December 2022
Book Launch
Hereafter by Vona Groarke (New York University Press)
1 December 2022 – 18:30, Books Upstairs, Dublin
CAHSA Online Speaker Series
Ceremonial Splendor by Joy Palacios (University of Pennsylvania Press)
7 December 2022 – 18:00, CET, Paris
POLIN Book Talks: “Cheek to Cheek” – Jewish Confrontations with Modernity on the Dance Floor
It Could Lead to Dancing by Sonia Gollance (Stanford University Press)
11 December 2022 – 20.00 CET / 2.00 PM EST / 11.00 AM PST / 9.00 PM Israel
November 2022
Book Talk
Egypt’s Occupation by Aaron G. Jakes (Stanford University Press)
3 November 2022 – 17:00, SOAS Walter Rodney Collective
film seminar
The Cinema of Sara Gómez edited by Susan Lord (Indiana University Press)
7 November 2022 – 18:00, film studies (University of Edinburgh)
Book Fair
Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair: Our Fight 2022
10 – 13 November 2022, Edinburgh
Book Talk
No Machos or Pop Stars by Gavin Butt (Duke University Press)
10 November 2022 – 19:00, Walthamstow Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club
online roundtable
For a New Geography by Milton Santos, Translated by Archie Davis (University of Minnesota Press)
17 November 2022 – 17:00, Queen Mary University of London
Hybrid Book Talk
Africans in Harlem by Boukary Sawadogo (Fordham University Press)
22 November 2022 – 19:30, American Library in Paris
Book launch
Hungary between Two Empires 1526–1711 by Géza Pálffy (Indiana University Press)
22 November 2022 – 18:00 UTC, Collegium Hungaricum Wien/Collegium Hungaricum Bécs
irish writers’ weekend london
Poetry Session with Vona Groarke, author of Hereafter (New York University Press)
26 – 27 November 2022 – Irish Writers’ Weekend London, the british library
edinburgh’s radical book fair festival event
Talk with Andreas Hackl, author of The Invisible Palestinians (Indiana University Press)
29 November 2022 – lighthouse bookshop, edinburgh’s radical book fair
October 2022
film screening
In the Name of Wild by Phillip Vannini & April Vannini (UBC Press)
3 october 2022 – 13:00 – 16:00, University of Lapland
Virtual Book launch
Agrarian Spirit by Norman Wirzba (University of Notre Dame Press)
5 october 2022 – 19:30, sponsored by hazelnut community farm
Book talk
Police, Provocation, Politics by Deniz Yonucu (Cornell University Press)
5 october 2022 – 15:00, The Anthropology of Surveillance Network
online public event
Unfree by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Stanford University Press)
5 october 2022 – 18:30, International Inequalities Institute & LSE Middle East Centre
Book launch
States of Subsistence by José Ciro Martínez (Stanford University Press)
10 october 2022 – 18:00 BST, LSE Middle East Centre
Book launch
Threatening Dystopias by Kasia Paprocki (Cornell University Press)
13 october 2022 – 16:00 BST, lse Department of Geography and environment
Book talk
Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women with Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (Indiana University Press)
17 october 2022 – 18:00, off the shelf festival of words, sheffield
Book talk
The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman by Todd M. Endelman (Indiana University Press)
20 october 2022 – 19:00, jewish museum london
Book launch
The Islamic Movement in Israel by Tilde Rosmer (University of Texas Press)
20 october 2022 – 18:00, LSE MIDDLE EAST CENTRE
Book launch
The Jamaica Reader with Diana Paton & Matthew J. Smith (Duke University Press)
25 october 2022 – 19:00, off the shelf festival of words, sheffield
lecture
The Sociological Review’s 2022 Annual Lecture, Professor Pei-Chia Lan, author of Raising Global Families (Stanford University Press)
27 october 2022 – 18:00, the priory rooms, birmingham
Book event
Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University by Cornelius G. Buttimer (University of Notre Dame Press)
27 october 2022 – Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Dublin
Book launch & gig
No Machos or Pop Stars by Gavin Butt (Duke University Press)
28 october 2022
September 2022
Conference
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) Conference 2022
1 – 3 september 2022, University of Birmingham
hybrid lecture
2021 Ernst Fraenkel Prize Winner – Franziska Exeler, Ghosts of War
5 september 2022 – 18:30, Wiener Holocaust Library
Conference
Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain Conference 2022
5 – 7 september 2022, St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth
Conference
Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Conference 2022
7 – 9 September 2022, Robert Gordon University
Conference
European Society for the History of Science Conference (ESHS 2022)
7 – 10 September 2022, Brussels
Virtual Book launch
The Irish Revolution: A Global History edited by Patrick Mannion & Fearghal McGarry (New York University Press)
8 september 2022 – 12:30 EST / 17:30 BST, Glucksman ireland house NYU
Book launch
Unholy Catholic Ireland by Hugh Turpin (Stanford University Press)
12 september 2022 – 16:00, Queen’s University Belfast
Symposium
Cycling and Society Symposium 2022
15 – 16 September 2022, Cardiff university
Book talk
Dislike Minded by Jonathan Gray (New York University Press)
21 september 2022 – 13:00, Centre for Participatory Culture, university of huddersfield
Conference
22nd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology
21 – 24 September 2022, Malaga
Book Panel
The American Passport in Turkey by Özlem Altan-Olcay & Evren Balta (University of Pennsylvania Press)
22 september 2022 – 20:00, SPUI25, University of Amsterdam
August 2022
Conference
British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Conference 2022
2 – 5 August 2022, Edge Hill University
Conference
Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Conference 2022
10 – 12 August 2022, aarhus University
Conference
Harlaxton Medieval Symposium 2022
15 – 18 August 2022, Harlaxton Manor
Conference
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2022
30 August – 2 september 2022, newcastle university
Conference
British Academy of Management Conference 2022
31 August – 2 september 2022, Alliance Manchester Business School
Conference
African Studies Association of the UK Biennial Conference 2022 (ASAUK)
31 August – 4 september 2022, University of Liverpool
July 2022
Virtual Conference
International Screen Studies Conference 2022
1 – 3 July 2022
Over 130 papers have been programmed on all topics across screen studies, with one programming strand, ‘Screen Aesthetics’, aiming to renew engagement with traditional and emerging models of interpretation in relation to the textual and affective qualities of film, television and digital moving image media.
Conference website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/screen/conference/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Screen Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/screen-2022/
Conference
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Conference
4 – 6 July 2022
University of St Andrews
BRISMES brings together those professionally involved in the Middle East to promote Middle Eastern Studies in the UK, and the BRISMES conference is the largest and most prestigious annual UK gathering of scholars and practitioners focussed on the region.
Conference website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/conference
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Middle East Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/BRISMES-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #BRISMES22
Conference
Leeds International Medieval Congress (IMC 2022)
4 – 7 July 2022
University of Leeds
IMC 2022 will be a hybrid event with registered delegates and speakers participating both in-person here in Leeds and virtually. The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for sharing ideas relating to all aspects of the Middle Ages.
Conference website: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2022/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Medieval Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/imc-2022/
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Conference
European Society for Environmental History Conference 2022
4 – 8 July 2022
University of Bristol
The European Society for Environmental History promotes the study of environmental history in all academic disciplines and encourages anyone who has an interest in the field to join and become involved.
Conference website: https://eseh2022.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Environment Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/eseh-2022/
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Virtual Conference
Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies 2022
5 – 9 July 2022
The 45th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies will take place virtually between 5-9 July 2022.
The Society for Caribbean Studies aims to advance public education about the Caribbean and its diasporas and to encourage and disseminate research on all aspects of the Caribbean region and its peoples.
Conference website: http://community-languages.org.uk/scs/conference-2022/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Caribbean Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/scs-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #SCSconf2022
Conference
The Development Studies Association Annual Conference (DSA2022)
6 – 8 July 2022
University College London
This conference adopts justice and equity as central normative lenses to explore just futures in an urbanising and mobile world, facing a climate and ecological crisis in a pandemic or post-pandemic context. It will explore the interconnections of these three major processes, and their implications for future development.
Conference website: https://www.devstud.org.uk/conference/conference-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #DSA2022
Conference
Social History Society Annual Conference (SHS) 2022
6 – 8 July 2022
Lancaster University
Lancaster University is the intellectual home of the Social History Society and remains our physical base. Members will recall that we had planned to use Lancaster for our 2020 conference, which was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19. After two years of successful online events, we are delighted to be returning home for our first in person event since the start of the pandemic.
Conference website: https://socialhistory.org.uk/conference/shs-annual-conference-2022/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Social History titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/sh-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #shs22
Conference
Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2022
8 – 10 July 2022
St. Catz
For all those who recognise that food is more than mere consumption, we offer a welcoming community to share, learn, and be inspired by each other. With inspiring papers, speakers, and food we enable and stimulate an ever expanding discussion about food and cookery.
Conference website: https://www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/next-symposium/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Food & Cookery titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ofs-2022/
Hybrid Joint Book Launch
The Dog Lives in a Home. How Come We Live in Tents? with Lynne Jones
9 July 2022, 15:00 BST
Penlee Coach House, Penzance Literary Festival
How should we respond to children fleeing war, disaster and environmental catastrophe? Are some more deserving than others? Drawing on her book The Migrant Diaries, child psychiatrist Lynne Jones will share migrant children’s stories and pictures, and her own experiences of working in informal camps in Europe and Central America. She hopes this will stimulate a lively discussion.
More info & how to attend: https://www.pzlitfest.co.uk/event-detail/the-dog-lives-in-a-home-how-come-we-live-in-tents-with-lynne-jones/r/rec76XFGwHACQdTw8
Hybrid Conference
SHARP 2022 – Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Conference 2022
11 – 15 July 2022
Amsterdam
The written word has immense power. Manuscripts, books, newspapers, pamphlets, internet and even graffiti can define and spread knowledge as well as form tools for emancipation and liberation. Yet it can also break down communities and fuel discontent. Some argue that new technologies and strategies have enhanced the power of the written word in a negative sense.
Conference website: https://sharp2022.nl/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/sharp-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #SHARP2022
Hybrid Conference
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Conference (BIAJS) 2022
11 – 13 July 2022
King’s College London
Conference website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/british-and-irish-association-of-jewish-studies-annual-conference
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Jewish Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/biajs-2022/
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Conference
Law & Society Association Global Meeting 2022
13 – 16 July 2022
Lisbon, Portugal
Conference website: https://www.lawandsociety.org/lisbon-2022-homepage/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Law & Society titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/lsa-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #Lisbon2022
Conference
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference 2022
26 – 29 July 2022
Queen’s University Belfast
Conference website: https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Anthropology titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/easa-2022/
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June 2022
Book Launch
Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus
1 June 2022, 17:00 CEST / 16:00 BST
The Joint Centre for History and Economics & Free University Berlin
A virtual discussion with the author, chaired by Sebastian Conrad (Free University Berlin) and Emma Rothschild (Harvard/Cambridge), with comments by Iryna Ramanava (European Humanities University) and Lynne Viola (University of Toronto).
How do states and societies confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what do truth, guilt, and justice mean in that process? In Ghosts of War, Franziska Exeler examines people’s wartime choices and their aftermath in Belarus, a war-ravaged Soviet republic that was under Nazi occupation during the Second World War.
More info & how to attend: https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/ghosts/index.html
Virtual Book Launch
Reinventing Human Rights by Mark Goodale
2 June 2022, 9:00 BST / 10:00 CEST / 12:00 GST
NYU Abu Dhabi
Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo—Mark Goodale offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal.
More info & how to attend: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEude6srDMtE9GUO-XTnF076opfRkD3i35f
Virtual Conference
Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society (RAI 2022)
6 – 10 June 2022
AI has come to represent multiple causal drivers of change: amongst them artificial intelligence itself, space exploration, bio-tech and other emerging technologies. The implications for human society could hardly be more significant, and feed into a host of already contemporary concerns, such as sovereignty, economics, politics, reproduction and kinships, ethics and law, conflict and many more.
