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Latest News and Events

    2025 Barringer/Monticello Teacher Award NOW OPEN

    Secondary school teachers (particularly those covering A-level modules in US history) are invited to apply for the Barringer/Monticello Teacher Award. A collaboration between BAAS, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF), and the International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJS), the award provides full funding to attend the Monticello Summer Institute, a week-long immersive, professional development programme that provides educators the opportunity to research and learn at Monticello in Charlottesville, VA. Closing: 14 March 2025

    SASA PG Workshop 2025

    SASA's 5th biennial postgraduate workshop will be held at the University of Edinburgh on February 28th, 2025. Covering topics such as pedagogy practices, alternative careers and the academic job market the workshop hopes to support students studying any aspect of the history, literature and/or culture of the Americas.

    2025 HOTCUS Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, 18-20 June 2025 CFP

    The 2025 HOTCUS annual conference will be held at the University of Lancaster, 18-20 June 2025. We are delighted to announce that Professor Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge) will be our keynote speaker. We are now accepting panel and paper proposals, as well as submissions for our PG and ECR Workshop. Proposals for all categories are due March 2, 2025.

    CfP Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States

    We are delighted to share with you the call for papers for our conference on “Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States” (Sorbonne Université / Universität zu Köln), which will be held at Sorbonne Université on 17-18 October 2025. Please send paper proposals (350 words) and panel proposals (350 words per paper plus a short framing statement) as well as a short bio to Johanna Pitetti-Heil and Alice de Galzain at criticalhealthconference@gmail.comby 10 February 2025.

    MLA 2026 Toronto Call for Papers: Thoreau’s Revolutions

    The Thoreau Society at the 2026 Modern Language Association Meeting in Toronto, Call for Papers: Thoreau's Revolutions

    Transatlantic Studies Association 2025 Conference

    The Transatlantic Studies Association (TSA) is now welcoming paper and panel proposals for its 2025 conference, which meets over 14-16 July in Lisbon, Portugal. Full details (including a copy of the cfp), can be found on the TSA website: https://www.transatlanticstudies.com/tsa-2025 The deadline for proposals is 15 April. Keynote speakers include Professor Niall Barr (King’s College London), Professor Maria Inácia Rezola (ESCS-IPL), and Professor Mario Del Pero (Sciences-Po Paris).

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