# american studies (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover american studies. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Art of Mothering Through Bars by Holly Foster-Talbot, author of We All Do The Time](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/08/17/the-art-of-mothering-through-bars-by-holly-foster-talbot-author-of-we-all-do-the-time/) _2026-08-17 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ For incarcerated mothers, sending handmade art to their children can help nurture vital connections—but often even this is hindered by prison officials. This excerpt was originally published in Inquest. Few... READ MORE ## [Podcast: Black Muslim Freedom Dreams by Samiha Rahman](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/08/13/podcast-black-muslim-freedom-dreams-by-samiha-rahman/) _2026-08-13 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ Samiha Rahman’s Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care (New York University Press, 2026) follows three generations of Black American Muslims as they pursue education through the Tijani Sufi... READ MORE ## [Analilia Mejía’s Historic Congressional Win Was No Surprise to the Authors of Politics in Our Veins](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/08/07/analilia-mejias-historic-congressional-win-was-no-surprise-to-the-authors-of-politics-in-our-veins/) _2026-08-07 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ by Yalidy Matos, Domingo Morel and Michelle Bueno Vásquez Politics has always been in our veins On April 16, 2026, Analilia Mejía won New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District special election by 41 points, becoming... READ MORE ## [Podcast: Prioritizing Faith: International Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy by Ashlyn Hand](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/08/06/podcast-prioritizing-faith-international-religious-freedom-and-u-s-foreign-policy-by-ashlyn-hand/) _2026-08-06 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 formally established the promotion of religious freedom as a U.S. foreign policy and national security priority. Tracing its origins and passage, Prioritizing Faith:... READ MORE ## [“Invisible and Extractable? Settler Resource Logic and Indigenous Futurity in John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown (1934)” Talk by Jannis Buschky, August 28th 2026](https://offtheroad.org/2026/07/31/invisible-and-extractable-settler-resource-logic-and-indigenous-futurity-in-john-joseph-mathewss-sundown-1934-talk-by-jannis-buschky-august-28th-2026/) _2026-07-31 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ Talk Jannis Buschky will give a talk about the relationship between discourses of Indigenous vanishing and the invisibility of oil in John Joseph Mathews’s novel Sundown (1934) at the 2026 “Petrocultures: Situating Energy” conference at TU Dresden on August 28th. “Petrocultures” is the largest conference examining the social and cultural dimensions of energy. \[…\] The post “Invisible and… ## [Talks by Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler and Timo Müller at the 36th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies, September 2nd 2026](https://offtheroad.org/2026/07/31/talks-by-otilia-teodorescu-stadler-and-timo-muller-at-the-36th-biennial-conference-of-the-european-association-for-american-studies-september-2nd-2026/) _2026-07-31 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ Talks Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler and Timo Müller will present on the modernist aesthetics of early automobility at the 36th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies. The conference, entitled “Visions of Freedom,” explores “how the concept of freedom has shaped the United States—past and present, real and imagined.” Timo Müller’s and Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler’s \[…\] The… ## [Podcast: On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State by Peter Mancina](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/30/podcast-on-the-side-of-ice-policing-immigrants-in-a-sanctuary-state-by-peter-mancina/) _2026-07-30 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ In the United States, local law enforcement agencies are legally and organizationally independent entities from federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI and ICE. While local police enforce local, state... READ MORE ## [Federal Regulation and Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Q&A With Myrisha S. Lewis, author of “Regulating Conception”](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/27/federal-regulation-and-assisted-reproductive-technology-a-qa-with-myrisha-s-lewis-author-of-regulating-conception/) _2026-07-27 