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Anthropology titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/rai-2022/
Conference website: https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-ai-and-the-future-of-human-society
Follow the conference on Twitter: #RAI2022
Conference
British Association for Islamic Studies Conference (BRAIS 2022)
6 – 7 June 2022
University of Edinburgh
The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to be hosting its 2022 Annual Conference in the beautiful surroundings of the University of Edinburgh.
The British Association for Islamic Studies is a learned society and professional organisation focused on enhancing research and teaching about Islam and Muslim cultures and societies in UK higher education.
Conference website: https://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences
Follow the conference on Twitter: #BRAIS2022
Conference
Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD) Conference 2022
7 – 10 June 2022
Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT), Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
The Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) is hosting the VAD conference 2022 in Freiburg. The conference will focus on the theme Africa and Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives and will address processes of co-production of knowledge as well as the mutual questioning of different ways of thinking.
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected African Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/vad-2022/
Conference website: https://nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2022/
Book Launch
Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets, by S. Ecks
9 June 2022, 13:00 BST
School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Join Dr Stefan Ecks for the launch of his most recent book, Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets.
In Living Worth (Duke University Press) Stefan Ecks draws on ethnographic research on depression and antidepressant usage in India to develop a new theory of value.
More info & how to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-worth-value-and-values-in-global-pharmaceutical-markets-by-s-ecks-tickets-353797366447
Conference
European Architectural History Network Conference (EAHN 2022)
15 – 19 June 2022
School of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
EAHN2022 will take place in Madrid, Spain, hosted by the School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Established in 2005, the European Architectural History Network supports research and education by providing a public forum for the exchange and dissemination of knowledge of the histories of architecture. Based in Europe, it is open to architectural historians and scholars in allied fields from all countries.
Conference website: https://eahn2022conference.aq.upm.es/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #EAHN2022
Conference
European Academy of Management Annual Conference (EURAM 2022 Conference)
15 – 17 June 2022
ZHAW School of Management & Law, Winterthur, Switzerland
The European Academy of Management is a learned society founded in 2001. It aims at advancing the academic discipline of management in Europe. With members from 60 countries in Europe and beyond, EURAM has a high degree of diversity and provides its members with opportunities to enrich debates over a variety of research management themes and traditions.
Conference website: https://conferences.euram.academy/2022conference/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Business & Management Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/euram-2022/
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Conference
Twelfth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900
17 – 20 June 2022
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is delighted to be hosting the Twelfth International Conference on Music Since 1900 from 17th-20th June 2022. This event features 4 days of conference papers, compositions, and performances, including the world premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s new Piano Concerto, a performance of Janáček’s Sinfonietta by the RBC Symphony Orchestra, and of Grisey’s Vortex Temporum by RBC/BCMG NEXT ensemble.
Conference website: https://www.musicsince1900.org/
Conference
European Academy of Religion Conference
20 – 23 June 2022
Bologna, Italy
The Fifth Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion will take place in Bologna, June 20-23, 2022. FSCIRE (Fondazione per le scienze religiose) will be the organising institution.
The overarching topic of the Conference will be Religion and Diversity.
Conference website: https://it.europeanacademyofreligion.org/euare2022
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Religious Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/euare-2022/
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Conference
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (NECS 2022)
22 – 26 June 2022
Bucharest, National University of Theatre and Film
The 2022 NECS Conference invites scholars to reflect on audiovisual media’s capacity to organize, create and challenge human knowledge. The conference aims to scrutinize the traditional historiographies surrounding audiovisual media and question the relationship between audiovisual media’s operative and spectacular qualities, pondering the wider implications of the juncture between audiovisual culture and epistemic practices.
Conference website: https://necs.org/conference/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected film and media titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/necs-2022/
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Conference
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference (HOTCUS 2022)
22 – 24 June 2022
University of Edinburgh
Following the success of our first online conference in 2021, we are running a hybrid format for 2022, with a range of both in-person and online events.
Established in 2007, Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) exists to facilitate and promote scholarship in the field of twentieth century American history.
Conference website: https://hotcus.org.uk/annual-conference-2022/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive 30% discount on selected Twentieth Century American History titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/hotcus-2022/
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Author Talk
Palestine and the Politics of Knowledge Production
22 June 2022, 17:00 CEST
SPUI25
The word archive comes from the Greek word arkheion, a repository for official documents, and a place where the archons, the rulers, reside. Archives, then, are unequivocally associated with power and authority, at least in their original formation. But who and what is the archive for? Following her latest book Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, Gil Z. Hochberg presents her view of the archive as a liberatory site—particularly in Palestinian contexts.
More info & how to attend: https://www.spui25.nl/programma/palestine-and-the-politics-of-knowledge-production
Hybrid Joint Book Launch
The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power
23 June 2022, 12:00-18:00 CEST / 11:00-17:00 BST
Utrecht University
A hybrid book launch and discussion of four books on the theme of migration and borders in a digital and datafied world. The afternoon will feature book talks, responses and open q&a sessions with authors and editors.
In The Digital Border, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou offer a holistic account of the digital border as an expansive assemblage of technological infrastructures (from surveillance cameras to smartphones) and media imaginaries (stories, images, social media posts) to tell the story of migration as it unfolds in Europe’s outer islands as much as its most vibrant cities.
More info & how to attend: https://fairdigitalasylum.sites.uu.nl/joint-book-launch-event/
Lecture
A Queer New York – A Queer Berlin. Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers
23 June 2022, 18:00 CEST
Freie Universität Berlin
Lecture and discussion with Jen Jack Gieseking, Andrea Rottmann, Martin Lücke and Benno Gammerl. Jen Jack Gieseking is the author of A Queer New York from New York University Press.
Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York neighborhoods home.
More info & how to attend: https://www.gendercampus.ch/en/news/events/a-queer-new-york-a-queer-berlin-geographies-of-lesbians-dykes-and-queers
Hybrid Joint Book Launch
Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression
23 June 2022, 12:00-18:00 CEST / 11:00-17:00 BST
Utrecht University
A hybrid book launch and discussion of four books on the theme of migration and borders in a digital and datafied world. The afternoon will feature book talks, responses and open q&a sessions with authors and editors.
Based on a long-term ethnography in China, the United States and Germany, Unruly Speech by Saskia Witteborn explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with “unruly” communication practices in a quest for change.
More info & how to attend: https://fairdigitalasylum.sites.uu.nl/joint-book-launch-event/
Conference
British Graduate Shakespeare Annual Conference (BritGrad 2022)
23 – 25 June 2022
The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon
The conference provides a friendly and stimulating academic forum for graduate students from all over the world to meet, present and discuss their research in an active centre for Shakespeare scholarship. The student run conference is held at the University of Birmingham Shakespeare Institute, in Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Conference website: https://www.britgrad.com/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Renaissance & Early Modern Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/brit-grad-2022/
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Conference
Society for French Studies Annual Conference
27 – 29 June 2022
Queen’s University Belfast
Conference website: https://www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/2022-annual-conference
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected French Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/sfs-22/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #SFSBelfast2022
Conference
European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Conference (EuroSEAS 2022)
28 June – 1 July 2022
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
Founded in 1992, the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) aims to stimulate scholarly cooperation within Europe in the field of Southeast Asian studies.
Conference website: https://euroseas2022.org/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Southeast Asian Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/euroseas-22/
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Conference
International Society of Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2022)
29 June – 2 July 2022
Bertinoro, Italy
The International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) is a scholarly and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of humor research.
Conference website: https://eventi.unibo.it/ishs-2022
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Humor Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ISHS-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #ISHS2022
May 2022
Open Seminar
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua by Sophie Chao
9 May 2022, 14:00 CEST
Stockholm Center for Global Asia
With In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant.
More info & how to attend: https://www.asianstudies.su.se/2.35480/seminars/open-seminar-in-the-shadow-of-the-palms-more-than-human-becomings-in-west-papua-1.602361
Author Lecture
Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass (1946-2021)
10 May 2022, 17:00 BST
The Courtauld Institute of Art
A very visual lecture with images and film clips. By Carol Mavor, Writer and Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester.
Carol Mavor is the author of Like a Lake: A Story of Uneasy Love and Photography from Fordham University Press; a vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and female.
More info & how to attend: https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/like-the-sea-dancing-with-mary-glass-1946-2021/
Author Speaking Event
The Costs of Connection / Tim Arnold’s Super Connected
14 May 2022, 20:00 – 15 May 2022, 00:30 BST
Temple of Art and Music (TAM) @ Mercato Metropolitano
A special multimedia performance, part film screening part live musical performance. For fans of Black Mirror, David Bowie and Terry Gilliam.
Tim Arnold – singer-songwriter, rock musician, composer and film maker, performs a multimedia theatrical presentation of his forthcoming album ‘Super Connected’, sung live to a brand new feature length film drama, also directed by Tim. A personal journey through tech addiction and the choices we all face.
More info & how to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tim-arnolds-super-connected-tickets-275528311597
Virtual Author Talk
The First Queer Politics: Sodomy Law Reform in the Early 19th c. Britain
15 May 2022, 19:00 BST
Learn about an astonishing and almost forgotten historical moment: the attempt to end the death penalty for sodomy in early 19th c. Britain.
Hear about the latest in LGBTQ history research: a suprising, complex, and dramatic story that was almost entirely forgotten until Professor Upchurch uncovered it!
“Beyond the Law” pieces together fragments from history and uses a queer history methodology to recount the untold story of the political process through which the law allowing for the death penalty for sodomy was almost ended in 1841.
More info & how to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-first-queer-politics-sodomy-law-reform-in-the-early-19th-c-britain-tickets-272468088387?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Hybrid Book Talk
Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg
17 May 2022, 17:45 BST
Gatsby Room (Chancellor’s Centre), Wolfson College Cambridge
Join Dr Olga Petri on a narrated tour of late imperial St. Petersburg and its male queer milieu.
Places of Tenderness and Heat is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle. Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men routinely met and socialized. She reconstructs the milieu that enabled them to navigate a city full of risk and opportunity.
More info & how to attend: https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events/humanities-society-places-tenderness-and-heat-queer-milieu-fin-de-siecle-st-petersburg
Virtual Book Talk
Passing Orders: Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare
18 May 2022, 16:00 BST
#USSOBOOKHOUR
USSO’s final Book Hour of the academic year will be a talk with S. Jonathon O’Donnell about their book, Passing Orders: Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare (Fordham University Press, 2021).
Passing Orders is a pathbreaking, interdisciplinary study of evangelical demonologies in the post-9/11 United States.
More info & how to attend: https://usso.uk/about-bookhour/
Virtual Book Launch
Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age
19 May 2022, 14:00 BST
This panel discussion will launch Alice Tilche’s book Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age (University of Washington Press, 2022).
Alice Tilche draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted in rural western India to chart changes in adivasi aesthetics, home life, attire, food, and ideas of religiosity that have emerged from negotiation with the homogenizing forces of Hinduization, development, and globalization in the twenty-first century.
More info & how to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adivasi-art-and-activism-curation-in-a-nationalist-age-tickets-314015497807
Book Talk
Talking Animals, Thinking in Fables: Kalilah wa Dimnah or, Aesop in Arabic
19 May 2022, 18:00 BST
Birkbeck University of London, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square
A discussion of the politics of the animal fable and its potential as a model for tackling questions of our time, chaired by Marina Warner. In-person.
The Arabic Aesop, or collection of animal fables, is called Kalilah wa Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice. It is packed with witty, cynical wisdom about rulers and ruled, envy and rivalry, the uses and abuses of power. It has been newly translated by James E. Montgomery, professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He will be joined by the Lebanese storyteller and translator Wafa Tarnowska, and they will explore how, in an age of exacerbated rhetoric, such canny uses of fables can exercise influence.
More info & how to attend: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=29690
Book Launch
A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology
27 – 28 May 2022
Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square
Author Lydia Schumacher will launch her new Fordham University Press book A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology, as part of The Powers of the Soul in Medieval Franciscan Thought conference.
A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology presents for the first time in English key passages from the Summa Halensis, one of the first major installments in the summa genre for which scholasticism became famous.
