Dear all,
We were preparing this issue of our newsletter only a few days before the election in the
United States, and we hope it reaches you now safe and sound.
Event of the Month
AMERICA 2026 second ANR-funded event: American Politics and the Memory of the Revolution (18th-21st Centuries)
Date: Nov. 12-13, 2024
Location: Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
This conference aims to add a more contemporary perspective to the ANR-funded research project at the basis of the AMERICA 2026 community. Its ambition is to explore the many echoes of the Revolution in today’s political and intellectual debates in the US. Workshops will address such topics as the commemorations of the Revolution through the centuries, the contemporary historiographical debates about the meaning of 1776, the roles played by museums, academics and social networks in the popular memory of the Revolution, and the memory of French figures like Lafayette and Rochambeau in the relationships between France and the US in
the 21st century,
Job Announcements of Interest
Research Associate History, University of Virginia
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the history of Early America
Find more information via H-Net here.
Paul Revere Memorial Association Short-Term Research Fellowship
Proposals for research that will take place in the 2024-2025 academic year or summer 2025
Find more information via H-Net here
Publications (CfP)
Dee Andrews and Jason Daniels (CSU) are organizing a special issue of the Journal California History (published by the U. of California Press) on the legacy of the American Revolution in the state.
Please find the full CfP on this link (applications are due by December 15, 2024)
Call for Papers: “The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment”
Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. A Quarterly.
Guest edited by Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn University), Antonia Purk
(University of Erfurt)
Deadline for abstracts: November 20, 2024
Deadline for full papers: March 31, 2025
Publication: 2026
Remember to send us your publication news so we can spread the word!
Looking ahead: upcoming events
Call for Papers and Applications: “Small Nations, Big Histories.”
WMQ-EMSI 2025 Workshop
Convened by Elizabeth N. Ellis and Eliga H. Gould
Date: June 20–21, 2025
Location: Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Application Deadline: Nov. 15, 2024
For more information and registration, see here.
Call for Papers: “Currents and Exchanges in Vast Early America” 28th Annual OI Conference
Date: June 12–14, 2025
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Application Deadline: Dec. 2, 2024
For more information and registration, see here
Related to the above event will be the Pre-conference Workshop “Resisting Enslavement” Convened by Jennifer L. Morgan
Date: June 11, 2025
Location: College of Charleston, South Carolina
Application Deadline: Dec. 2, 2024
For more information and registration, see here.
“‘The Simple Dress of an American Citizen’: Fashioning the American Revolution”
David Center for the American Revolution Seminar
with Chloe Chapin
Date: Dec. 4, 2024
For updates on this event and more information, stay updated here.
Varia
Thank you to our colleague Ghislain Potriquet for alerting is to other activities in the
U.S. and elsewhere around the 250th anniversary of the Revolution, such as:
● https://www.revolution250.org/
● https://america250.org/
● https://www.america250pa.org/HOME
● https://www.philadelphia250.us/
● https://www.america250padelco.org/
● https://va250.org/
