Panel Review: ‘Elemental America’ BAAS Annual Conference 2021 (Online)
The British Association for American Studies (BAAS) held their 2021 conference entirely in a digital mode. This made the conference more sustainable and accessible – yet during a global pandemic, it is...
View ArticleReview: ANZASA 2021 (Online)
As the Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association met for its biannual conference on November 24-25th, the conference’s key themes of ‘American Crisis’ and ‘American Renewal’ were kept in...
View ArticleBAAS 2022 Panel Review: ‘Ecologies of Race and Gender in Nineteenth-Century...
F3 Ecologies of Race and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (sponsored by BrANCA) Opening the final day of BAAS 2022 was a BrANCA-sponsored panel titled “Ecologies of Race and Gender in...
View ArticleBAAS 2022 Panel Review: ‘Language and Multiculturalism in Contemporary...
In the last thirty-five years, there has been a good deal of study of the relationship between language and multiculturalism, and between multiculturalism and contemporary literature. In ‘Language,...
View ArticleBAAS 2022 Panel Review: ‘Surveillance, Technology, and Discrimination in...
‘Surveillance, Technology, and Discrimination in Literature and Culture Across the Americas’, British Association for American Studies Conference 2022, University of Hull, 21-23 April 2022 Surveillance...
View ArticleReview: ‘Visibility/Invisibility: Representation and Community Formation in...
One distinct advantage of the breadth of a field like American Studies is that the same prompt may be honestly engaged by a host of scholars without fear of repetition, only resonance. The unifying...
View ArticleReflection on ‘Responding to Sexual Violence in Higher Education –...
Please note that this review contains discussion of sexual violence and harassment in higher education. First and foremost, the focus needs to be on the safety of individuals experiencing any form of...
View ArticleEvent Review: The Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference 2022University of Helsinki
The biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference is an event of legendary status both in Helsinki and far outside Finland. For almost four decades, it has kept the tradition of the longest running...
View ArticleBAAS 2022 Panel Review: ‘Considering Presidential Legacies: Reagan and Trump’
The British Association of American Studies (BAAS) Conference 2022 at the University of Hull was a hybrid format, with some panels happening in-person at the beautiful Hull campus, and other panels...
View ArticlePanel Review BAAS 2022: ‘Rethinking Identity and Place in the South: Cultural...
One of the advantages of returning to an in-person conference format is the opportunity to benefit from all the modes of knowledge exchange on offer over the three-day period—from panels, to keynotes,...
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