Book Launch
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West
31 May 2022, 16:00 AEST
Australian Centre on China in the World, Lotus Hall
Discussion with A/Prof. Fran Martin (Uni of Melbourne) on her new Duke University Press book, Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West.
In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad.
More info & how to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dreams-of-flight-the-lives-of-chinese-women-students-in-the-west-tickets-329664654857
April 2022
Conference
Economic History Society Annual Conference (EHS 2022)
1 – 3 April 2022
Robinson College, Cambridge
The Economic History Society exists to support research and teaching in economic and social history, broadly defined. It does this through publications through conferences and workshops, through the finance of research fellowships and research grants, and through bursaries and prizes for younger scholars.
Conference website: https://ehs.org.uk/conference/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Economic History titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/economic-history-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #ehs2022
Author Talk
When Talk is not Cheap: Phenomenology and Environmental Activism by Dr Robert Booth
6 April 2022, 19:00 BST
COP 26 has been and gone, leaving, for many, something of a bitter taste in the mouth. Huge advances in our scientific understanding of the ‘issues’ constitutive of our environmental crisis just have not brought about the requisite attitudinal and behavioural changes to disrupt them at root.
In this talk, with the help of the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I pursue the suspicion that this disconnect between thought and action may be traced back, in part, to the violence already implicit in the limited and often dualistic models that natural scientists offer of those ‘issues’ in the first place.
Dr Robert Booth is the author of Becoming a Place of Unrest: Environmental Crisis and Ecophenomenological Praxis
More info: https://glosphilsoc.net/
Conference
European Association for American Studies Conference (EAAS 2022)
6 – 8 April 2022
UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Madrid
The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States. Hence, the overarching theme of the conference is open to all kinds of reflections around the concept of “wasteland” and waste. EAAS 2022 invites proposals that address the concept of waste in U.S. culture, history, and politics.
Conference website: https://www.eaas.eu/conferences/eaas-biennial-conferences/698-2022-eaas-conference-wastelands
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected American Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/eaas-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #EAAS2022
Conference
The Association for Art History’s 48th Annual Conference
6 – 8 April 2022
London
The Association for Art History’s 48th Annual Conference brings together international research and critical debate about art, art history and visual cultures. This key annual event for art history is an opportunity to keep up to date with new research, hear leading keynotes, broaden networks and exchange ideas.
Conference website: https://forarthistory.org.uk/conference/2022-annual-conference/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Art History titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/art-history-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #ForArtHistory2022
Conference
Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference (SLSA 2022)
6 – 8 April 2022
University of York
The SLSA has been running an Annual Conference since the association was founded in 1990. Our conferences are central to our objective of the dissemination of knowledge in the field of socio-legal studies.
Conference website: http://slsa2022.co.uk/site/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Socio-Legal Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/slsa2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #SLSA22
Conference
British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (BFE 2022)
7 – 10 April 2022
The Open University, Milton Keynes
This year’s conference is a hybrid event with in-person and online elements. The in-person component will take place Friday 8 and Saturday 9 April at the Open University campus in Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. The presentations on these days will also be accessible to online participants.
Conference website: https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/conferences/bfe2022
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Ethnomusicology titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/bfe-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #BFE22
Conference
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference (BASEES 2022)
8 – 10 April 2022
Robinson College, Cambridge
Panels, roundtables and papers will be held in the following areas: Politics; History; Sociology and Geography; Film and Media, Languages and Linguistics; Literatures and Cultures; and Economics. The conference especially welcomes participation by postgraduate research students and early career scholars.
Conference website: https://www.baseesconference.org/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected East European Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/basees-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #BASEES2022
Conference
Classical Association Annual Conference (CA 2022)
8 – 11 April 2022
Swansea University
The 2022 Annual Conference will be a hybrid event. All panels are allocated to a lecture theatre in the Faraday Building, with presentations taking place both in-person and online.
Conference website: https://classicalassociation.org/conference/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Classics titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ca-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #SwanseaCA2022
Conference
Political Studies Association Annual International Conference (PSA 22)
10 – 13 April 2022
University of York
This 2022 PSA conference takes ‘the margins’ as a vantage point to investigate political issues and developments. As the world reels from one of its worst crises in a generation, issues and actors hitherto at the margins of politics have forced their way to the mainstream. Issues of health and human development have compelled a radical rethinking of statehood, citizenship and political order.
Conference website: https://www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa22-annual-conference
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Political Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/psa-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #PSA22
Conference
4th Biennial Conference African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA 2022)
11 – 16 April 2022
Cape Town, South Africa
The theme of ASAA’s 4th Biennial Conference 2022 is African and the Human: Old questions, new imaginaries. What does it mean to be human today in Africa, African in the world today, and what can Africa contribute to thinking the human? The idea of the human is increasingly threatened by destabilising transformations as the world gradually moves to what is defined by some as the abyss of modernity and the aftershocks of the postmodern.
Conference website: https://2022conference.as-aa.org/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected African Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/asaa-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #ASAA2022
Meet the Author Event
Schism: Seventh-day Adventism in Post-Denominational China
14 April 2022, 14:30 GMT / 09:30 EDT
Christie Chow and Joseph Ho will discuss Chow’s Schism: Seventh-day Adventism in Post-Denominational China (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021).
Schism is the first ethnographic and historical study of Seventh-day Adventism in China.
Scholars have been slow to consider Chinese Protestantism from a denominational standpoint. In Schism, the first monograph that documents the life of the Chinese Adventist denomination from the mid-1970s to the 2010s, Christie Chui-Shan Chow explores how Chinese Seventh-day Adventists have used schism as a tool to retain, revive, and recast their unique ecclesial identity in a religious habitat that resists diversity.
More info & how to attend: https://omsc.ptsem.edu/what-we-do/online-study-program/spring-offerings/
Virtual Book Launch
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment
19 April 2022, 19:00 BST
The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces.
Michael Fiddler (University of Greenwich), Theo Kindynis (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Travis Linnemann (Kansas State University), the editors of the new NYUP edited collection ‘Ghost Criminology’, invite you to a tour through the book’s spectral contents.
More info & how to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-ghost-criminology-a-spirit-guide-tickets-303606714857
Conference
British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Conference (BAFTSS 2022)
20 – 22 April 2022
University of St Andrews
This conference takes as its theme “Collaboration and Cross-pollination.” As we re-imagine how we work together and gather as a community post-COVID, the conference foregrounds processes of exchange, circulation, and recombination across the fields of Film, Television and Screen Studies.
Conference website: https://www.baftss.org/conference.html
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Film & TV Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/baftss-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #BAFTSS2022
Conference
The Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference (SIS 2022)
20 – 22 April 2022
University of Warwick
The biennial conference of the SIS at the University of Warwick on 20th-22nd April 2022 looks forward to bringing together again the Italian Studies community in the UK and Ireland, Italy, and beyond to share their emergent and ongoing research.
Conference website: http://italianstudies.org.uk/conferences-events/sis-conferences/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Italian Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/sis-2022/
Conference
Society of Latin American Studies Annual Conference (SLAS 2022)
21 – 22 April 2022
University of Bath
The conference is the key event in our calendar, attracting 200-350 participants. It takes place during the Easter vacation in different locations each year. Academic panels vary widely, from economics to music via anthropology, politics, history, literature, geography and film. We have a keynote speaker and social events which in the past have included visits to galleries, film festivals and which culminate in the conference dinner with salsa dancing.
Conference website: https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/society-for-latin-american-studies-slas-annual-conference-2022/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Latin American Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/slas-2022/
Follow the conference on Twitter: #SLAS2022
Conference
British Association of American Studies Annual Conference (BAAS 2022)
21 – 23 April 2022
University of Hull
The conference is the key event in our calendar, attracting 200-350 participants. It BAAS looks forward to welcoming the international American Studies community to our beautiful Yorkshire campus. Building on the successes of the 2021 Digital Conference, the Hull conference is currently planned as a hybrid event.
Conference website: https://www.baas2022.org
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected American Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/baas-2022/
Book Launch
Decolonizing Photography: Colonial Legacies and Indigenous Art Activism
22 April 2022, 17:00 CEST
Litteraturhuset i Bergen
The seminar introduces the recently published volume Adjusting the Lens. Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies and Photographic Heritage (UBC Press, Dec. 2021) edited by Sigrid Lien (professor, UiB) and Hilde Wallem Nielssen (professor, HVL). Speakers: Sigrid Lien, Hilde Wallem Nielssen, Veli-Pekka Lehtola (professor of Sámi Culture, University of Oulu), Laura Junka-Aikio (Research Fellow, Political Studies UiT) and Mette Sandbye (professor of photography studies, University of Copenhagen).
More info & how to attend: https://www.litthusbergen.no/arrangement/decolonizing-photography-colonial-legacies-and-indigenous-art-activism
Virtual Colloquy
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
25 April 2022, 13:00 EDT / 18:00 BST
UMD Center for Literary and Comparative Studies
Antiracism: Communities + Collaborations presents “A colloquy on Julius B. Fleming, Jr.’s Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation (New York University Press, 2022).
Moderated by Distinguished University Professor Emerita Mary Helen Washington.
With Professors Soyica Colbert (Georgetown U), Julius Fleming, Jr. (UMD), Kevin Quashie (Brown U), and Erica R. Edwards (Rutgers U).
More info & how to attend: https://english.umd.edu/events/black-patience-colloquy
Virtual Book Launch
Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims by David R. Stroup
26 April 2022, 12:30 BST
The Manchester China Institute
A book launch event to mark the release of David Stroup’s Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims.
Pure and True draws on interviews with ordinary urban Hui—cooks, entrepreneurs, imams, students, and retirees—to explore the conduct of ethnic politics within Hui communities across China.
More info & how to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pure-and-true-the-everyday-politics-of-ethnicity-for-chinas-hui-muslims-tickets-267425114717
March 2022
Webinar
Design Leadership – Propelling Meaningful Transformation
3 March 2022, 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET
Design leaders are collaborators and often catalysts for positive change but they face new challenges of increasingly complexity which provoke a number of questions. How can design leaders steer organisations towards more sustainable, meaningful and inclusive goals? How can design leaders promote a more humanity-centered approach to innovation? Fundamentally, how can design strategists, creative professionals and change makers navigate this complexity and drive progress and societal relevancy?
Two co-authors of Design Leadership Ignited will be discussing these questions and more on March 3 2022 at 17:00 CET. Join them online and take part in the conversation.
Event details: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ide/news/congresses-and-symposia/online-conversation-design-leadership-propelling-meaningful-transformation
Virtual Book Forum
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires
3 March 2022, 17:00 GMT
The Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change and the Philomathia Foundation invite you to join us in our book forum discussing Juan M. del Nido’s Taxis vs Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires (Stanford U. Press, 2021).
Uber’s April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats, the press, the general public, and Argentina’s president himself. Economist and anthropologist Juan M. del Nido, who had arrived in the city six months earlier to research the taxi industry, suddenly found himself documenting the unprecedented upheaval in real time.
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/449k5s26
Hybrid Book Launch
Reverberations: Violence Across Time and Space edited by Yael Navaro, Zerrin Özlem Biner, Alice von Bieberstein, & Seda Altuğ
14 March 2022, 17:00 GMT
The turn to the nonhuman in the humanities and social sciences has arguably been mobilized through a washing away of political violence, its histories, and its traces. Reverberations aims to redress this problem by methodologically and conceptually placing political violence and nonhuman entities side by side. The volume generates a new framework for the study of political violence and its protracted aftermath by attending, through innovative ethnographic and historical studies, to its distribution, extension, and endurance across time, space, materialities, and otherworldly dimensions, as well as its embodiment in subjectivities, discourses, and imaginations
Find out more & register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-reverberations-violence-across-time-and-space-tickets-271922887677
Forum – Melbourne Design Week
Business and Design Forum with Design Leadership Ignited author Gerda Gemser
23 March 2022, 07:45 AEDT
Garden Restaurant, National Gallery of Victoria, Saint Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Providing insights into how design and business have worked successfully together in the past the forum will explore what is NEXT. Discussion topics will focus on what successful companies, services and organisations have learned during the COVID 19 pandemic, how have they continued to innovate and achieve success, what products or markets have prospered and what are the emerging opportunities going forward.