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ What led to your interest in the moral, political and social issues that influence the federal regulation of assisted reproductive technology (ART)? This topic combines my interests in assisted reproduction and my practice... READ MORE ## [Podcast: In God’s Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea by Tomer Persico](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/23/podcast-in-gods-image-how-western-civilization-was-shaped-by-a-revolutionary-idea-by-tomer-persico/) _2026-07-23 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ Dr. Tomer Persico is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a Rubinstein Fellow at Reichman University, and a Senior Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Middle... READ MORE ## [Forgotten Black Fenians – New Research Reveals Post-Civil War Solidarity by Patrick J. Mahoney, author of The Fenian Empire](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/20/forgotten-black-fenians-new-research-reveals-post-civil-war-solidarity-by-patrick-j-mahoney-author-of-the-fenian-empire/) _2026-07-20 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ This summer marks 160 years since the Battle of Ridgeway, the definitive event of the Fenian raids on Canada. Fought on June 2, 1866, near Ridgeway, Ontario, it pitted hundreds... 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READ MORE ## [Fukushima and the New Governance of Nuclear Disasters by Maxime Polleri, author of Radioactive Governance](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/14/fukushima-and-the-new-governance-of-nuclear-disasters-by-maxime-polleri/) _2026-07-14 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ March 11, 2026 marked the 15th year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s most devastating civilian nuclear tragedy. When the nuclear disaster happened vast quantities of radioactive pollutants were... READ MORE ## [“Motorized Scientists: Mapping Mobile Environmental Knowledge in the United States, 1905-1943” Talk by Gilberto Mazzoli, July 13th 2026](https://offtheroad.org/2026/07/13/motorized-scientists-mapping-mobile-environmental-knowledge-in-the-united-states-1905-1943-talk-by-gilberto-mazzoli-july-13th-2026/) _2026-07-13 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ Talk Gilberto Mazzoli will give a talk about the impact of the automobile on the ecological sciences and on the production of new environmental knowledge in the United States at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences” and will be \[…\] The post “Motorized Scientists: Mapping Mobile… ## [Workshop: “Environmental Mobilities: Research, Public Engagement, Museum Practice” July 22nd 2026, Verkehrszentrum Deutsches Museum Munich](https://offtheroad.org/2026/07/06/workshop-environmental-mobilities-research-public-engagement-museum-practice/) _2026-07-06 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ Workshop “Environmental Mobilities: Research, Public Engagement, Museum Practice” The Off Road-team is collaborating with the Verkehrszentrum Deutsches Museum Munich to host the workshop “Environmental Mobilities Research, Public Engagement, Museum Practice” on July 22nd 2026. The workshop addresses the history of mobilities by studying transportation and infrastructures through a distinct… ## [Podcast Launch: “Off the Road: A Podcast about the Environmental Humanities”](https://offtheroad.org/2026/06/18/podcast-launch-off-the-road-a-podcast-about-the-environmental-humanities/) _2026-06-18 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ New Podcast by members of the project Project members Gilberto Mazzoli and Jannis Buschky have just launched their new podcast, which explores the environmental humanities through conversations with scholars working at the intersections of history, literature, culture, and ecology. The podcast tells meaningful stories and conversations about environmental change and human relationships with the… ## [“Valleys of Ashes: Weird Pastoral in Early Narratives of Automobility” Talk by Timo Müller, July 2nd 2026](https://offtheroad.org/2026/06/02/valleys-of-ashes-weird-pastoral-in-early-narratives-of-automobility/) _2026-06-02 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ Talk Timo Müller will present parts of his research on the pastoral aesthetics of early automobility at the annual conference of the Modernist Studies Association, held together with the British Assocation for Modernist Studies. The conference, titled “Weird Modernisms,” explores alternative ways of thinking about modernist cultural production. Timo Müller’s talk “Valleys of Ashes: Weird \[…\] The… ## [Sounding Out! Unplugged: “Power in Listening” (August 2026)](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/06/01/sounding-out-unplugged-power-in-listening-august-2026/) _2026-06-01 · Jennifer Lynn Stoever · Sounding Out!