Ethnic History / Studies

A biannual print and on-line publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT), the Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work in English by scholars of any nationality on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects. The Editorial Board welcomes articles which cross conventional borders between academic disciplines, as well as comparative studies of America and other cultures.

The struggle for independence in Nigeria entailed the concession by its elite citizens of local competence in taking over political administration from the colonialists. Nonetheless, the experience within the first republic brought to the fore the complexities of managing such a huge population with multiethnic and multi-religious diversity. The spate of political and economic corruption at the time led to military incursion into political administration, which dovetailed into the Nigerian Civil war, which threatened the survival of the nation then grappling with stabilizing its polity.

Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-Contact to the Present, is a four-volume work with about 700 entries and over 1,000,000 words to be published in 2018. The editors are Russell M. Lawson, Ph.D., Professor of History at Bacone College, and Benjamin A. Lawson, Ph.D., independent Scholar. 

Alternative histories: methodologies, facts and visions

Organisation: The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Historical Research
Venue: University of Tampere, Finland
Date: November 13–14, 2017
Paper proposals due: August 31, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

13TH INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE STUDIES CONFERENCE AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY

21st-Century Perspectives on the Holocaust & Genocide

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

April 18-21, 2018

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Immigration Control and Resistance: Historicizing the Present Moment

CFP for a Special Issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History 

Guest Editors:

Chantel Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park

Andy Urban, Assistant Professor of American Studies & History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Latinx Literature and Culture Session at PAMLA (Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association) Conference 2017

Friday, November 10 – Sunday, November 12, 2017

Chaminade University of Honolulu

http://pamla.org/2017

Exposé zur DGEJ-Jahrestagung 2018

Kulturen der Moral

(Paderborn, 19. bis 22. September 2018)

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