Design Leadership Ignited delineates a pathway to design excellence, which includes establishing a forward-looking strategy and an adequate organizational structure for the design function, empowering the design team, and scaling the impact of design across the entire organization.
Find out more & register here: https://designweek.melbourne/program/business-and-design-forum-next/
Virtual Book Launch
Confidence Culture
23 March 2022, 18:00 GMT
Department of Media & Communications, LSE
To celebrate the publication of their new book Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill discuss how imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks hold women back rather than entrenched social injustices.
Interrogating the prominence of confidence in contemporary discourse about body image, workplace, relationships, motherhood, and international development, Orgad and Gill demonstrate how “confidence culture” demands of women near-constant introspection and vigilance in the service of self-improvement. They argue that while confidence messaging may feel good, it does not address structural and systemic oppression.
More details: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2022/03/202203231830/confidence
Virtual Book Talk
The Struggle to Reform the Sodomy Law in the Early Nineteenth Century
23 March 2022, 17:00 GMT
Imagine Belfast
This talk is based on Prof. Upchurch’s newest book, Beyond the Law: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain (Temple University Press, 2021), which documents the early nineteenth century debate in Britain over the ethics of punishing sex between men, culminating in votes in Parliament in 1835 and 1840-41.
More info & how to attend: https://imaginebelfast.com/events/the-struggle-to-reform-the-sodomy-law-in-the-early-nineteenth-century/
Hybrid Conference
Society for the Study of Theology Annual Conference (SST 2022)
28 – 30 March 2022
University of Warwick
We hold an annual conference every Spring at Warwick University. About 200 people attend, both members and non-members, to discuss an important theme in theological studies. These include prominent academic theologians, church ministers from different denominations, research students and others with a postgraduate-level interest in theology. The 2022 conference theme is The End of the World.
Conference website: https://www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Theology titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/sst-2022/
Virtual Conference
British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference (BASAS 2022)
29 March – 2 April 2022
University of Southampton
BASAS will hold its 2022 Annual Conference at the University of Southampton from 29th March to 2nd April 2022. Due to current global conditions, the conference will be held online.
BASAS is one of the world’s leading learned societies for the study of South Asia.
Conference website: https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/basas/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected South Asian Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/basas-2022/
Conference
Renaissance Society of America 68th Annual Meeting (RSA Dublin 2022)
30 March – 2 April 2022
Convention Centre Dublin
The RSA will hold our 68th Annual Meeting in Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday 30 March through Saturday 2 April 2022. The Convention Centre Dublin will be our headquarters, hosting registration, business meetings, the plenary lecture, and many of the break-out sessions.
Conference website: https://www.rsa.org/page/RSADublin2022
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Renaissance & Early Modern Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/rsa-2022/
Conference
Urban History Group Conference 2022
31 March – 1 April 2022
Robinson College, Cambridge
This year’s conference “The Margins of the City? Approaches to Decentring and Decolonising Urban History, 1600 – present” will take place at Robinson College, Cambridge from lunchtime on the 31st of March until afternoon on the 1st April.
The aim of this year’s conference is to reassess the place of marginalised groups and histories in urban history scholarship. Recent debates on decolonising history have challenged accepted narratives of urbanisation from a variety of angles, particularly by emphasising links to histories of imperialism and race.
Conference website: https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/conference-2022/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Urban History titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/urban-history-2022/
February 2022
Virtual Book Talk
It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity
3 February 2022, 18:30 GMT / 20:30 IST
Leo Baeck Institute London Lecture Series 2022
In this pioneering study, Sonia Gollance examines the specific literary qualities of dance scenes, while also paying close attention to the broader social implications of Jewish engagement with dance. Combining cultural history with literary analysis and drawing connections to contemporary representations of Jewish social dance, Gollance illustrates how mixed-sex dancing functions as a flexible metaphor for the concerns of Jewish communities in the face of cultural transitions.
More details: https://www.leobaeck.co.uk/archives/10149
Virtual Conference
ASCSC (The Australasian Society for Classical Studies) 43rd Annual Conference
8 – 11 February 2022
University of Tasmania
The 43rd ASCS Conference and Annual Meeting will be hosted online by the University of Tasmania between February 8-11, 2022. Originally planned as a hybrid event, a decision to make the conference online-only was taken in early January in response to the escalating public health crisis in Australia.
Conference website: https://whova.com/web/ascs_202202/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Classical Studies eBook titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/43rd-australasian-society-for-classical-studies-conference-2022/
Virtual Book Launch
Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas
10 February 2022, 17:00 GMT
UAE Area Studies & Latin American Studies Network
From covering the massacre of students at Tlatelolco in 1968 and the 1985 earthquake to the Zapatista rebellion in 1994 and the disappearance of forty-three students in 2014, Elena Poniatowska has been one of the most important chroniclers of Mexican social, cultural, and political life. In Stories That Make History, Lynn Stephen examines Poniatowska’s writing, activism, and political participation, using them as a lens through which to understand critical moments in contemporary Mexican history.
Virtual Conference
43rd Annual Gesellschaft fur Kanada-Studien Conference 2022 (GKS)
17 – 19 February 2022
Venue: Hotel am Badersee
The 43rd annual conference of the GKS will be held online between Feb. 17-19, 2022 and will be organized by the section Indigenous and Cultural Studies. The conference theme is Ecologies – Environments – Ethics.
Conference website: http://www.kanada-studien.org/jahrestagung/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Canadian Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/43rd-gks-2022/
Book Launch
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance
18 February 2022, 15:00 GMT / 10:00 EDT
Genealogy in the Humanities invites you to an ‘author-meets-readers’ seminar with Professor Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) to discuss her new book Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance (Stanford 2022).
With this nuanced and interdisciplinary work, political theorist Mihaela Mihai tackles several interrelated questions: How do societies remember histories of systemic violence? Who is excluded from such histories’ cast of characters? And what are the political costs of selective remembering in the present?
Event details: https://events.cornell.edu/event/political_memory_and_the_aesthetics_of_care
Author Talk
A Masterclass: Queer History by Prof Charles Upchurch
24 February 2022, 16:00 GMT
Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square
Chuck is the author of groundbreaking studies into 19th century inter-male sex and sexuality.
Chuck’s illustrated talk will introduce the background to his latest book “Beyond the Law”. Sketching out some of the practical and intellectual obstacles navigated to render-up the compelling and remarkable insight: a fascinating revelation of the previously hidden and remarkable episode of protest and campaigning for a more tolerant and accepting society. This introduction will be approximately 30 minutes followed in a 20-minute Q&A session for which written questions are invited before and during the talk via email to be added.
Event details: http://www.librarylive.co.uk/event/a-masterclass-queer-history/
January 2022
Conference
British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference
5 – 7 January 2022
Since 1972, BSECS has run an Annual Conference, providing a forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of eighteenth-century history and culture. The conference is held in early January each year, and has for many years been hosted by St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. Over three days, alongside keynote lectures, roundtable discussions, concerts and other events, about 300 papers are delivered by speakers from around the world.
Conference website: https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Eighteenth Century Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/bsecs-2022/
Conference
Political Thought Conference
6 – 8 January 2022
St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
The Political Thought Conference has been held in Oxford, first at New College, now at St Catherine’s, annually since the 1970s. Over that time it has become a vital part of the intellectual and professional calendar.
Conference website: https://www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/conference/2022-conference/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Political Thought titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/pt-2022/
Virtual Conference
Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology Conference
18 – 21 January 2022
Royal Anthropological Institute
The RAI and RAI Medical Committee members are delighted to announce the new dates for our conference on ‘Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology’. After much deliberation, and following the constantly changing Covid-19 restrictions, we decided that we will hold this conference online, supported by NomadIT. It will take place over four half-days, alternating mornings and afternoons to make it as inclusive as possible for participants from different time zones.
Conference website: https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/mobilising-methods-in-medical-anthropology-2022
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Medical Anthropology titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/rai-ma/
Virtual Conference
Games, Culture, and Identity: The MultiPlay Conference
19 January 2022
University of Sunderland
Games, Culture, and Identity: The MultiPlay Conference 2022 is a multi-disciplinary conference which will bring together a range of academics and practitioners across different fields. It will also launch the new academic network MultiPlay, committed to a multidisciplinary approach to video games.
Conference website: https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/events/event/games-culture-and-identity-the-multiplay-conference-2022-1185
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Game Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/gci-the-multiplay-conference-2022/
Virtual Book Launch
From Europe’s East to the Middle East
26 January 2022, 15:00 GMT / 17:00 IST / 09:00 CST / 00:00 JST (27th)
The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish lands and the Russian Empire. This is a fact widely known, yet its implications for the history of Israel and the Middle East and, reciprocally, for the history of what was once the demographic heartland of the Jewish diaspora remain surprisingly ill-understood.
Through fine-grained analyses of people, texts, movements, and worldviews in motion, the scholars assembled in From Europe’s East to the Middle East—hailing from Europe, Israel, Japan, and the United States—rediscover a single transnational Jewish history of surprising connections, ideological cacophony, and entangled fates.
Register to attend here: https://forms.gle/a5sPFTmyebCdLs9i6
Conference
British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference
5 – 7 January 2022
Since 1972, BSECS has run an Annual Conference, providing a forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of eighteenth-century history and culture. The conference is held in early January each year, and has for many years been hosted by St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. Over three days, alongside keynote lectures, roundtable discussions, concerts and other events, about 300 papers are delivered by speakers from around the world.
Conference website: https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Eighteenth Century Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/bsecs-2022/
Conference
Political Thought Conference
6 – 8 January 2022
St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
The Political Thought Conference has been held in Oxford, first at New College, now at St Catherine’s, annually since the 1970s. Over that time it has become a vital part of the intellectual and professional calendar.
Conference website: https://www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/conference/2022-conference/
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Political Thought titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/pt-2022/
Virtual Conference
Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology Conference
18 – 21 January 2022
Royal Anthropological Institute
The RAI and RAI Medical Committee members are delighted to announce the new dates for our conference on ‘Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology’. After much deliberation, and following the constantly changing Covid-19 restrictions, we decided that we will hold this conference online, supported by NomadIT. It will take place over four half-days, alternating mornings and afternoons to make it as inclusive as possible for participants from different time zones.
Conference website: https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/mobilising-methods-in-medical-anthropology-2022
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Medical Anthropology titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/rai-ma/
Virtual Conference
Games, Culture, and Identity: The MultiPlay Conference
19 January 2022
University of Sunderland
Games, Culture, and Identity: The MultiPlay Conference 2022 is a multi-disciplinary conference which will bring together a range of academics and practitioners across different fields. It will also launch the new academic network MultiPlay, committed to a multidisciplinary approach to video games.
Conference website: https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/events/event/games-culture-and-identity-the-multiplay-conference-2022-1185
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Game Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/gci-the-multiplay-conference-2022/
Virtual Book Launch
From Europe’s East to the Middle East
26 January 2022, 15:00 GMT / 17:00 IST / 09:00 CST / 00:00 JST (27th)
The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish lands and the Russian Empire. This is a fact widely known, yet its implications for the history of Israel and the Middle East and, reciprocally, for the history of what was once the demographic heartland of the Jewish diaspora remain surprisingly ill-understood.
Through fine-grained analyses of people, texts, movements, and worldviews in motion, the scholars assembled in From Europe’s East to the Middle East—hailing from Europe, Israel, Japan, and the United States—rediscover a single transnational Jewish history of surprising connections, ideological cacophony, and entangled fates.
Register to attend here: https://forms.gle/a5sPFTmyebCdLs9i6
Webinar
“Virtuous Antisemitism: What Jean Améry Can Teach Us About Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism on the Left” with Marlene Gallner
30 January 2022, 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET / 12:00 ET
In April 1945, Jean Améry was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the Holocaust were made famous by his book At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz and Its Realities.
Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left features a collection of essays by Améry translated into English for the first time. Although written between 1966 and 1978, Améry’s insights remain fresh and contemporary, and showcase the power of his thought.
Event details: https://isca.indiana.edu/conferences/webinars/Marlene-Gallner.html
December 2021
Virtual Book Launch
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
8 December 2021, 17:00 GMT
Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation and Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex
Join the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation and Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies in conversation with Dr Shaul Bar-Haim: The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood and the British Welfare State.
The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project.
Virtual Book Launch
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in 19th Century America
13 December 2021, 17:30 GMT
IAS & SPRC Book launch of Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America by Xine Yao.
WOC scholars in dialogue: Jade Bentil, Lara Choksey, Lucia Lorenzi, Kerry Mackereth, Christine Okoth and Rianna Walcott respond to Xine Yao’s book Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America. Chaired by Christine Okoth.
In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America.
Hybrid Conference
Palaeontological Association’s Annual Meeting
18 – 20 December 2021
University of Manchester
The 65th annual meeting of the Palaeontological Association will take place at the University of Manchester from 18th to 20th December 2021. We are aiming to welcome delegates to an in-person meeting at the University of Manchester, with enhanced online access to allow remote participation where possible.
Conference website: https://www.palass.org/meetings-events/annual-meeting
Visit the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive discount on selected Palaeontology titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/pa-2021/
November 2021
Book Launch
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
8 November 2021, 19:30 CET / 18:30 GMT
Diffrakt | Centre for Theoretical Periphery
Conversation with Martín Savransky, Melanie Sehgal & Peter Skafish
In Around The Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse, Martín Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. In an epoch marked by colonialism and ecological devastation, he draws on the pragmatic pluralism of William James to develop what he calls a “pluralistic realism” – an understanding of the world as simultaneously one and many, ongoing and unfinished, underway and yet to be made.
Martín Savransky, Melanie Sehgal, and Peter Skafish will probe the relation of Around the Day in Eighty Worlds to work in contemporary philosophy, anthropology, and decolonial thought on pragmatism, speculation – and, indeed, pluralism, radical and otherwise!
More info: http://diffrakt.space/en/around-the-day-in-eighty-worlds/
Virtual Book Launch
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited
11 November 2021, 17:00 GMT
Department of Sociology, LSE
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is “throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.”
In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad’s rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution.
Book Launch
Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
12 November 2021, 16:00 GMT
King’s College London
In Unfree, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas examines the labor of women from the Philippines, who represent the largest domestic workforce in the country. She challenges presiding ideas about the kafala, arguing that its reduction to human trafficking is, at best, unproductive, and at worst damaging to genuine efforts to regulate this system that impacts tens of millions of domestic workers across the globe.
Virtual Books Discussion
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify and Gichigami Hearts virtual event with The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, Cloquet Public Library, Carolyn Holbrook, and Linda LeGarde Grover
13 November 2021, 17:00 GMT / 13:00 CST
Moving Words | Cloquet
Carolyn Holbrook and Linda LeGarde Grover will join a virtual event with The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library and the Cloquet Public Library on Saturday, November 13 for a discussion of their books, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify: Essays and Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong, as part of the Moving Words discussion series.
More info: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MA55E-dOT6quRKlNVS3n0A
Virtual Book Talk
Grolier Club Virtual Lecture on The Last Bookseller
15 November 2021, 17:00 GMT
The Grolier Club
Gary Goodman, a used and rare book dealer from Stillwater, Minnesota (and father of Grolier Club member Nolan Goodman, who will also be present), will talk about his new book, The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade. It chronicles Gary Goodman’s sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious, four-decade career and the many booksellers, book scouts, book criminals, and book collectors he met along the way.
Virtual Book Discussion
Not an Elegy: An Oral History of our Opioid Reckoning
15 November 2021, 18:30 GMT / 12:30 CST
Center for the Study of the Southwest, Texas State University
Amy Sullivan will join a hybrid event with Texas State University’s Center for the Study of the Southwest on Monday, November 15 at 12:30 p.m. for a discussion of her new book, Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State.
Sullivan explores the complexity of America’s opioid epidemic through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery. Taking a clear-eyed, nonjudgmental perspective of every aspect of these issues, Opioid Reckoning questions current treatment models, healthcare inequities, and the criminal justice system.
More info: https://www.txstate.edu/cssw/news-events/events/opioid-reckoning/opioid-reckoning.html
Virtual Book Launch
Africanizing Oncology
15 November 2021, 17:00 GMT / 09:00 PST / 19:00 EAT
An innovative contemporary history that blends insights from a variety of disciplines to highlight how a storied African cancer institute has shaped lives and identities in postcolonial Uganda.
Over the past decade, an increasingly visible crisis of cancer in Uganda has made local and international headlines. Based on transcontinental research and public engagement with the Uganda Cancer Institute that began in 2010, Africanizing Oncology frames the cancer hospital as a microcosm of the Ugandan state, as a space where one can trace the lived experiences of Ugandans in the twentieth century.
More info: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdOiqqDMsHteW8CydG1hXU74a_GBOmjmK
Virtual Book Launch
Weimar and Now: Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
16 November 2021, 18:00 GMT
UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Virtual book launch for Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism by Marc Caplan (Dartmouth) chaired by François Guesnet (UCL).
Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers—Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moyshe Kulbak—working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics.
More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/events/2021/nov/weimar-and-now-yiddish-writers-weimar-berlin
Virtual Book Forum
Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media
16 November 2021, 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET
CDC Leuphana
The editors Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski and Susan Zieger & other contributors will discuss their book Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media.
Assembly Codes examines how media and logistics set the conditions for the circulation of information and culture. They document how logistics—the techniques of organizing and coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information—has substantially impacted the production, distribution, and consumption of media.
Register your interest by emailing cdcforum@leuphana.de
Virtual Book Talk
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
17 November 2021, 18:00 GMT
BRISMES together with EISA, the Global Development Section of ISA and BISA’s Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group are delighted to host Dr Somdeep Sen for this talk about Dr Sen’s recent book Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (Cornell University Press, 2020).
In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized.
More info: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/events/somdeep-sen
Virtual Book Launch
Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity
17 November 2021, 18:00 GMT / 12:00 CST
Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower will join a virtual event with the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the University of Houston on Friday, November 19 at noon (CST) for the launch of their new book, Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity.
Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity assembles an international group of interdisciplinary scholars to explore the question of care theory as a response to market-driven capitalism, addressing the relationship of three of the most compelling social and political subjects today: care, precarity, and neoliberalism.
More info: https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceyurzgsH9HWmROLqbAdRl0x5JplRk2C
Virtual Book Launch
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited
11 November 2021, 17:00 GMT
Department of Sociology, LSE
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is “throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.”
In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad’s rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution.
Book Launch
Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
12 November 2021, 16:00 GMT
King’s College London
In Unfree, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas examines the labor of women from the Philippines, who represent the largest domestic workforce in the country. She challenges presiding ideas about the kafala, arguing that its reduction to human trafficking is, at best, unproductive, and at worst damaging to genuine efforts to regulate this system that impacts tens of millions of domestic workers across the globe.
Virtual Books Discussion
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify and Gichigami Hearts virtual event with The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, Cloquet Public Library, Carolyn Holbrook, and Linda LeGarde Grover
13 November 2021, 17:00 GMT / 13:00 CST
Moving Words | Cloquet
Carolyn Holbrook and Linda LeGarde Grover will join a virtual event with The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library and the Cloquet Public Library on Saturday, November 13 for a discussion of their books, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify: Essays and Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong, as part of the Moving Words discussion series.
More info: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MA55E-dOT6quRKlNVS3n0A
Virtual Book Talk
Grolier Club Virtual Lecture on The Last Bookseller
15 November 2021, 17:00 GMT
The Grolier Club
Gary Goodman, a used and rare book dealer from Stillwater, Minnesota (and father of Grolier Club member Nolan Goodman, who will also be present), will talk about his new book, The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade. It chronicles Gary Goodman’s sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious, four-decade career and the many booksellers, book scouts, book criminals, and book collectors he met along the way.
Virtual Book Discussion
Not an Elegy: An Oral History of our Opioid Reckoning
15 November 2021, 18:30 GMT / 12:30 CST
Center for the Study of the Southwest, Texas State University
Amy Sullivan will join a hybrid event with Texas State University’s Center for the Study of the Southwest on Monday, November 15 at 12:30 p.m. for a discussion of her new book, Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State.
Sullivan explores the complexity of America’s opioid epidemic through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery. Taking a clear-eyed, nonjudgmental perspective of every aspect of these issues, Opioid Reckoning questions current treatment models, healthcare inequities, and the criminal justice system.
More info: https://www.txstate.edu/cssw/news-events/events/opioid-reckoning/opioid-reckoning.html
Virtual Book Launch
Africanizing Oncology
15 November 2021, 17:00 GMT / 09:00 PST / 19:00 EAT
An innovative contemporary history that blends insights from a variety of disciplines to highlight how a storied African cancer institute has shaped lives and identities in postcolonial Uganda.
Over the past decade, an increasingly visible crisis of cancer in Uganda has made local and international headlines. Based on transcontinental research and public engagement with the Uganda Cancer Institute that began in 2010, Africanizing Oncology frames the cancer hospital as a microcosm of the Ugandan state, as a space where one can trace the lived experiences of Ugandans in the twentieth century.
More info: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdOiqqDMsHteW8CydG1hXU74a_GBOmjmK
Virtual Book Launch
Weimar and Now: Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin
16 November 2021, 18:00 GMT
UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Virtual book launch for Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism by Marc Caplan (Dartmouth) chaired by François Guesnet (UCL).
Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers—Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moyshe Kulbak—working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics.
More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/events/2021/nov/weimar-and-now-yiddish-writers-weimar-berlin
Virtual Book Forum
Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media
16 November 2021, 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET
CDC Leuphana
The editors Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski and Susan Zieger & other contributors will discuss their book Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media.
Assembly Codes examines how media and logistics set the conditions for the circulation of information and culture. They document how logistics—the techniques of organizing and coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information—has substantially impacted the production, distribution, and consumption of media.
Register your interest by emailing cdcforum@leuphana.de
Virtual Book Talk
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
17 November 2021, 18:00 GMT
BRISMES together with EISA, the Global Development Section of ISA and BISA’s Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group are delighted to host Dr Somdeep Sen for this talk about Dr Sen’s recent book Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (Cornell University Press, 2020).
In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized.
More info: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/events/somdeep-sen
Virtual Book Launch
Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity
17 November 2021, 18:00 GMT / 12:00 CST
Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower will join a virtual event with the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership at the University of Houston on Friday, November 19 at noon (CST) for the launch of their new book, Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity.
Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity assembles an international group of interdisciplinary scholars to explore the question of care theory as a response to market-driven capitalism, addressing the relationship of three of the most compelling social and political subjects today: care, precarity, and neoliberalism.
More info: https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceyurzgsH9HWmROLqbAdRl0x5JplRk2C
Virtual Roundtable Discussion
Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe
18 November 2021, 07:00 GMT / 18:00 AEDT
History Books @ UNSW Sydney
Join us for a roundtable discussion with Ruth Balint (UNSW), Sheila Fitzpatrick (ACU) and Peter Gatrell (Manchester).
Destination Elsewhere chronicles encounters between displaced persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were tasked with caring for them after the Second World War. The struggle to define who was a displaced person and who was not was a subject of intense debate and deliberation among humanitarians, international law experts, immigration planners, and governments.
More info: https://events.unsw.edu.au/event/destination-elsewhere-roundtable-discussion
Author Talk
Performances of Race and Historical Representation with Ana Paulina Lee
22 November 2021, 19:00 CET / 18:00 GMT
Ladee Hubbard and Ana Paulina Lee will discuss how racial representations from the past bear on the present in historical narratives and the idea of science.
Ana Paulina Lee is the author of Mandarin Brazil from Stanford University Press.
