advisor.

Proposals in civilization must be sent electronically to Professor Romain Huret (Romain.Huret@ehess.fr).

Proposals in literature must be sent electronically to both Professors Françoise palleau-papin (francoise.palleau@wanadoo.fr) and Mathieu Duplay  (mduplay@club-internet.fr)

Deadline for applications: February 15, 2017. The symposium organizers will respond to all applicants by March 15, 2017.

 

CFP: New Perspectives in English and American Studies

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The April Conference, to be held April 20-22 2017, is a triennial international conference organized by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Poland since 1978. It presents a valuable opportunity to bring together scholars working in various fields of English and American Studies.

Speakers are kindly invited to submit papers on a variety of topics. Our usual General Sessions on British and American Literature, General and Applied Linguistics, Translation and Cultural Studies, Teaching of English as a Foreign Language will be accompanied by a selection of Thematic Sessions as follows:

1. James Joyce

2. Medievalism in Literature

3. New Perspectives on the American South

4. Variation, Variety, Variable – Facets of English in the Contemporary World

5. Stylistics of Multimodality /Intermedial Texts and Discourses (Artistic and Applied)

6. Teaching English in Academia

7. Stance and Evaluation in Discourse

8. Digital Humanities

9. Audiovisual Translation

10. The Contemporary Historical Novel

Plenary lectures at AC 2017 will be delivered by the following speakers:

Robert H. Brinkmeyer (University of South Carolina)

Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

Hartmut Haberland (Roskilde University)

Carolyne Larrington (Oxford University)

Adriaan Neele (Yale University)

Please submit an abstract of ca. 200 words to the following email addresses: ac.general.session@gmail.com for General Sessions and ac.thematic.sessions@gmail.com for Thematic Sessions. Paper proposals will be reviewed anonymously and the authors will be notified about their acceptance via email.

The deadline for paper proposals is 20th January 2017. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 31st January 2017. Early Conference registration and fee (available till 1st March 2017) is 600 PLN. Doctoral students are eligible for a discount of 150 PLN. AC 2017 website: www2.filg.uj.edu.pl/aprilconference.

 

CFP: The Georgian Association for American Studies 18th Annual International Conference

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Institute of American Studies at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and The Georgian Association for American Studies is pleased to announce that the next annual 18th international conference on American Studies will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia on May 11-13, 2017.
Institute of American Studies (IAS) at Tbilisi State University and Georgian Association for American Studies (GAAS) welcome you to the 2017 international conference on American Studies in Tbilisi, Georgia.
To highlight the range and diversity of American Studies in Georgia  the IAS and GAAS are issuing an open call for the 2017 conference proposals, the deadline of which is April 1, 2017.
The 2017 Annual conference of the American Studies is dedicated to the “240th Anniversary of the  United States Constitution”. IAS and GAAS  are committed to organize a conference that reflects the broadest disciplinary range within the area of American Studies. The IAS and GAAS conference encompasses topics across the disciplinary spectrum in American Studies, as well as interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches to the subject.  The themes around the history of United States Constitution are only indicative, and not in any way intended to be a definitive list. The conference content will be defined by the range and breadth of your suggestions and the conference committee looks forward to receiving many different and stimulating proposals.
The conference structure is expected mainly to consist of traditional panel sessions with papers, and proposals for panels of papers are very welcome indeed. All proposals are expected to include the opportunities for discussions.
IAS and GAAS have established the practice of publishing a certain number of papers from each conference in an edited bilingual collection of papers Journal of American Studies. The local conference committee looks forward to continuing this tradition, and may request the session chairs to nominate works for being considered by editors.
Abstracts (“work in progress”) and application forms should be submitted to our staff/secretariat at geoamstud.conference@tsu.ge  Please limit your topic abstract to a maximum of 300 words including a brief outline of any relevant supporting information.  All proposals must include the name and institutional affiliation of the applicant.
You can access the submission form here.
Participants of the conference are not required to pay their conference registration fees.

