Today, we open the Universitas 21 Annual Network Meeting & Leadership Summit in Glasgow, bringing together a global community of university leaders at a time of change for higher education.
The event will create space to strengthen collaboration across our international network.
Welcome to all!
To sign up for this War Studies Panel Discussion on 'Sea Power in History', celebrating the prize for Prof Mawdsley's book on 'Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory', Thursday 23 April at UofGlasgow, please use the link below. www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...
Text about the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize and the front cover of the winning monograph, authored by Professor Evan Mawdsley, Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory. Also pictured is a profile image of Prof Mawdsley.
Sea Power in History. Join us for this panel discussion between Prof Evan Mawdsley, Dr Christopher Miller & Prof Andrew Lambert, Thursday 23 April, 5.15pm, JMS Room 743, marking Prof Mawdsley's winning the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize (📷). Sign up link/details in the next post.
We've just wrapped up our final day of #BAAS2026. Thanks to our hosts at @glasgow.ac.uk for hosting us and to all the great speakers, and attendees for sharing their work. It's been a great three days of #AMStudies in Scotland 🏴🇺🇸
We hope to see you all again for our Digital BAAS conference in 2027.
How great are our #BAAS2026 conference surrounds at @glasgow.ac.uk? And we've sure been getting our steps in up and down the hill to various panels and keynotes. A wonderful second day of conference!
A great second day at #BAAS2026. I had the opportunity to chair a brilliant session on 'Belonging: Citizenship, Identity and Space' feat. colleagues from Uni Nottingham and from US and France. Great work being shared, lots of oral history and lived experience. Right in my wheelhouse!
one of the joys of #BAAS2026 is getting very excited about scholarship again, post-PhD. another is that Glasgow is beautiful
Hello to everyone attending the #BAAS2026 conference TODAY 👋 Look out for @mlhouston.bsky.social on the MUP stand!
Browse our #AmericanStudies Reading List, and find out how to get 30% off book orders, even if you’re not attending the conference,
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/03...
Also lovely to see the @edinburghup.bsky.social stand at #baas2026 conference. Thanks to @emilysharp.bsky.social for promoting mine/Loïc Bourdeau’s book on millennial novels, as well as @keeblearin.bsky.social’s (and many others’) great research
Fantastic Targeted Research Panel today on US magazine culture at the Glasgow @officialbaas.bsky.social 2026 conference with Katie Burke @benoitmes.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @emilybrady.bsky.social for chairing too. 🙏 Excellent papers all around, it was a blast! See you next all BAAS 🫡
We'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Professor Brian Ward, who at the AGM this afternoon was awarded a BAAS Honorary Fellowship in celebration of his work over many years in the American Studies community and as a former chair of the association (2016-19) 👏 #BAAS2026
In our mid-morning workshop on Publishing in Journals, Katie and Will our editors of JAS (Journal of American Studies, Cambridge University Press) peer reviewed articles are talking on the steps to submit to JAS, how the reviewer and amends process works, timescales and responses. #BAAS2026
A beautiful morning for @officialbaas.bsky.social day two. Hoping to power on through the post-lunch slump, when I'll be exploring the wreckage of war in the memories of American nurses.
‘This has always been an outward-facing city’. Amazing welcome from reps of #Glasgow City Council, to the beautiful Glasgow City Chambers, for the first evening reception of #BAAS2026! @officialbaas.bsky.social conference committee: wow - and thank you, for this and a great first day of papers!
A great first day at #BASS2026 culminating in our reception at the Glasgow City Chambers where we heard from officials from the city, University, and BAAS Chair Dr Michael Collins.
The sun is shining and we're looking forward to our second day of conference, with first sessions starting shortly.
Welcome to #BAAS2026 at @glasgow.ac.uk over the next four days. Registration and coffee this morning, while our exec committee meet ahead of conference starting with the first panels after lunch.
If you're attending conference this year please use the #BAAS2026 to share your posts with us! 🏴🇺🇸
On a black background of space, a blue and white Earth just before 'setting' behind the Moon, in foreground, seen from Artemis II, 6 April 2026
Totality seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few humans have ever witnessed, a dark disc surrounded by a pale solar corona.
✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA)
🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour...