Mandarin Brazil explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual culture, as well as archival documents and Brazilian and Qing dynasty diplomatic correspondence about opening trade and immigration routes between Brazil and China.
More info: https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/events/performances-of-race-and-historical-representation
Virtual Book Launch
Resounding the Sublime by Miranda Eva Stanyon
22 November 2021, 19:00 AEST / 08:00 GMT
The University of Melbourne Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture Research Unit is delighted to host the launch of Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670-1850 by ERCC Associate Dr Miranda Stanyon.
To launch Dr Stanyon’s book, the ERCC warmly welcomes Emma Dillon, Professor of Music, King’s College London, Sarah Hibberd, Stanley Hugh Badock Chair of Music, University of Bristol, and Peter de Bolla, Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics, University of Cambridge.
Webinar Series
Decolonial Research Methods: The Politics of Decolonial Investigations by Walter Mignolo
23 November 2021, 14:00 GMT
Decolonial Research Methods webinar series with Vineeta Sinha, Linda T. Smith, Raewyn Connell, Walter Mignolo, Sujata Patel & Jeong-Eun Rhee.
Walter Mignolo is the author of The Politics of Decolonial Investigations from Duke University Press.
In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.
More info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonial-research-methods-webinar-series-tickets-175333205337
Conference
Australian Anthropological Society Conference
24 November – 1 December 2021
The program will feature a series of keynote plenaries discussions between First Nations scholars, with the dual intention of foregrounding Indigenous scholarship and drawing out some of its themes, especially around the decolonisation of research and writing.
View the CAP digital exhibit page for an exclusive conference discount on Anthropology eBook titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/aas-2021/
Book Talk
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited
24 November 2021, 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET
Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is “throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.”
In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad’s rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution.
More info: https://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch/gta-invites-en/gta-invites-fall-2021
Conference
Norwegian Anthropological Association Annual Conference
25 – 26 November 2021
University of Bergen
The world is becoming increasingly polarized. Intensifying border controls, the amplification of new and old political antagonisms, increasing economic and social inequalities, new macro-political and geo-political constellations and positions, novel forms of activism across the political spectrum, and a proliferation of hate-speech create a sense of exacerbated polarization across regions, nations, ideologies, religions, race, social class, and political beliefs. As anthropologists we may ask: how can anthropology read and interpret these polarizing processes? The conference invites reflections on both a polarized and fragmented contemporaneity and a polarized and fragmented anthropology.
View the CAP digital exhibit page for an exclusive conference discount on Anthropology eBook titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/norwegian-aas-2021/
Book Talk
Wendy Wickwire: Shetland’s Long Reach: James Teit and the Struggle for ‘Indian Rights’ in the Canadian West
27 November 2021, 16:00 GMT
Shetland Family History Society
Wendy Wickwire, author of At the Bridge, will talk about renowned Shetland anthropologist James Teit.
At the Bridge chronicles the little-known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and the northwestern United States. Whereas his contemporaries, including famed anthropologist Franz Boas, studied Indigenous peoples as members of “dying cultures,” Teit worked with them as members of living cultures resisting colonial influence over their lives and lands.
More info: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5116292063382/WN_holwbmDxQxiBOauQJcb24g
October 2021
Virtual Book Talk
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
6 October 2021, 18:00 BST
Shaul Bar-Haim in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi, chaired by Daniel Pick.
Join author Shaul Bar-Haim and Lisa Appignanesi for a discussion on his latest publication, The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State, chaired by Daniel Pick.
The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project.
Virtual Book Launch
Religious Television and Pious Authority in Pakistan
8 October 2021, 14:00 BST
SOAS South Asia Institute
In Pakistan, religious talk shows emerged as a popular television genre following the 2002 media liberalization reforms. Since then, these shows have become important platforms where ideas about Islam and religious authority in Pakistan are developed and argued. In Religious Television and Pious Authority in Pakistan, Taha Kazi reveals how these talk shows mediate changes in power, belief, and practice. She also identifies the sacrifices and compromises that religious scholars feel compelled to make in order to ensure their presence on television.
Virtual Book Discussion
Imagining Childhoods Otherwise – an LSE Gender Conversation
13 October 2021, 17:30 BST
Hosted by the Department of Gender Studies, LSE
An LSE Gender Studies conversation celebrating the publication of Jacob Breslow’s Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).
In this panel, scholars Jules Gill-Peterson, Erica Meiners, and Mary Zaborskis will put their own research into conversation with the book’s analysis of childhood’s ambivalent relations to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability. How do social justice movements negotiate the competing demands for inclusion in, and exclusion from, the category of childhood? What lessons do critical race, trans, feminist, queer, critical migration, and psychoanalytic theories bring to bear on the mobilisations of childhood in the contemporary United States? Following the book’s invitation to interrogate what childhood makes possible, the panel discussion will engage with these questions, as well as others, as a means of imagining childhoods anew.
More info: https://www.lse.ac.uk/gender/events/2021-22/Imagining-Childhoods-Otherwise
Virtual Book Talk
Unwitting Architect by Dr. Julian Germann
13 October 2021, 15:00 BST
The University of Sussex Centre for Global Political Economy (CGPE) hosts Dr. Julian Germann to present his new book Unwitting Architect.
The global rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s is widely seen as a dynamic originating in the United States and the United Kingdom, and only belatedly and partially repeated by Germany. From this Anglocentric perspective, Germany’s emergence at the apex of a neoliberal Europe is perplexing and tends to be attributed to the same forces associated with the Anglo-American pioneers. The book challenges this ruling narrative conceptually and empirically, recasting the genesis of neoliberalism as an interactive process in which Germany played a critical, if counterintuitive, role from the very beginning.
More info & register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-julian-germann-unwitting-architect-book-talk-tickets-186841005477
Virtual Book Launch
Schism: Seventh-day Adventism in Post-Denominational China
15 October 2021, 12:00 ET / 17:00 BST
Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
Scholars have been slow to consider Chinese Protestantism from a denominational standpoint. In Schism, the first monograph that documents the life of the Chinese Adventist denomination from the mid-1970s to the 2010s, Christie Chui-Shan Chow explores how Chinese Seventh-day Adventists have used schism as a tool to retain, revive, and recast their unique ecclesial identity in a religious habitat that resists diversity. Based on unpublished archival materials, fieldwork, oral history, and social media research, Chow demonstrates how Chinese Adventists adhere to their denominational character both by recasting the theologies and faith practices that they inherited from American missionaries in the early twentieth century and by engaging with local politics and culture.
More info: https://notredame.zoom.us/webinar/register/4016286909004/WN_iofAHnLNSMyImHT_yjNDMQ/
Virtual Book Launch
Batman Saves the Congo
19 October 2021, 17:00 CEST
Organised by the Collective Action, Change and Transition Research Group (CoACT)
Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey will be at the University of Trento on Tuesday, October 19 at 5:00 p.m. for the launch of their new book, Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development. They will be joined in conversation by Mario Diani and Andrea Cossu.
Can a celebrity be a “disrupter,” promoting strategic partnerships to foster ideas and funding to revitalize the development field—or are they just charismatic ambassadors for big business? Examining the role of the rich and famous in development and humanitarianism, this book argues that celebrities do both, and that understanding why and how yields insight into the realities of neoliberal development.
More info: https://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/sociologia/98457/batman-saves-the-congo
Book Launch
Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico
20 October 2021, 17:00 BST
Vendors’ Capitalism argues for the centrality of Mexico City’s public markets to the political economy of the city from the restoration of the Republic in 1867 to the heyday of the Mexican miracle and the PRI in the 1960s. Each day vendors interacted with customers, suppliers, government officials, and politicians, and the multiple conflicts that arose repeatedly tested the institutional capacity of the state. Through a close reading of the archives and an analysis of vendors’ intersecting economic and political lives, Ingrid Bleynat explores the dynamics, as well as the limits, of capitalist development in Mexico.
Virtual Book Launch & Panel
Complaint! by Sara Ahmed
20 October 2021, 18:00 BST / 10:00 PDT
In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what does happen. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy. Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed upon those who complain.
More info & register here: https://ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__9gsBX0IRA2XbIZH_W9mCw
Online Event
The Last Years of Karl Marx: A Conversation between Marcello Musto, Kevin B. Anderson, Himani Bannerji & David N. Smith
25 October 2021, 17:00 BST
Sponsored by the BSA Theory Study Group
In this conversation, the discussants will debate with the author about his innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx.
With The Last Years of Karl Marx, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx’s critique of European colonialism, his ideas on non-Western societies, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in noncapitalist countries. From Marx’s late manuscripts, notebooks, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike.
Book Talk & Launch
The Government of Things: Foucault and the New Materialisms
29 October 2021, 17:00 CEST / 16:00 BST
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Materialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back to antiquity, is currently undergoing a renaissance. In The Government of Things, Thomas Lemke provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of this “new materialism”. In analyzing the work of Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Karen Barad, Lemke articulates what, exactly, new materialism is and how it has evolved. These insights open up new spaces for critical thought and political experimentation, overcoming the limits of anthropocentrism.
More info: https://www.normativeorders.net/en/events/allevents/8270-29-oktober-2021-17-00-uhr
Virtual Book Talk
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage
30 October 2021, 09:00 KST / 01:00 BST
Seminar on Big Data Studies & SNU Life Academy at Seoul National University
What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts—and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading—are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book history, textual criticism, and bibliography when literary texts are distributed across digital platforms, devices, formats, and networks? Indeed, what is textual scholarship when the “text” of our everyday speech is a verb as often as it is a noun?
These are the questions that motivate Matthew G. Kirschenbaum in Bitstreams, a distillation of twenty years of thinking about the intersection of digital media, textual studies, and literary archives.
More info: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdeGurzkuHNUUEWak1b63jPg2uxhq-y0j
September 2021
Book Talk
Ordinary Deliberation in Uganda: Talkative Polity by Florence Brisset-Foucault
9 September 2021, 9:30 BST / 10:30 CEST
Gis Démocratie et Participation, MHS Paris Nord, France
For the first decade of the twenty-first century, every weekend, people throughout Uganda converged to participate in ebimeeza, open debates that invited common citizens to share their political and social views. These debates, also called “People’s Parliaments,” were broadcast live on private radio stations until the government banned them in 2009. In Talkative Polity, Florence Brisset-Foucault offers the first major study of ebimeeza, which complicate our understandings of political speech in restrictive contexts and force us to move away from the simplistic binary of an authoritarian state and a liberal civil society.
Find out more: https://www.participation-et-democratie.fr/la-rentree-du-gis-democratie-et-participation-actualite-des-publications-sur-la-democratie
Virtual Book Launch
Vendors’ Capitalism: Ingrid Bleynat in conversation with Robert Weis
13 September 2021, 18:00 BST / 10:00 PT
Join us on Monday, September 13 at 10 AM (PT) as Ingrid Bleynat discusses her brand-new book Vendors’ Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City in conversation with Robert Weis (University of Northern Colorado).
Vendors’ Capitalism argues for the centrality of Mexico City’s public markets to the political economy of the city from the restoration of the Republic in 1867 to the heyday of the Mexican miracle and the PRI in the 1960s. Each day vendors interacted with customers, suppliers, government officials, and politicians, and the multiple conflicts that arose repeatedly tested the institutional capacity of the state. Through a close reading of the archives and an analysis of vendors’ intersecting economic and political lives, Ingrid Bleynat explores the dynamics, as well as the limits, of capitalist development in Mexico.
Public Seminar & Book Launch
The Color of Equality
22 September 2021, 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST
SPUI25, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of egalitarianism and the modern philosophy of human rights or blamed as the source of racism, sexism, and all that has gone wrong in modernity. On the basis of his new book, The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought (University of Pennsylvania Press), historian Devin J. Vartija will discuss the contradictory legacy of the Enlightenment together with Shiru Lim, Amada M’charek and Alicia Montoya.
Find out more: https://spui25.nl/programma/the-color-of-equality
Book Talk
St Andrews Film Studies Departmental Speaker Series – Television and the Afghan Culture Wars by Dr Wazhmah Osman
22 September 2021, 15:00 BST
The Department of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews is thrilled to welcome Dr Wazhmah Osman to discuss her new book, Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists.
Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women’s rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace.
Find out more: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-andrews-film-studies-departmental-speaker-series-dr-wazhmah-osman-tickets-169487282023
August 2021
Virtual Book Talk
Wetlands in a Dry Land by Emily O’Gorman
16 August 2021, 10:00 CEST / 18:00 AEST
The Greenhouse, University of Stavanger
Emily O’Gorman, senior lecturer at Macquarie University (Australia) will kick off the fall 2021 edition of the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series with a discussion of her new book Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (University of Washington Press, 2021) on Monday 16 August 2021 at 10am in Norway (which is 18:00 in Sydney, Australia).
More info: http://newnatures.org/greenhouse/events/booktalk/online-book-talk-ogorman-wetlands-in-a-dry-land/
July 2021
Virtual Book Talk
Dr Malini Sur – Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
1 July 2021, 17:00 AEST / 08:00 BST
Australian Critical Border Studies Network
We are pleased to announce that Dr Malini Sur (Western Sydney University) will present her recently published book Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border at our next seminar. The seminar will be held on the 1st of July, Thursday (5 pm, AEST). Professor Bina D’Costa (Australian National University) will provide commentary before an open discussion.
If you wish to attend please register via the event page.
Virtual Book Launch
Making Film, Making History: Women, Visibility and Production Cultures
2 July 2021, 19:00 BST
School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds
The School of Media and Communication are delighted to bring you the online book launch of Dr Melanie Bell’s new book, Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema.
The format of the book launch will be a roundtable discussion where Melanie Bell, Shelley Stamp and Yvonne Tasker explore the multi-faceted aspects of women’s labour in film production and their place in film histories. Opening up questions of creativity, visibility and value, the speakers will reflect on the challenges and opportunities of rewriting production history through a gendered lens, and why feminist media historiography continues to offer some of the most exciting developments in the field.
Please note this event will be held online via Microsoft Teams. To request an invitation to this event, please email mediaresearchsupport@leeds.ac.uk by 12pm on Friday 2 July.
Find out more: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/events/event/2180/book-launch-making-film-making-history-women-visibility-and-production-cultures
Virtual Book Launch
The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE
5 July 2021, 18:30 BST
Fringe event of the International Medieval Congress hosted by the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds.
Organised by Combined Academic Publishers in coordination with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
The standard explanation for the emergence of the new-style material culture found in lowland Britain by the last quarter of the fifth century is that foreign objects were brought in by “Anglo-Saxon” settlers. Marshalling a wealth of archaeological evidence, Robin Fleming argues instead that not only Continental immigrants, but also the people whose ancestors had long lived in Britain built this new material world together from the ashes of the old, forging an identity that their descendants would eventually come to think of as English.
Find out more: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-the-material-fall-of-roman-britain-300-525-ce-tickets-155922052055
Browse the full CAP book exhibit for the International Medieval Congress here: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/imc-2021/
Conference
Leeds International Medieval Congress
5 – 9 July 2021
University of Leeds
Drawing medievalists from over 60 countries, with more than 2,000 individual papers as well as public concerts, performances, excursions, bookfairs and more, the International Medieval Congress (IMC) is Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies. IMC 2021 will take place online from Monday 05 July to Friday 09 July 2021.
Find out more: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Medieval Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/imc-2021/
As part of IMC 2021, Combined Academic Publishers in coordination with the University of Pennsylvania Press will be organising a launch event for The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE by Robin Fleming. Find out more: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-the-material-fall-of-roman-britain-300-525-ce-tickets-155922052055
Webinar
A New Theory of the Earth
6 July 2021, 19:00 BST
Thomas Nail with Dorion Sagan
Climate change and other ecological disruptions challenge us to reconsider the deep history of minerals, atmosphere, plants, and animals and to take a more process-oriented perspective that sees humanity as part of the larger cosmic and terrestrial drama of mobility and flow. This conversation between philosopher Thomas Nail and ecological theorist Dorion Sagan will urge us to rethink our ethical relationship to one another, the planet, and the cosmos at large.
Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. His current work focuses on the influence of mobility in the 21st century and the philosophy of movement broadly. He is the author of Theory of the Earth from Stanford University Press.
Find out more: https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/a-new-theory-of-the-earth
Virtual Book Discussion
Resounding the Sublime by Dr Miranda Eva Stanyon
7 July 2021, 11:30 – 13:00 BST
Queen Mary University of London
Presentation and discussion of Miranda Eva Stanyon’s new book Resounding the Sublime. Hosted by Queen Mary University of London.
The event will begin with a presentation by the author, Dr Miranda Eva Stanyon (University of Melbourne), of her book Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670-1850 (University of Pennsylvania, 2021).
This is to be followed by additional discussion from two commentators, Professor Rüdiger Görner (Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, QMUL) and Dr Emma Gilby (University of Cambridge). The event will be introduced by Professor Miri Rubin (History, QMUL) and hosted by Professor Markman Ellis (English, QMUL).
Find out more and register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resounding-the-sublime-by-dr-miranda-eva-stanyon-registration-158390406971
Webinar
Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now
10 – 11 July 2021
Maynooth University, Ireland
The theme for our conference is “Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now.”
The conference will be held virtually on Zoom on 10th and 11th July 2021. The conference will consist of pre-recorded videos of papers, which will be made available for attendees in advance.
The Women’s Film & Television History Network-UK/Ireland are a group of researchers, teachers, archivists, collections managers, students, professionals, and enthusiasts engaged in exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Women in Film titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/dwfh21/
Find out more: https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/dwfth-5-2021/
Conference
26th World Congress of Political Science (IPSA)
10 – 15 July 2021
Nova University Campus of Campolide in Lisbon, Portugal
We are very pleased to invite our colleagues from around the world to Lisbon, Portugal for the 26th IPSA World Congress of Political Science to be held 10-14 July 2021. The Congress will have a diverse program under the theme New Nationalisms in an Open World, which will be coordinated by the Program Co-Chairs Prof. Bertrand Badie and Prof. Hasret Dikici Bilgin.
The Congress will provide a great opportunity to present your work and discuss political science and international relations with scholars from all over the world. It will have particularly strong regional representation since it will also integrate the biennial Congress of the Portuguese Political Science Association.
Find out more: https://wc2021.ipsa.org/wc/welcome
Conference
The Society for Old Testament Study Summer Meeting
12 – 14 July 2021
The Society for Old Testament Study (SOTS) is a learned society, based in the British Isles, of professional scholars and others committed to the study of the Old Testament.
In light of ongoing coronavirus restrictions and uncertainties regarding the possibility of meeting physically in July, the Committee of the Society for Old Testament Study has approved a recommendation from its Programme Sub-Committee that the Summer Meeting, scheduled for July 12-14 in Sheffield, be now held fully online.
Find out more: https://www.sots.ac.uk/conferencedetails/
Virtual Conference
The Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference 2021
13 – 15 July 2021
University of Liverpool
This conference will explore the relation between our mortality (and the knowledge thereof) and our experience of meaningfulness (and meaninglessness), with particular focus on the question whether death undercuts meaning in life, as some life extensionists proclaim, or whether, on the contrary, meaning depends on our mortality.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Philosophy titles: [Link Forthcoming]
Find out more: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/events/meaning-in-life-and-the-knowledge-of-death/
Author Keynote Lecture
Working with Benjamin on Law: Workshop for Young Benjamin Scholars
15 – 17 July 2021
Venue: ZfL Berlin und Walter Benjamin Archiv Berlin / online
Organized by Hannah Franzki (University of Bremen), Rafael Vieira (UFRJ), Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa (EUI/NYU)
The workshop is funded by the Walter Benjamin Award for Young Researchers and supported by the Walter Benjamin Archive (Berlin), the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL, Berlin), and the International Walter Benjamin Society.
Julia Ng, editor of Toward the Critique of Violence from Stanford University Press will share her thoughts on what it entails to be “working with Benjamin on law.” The keynote lectures will be publicly available online ahead of the workshop. Julia Ng is lecturer in Critical Theory and founding Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. She co-chairs the Walter Benjamin Research Network and serves on the editorial board of the series Walter Benjamin Studies for Bloomsbury Philosophy, and the scientific board of the series Critical Theory for Inschibboleth edizioni.
Find out more: https://www.zfl-berlin.org/event/working-with-benjamin-on-law.html
Virtual Conference
11th World Shakespeare Congress
18 – 24 July 2021
Singapore
The 11th World Shakespeare Congress will be held online from the National University of Singapore. The Congress theme of circuits draws attention to the passage of Shakespeare’s work between places and periods, agencies and institutions, positionalities and networks of production, languages and mediums. The theme is particularly suited to the online medium of the Congress, that gathers together such passages of Shakespeare’s work not by the movements of persons between places, but by creatively connecting and expanding our circuits in multimedia and live conversations.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Early Modern Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/wsc-2021/
Conference website: http://wsc2021.org/
June 2021
Virtual Conference
Simone de Beauvoir: New Perspectives for the 21st Century International Conference
2 – 4 June 2021
Leuven, Institute of Philosophy
Recent years have witnessed a revival and renewed interest in the philosophical and personal writings of Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, few studies have exposed how her political commitments have shaped her writing as well as her public interventions: existentialism, Marxism, anti-colonialism and, finally feminism. This conference, starting from Beauvoir’s social and political engagement, asks to what extent she provides important tools to understand major political events of the 21st Century.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Simone de Beauvoir titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/beauvoir/
Conference website: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/events-and-cfp/cfp-de-beauvoir-new-perspectives-for-the-21st-century
Virtual Conference
European Architectural History Network Conference
2 – 5 June 2021
University of Edinburgh
EAHN2021, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, will take place fully online on 2-5 June 2021. It will have a wide-ranging, global programme, as planned, along with the special interest group meetings which are so important to EAHN. The conference fee will be substantially less than usual, and we hope to attract new audiences who wouldn’t have been able to come to the in-person event.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Architecture titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/eahn-2021/
Conference website: https://eahn2021.eca.ed.ac.uk/
Virtual Conference
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Conference
7 – 11 June 2021
HOTCUS is delighted to welcome scholars to its thirteenth annual conference, which for the first time is being hosted virtually. Our 2021 Annual Conference is taking place from the 7th to the 10th of June on Zoom, and will feature a mix of pre-circulated papers and live panels on a range of topics relating to the history of the United States.
Our plenary speaker this year is Connie Y. Chiang, Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College. Professor Chiang has published extensively in the field of environmental history and the history of the United States. She is the author of Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast (University of Washington Press)
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on twentieth century History titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/hoctus-2021/
Conference website: https://hotcus.org.uk/annual-conference-2021/
Virtual Conference
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
7 – 13 June 2021
We are very happy to announce that the Palermo team is able to host the NECS conference next year in June! Therefore, we decided to postpone the 2020 conference to 16-18 June 2021. All keynote speakers are still on board and we hope you are as well! If your paper was accepted, we will approach you during the summer to check if you adhere to your submission and to discuss technicalities. We will keep you posted if we can offer slots for new contributions.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Film & Media studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/necs-2021/
Conference website: https://necs.org/conferences#/node/117927
Virtual Conference
Society for Ethnology and Folklore Congress
19 – 24 June 2021
University of Helsinki
The 15th SIEF congress is hosted by the University of Helsinki, Finland’s largest and oldest academic institution (est. 1640). With the theme Breaking the rules? Power, participation and transgression, we invite and encourage participants to explore the dynamics, modes, arenas and implications of breaking the rules and to revisit and discuss underlying concepts.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Ethnology & Folklore studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/sief-2021/
Conference website: https://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2021/index.shtml
Virtual Conference
British International Studies Association Conference
21 – 23 June 2021
The BISA conference is renowned for being inclusive, diverse and friendly. We bring together a worldwide community of specialists to discuss, promote and develop International Studies.
