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HOTCUS Weekly Announcements:
2025 HOTCUS Article Prize and 2025 Early Career Article Prize – due 31 January
HOTCUS welcomes applications for its 2025 Article Prize and 2024 Early Career Article Prize, both of which recognise the outstanding research published by HOTCUS members.
The 2025 Early Career Article Prize is open to doctoral (and pre-doctoral) students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts.
HOTCUS is dedicated to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, and so particularly encourages submissions from women and scholars from minority backgrounds, who have been traditionally underrepresented in previous competitions.
For both the Article Prize and the Early Career Article Prize, £100 will be awarded to the best article on a twentieth-century US history topic published in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal during the 2024 calendar year. Articles published in 2024 as “First View” (i.e. online only and not yet part of a specific issue published in 2024) are eligible, but articles can only be submitted for consideration once. Submissions may be made by authors or editors. Authors may be at any career stage, but they must be members of HOTCUS. Authors may submit one article per year.
The HOTCUS committee will judge entries according to the following criteria:
- Potential contribution or significance to both the specific sub-field and the wider field of twentieth century American history;
- Originality and quality of research undertaken, and/or sophistication of methodological approach applied;
- Value and accessibility to both specialist and non-specialist readers
To enter, authors or editors should email a PDF of their article to [email protected] by the deadline below. Please specify whether you are eligible for the Early Career Article Prize in your email.
More details of the competition, including details of previous winners, can be found here: https://hotcus.org.uk/awards/article-prize/.
The deadline for entries is January 31, 2025.
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.
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.