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Dear colleagues, See below. All the best, Pat Dr Patricia Noxolo, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT UK ________________________________ From: [log in to unmask] [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 05 February 2019 16:54 To: Patricia Noxolo (Geography) Subject: News and events from the Eccles Centre [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368/images/18df6313-4c5f-4608-8af4-cd55e36bf58a.jpg] <https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=676064ede1&e=080c36527d> NEWS AND EVENTS FROM THE ECCLES CENTRE 2019 WRITER'S AWARD WINNERS & PARTNERSHIP WITH HAY FESTIVAL [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368/images/01ea5da1-fb1a-40c8-9495-a12eb1197f65.jpg] The 2019 Eccles British Library Writer's Award winners are Rachel Hewitt and Sara Taylor. Non-fiction writer Rachel Hewitt will work on a project exploring American and British women's encounters with the natural world, while novelist Sara Taylor will conduct research for her novel on lives affected by the US eugenics movement in the nineteenth century. Each writer will receive £20,000, and a year of enhanced access to the collections and expertise at the British Library. Read more in<https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=a1861011ca&e=080c36527d> The Bookseller...<https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=54e3370b0a&e=080c36527d> The Eccles Centre has also recently launched an exciting partnership between its Writer's Award programme, and Hay Festival. This partnership will foster a new presence for the Writer's Award in Latin America. The Award will now be open to writing projects in Spanish and languages indigenous to the Americas, and past recipients of the Award will have the opportunity to share their work and their experience of researching the British Library's Americas collections with audiences at Hay Festival's Latin American editions, as well as the flagship annual festival at Hay-on-Wye, Wales. Read <https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=127d978278&e=080c36527d> more <https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=de392632fa&e=080c36527d> in<https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=7a0eb37a1e&e=080c36527d> The Bookseller... <https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=95a4cd111c&e=080c36527d> DOCTORAL STUDENTS OPEN DAY | 18 MARCH 2019 DISCOVER THE AMERICAS COLLECTIONS [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368/images/18cab276-b18b-4b34-b56b-416cb8c1e3b3.jpg] The British Library Knowledge Centre | Monday 18 March, 10.00-16.30 | £10 | Booking essential Doctoral students embarking on any aspect of research on the Americas are warmly invited to an Open Day to discover how the British Library can support their project. At this event you will learn about the extraordinary scope of our Americas collections, in manuscript, print, microform, recorded and digital formats. The Americas curatorial team and specialist staff from the Eccles Centre for American Studies will show you how to access the collections and unlock their potential to support your research. More information and booking...<https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=8d57584ece&e=080c36527d> We also warmly encourage all researchers at any stage of their career who are interested in the British Library's Americas collections to come along to one of our Eccles Centre Coffee Mornings. Every first Tuesday of the month, in the Terrace Restaurant on Floor 1 at 10.30am. Join us for the next Eccles Centre Coffee Morning at 10.30am on Tuesday 5 March! FORTHCOMING EVENTS [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368/images/049c838e-dc8d-4bf6-bc12-07a09f6e8742.jpg] <https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=61cb03eccf&e=080c36527d> Medievalism, Nationalism, and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Thu 7 Feb | 19.00-20.30 British Library Knowledge Centre | £12/£10/£8 Journalist Jonathan Freedland hosts a panel, including Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold America!<https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=af5eaf1cec&e=080c36527d>, and King's College London's Professor of English Literature Ananya Jahanara Kabir<https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=ecf7333a8b&e=080c36527d>, on how the medieval past has been put to use in support of contested, and highly controversial, modern ideas about nationality and race. Read more and how to book...<https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=d9e12ccd82&e=080c36527d> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368/images/6adbf749-d816-41dd-a1a0-bdc6daceac34.jpg] Follow-ed: Appropriating the Books of Edward Ruscha Fri 1 March | 19.00-20.30 British Library Knowledge Centre | £10/£8/£7 Edward Ruscha is one of the most influential and distinctive postwar American artists, whose fine art books have served as a source of inspiration - and appropriation - for many other artists using the book as their medium. Join curator Tom Sowden<https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=538a0dfefc&e=080c36527d> for an exploration of this fascinating medium. Read more and how to book...<https://www.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368&id=4285665505&e=080c36527d> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0491164fc38a6bf1aa699e368/images/a9fc8cea-cfe4-439c-acb3-9d085a9f1c6d.jpg] Theodore Roosevelt Island: A Most Unusual American Memorial Tue 26 March | 19.15-20.30 British Library Knowledge Centre | £8/£6/£5 Theodore Roosevelt Island is the largest presidential memorial. It’s also the least visited. A new documentary, The Man on the Island, tells the story of this most unusual place and how it has affected the memory of one of America’s most popular presidents. 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