_ Hello listeners + readers! We usually take July as a BYE month to celebrate our yearly blog-o-versary, but this year, we are going bigger! Team SO! is pausing for the full summer–June, July, AND August–to catch our breath in advance of the publication of the official Sounding Out! print anthology, Power in Listening (New York \[…\] ## [This Past Weekend with Theo Von: Brocasting Trump, Part II](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/05/18/this-past-weekend-with-theo-von-brocasting-trump-part-ii/) _2026-05-18 · Andrew J. Salvati · Sounding Out!_ But first. . . A Brief Synopsis of an Introduction to Bro-casting Trump: A Year-long SO! Series by Andrew Salvati — In total, Trump appeared on fourteen podcasts or video streams during his 2024 campaign, which together earned a combined 90.9 million views on YouTube and on other video streaming platforms, not even including audio podcast \[…\] ## [El Llanto Against I.C.E.: Toward a Latinx Sonic Phenomenology of the Dignified Cry](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/05/04/el-llanto-against-i-c-e-toward-a-latinx-sonic-phenomenology-of-the-dignified-cry/) _2026-05-04 · Kristian E. Vasquez · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/xgm8r-acg57 It is July 4, 2025. The air is hot; the sun is beaming on concrete and asphalt. Sweat is accumulating on my cotton Disrupt band t-shirt. My skin is sticky. Inside a suffocating room, the volume penetrating my ears is the racket of voices producing a steady pulsation of disunified sounds. A brown \[…\] ## [“Environmental Humanities: Putting Scholarship, Representation, and Practice in Dialogue,” Workshop, May 7th – 8th 2026](https://offtheroad.org/2026/05/04/environmental-humanities-putting-scholarship-representation-and-practice-in-dialogue-workshop-may-7th-8th/) _2026-05-04 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ Workshop Members of the OffRoad project helped organize the workshop “Environmental Humanities: Putting Scholarship, Representation, and Practice in Dialogue.” The workshop explores and promotes interdisciplinary research in the environmental humanities, a relatively new field that investigates the relationship between nature and society. Naturally, the environmental humanities are also a… ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xs2AVRaLj6NX) _2026-05-04 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [The Medium Is the Menace: AI and the Platforming of Hate Speech](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/04/27/27909/) _2026-04-27 · Houman Mehrabian · Sounding Out!_ The essays collected in this series (link to the Introduction) trace how nonhuman listening operates through sound, speech, and platformed media across distinct but interconnected domains. Across these accounts, listening no longer secures meaning or relation; it becomes a site of contestation, where sound is mobilized, processed, and weaponized within systems that privilege circulation,… ## [Mimicked Voices and Nonhuman Listening: AI Deepfakes, Speech, and Sonic Manipulation in the Digital War on Ukraine](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/04/13/mimicked-voices-and-nonhuman-listening-deepfakes-speech-and-sonic-manipulation-in-the-digital-war-on-ukraine/) _2026-04-13 · Olga Zaitseva-Herz · Sounding Out!_ The essays collected in this series (link to the Introduction) trace how nonhuman listening operates through sound, speech, and platformed media across distinct but interconnected domains. Across these accounts, listening no longer secures meaning or relation; it becomes a site of contestation, where sound is mobilized, processed, and weaponized within systems that privilege circulation,… ## [Hate & Non-Human Listening, an Introduction](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/03/30/hate-non-human-listening-an-introduction/) _2026-03-30 · Kathryn Huether · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/ptkds-a2v12 In January 2026, WIRED reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun using Palantir’s AI tools to process public tip-line submissions. The system does not simply store or relay these reports. It processes English-language submissions, condensing them into what is called a “BLUF”—a “bottom line up front” summary that allows agents… ## [“Off the Road: Researching Automobility and the Environment,” Guest Lecture by Timo Müller, March 20th 2026](https://offtheroad.org/2026/03/09/off-the-road-researching-automobility-and-the-environment-guest-lecture-by-timo-muller-march-20th-2026/) _2026-03-09 