ethnicity and national identity

The Hall Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas invite you to our upcoming conference, Beyond Discourse: Critical and Empirical Approaches to Human Trafficking.

Beyond Discourse: Critical and Empirical Approaches to Human Trafficking
April 4-5, 2019
University of Kansas

Call for Chapters: Hispanic and Lusophone Voices of Africa

Vernon Press invites chapter proposals on Hispanic and Lusophone Voices of Africa. The volume will be edited by Prof. David Mongor- Lizarrabengoa (Montclair State University) and Sarita Addy (University of Western Ontario).

The sixth Sharing Cultures conference examines all aspects of Intangible Cultural Heritage within the definitions provided by the 2013 UNESCO Declaration.This iteration of the conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 11-14 June 2019. Papers and panels are invited covering the whole gamut of ICH-related topics and there will be a special chapter on Monetising ICH - tourism and business. Proceedings are published. The approach is interdisciplinary and theoretical approaches and discussions, case studies and accounts of on-going projects are welcome. Edinburgh was the first UNESCO City of Literature and its Old and New Towns are UNESCO World Heritage sites. For further details see: 

This special issue, “Religions in African American Popular Culture,” will focus on the intersection of religions and African American popular culture and provide a snapshot of the current relationship of African American popular culture to religions. African American popular culture is defined here asthose aspects of culture largely created and produced by peoples of Africana descent in the United States of America that engender joy, pleasure, enjoyment, and amusement and that are expressed through artifacts (e.g., icons and personas) and practices (e.g., arts and rituals). The artifacts of African American popular culture are inclusive of but not limited to objects and material culture, heroes, celebrities, stars, and stereotypes.

XXXI Annual Conference of Polish Association for American Studies
October 23-25, 2019, University of Opole, Poland

The Sound of Silence in American Literature, Culture and Politics