@exploration.esa.int l
Further details & the application process for this funded PhD studentship at the Imperial War Museums (IWM) & at the University of Glasgow are available at the link below 🔗 - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship, 'Playing at War'. www.iwm.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Logo including text of the organisation titles for the Imperial War Museums (IWM), University of Glasgow, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
🚨🎓Funded #PhD opportunity: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship - ‘𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗿’, with Imperial War Museums (IWM) & University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk. Supervised by Tim Peacock, Matt Barr & Ian Kikuchi. Apply by Friday 22 May, 5pm. October 2026 start. Details in next post.
This is what really interests me about the #ArtemisII lunar observation campaign. 'The astronauts will also practice describing nuances in shapes, textures, and colors of surface features'. We haven't yet developed the language we need to understand the vibrance of the Moon. 🧪
Like many science journalists this week, I'll covering the #ArtemisII mission for @nature.com. Our first story is now up! We explore the science that the astronauts will do on their flight — and how this advances beyond the Apollo era. 🧪🔭
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
BREAKING: Artemis II lifts off on mission around the moon. nbcnews.app.link/KbL7XEKxZ1b
Today l taught my last session on the MLitt Conflict Archaeology and Heritage course before retirement at end of May, fittingly on Culloden. I co-founded the course with Dr Iain Banks back in 2005. In those 20 years l hope we’ve made a contribution to the field.
Book cover: Empire with a Vengeance Honour and Revenge in European Colonial Warfare, 1815–1914 Mark Condos
Join us to hear Dr Mark Condos, “Empire with a Vengeance: Honour and Revenge in European Colonial Warfare”. @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social, Thursday 12 March, 5.15pm, Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens/online (sign up link in the next post).📷Image of book cover by Hurst Publishing.
"Signalmen using Morse code equipment in a Signal Exchange Station", "British Army Morse signalers Battle of the Somme July 1916" IWM Q128. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193983
Prof Peter Jackson, ‘The First World War & the Birth of Modern Intelligence’. @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social & Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, Thurs 5 March, 5.15pm, Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens, @glasgow.ac.uk.📷Image: IWM (Q 128), British Army signalmen, Battle of the Somme July 1916.
We're announcing our new theme: Analogue. It's an open call, and full details are available on the HGN blog here: www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
Congrats to Dr Gilles Bailet of @uofgengineering.bsky.social, whose NextSpace Testrig facility has won the Manufacturing Technology prize at The Engineer magazine's awards!
Read more about the facility, developed with the MTC and @ukspaceagency.bsky.social, here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Cover of book with text "Uncertain Warriors: The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror" (Military, War, and Society in Modern American History) Hardcover – 9 Nov. 2023 by David Fitzgerald.
“Uncertain Warriors: the United States Army between the #ColdWar and the War on Terror” by Dr David Fitzgerald. Join UofGWarstudies & the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies, tomorrow, Thursday 5 February, 5.15pm, in the Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens (📷of book cover).
HMS Ark Royal was the former flagship of the Royal Navy. One of three Invincible class aircraft carriers she was affectionately known as The Mighty Ark. Her keel was laid by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on 7th December 1978 and she was launched on 20th June 1981 and completed in 1985. Major deployments included the Bosnian war (1993) and the invasion of Iraq (2003). More recently, she assisted in the repatriation of air travellers stranded by the 2010 volcanic eruption. Image from 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums'.
“Opting to Change? British Defence Policy & the End of the Cold War, 1986-1991”. Join us this afternoon, Thursday 29 Jan, 5.15pm, in the Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens, to hear Prof Huw Bennett's insights. Photo of HMS Ark Royal, 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums'.
A formal color portrait of the STS-51-L crew of the Challenger, wearing their blue flight suits and holding their spacesuit helmets. On the left side of the table at which the three in front are seated is a model of the space shuttle with its external fuel tank and solid-rocket boosters. Top row: Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, and Judith Resnik Bottom row: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ronald McNair.
The space shuttle Challenger clearing the tower moments after launch on January 28, 1986. A flock of startled birds is visible in the foreground.
A color photograph showing the moment the external fuel tank and the Challenger exploded, sending the two solid rocket boosters off in opposite directions.
At this moment 40 yrs ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger’s external fuel tank exploded and the shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center, killing all 7 astronauts aboard. Investigators later found failure of O-ring seals in the right solid rocket booster was the cause.
