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HOTCUS Weekly Announcements:
CFP: Society for the History of Women in the Americas SHAW – DUE DECEMBER 6
SHAW 2025 Conference
Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds
Friday 11th July 2025
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, co-hosted by Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds.
This year’s conference invites papers on any topic relating to histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas, but encourages proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that explore the subject of emotion. How do we reflect on, train and engage the emotional aspects of our research? How can histories of emotion deepen our understanding of historical events? And how is the archive or the classroom an emotive space?
The conference welcomes proposals from academics at any stage of their career, especially graduate students, as well as those active in civil society groups.
We invite 250 word abstracts for papers of 20 minutes length. For full panels and roundtable discussions, please include descriptions of all papers proposed.
Please submit abstracts along with a 100-word biography of each proposed speaker to [email protected], by Friday 6th December 2024.
Financial assistance for this year’s conference will be limited and priority will be given to PGR presenters who are without access to funds at their home institution.
2025 HOTUS Winter Symposium, University of Gloucestershire, February 21 2025
The HOTCUS Winter Symposium 2025 will take place at the University of Gloucestershire on Friday 21 February 2025 and reflect on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the significant impact of the war on American life, history, and culture. The Call for Papers is now closed and we are considering the proposals. HOTCUS will be releasing an agenda in due course, along with details on how to register your attendance.
2025 HOTCUS Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, 18-20 June 2025.
The 2025 HOTCUS annual conference will be held at the University of Lancaster, 18-20 June 2025. We are delighted to announce that Professor Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge) will be our keynote speaker.
A call for papers will be released in December 2024. HOTCUS will be pleased to welcome proposals for individual papers, but particularly encourages interested members to consider developing innovative panels and roundtables, including state of the field discussions, reassessments of key texts, and fora that explore issues in research, career development, and pedagogy. To facilitate early development of proposals, HOTCUS has set up an online form (Google Doc) where potential applicants can share ideas and invite collaboration.
Postgraduate and early career scholars should also save the date for our workshop with Professor Preston, which will take place on June 18, 2025. Full details will be circulated as part of the main CFP, but this is an invaluable opportunity to share a piece of work in progress for discussion and feedback from Professor Preston and other HOTCUS members at the Annual Conference. Postgraduates and early career scholars are welcome to apply to present work at both the main conference and the workshop.
Scottish Association for the Study of the Americas 2025 Annual Conference CfP – Due 10 January 2025
The Scottish Association for the Study of Americas 2025 conference Call for Papers is open for submissions! Graciously, this year the conference and workshop will be hosted at The University of Edinburgh.
The conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh on March 1, 2025 and the postgraduate workshop will be held on February 28, 2025.
Importantly, this year we are also conducting our bi-annual postgraduate workshop (February 28, 2025) with our conference following the next day (March 1, 2025). Please see details at https://buff.ly/3r0Da1V and remember to submit by January 10, 2025! We can’t wait to hear from you all!
CFP: 21st-century United States: A Historical Assessment – DUE March 1, 2025
We are pleased to announce the organization of an international conference entitled “21st-century United States: A Historical Assessment” which will be held on November 20-21, 2025, at Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
The Call for Papers is available here.
Proposals may be submitted in English or French. They should not exceed 500 words, be accompanied by a short biographical note and sent to [email protected] by March 1, 2025. You will hear back from us by April 15.
We are looking forward to reading your proposals,
Best,
Tamara Boussac (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne), Hugo Bouvard (Université Paris Cité), Esther Cyna (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin) and Anne Légier (Université Paris Cité)
Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) exists to facilitate and promote scholarship in the field of twentieth century American history.
HOTCUS membership is open to scholars, students and teachers of twentieth century US history at all levels.
HOTCUS promotes the study of the twentieth century United States in four principal ways:
through an annual conference, which is intended to serve as a showcase for new research across the field of twentieth century American historythrough an annual winter symposium on a specific theme;
through HOTCUS panel presentations at major conferences;
and through the HOTCUS awards programme.