Events & Media
New Area Studies at 5
March 12 2024
We’re planning a special issue to mark the 5th anniversary of our journal New Area Studies. CFP below!
Professor Susan Hodgett at CrossArea 23
November 16 2023
Professor Susan Hodgett chaired a panel at CrossArea 23: Doing Area Studies in the Polycentric Condition at the University of Regensburg.
Professor Susan Hodgett at GIGA
November 14 2023
Professor Susan Hodgett spoke at GIGA: The German Institute for Global and Area Studies on “Developing New Area Studies in the Post-Pandemic Age.”
November 8, 2023
Please join us for a one-day, international symposium hosted by the New Area Studies Research Centre at the University of East Anglia, UK. New Area Studies: Under Construction will bring a range of global perspectives to bear on the future of the field. From the turn of the century onwards, Area Studies globally has been undergoing significant rejuvenation. This one-day conference will bring together international leaders of the discipline to spark an important discussion about New Area Studies, how we understand and conceptualise the field in theory and action, and how we imagine it will evolve in coming decades. Together, we will challenge Cold War interpretations of traditional Area Studies and acknowledge how the discipline has recently evolved, engaged in self-reflection, and offered insights into innovative practice. New Area Studies is a discipline currently under construction, and this significant conversation will lay the foundations for future developments. This gathering will also serve as the official launch event for the New Area Studies Research Centre.
Some sessions will be held in person and also streamed online, some sessions will be entirely virtual.
Developing New Area Studies in the Post-Pandemic Age
October 11, 2023
Professor Susan Hodgett spoke at UCL’s Institute of the Americas about “Developing New Area Studies in the Post-Pandemic Age.”
Visiting British Academy Research Fellows Seminar
September 21 2023
A research seminar with two Visiting British Academy Research Fellows:
María Eugenia Ulfe, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, “Coming in with the wind: kukama kukamiria and Covid-19 in Peru”
Andrés Laguens, Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba (IDACOR) CONICET-UNC, Córdoba - Argentina, “Zoocializing’ with non-human persons in the southern Andes: llamas and other species in the daily life of pre-Hispanic societies of Northwestern Argentina”
Emma Long on
BBC Woman’s Hour
May 10, 2023
Emma Long discussing Donald Trump being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation (from 25 minute mark).
Joanne Clarke on
BBC Newshour
April 10, 2023
Joanne Clarke discussing the impact of climate change on heritage.
Measuring Heritage Loss
and Damage from
Climate Change
March 30, 2023
British Academy/Wellcome Trust Conference, hosted at the University of East Anglia and organised by NASRC members Joanne Clarke and Anne Haour, exploring how to measure the human cost of coastal heritage damage from climate change.
International Studies Association Convention
March 15-18, 2023
Panel on “Innovation in Comparative Area Studies” at 64th ISA Annual Convention, held in Montreal, and featuring scholarship from NASRC Director Susan Hodgett (UEA), Eileen Doherty-Sil and Rudra Sil (Pennsylvania), Ariel I. Ahram (Virginia Tech), and Patrick James (Southern California).
Area Studies
REF and Impact
May 18, 2022
An interdisciplinary post-REF NASRC meeting at the University of East Anglia, discussing Impact Case Studies with Hazel Marsh, Eylem Atakav, Steve Hooper, and Jackie Fear-Segal.
Research Seminar: Vicente Rafael
April 28, 2022
Vicente Rafael (University of Washington, Seattle) joined us to discuss his new book: The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte (Duke University Press, 2022).
Storytelling and Place
December 6, 2021
An interdisciplinary seminar on indigenous postcoloniality, hosted by the University of East Anglia, and featuring international scholarship from Katja Sarkowsky (Augsburg), Kerstin Knopf (Bremen), and Mairéad Nic Craith, (Highlands and Islands).
Chicago: A Literary History
Book Launch
November 24, 2021
Book launch and research seminar, hosted by the University of East Anglia, featuring scholarship from Frederick Byrn Køhlert (UEA), Christine Holbo (Arizona State), Richard Courage (SUNY), and Olga L. Herrera (St. Thomas).
What Political Science Can Learn from the Humanities
April 20, 2021
Book launch, hosted at the University of East Anglia, discussing scholarship by Rod Rhodes (Southampton), Susan Hodgett (UEA), Sir Anthony Seldon (Buckingham), Randy Duncan (Henderson State), and Catherine Althaus (Melbourne).
Building Bridges in
Area Studies
July 12, 2019
An interdisciplinary conference exploring current issues in Area Studies, hosted at the University of East Anglia and featuring scholarship by Stephen Hutchings (Manchester), Zahia Smail Salhi (Manchester, Jonathan Oldfield (Birmingham), Anna Katharina Hornidge (Bremen), and Tony Chafer (Portsmouth).
Theory and Method: Blurring Genres
July 12, 2019
New Area Studies Colloquium, exploring the interdisciplinary work of colleagues from across NASRC and affiliated institutions in Manchester, Birmingham, and Bremen.
On the Future of
Area Studies
July 10, 2018
An interdisciplinary conference hosted at the University of East Anglia, discussing scholarship by Tony Chafer (Portsmouth), Marilyn Booth (Oxford), Katya Mielke (Bonn), and A. Marguerite Cassin (Dalhousie, Nova Scotia).