The Spring Academy 2026 #HCASpAc2026 has come to an end!
We want to express our gratitude and appreciation to all participants, chairs, and facilitators who have contributed to an insightful conference at the HCA!
Watch out for our call for papers in Summer for the 2027 Spring Academy!
Last day at #HCASpAc2026:
Rachel Bodily Birch (@georgemasonu.bsky.social) talks about “The Narrative Dissonance of Idealized Womanhood: Forging a Distinct Culture of Print and Power in the American West.”
Joining the panel, Sam Herrmann (@upenn.edu) discusses “Converting Teens through Converted Media: Popular Culture and Evangelical Style in Postwar America.” #HCASpAc2026
Last panel at #HCASpAc2026:
Lisa Bognenko (@upcite.bsky.social) on “Germs of Reform: Building a Literary Politics of Sanitation in the Writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.”
Lastly, Anna Shmatenko (@sorbonne-universite.fr) presents “Liminal States between Life and Death in the Literature and Medicine of the Nineteenth-Century United States.” #HCASpAc2026
It’s Three-Panel Day at the Spring Academy.
Day 4 #HCASpAc2026:
William Ockendon (University of Chicago) on “Mississippi Yearning. The Spectre of Reconstruction and Insurgent Black Constitutionalism in the 1960’s Deep South Countryside.”
Then, Vincent Veerbeek (@helsinki.fi) on “In Tune with the Nation? Marching Bands, Cultural Assimilation, and Native American Influences on Music Education at United States Off-reservation Boarding Schools, 1879-1940.” #HCASpAc2026
Panel 2 today at #HCASpAc2026:
Marcelo Fornari (University of Barcelona) kicks off with “Interstitial Selves: Autotheory in Contemporary U.S. Literature.”
Amon Pierson (Princeton University) talks about “mathematiX::poetiX--A speculation.”
Last panel today at #HCASpAc2026:
Rita Shika Amelordzi (@uni-wuerzburg.de) on “Passports and Precarity: Contested Afropolitanism.”
Nicole Koeningsknecht (University of Zürich) presents “Towards (and Away from) Hungry Reading in/through North American Indigenous Literatures.”
Day 3 at #HCASpAc2026 starts off with a workshop by a guest lecturer:
Professor Keith Brown (Arizona State University) discusses “American Microhistory and the Ottoman Transatlantic, 1872-1924.”
Our first participants’ panel today at #HCASpAc2026:
Hugo Fraslin (@ehess.fr) talks about “Lehman Brothers and America’s Financial and Political Worlds. A Social-Political History of Banking Elites (1918-2018).”
Following at #HCASpAc2026, Henry James (University College London) presents “Toward ‘What Works?’: Moynihan, Wilson, and Social Policy in an Age of Collapsing Trust, 1958-2010.”
Ming Kit Wong (@ox.ac.uk) discusses “Utopia in the Thought of Judith Shklar and Richard Rorty.”
Second day at #HCASpAc2026 with a panel on extraction practices:
Philine Schiller (University of Augsburg) presents on “From Craze to Crisis: Eating, Ecology and the Collapse of US Oyster Fisheries.”
Joining, Elybeth Sofia Alcantar (@utlonghorns.bsky.social) discusses “Poisoned Ndutu: River Pollution and Body-Mapping the Agua-Cuerpo-Territorio of Indigenous Mixteca Women in Oaxaca.” #HCASpAc2026
Second Panel today at #HCASpAc2026:
Linus Lanfermann-Baumann (@uni-graz.at) talks about “Deadly Connections: U.S. Peace Activism between Anti-Interventionism and Nuclear Disarmament.”
Catherine Wood (unileiden.bsky.social) on “Modernization Theory and U.S. Volunteer Service Programs.”
Today we are really excited to kick off our 23rd Spring Academy #HCASpAc2026. We will meet in the morning hours for a welcome and a discussion session and will reconvene in the afternoon for our first panel. We are really excited and look forward to this year's conference!
First panel at #HCASpAc2026:
Katharina Isaak (@uni-muenster.de) starts on “A Media History of the Immigrant Labor Press. Russian-Language Periodicals in the United States, 1917-1941.
Róisín Lambert (unileiden.bsky.social) talks on “Worlding the Nation through Newspaper Cartoons, 1865-1924.”
Vanessa Sanchis Campos (@uab.cat) finishes off the first panel at #HCASpAc2026 with “Gendered Urban Spaces and Women Writers in The New Yorker: Interrogating the Notion of Smartness in the Short Fiction of Katharine Brush, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Dawn Powel.”
