{"id":407,"date":"2019-05-13T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/?p=407"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:01:15","slug":"registration-open-for-visualising-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2019\/05\/13\/registration-open-for-visualising-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration open for ‘Visualising the Americas’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now in its third year, The University of Kent’s Annual Americanist Symposium<\/strong> will take place on Monday 3rd June 2019, at the University’s Canterbury campus. The event is free and everyone is welcome to attend. Register as soon as possible<\/a> to secure your place and follow @KentAmSymposium<\/a> for updates regarding the symposium.<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/u><\/p>\n

This one day symposium will explore how the Americas have been visualised, with speakers using a singular specific image as a gateway to broader events, trends, and figures. This interdisciplinary event will examine a wide range of themes, and promises to be an exciting and engaging day showcasing the forefront of current American Studies research.<\/p>\n

Symposium Programme<\/strong>
\nKeynote Speaker<\/em>: Professor Luciana Martins, Birkbeck, University of London
\n‘Expanding the field: visual and material sources in Latin American research’<\/p>\n

Endnote Speaker:<\/em> Dr. Phil Hatfield, Eccles Centre
\n‘The \u2018Patriotic Indian Chiefs\u2019: propaganda, photography and Canada\u2019s First Nations’<\/p>\n

Panel 1:<\/em> ‘Photography, Activism, and Memory’ (Chair: Megan King, University of Kent)
\nCharlotte James, University of Nottingham: ‘A Young, Determined Harriet Tubman\u2019 The Power of Photography in the Memory of Harriet Tubman and Nineteenth Century Black Antislavery Activists’<\/p>\n

Paul Young, University of Edinburgh: ‘\u201cSee dis pictyah in my han’?\u201d: Pictures and Power in the Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar’<\/p>\n

Emily Brady, University of Nottingham: ‘\u201cNo Matter What It Takes To Get The Job Done\u201d: Elizabeth \u201cTex\u201d Williams and African American Women Photographers in the US Military<\/p>\n

Panel 2:<\/em> Perspectives on Culture, Nationality, Politics, and Violence (Chair: Sarah Smeed, University of Kent)<\/p>\n

Alice Patchett, Durham University: Depicting Corn: Nation and Narrative in American Gothic and Horror Fiction<\/p>\n

Chloe Balandier, University of Strasbourg: ‘Doubling The Poet\u2019s Perspective: A European Pointillist Painting in the U.S.’<\/p>\n

Tim Galsworthy, University of Sussex: ‘Barry Goldwater, Confederate Icon?: Civil War memory, civil rights, and the \u201cParty of Lincoln\u201d’<\/p>\n

Adam Dawson, University of East Anglia: ‘Some Chips and a Pack of Gum: Objects and the Black Male Body in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature’<\/p>\n

Panel 3:<\/em> Representations, Witnessing, and Agency (Chair: Ellie Armon Azoulay, University of Kent)<\/p>\n

Jennifer Dos Reis Dos Santos, Aberystwyth University: ‘Voodoo Feminism’<\/p>\n

Sheila Brannigan, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities: ‘Power and knowledge in Gordon Parks\u2019 Homeless Couple, Harlem, 1948’<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Collier, University of Essex: ‘The photographic medium and the visualisation of the mask in Tar Baby by Toni Morrison’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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