CFP: Interrogating Commodity Cultures | Exploring Global Connections

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Interrogating Commodity Cultures | Exploring Global Connections


 5 May 2017

This one-day interdisciplinary workshop will interrogate the cultural transformations effected by global commodity histories in the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Colonial conquest, advancements in travel technologies and industrialisation all contributed to creating the material conditions which allowed for the production, consumption, and movement of commodities across the globe. In so doing, the global capitalist system and actors within it changed not only transnational relations, but also local cultures and practices. The increased mobility of commodities, peoples and things introduced new geographies of connection and provided new ways of imagining the contact zones of colonial encounters. This workshop will ask how the global circulation of commodities is mediated through forms such as novels, poetry, drama, advertising and art. It will explore how these literary and visual mediations of the global circulation of commodities have rewritten the map of the globe and introduced new spatial imaginaries and dynamics of power. What kinds of artistic and literary responses have these commodity histories generated? How do these responses register and resist the long-lasting and far-reaching effects of the global circulation of commodities? Given that commodity histories are rarely confined within neat temporal borders, and their legacies and cultural interpretation have an enduring tendency to persist, what mode of trans-historical reading is adequate to the task? What new methodological approaches are necessary to grapple with the circulation of goods in a globalised world? And what is at stake in utilising these multiple scales of reference, from the local to the transnational?
We hope to attract a wide range of perspectives in the seminar: papers from literature, literary and cultural geography, art history, and history are all welcome. The following topics are intended as suggestions only:

  • Literary and visual engagements
  • Spatial/Geographical imaginaries/cartographies/maps
  • Trade narratives/routes on land/at sea
  • Specific commodity histories/case studies (e.g. coffee/tea/cotton/narcotics/spices/ wool)
  • Narratives of resistance/power
  • Commodities and mobility/migration
  • Form/genre
  • Travel writing
  • Ports/Docks as liminal spaces/sites of connection
  • Environmental histories and eco-critical responses
  • Literary geographies, including studies using GIS
  • Local practices, cultures and customs
  • Rise of the ethical consumer
  • The ‘archival turn’ and commodity history
  • Culture, commodities and the financial/economic humanities
  • Material cultures/thing theory

Please send 250-word abstracts for a 20 minute paper and a 100-word biography to commoditycultures@gmail.com by 27 February 2017.
We are grateful to the UCD Humanities Institute for supporting this event.

CFP: Borders vs. Bridges: Nationalism and Transnationalism in the Americas

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UCL Institute of the Americas, London

3rd Annual Conference 11-12 May 2017

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Cathy McIlwaine (QMUL) & Dr. Nick Witham (UCL-IA)

Following the success of our 1st and 2nd International Conferences, the UCL Americas Research Network invites postgraduate students and early career researchers working on any aspect of  the Americas to participate in our 3rd International Conference: ‘Nationalism and Transnationalism in the Americas.’

As a leading postgraduate hub for studies of the Americas in the UK, we believe it is vital to showcase and bring together the latest research being conducted by postgraduates in a friendly and welcoming environment. Although based in the heart of London at UCL, we are foremost an international conference which aims to bring together scholars working on the Americas from all around the world.

For a long time, transnational trends have inspired social, political, economic and cultural transformations across the globe. In the Americas, there have been numerous examples of bridge-building across borders. From solidarity movements to class-based alliances, to trade agreements, building bridges between nations has been seen as a means of progress across the Americas. Parallel to these, we also witness more ‘centrifugal’ tendencies towards isolationism and nationalism. Propelled by complex social phenomena such as migration, human displacement, economic instability and political upheaval, many are turning to the erection of barriers -real and imagined- as a means to cope with uncertainty.

In light of these themes, our first call for papers invited postgraduate and early career research papers from any discipline related to the physical, political and cultural formation of transnational bridges and construction of national borders. However, we now send out this second call and broaden our scope to include a secondary round of paper and panel proposals from postgraduates working on any aspect of the Americas. This might include, but is in no way limited to:

● Nationalism

● National identities

● Migrant communities across the Americas

● Gender and sexuality

● Trade

● Foreign policy

● Social movements

● Race and Racism

● Political Cultures

Please send your abstracts of between 250-300 words together with a short biography to ia.americasresnet@ucl.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 13th January 2017.