Announcements

Call for Papers, NECBS Annual Meeting, 27-29 September, 2024 The Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS) will hold its 2024 annual meeting from Friday to Sunday, September 27-29, at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. We are delighted that this year’s conference will feature a plenary session with keynote speakers Brendan Kane (UConn), Asheesh Kapur Siddique (UMass)… Read more: NECBS 2024: Call for Papers

The NECBS is pleased to be able to share our draft program from the Annual Meeting in 2023 in Halifax, NS on Oct 13th-15th. You can find the draft program and information about registering for the conference, hotels, travel advice, and things to do in Halifax here.

Call for Papers, Annual Meeting, 13-15 October 2023. The Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS) will hold its 2023 annual meeting from Friday to Sunday, October 13-15, at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The keynote speakers will be Dana Rabin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Daniel Woolf (Queen’s University, Ontario). We encourage in-person attendance, but… Read more: NECBS 2023 – Call for Papers

On behalf of the Northeast Conference on British Studies and the Montreal British History Seminar, Prof. Brian Lewis of McGill University would like to invite our members and affiliates to attend the third jointly-sponsored NECBS/MCBS Virtual Lecture on Thursday, December 1st at 4pm, which will feature Prof. Michelle Brock, Associate Professor of British History at Washington… Read more: ANN: Joint NECBS/MCBS Virtual Lecture feat. Prof Mikki Brock on Thursday, December 1st at 4pm EST

The Northeast Conference on British Studies is pleased to share the program for the 2022 Annual Meeting at Bates College, Lewiston, ME from Friday, October 21st to Saturday, October 22nd. Please click here to access the official program. Although our regular registration period for the conference has now closed, late registration remains possible until October 1st.… Read more: NECBS 2022 – Final Conference Program

An announcement from Prof. Caroline Shaw, our Past-President and Local Arrangements coordinator for the 2022 edition of the Northeast Conference on British Studies. Dear NECBS community!  My colleagues and I are delighted to be welcoming you to Bates for the 2022 NECBS conference, our first in-person conference since 2019. As you know, we will have hybrid… Read more: NECBS 2022 Conference Information

Periodically, the NECBS will post calls for applications for applicable positions in British Studies throughout the Northeast and beyond. We welcome all announcements of open positions in British Studies! ————————————————————————————— The Department of History at Tufts University seeks a tenure-stream historian of Britain and the World in the 19th and 20thcenturies, at the rank of Assistant… Read more: Job Posting: Britain and the World, Tufts University

Periodically, the NECBS will post calls for applications for applicable positions in British Studies throughout the Northeast and beyond. We welcome all announcements of open positions in British Studies! ————————————————————————————– The Department of History at Brown University invites applicants for a full-time, tenure- track position, at the Assistant Professor level, in Modern Britain/Britain and the World… Read more: Job Posting: Modern Britain/Britain and the World since 1750, Brown University

The Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS) will hold its 2022 annual meeting on Friday and Saturday, October 21 and 22, at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. We encourage in-person attendance, but for those who cannot make it, we aim to have one hybrid (in-person and virtual) session per time slot. We solicit the participation of scholars… Read more: NECBS 2022 – Call for Papers

We look forward to seeing you at our 2021 virtual conference! You will find the program and registration links on our main and conference pages. Registered participants will receive Zoom details for the conference shortly.

The 2021 NECBS Annual Conference will be virtual once more. The conference will take place via Zoom on the 22-23 October. You will find a PDF of the Call for Papers here. We invite scholars at any stage in their career to apply. Applications are due by June 1. Call for Papers, Annual Meeting, Online, 22-23… Read more: NECBS CFP 2021

The NECBS had a tremendously successful meeting at McGill University, Oct 4-5, 2019. Attendance was strong, and the papers ranged broadly across chronology and areas of focus. A particular highlight were the keynote talks. On Friday, Kennetta Hammond Perry (De Montfort University) spoke on “Archives of Imperiled Black Life and the Architecture of State Power in… Read more: NECBS 2019 Recap