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ Guest Lecture We cordially invite you to Timo Müller’s guest lecture at the “Crafting the Future Through Interdisciplinary Grants” workshop, jointly organized by the Department of American Studies at the University of Konstanz and the Department of Music at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria. At the workshop, Timo Müller will speak about insights \[…\] The post “Off the Road:… ## [The Absurdity and Authoritarianism of Now: My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade Resonates Queerly, Anew](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/02/23/the-absurdity-and-authoritarianism-of-now-my-chemical-romances-_the-black-parade_-resonates-anew/) _2026-02-23 · Max Lubbers · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/g8byn-fea85 My Chemical Romance fans are speculating about new music after the band wiped their X account clean and wrapped up the Latin America leg of their tour this month. Whether another album is on the way or not, MCR’s magnum opus – The Black Parade – continues to endure two decades later. The \[…\] ## [SO! Reads: Alexis McGee’s From Blues To Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/02/02/so-reads-alexis-mcgees-from-blues-to-beyonce-a-century-of-black-womens-generational-sonic-rhetorics/) _2026-02-02 · Joe Z. Johnson · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/2ggqc-77f66 From Blues To Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics (SUNY Press, 2024) by Alexis McGee explores Black women’s creative labor and cultural production. The book offers a searing critique of both record industry exploitation and sound studies’ white gaze. By focusing on quotidian engagement with sound, McGee speaks simultaneously to… ## [SO! Reads: Justin Eckstein’s Sound Tactics: Auditory Power in Political Protests](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/01/19/so-reads-justin-ecksteins-sound-tactics-auditory-power-in-political-protests/) _2026-01-19 · jonstoneb9ece95f42 · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/h1xxb-5vh69 Justin Eckstein’s Sound Tactics: Auditory Power in Political Protests (Penn State University Press) is a book “about the sounds made by those seeking change” (5). It situates these sounds within a broader inquiry into rhetoric as sonic event and sonic action—forms of practice that are collective, embodied, and necessarily relational. It also addresses \[…\] ## [‘A Venture into the Void of Un-vironmental Thought’, Talk by Natalie Dederichs (University of Cologne), 29th January 2026](https://offtheroad.org/2026/01/09/off-the-road-researching-automobility-and-the-environment-guest-lecture-by-timo-muller-on-march-20th-2026/) _2026-01-09 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ Lecture We warmly invite you to the lecture “A Venture into the Void of Un-vironmental Thought” by Dr. Natalie Dederichs. When: Thursday, January 29, 5:00–6:30 p.m. Where: University of Konstanz, Room H 305 Dr. Natalie Dederichs’s research focuses on the study of literary texts that engage with environmental issues, particularly at the intersection of ecocriticism and \[…\] The post ‘A Venture into… ## [Impaulsive: Bro-casting Trump, Part I](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/01/05/bro-casting-trump-part-i-impaulsive/) _2026-01-05 · Andrew J. Salvati · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/zpgnq-c0z97 But first. . . An Introduction to Bro-casting Trump: A Year-long SO! Series by Andrew Salvati “The Manosphere Won.” That is how Wired succinctly described the results of the 2024 election the day after Americans went to the polls. Among the several explanations offered for Donald Trump’s stunning victory over Kamala Harris, the \[…\] ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Jor3yfov4OQe) _2026-01-05 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [Timo Müller (University of Konstanz) Presents the Off the Road Project at FISH Online Panel on Automobile Infrastructures, 9th December 2025](https://offtheroad.org/2025/12/07/timo-muller-university-of-konstanz-presents-the-off-the-road-project-at-fish-online-panel-on-automobile-infrastructures-9th-december-2025/) _2025-12-07 · TimoAdminMueller · Off the Road (ERC Project)_ Talk The OffRoad Project is represented at an online panel hosted by the Federation of Infrastructure Scholars in the Humanities (FISH). The event, co-organized by Caroline Levine, takes place on December 9 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. (ET) and is held via Zoom. The panel focuses on automobile infrastructures and brings together three leading scholars in \[…\] The post Timo Müller (University of…