Annual Conference

Annual Conference

HOTCUS Delegates at the 2024 Annual Conference – Southampton University

The HOTCUS annual conference is the centrepiece of the organisation’s calendar. It traditionally takes place over three days in the summer, and plays host to a range of research presentations, state of the field round tables, and plenary lectures.

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The 2026 HOTCUS annual conference will be held at the University of Manchester, between 1-3 July. Professor Beth Bailey, Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, 2025-26, Cambridge University, is the keynote speaker and will deliver a lecture entitled “All You Can Be? Activism, Institutional Logic, and the Struggle for Social Change in the US Army.”

Registration for the conference is now open and can be completed here.

Conference Meal

The annual conference dinner will take place at Rain Bar in Manchester, a 20 minute walk or short bus/taxi ride from the conference venue. Please note, this is not included in the conference registration process. Tickets for the conference dinner can be purchased here for £25 per person. (If you have specific dietary requirements these can be registered after entering your payment details, just before completing your order.)

Conference Accommodation 

The University of Manchester is located on the Oxford Road Corridor, just south of the city centre. All panels and plenaries will be taking place in the Samuel Alexander building in the heart of the UoM campus, located here.

Manchester city centre has extensive accommodation options including dozens of hotels and a large private rental market (eg Airbnb). Buses run every few minutes from the city centre to the university campus from very early in the morning until late at night, and taxis are readily available. The campus is also a 10-15 minute walk from Oxford Road Station, and a 20-25 minute walk from Piccadilly Station for delegates arriving by train, and there is a regular bus service from both.

Reasonably priced accommodation options within easy walking distance include: 

  • Travelodge Upper Brook Street
  • Pendulum Hotel and Conference Centre
  • Holiday Inn Express
  • Ibis Manchester Centre Princess Street
  • Maldron Hotel

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Previous conferences:

2025: Lancaster University, 18-20 June 2025 (Plenary Speaker: Andrew Preston) – Programme

2024: Southampton University, 19-21 June 2024 (plenary speaker: Randall J. Stephens) – Programme

2023: Northumbria University, 21-23 June 2023 (plenary speaker: Bruce J. Schulman) – Programme

2022: Edinburgh University, 22-24 June 2022 (plenary speaker: Melani McAlister) – Programme

2021: Digital Conference, 7-10 June 2021 (plenary speaker: Connie Y Chiang) – Programme

2019: Liverpool John Moores University, 12-14 June 2019 (plenary speaker: Donna Murch) – Programme

2018: Madingley Conference Centre, Cambridge, 13-15 June 2018 (plenary speaker: Brooke Blower) – Programme

2017: University College Dublin, 16-18 June 2017 (plenary speaker: Penny Von Eschen) – Programme

2016: Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, 6-8 July 2016 (plenary speaker: Margot Canaday) – Programme

2015: University of East Anglia, 26-28 June 2015 (plenary speakers: Gary Gerstle and Andrew Hartman)

2014: University of Reading, 5-7 September 2014 (joint conference with BrANCH, HOTCUS plenary speaker: Sarah T. Phillips)

2013: Northumbria University, 5-7 July 2013 (plenary speaker: Wesley Hogan)

2012: Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, 20-22 June 2012 (plenary speaker: Charles Postel)

2011: University of Oxford, 7-9 July 2011 (plenary speaker: Jeremi Suri)

2010: University of Sussex, 1-3 July 2010 (plenary speaker: Nancy MacLean)

2009: University of Cambridge, 26-28 June 2009 (plenary speaker: Lisa McGirr)

2008: Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, 26-28 June 2008 (plenary speaker: Tony Badger)

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