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Conferences

• Nicole Gipson attended the UC Davis Department of African American and African Studies Winter Symposium: “Reimagining Repair” January 11 – 12. She also organized several online events in collaboration with the Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh, and the following face-to-face event for the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair – Introduction and interview with Edinburgh Radical Book Fair Keynote: Gary Younge for his presentation: “From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter.” – December 9.
• Paula K. Read, presented at the recent U of Bristol Arts PGR Summer Conference 2023.
• Erin Forbes, attended two workshops in Germany as a member of the DFG-funded “Voices & Agencies” network, one at the University of Siegen in February and one at Leibniz University in July 2023. She gave a talk on Early African American Environmentalism in February and chaired a presentation on Olaudah Equiano and the medical humanities in July 2023.
• Tariq Modood, “Can multiculturalism contribute to de-polarising the current political polarisation?,” Migration Working Group – Scholars of Excellence Edition: Multiculturalism at a crossroads, May 2023.
• Karen Skinazi attended The Winnifred Eaton Conference in July 2023 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Winnifred Eaton, who used the pen name “Onoto Watanna,” was the first Chinese American novelist, and Karen has long been involved in the recovery of her writing, publishing a critical edition of Eaton’s 1916 Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model (Queen’s UP, 2012) and a digital archive of Eaton’s Alberta writing. At the conference, Karen gave a talk called “Suicide Girls of the Progressive Era” and chaired a session on teaching Eaton’s works.

Publications

• Jim Hilton, “Better Intoned Than Read: Sound and Matter in God’s Trombones,” Journal of American Studies, 1-27. doi:10.1017/S002187582300021X
• Paula K. Read, “The Corseted Frontier: The perpetual constraints of the Western pioneer myth on white American women,” Question Journal, Issue 8, 2023.
• Victoria Coules and Michael J. Benton, “The curious case of Central Park’s dinosaurs: The destruction of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’ Paleozoic Museum revisited,” Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 10 May 2023
• Thomas M. Larkin, “The Global American Civil War and Anglo-American Relations in China’s Treaty Ports,” The Historical Journal (2022) 1-23.

Placements

• Lorenzo Costaguta, International Placement Scheme at the John W. Kluge Center at Library of Congress, Project: A Socialist Empire of Freedom: Race and Class in the Second International.