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Latest Announcements

Call for Submissions: Celebrity: Between Fame and Infamy, an International Film Festival & Symposium at Texas State University

Lisa Haegele (she/her) •09/21/2023 Announcement
Announcement Type
Call for Papers
Location
Texas, United States
Subject Fields
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Film and Film History, Popular Culture Studies, Social History / Studies

Texas State University is excited to announce its International Film Festival & Symposium on Celebrity: Between Fame and Infamy in San Marcos, Texas, February 22 - March 8, 2024. The festival will explore the topic of celebrity through a series of feature films and related artefacts (videos, edited clips, filmed performances, etc.) and conclude with a day-long symposium dedicated to the scholarly discussion of celebrity in films and filmic works from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

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CFP: Radio and the Making of Postcolonial Literatures (ACLA 2024)

Ben Fried •09/21/2023 Announcement
Call for Papers
Date
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Subject Fields
African History / Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Journalism and Media Studies, Literature

Magazines of the Air: Radio and the Making of Postcolonial Literatures

ACLA Annual Meeting 2024 (Montreal, March 14-17)

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Science and Democracy in Political Crises, 1900-2024

Nicola Hofstetter-Phelps •09/21/2023 Announcement
Call for Papers
Date
Location
District of Columbia, United States
Subject Fields
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Conference at GHI Washington | Conveners: Axel Jansen (GHI), Alexander Bogner (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), Carsten Reinhardt (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences, Halle), Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

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PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE: A READER

OLUWOLE COKER •09/21/2023 Announcement
Call for Papers
Date
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Location
Osun, Nigeria
Subject Fields
African History / Studies

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE: A READER

CALL FOR PAPERS:

 

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D.C. Mondays: Women "Plane Plotters" During WWII

Kasey Sease (She/Her) •09/21/2023 Announcement
Lecture
Date
Subject Fields
Local History, Military History, Women's & Gender History / Studies

Do you know Washington, D.C.?

Check out the D.C. Mondays series, monthly virtual programs on the District’s dynamic (and often surprising) history.

On Monday, October 9, at noon EDT, join Anne Dobberteen as she discusses the "Washington Plane Plotters," a group of volunteer, civilian women who manually plotted aircraft traveling through D.C.’s air space during World War II. Their secret (and unpaid) skilled labor provided an up-to-the-minute picture of the District’s sky for wartime defenses.

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Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Black Congregational Calvinist Tradition

Lauren Lemley •09/21/2023 Announcement
Lecture
Date
Subject Fields
American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Early Modern History and Period Studies, Religious Studies and Theology

Join us for an important discussion of Phillis Wheatley Peters as a theological thinker within the Black Calvinist tradition with Steven Harris, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the publication of Wheatley Peters’ Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

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Indifferent Realisms of 20th-century Black Diasporic Writing at NeMLA's 55th Annual Convention (Mar 7-10, 2024)

Sylvanna Baugh •09/21/2023 Announcement
Call for Papers
Date
-
Location
Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields
African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, Literature

We are seeking applications for our panel at NeMLA's (Northeast Modern Languages Association) 55th Annual Convention in Boston, March 7-10, 2024. Please apply through NeMLA's conference portal. Abstract submissions of no more than 300 words are due by September 30, 2023. We are seeking papers that engage with the topic below:

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BSHS Hughes Prize for 2023 - Winner announced and Online Lecture

Ross MacFarlane •09/21/2023 Announcement
Prize
Date
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Location
United Kingdom
Subject Fields
African American History / Studies, Health and Health Care, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Public Health

The British Society for the History of Science’s 2023 Hughes Prize for an accessible book in the history of science has been awarded to Keith Wailoo for the book Pushing Cool. Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette.

In acknowledgement of the Prize, Prof Wailoo will be giving a free online lecture on Pushing Cool on October 17, 10 am ET / 3 pm GMT.

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