Hosted by the University of Gloucestershire
HOTCUS Announcements:
1. HOTCUS mentorship program – due 4th October 2024
As announced at this year’s conference, we are relaunching our mentoring scheme. In the linked form you will find all relevant information but in brief, HOTCUS is looking for both prospective mentees and mentors, and will match up interested parties as well as provide support. We hope this scheme will support PhDs and early career researchers in a challenging job market and with grants and publications, but also offer benefits to other HOTCUS members and strengthen our intellectual community as a whole.
The deadline for signing up is Friday, 4 October 2024. The form can be accessed here: https://forms.office.com/e/nG8G4NNhnC
The briefing sessions will likely take place in the week of 21 October
2. HOTCUS-sponsored panel at SHAFR 2025 – DUE NOVEMBER 15, 2024
HOTCUS will sponsor a panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) in the Washington DC area, 26-28 June 2025.
We are seeking expressions of interest from all HOTCUS members who would like to join this special sponsored panel. We’re particularly keen to hear from those who may not have previously attended a SHAFR conference.
SHAFR is dedicated to the study of the history of the United States in the world. This includes not only foreign relations, diplomacy, statecraft, and strategy, but also the heterogenous approaches to Americans’ relations with the wider world, including global governance, transnational movements, culture, religion, human rights, race, gender, political economy and business, immigration, borderlands, the environment, and imperial formations.
The 2025 SHAFR programme is particularly interested in significant anniversaries such as the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, and the 55th year of Earth Day.
Papers can also address the themes of Belonging/Exclusion, Capitalism, Disease/Health, Environment/Extraction, Genocide, Indigeneity, Labor, Law/Sovereignty, Media/Technology, and Territoriality. Further details available in the SHAFR conference CFP.
The HOTCUS panel will be on the SHAFR 2025 conference programme. If you would like to be considered for the panel, please submit a short paper abstract (c.150 words) and 1-2 page CV to [email protected] by 15th November 2024.
HOTCUS will run an info session for those interested to participate but have questions or are unfamiliar with SHAFR and its annual conference. It will include advice on applying for SHAFR’s graduate and global scholars travel grants. The info session will run online on Friday 18 October at 10am.
We’re excited by this opportunity to promote the variety of work being undertaken by HOTCUS members and showcase HOTCUS to fellow historical organisations.
Any queries can be directed to [email protected]
3. IHR North American History Seminar – First session OCTOBER 17, 5:30pm
The 2024-25 IHR North American History Seminar meets in London on Thursdays from 5:30pm, alternating between Senate House (Wolfson room NB02) and theLondon School of Economics. The rooms at LSE are not always the same, so please do make sure to check for each session.
Our first session for the year is October 17 at Senate House, when Angel-Luke O’Donnell (Kings College London) will present a paper entitled “History of Mortgages: The State and Investment Capital in Colonial Pennsylvania.” Jon Chandler (University College London) will serve as chair.
Please do make sure to register your attendance via the IHR website here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/history-mortgages-state-and-investment-capital-colonial-pennsylvania
4. Save the date: HOTCUS Winter Symposium, Friday 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. Please look out for the CFP soon.
5. Save the date: HOTCUS Annual Conference, June 18-20, 2025
The 2025 Annual HOTCUS Conference will take place at Lancaster University on June 18-20, 2025. The CFP will be released in December 2024
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 history
through an annual winter symposium on a specific theme;through HOTCUS panel presentations at major conferences;
and through the HOTCUS awards programme.