In 2021 we’re going virtual! Taking the provocation of ‘forgetting’ International Studies, #BISA2021 offers an opportunity both to critically engage with this period of global change, and to reflect upon the possibilities and limitations of the discipline in confronting it. Highlights include three fantastic keynotes featuring Professor Gary Younge, Dr Agnes Callamard and more, 100+ panels, an art exhibition, and an IR quiz.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on International Studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/bisa2021/
Conference website: https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/
Virtual Book Discussion
Genetic Crossroads | Elise K Burton
22 June 2021, 17:00 BST
Centre for Global Knowledge Studies, University of Cambridge
We are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion hosted by Dr Elise K Burton (University of Toronto), around her new book Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity.
Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing projects. It illuminates how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial claims and national origin myths.
Find out more and how to attend: http://gloknos.ac.uk/research/activities/book-launches/burton-launch-2021
Virtual Conference
International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference
21 – 25 June 2021
University of Cambridge
Organised by the International Bande Dessinée Society, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and Studies in Comics
The theme of this conference explores the idea of audiences in all its meanings. We consider, for example, comics audiences as physical people, individuals, and groups who engage with comics in different situations. Thus, the relationship of readers accessing comics in different languages allows inquiry into questions of translation and adaptation.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Comics studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/IGNCC-2021/
Conference website: https://internationalgraphicnovelandcomicsconference.com/
Virtual Conference
International Conference on Sport & Society
24 – 25 June 2021
University of Granada
Due to current restrictions on entry into Spain, and uncertainty on the date these restrictions will end, we have decided to continue with only the online component of the 2021 conference.
We are moving to bring the conference experience into the digital era. All presenters will be given Presenter Pages: linked to profiles on CGScholar, displaying abstract summary, thematic connection to panelists and peers, ability to add digital media: video, sound, other files. As an alternative, you can also participate online with Audience Passes. And finally, we’ll be offering innovative online social spaces to frame serendipitous encounters for personal and professional growth.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Sport & Society studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/icss-2021/
Conference website: https://sportandsociety.com/2021-conference
Virtual Conference
International Screen Studies Conference
25 – 27 June 2021
Screen Journal
The Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen, features over 100 speakers presenting papers on a wide range of topics within screen studies, including a thematic strand focusing on the impact upon screen-based media ideas and practice of calls across academia and beyond to decolonise, de-centre or de-Westernise established creative canons and intellectual approaches.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Screen studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/screen-2021/
Conference website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-screen-studies-conference-2021-tickets-141405183711
Virtual Conference
Society for French Studies Annual Conference
28 – 30 June 2021
Queen’s University Belfast
The 62nd annual conference of the Society for French Studies will take place at Queen’s University Belfast, on 28-30 June 2021.
To supplement papers transferred over from our 2020 conference, which was unavoidably cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are pleased to invite additional proposals for papers (in English or French; duration: 20 minutes) and for panel sessions. Please see the call for papers, below, for further information.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on French studies titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/sfs-2021/
Conference website: https://www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/2021-annual-conference
Virtual Book Launch
The Jerusalem Book Launch: A History of False Hope with Lori Allen
30 June 2021, 16:00 BST
In this event, co-hosted by CBRL and the Educational Bookshop, Lori Allen will present on her latest book, A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine, in conversation with Toufic Haddad.
Based on archival and ethnographic research, this book examines a history of international investigative commissions in Palestine as liberal performances and enactments of international law.
A History of False Hope offers new perspectives on Palestinian political history, and a novel methodology bringing anthropology to the archives and the history of international law.
Find out more and register to attend here: https://cbrl.ac.uk/event/history-of-false-hope/
May 2021
Zoom Seminar
Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein by Veena Das
10 May 2021, 15:00 CEST / 14:00 BST
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma
Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. Das shows that doing anthropology after Wittgenstein does not consist in taking over a new set of terms such as forms of life, language games, or private language from Wittgenstein’s philosophy.
Attend here: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/88516699469?pwd=SjhaakdRcklmaDN1SUQyeGxBaVVhZz09
MEETING ID: 885 1669 9469
PASSCODE: 514723
Joint Virtual Book Launch
Making the Miscellany by Megan Heffernan
14 May 2021
Society for Renaissance Studies
In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan’s focus is not only the material organization of printed poetry, but also how those conventions and innovations of arrangement contributed to vernacular poetic craft, the consolidation of ideals of individual authorship, and centuries of literary history.
Find out more: https://www.rensoc.org.uk/event/book-launch/?calendar=event&month=may-2021
Book Launch
Black Bodies, White Gold by Anna Arabindan-Kesson
21 May 2021, 18:00 AWST / 11:00 BST
Alex Hotel in Perth, Australia with Rabble Books
Please join us for a conversation between Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Sisonke Msimang to celebrate the publication of Anna’s new book Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton and Commerce in the Atlantic World that examines the visual legacies of slavery and the cotton trade.
In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
The event is free but attendance must be registered in advance. Find out more: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/book-launch-black-bodies-white-gold-tickets-153608702765
April 2021
Virtual Conference
Classical Association Annual Conference 2021
6 – 8 April 2021
With conditions too uncertain to plan for the CA’s usual conference at a UK university this year, CA2021 will be held online from 6 – 8 April 2021. Interactive sessions will focus on key issues facing classicists, including inclusivity, outreach and employability. There is also a theatre night, featuring brand new material from three theatre companies and discussion by practitioners of the challenges and opportunities of performing classically inspired material online.
The event will include the Presidential Address by acclaimed Welsh author and classicist Mari Williams and presentation of the CA Prize and our new Teaching Awards by broadcaster, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes.
View the CAP virtual exhibit: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ca-2021/
Conference website: https://classicalassociation.org/conference/
Virtual Conference
British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Annual Conference
7 – 9 April 2021
University of Southampton Virtual Centre
The 9th Annual BAFTSS conference will take place entirely online from 7-9th April 2021, hosted by the University of Southampton Centre for International Film Research (CIFR). The conference theme is ‘Time and the Body in Film, Television and Screen Studies’. The conditions of the 2021 conference bring home with particular pertinence the fundamental, yet malleable, natures of time and the body. The conference will be held online via Microsoft Teams, and will adopt a different format to increase participation and accessibility. Panels will be conceived as opportunities for discussion, with participants offering summaries of their research and devoting the rest of the time to debate with their fellow panel members and audience.
View the CAP virtual exhibit: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/film-television-screen-studies-2021/
Virtual Conference
British Association of American Studies Annual Conference
8 – 10 April 2021
University of Hull
We are excited to announce details for the British Association for American Studies’s 66th Annual Convention — its first to be hosted entirely remotely. For several years BAAS has been building towards an event of this type, in order to transcend the exclusivity and waste of our traditional conference model. Our plans have been pushed forward by our familiar enemy Covid-19 but are equally motivated by our twin concerns of environmental impact and accessibility/inclusivity. As part of the ‘Green BAAS’ agenda, we are committed to reflecting upon the environmental impact of our activities, and to making positive changes to combat climate catastrophe.
View the CAP virtual exhibit: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/baas-2021/
Conference website: https://www.baas.ac.uk/conferences-events/digital-baas-the-digital-conference-2021/
Virtual Conference
British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
8 – 11 April 2021
Bath Spa University
Keynote speaker: Dr Angela Impey (SOAS, University of London)
The 2020 theme will be Music, Culture and Nature.
In a time of mounting environmental concern, ethnomusicology is well placed to contribute to the achievements of ecomusicology (Allen and Dawe, 2016) that interrogate the ‘web of interactions between biodiversity, climate and human wellbeing’ (The Guardian, 6 May 2019). Indeed, ethnomusicologists have already provided insights into the cultural dimensions of ecological crises across a wide range of settings (Grant, 2018; Silvers, 2018). Building on the BFE one-day conference ‘Listening for a Change: Music, Environment, Action’ in 2011, this annual conference will develop ethnomusicology’s critical engagement with the most recent research from disciplines such as environmental science, environmental humanities, sound studies and ecomusicology.
View the CAP virtual exhibit: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ethnomusicology-2021/
British Forum for Ethnomusicology website: https://bfe.org.uk/conf/music-culture-and-nature
Virtual Conference
Society for the Study of Theology Conference
12 – 14 April 2021
The next SST conference will be held online between 12-14 April 2021. The conference theme is: ‘Theology at the Borders’. Tickets are £30 for members (or £10/day) and £40 for non-members (or £15/day).
Further information about how this online SST conference will work will be available in due course.
View the CAP virtual exhibit: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/theology/
View a conference overview and list of keynote speakers here: https://www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/2021-conference/
Virtual Conference
Society for Latin American Studies Conference
12 – 16 April 2021
The conference is the key event in our calendar, attracting 200-350 participants. It takes place during the Easter vacation in different locations each year.
Academic panels vary widely, from economics to music via anthropology, politics, history, literature, geography and film. We have a keynote speaker and social events which in the past have included visits to galleries, film festivals and which culminate in the conference dinner with salsa dancing.
More info: https://www.slas.org.uk/events
Virtual Conference
Association for Art History’s 47th Annual Conference
14 – 17 April 2021
University of Birmingham
The 2021 Annual Conference will be 50% bigger than usual, with more international sessions, more workshops and more keynotes. The 2021 Annual Conference will also accommodate some sessions from the 2020 conference that was cancelled. We will continue to work with the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham, and with museums and galleries in Birmingham on the 2021 Annual Conference. Speakers and attendees will be invited to participate and present digitally, and participate in digital session discussions and debates on-screen, using a secure virtual event platform. Session and paper formats will remain the same, and the four-day programme will continue to offer a range of additional workshops, virtual tours, keynote lectures and networking opportunities for delegates.
View the CAP virtual exhibit: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/association-for-art-history/
Conference website: https://forarthistory.org.uk/our-work/conference/2021-annual-conference/
Virtual Conference
British Association for Canadian Studies Conference
16 – 17 April 2021
Centre of Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh
With the support of the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of Canadian Studies and University College London’s Institute of the Americas, the British Association for Canadian Studies will be holding a two day online mini conference.
It will feature two panels, on ‘Transnational Literature and Print’ and ‘the October Crisis of 1970’, a roundtable on Canada/UK Comparisons as well as the annual Eccles Lecture sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library. This year’s Eccles Lecture will be given by Professor Rob Dunbar (Edinburgh) on ‘Indigenous Languages in Canada: Addressing the Challenges, Righting the Wrongs?’
Organisational support is provided by the Québec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN).
View the CAP virtual exhibit: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/canadian-studies-2021/
Conference website: https://britishassociationforcanadianstudies.com/conference/
Virtual Conference
Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Conference
21 – 23 April 2021
Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University
The fourth Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) Congress will be held online on 21–23 April 2021, in collaboration with the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham. The aim of the Congress is simple: it is an opportunity for people who are passionate or even simply curious about medical humanities research to present their work, share ideas, and meet potential future colleagues and collaborators. The Congress is not limited to members of the network.
View the CAP virtual exhibit for an exclusive conference discount on Medical Humanities titles: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/medical-humanities/
Conference website: http://nnmh.org.uk/call-for-papers-nnmhr-4th-annual-congress-21st-13rd-april-2021-online/
Virtual Book Launch
The Surrendered by José Carlos Agüero
29 April 2021, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT
UCL Institute of the Americas
When Peruvian public intellectual José Carlos Agüero was a child, the government imprisoned and executed his parents, who were members of Shining Path. In The Surrendered—originally published in Spanish in 2015 and appearing here in English for the first time—Agüero reflects on his parents’ militancy and the violence and aftermath of Peru’s internal armed conflict. He examines his parents’ radicalization, their lives as guerrillas, and his tumultuous childhood, which was spent in fear of being captured or killed, while grappling with the complexities of public memory, ethics and responsibility, human rights, and reconciliation. Much more than a memoir, The Surrendered is a disarming and moving consideration of what forgiveness and justice might mean in the face of hate. This edition includes an editor’s introduction, a timeline of the Peruvian conflict, and an extensive interview with the author
Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/2021/apr/book-launch-surrendered-jose-carlos-aguero-duke-university-press-2021