Winter Symposium
HOTCUS Events 2026 – Call for hosts!
HOTCUS is actively seeking hosts for our 2026 events, including the Winter Symposium (usually held in February) and the Annual Conference (mid-June). We can only run our events with member support and input, so please do consider if this is something that you can support at your institution.
If you are interested in hosting a HOTCUS event in 2026 or beyond, or have questions about what this might entail, please reach out to our Events Secretary, Dr Megan Hunt ([email protected]).
Winter Symposia are usually organised around a particular research theme, sub-discipline, or anniversary. Previous recent themes have included the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the concept of neoliberalism in modern US history, and 1963 as a watershed year. Some have led to the publication of edited collections or journal special issues.
Previous Winter Symposiums
2025: The United States and World War II: Impacts and Legacies at Home and Abroad (University of Gloucestershire, 21 February 2024)
2024: The uses and abuses of ‘neoliberalism’ in modern US history (University College London, 16 February 2024)
2023: 1963: A Watershed Year? (Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 24 February 2023)
2022: The Manhattan Project Turns 80: Reflections on the Nuclear Age (Liverpool John Moores University, 12 March 2022)
2020: Food, Health, and Welfare in U.S. History (Keele University, 22 February 2020)
2019: “Nuclear States”: Science, Technology, and American Society in the Atomic Age (University of Lincoln, 16 February 2019)
2018: The State of the State: What is American Political History Now? (University of Nottingham, 17 February 2018)
2017: War and Conflict in Twentieth-Century American Society and Culture (Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library, 18 February 2017)
2016: “Ordinary People”: Grassroots Organizing and Protest Movements in Twentieth Century America (University of Dundee, 13 February 2016)
2015: Memory and History in the Twentieth-Century United States (Canterbury Christ Church University, 21 February 2015)
2014: Dixie’s Great War: The American South and World War I (Portsmouth University, 28 February 2014)
2013: Religion and Politics in the United States (King’s College London, 22 February 2013)
2012: Punishment in the American Century (University of Southampton, 3 February 2012)
2011: Immigration and the Federal Government (University of Sunderland, 25 February 2011)
2010: American Music and Popular Culture (University of Reading, 4 March 2010)
2009: Beyond Otherness: The Politics of Sexuality in the Twentieth Century United States (University of Sheffield, 27 February 2009)