{"id":474,"date":"2020-02-25T12:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/?p=474"},"modified":"2020-02-25T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T12:39:47","slug":"the-annual-kent-americanist-symposium-8-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2020\/02\/25\/the-annual-kent-americanist-symposium-8-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annual Kent Americanist Symposium (8 June 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The fourth Annual Kent Americanist Symposium &#8211; <strong>The Spacial Americas<\/strong> &#8211; will take place on <strong>Monday 8th June, 2020<\/strong> at the University of Kent&#8217;s Canterbury campus. Aimed primarily at PhD students, the Symposium offers early-career researchers a chance to showcase their own research in a friendly, informal environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium\">CALL FOR PAPERS:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium\">This symposium invites Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers in the field of American Studies to evaluate and analyse the relationship between the Americas and \u2018space\u2019. This could include a geographical approach to \u2018space\u2019 and \u2018place\u2019, an ecological focus on the environment, the art of mapping, the relationship between the country and the city, the American notion of \u2018the frontiers\u2019, a transatlantic focus on the relationship between the Americas and other spaces, or even a more literal look at America\u2019s role in exploring outer space.<\/p>\n<p>Please submit a proposal for a 20-minute paper to <a href=\"mailto:kentamericanists@gmail.com\">kentamericanists@gmail.com<\/a> by April 20th, 2020. Proposals should include the title of the paper, a 250-word abstract, and a 50-word biography. Travel bursaries will be offered accordingly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keynote Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/329166\">Professor Anne-Marie Angelo<\/a>, University of Sussex.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth Annual Kent Americanist Symposium &#8211; The Spacial Americas &#8211; will take place on Monday 8th June, 2020 at the University of Kent&#8217;s Canterbury &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2020\/02\/25\/the-annual-kent-americanist-symposium-8-june-2020\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}