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1979 - US President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit which swam up to his fishing boat in Plains, Georgia.
1992 - All-star benefit concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium, London; performers include: Queen, Roger Daltry, Robert Plant, Zucchero, Paul Young, Seal, David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Mick Ronson, George Michael, Elton John, Axl Rose, and Liza Minnelli.
1993 - Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years).
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| PhD candidate Samantha Silver studies the complex relationship between comedy, race, sexuality, and politics. |
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Image credit: Samantha Silver. Silver pictured at her desk surrounded by books and records, where she writes with her coworker, Rain, a Blue Heeler.
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This week, we are delighted to spotlight Samantha Silver, a PhD candidate in the Department of American Studies! Samantha received her BA in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012 with a concentration in Mass Culture and Urban History after transferring from UC Santa Cruz, where she first read Fredric Jameson and took courses in American popular music. After working at several non-profits, she received her MA in American Studies at GW and began her PhD in 2018. In 2019, she worked at NPR Music as a research fellow for the “Turning the Tables” project in which Silver contributed to “8 Women Who Invented American Popular Music.” Silver says she is proud to have moved back to California with her siblings in 2020 to take care of her grandfather, where she met her now husband Brett, before coming back to DC and continuing her PhD.
Samantha’s MA research focused on radio history and “amateur hour” radio broadcasts during the Great Depression. She was able to use the Library of Congress’ collections at the Recorded Sound Research Center. Sam remains fascinated with audio archives and hopes to write more about amateur hours in relation to the comedy open mic. Her dissertation focuses on unknown figures in the history of stand-up comedy, especially Black women blues singers and queer drag performers whose comedy albums and live performances tell a different story about the art form. She collected several stand-up comedy albums by comedians Hattie Noel, Rusty Warren, and others during the COVID-19 quarantine to keep her research going.
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Her interdisciplinary research combines media history, performance studies, Black feminist theory, queer theory, and popular music studies to illuminate the stories behind these albums, their place in the history of American comedy, and the complex relationship between comedy, race, sexuality, and politics. Samantha will present her research on blues singer and comedian Hattie Noel at upcoming conferences including the popular music conference Pop Con at NYU, the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) conference in Niagara Falls, NY, and the American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) conference at Skidmore College. As a Board Member of the American Humor Studies Association, she will chair the Humor Studies panel at the American Literature Association (ALA). Sam is also active in the Humor and Comedy Studies groups of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).
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| Ugly Freedoms, Enemies Within, and Birchers: Three GW Scholars Discuss Anti-Democratic Tendencies in the Modern World
When: Wednesday April 26, 2023; 12:00-1:30 PM
Where: National Churchill Society Center, Gelman Library
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Join GW faculty Elisabeth Anker, Harris Mylonas, and Matt Dallek for a conversation about anti-democratic developments in modern politics. Their three new books draw on political science, history, and other disciplines to examine the subterranean and often under-appreciated forces that have challenged liberal democracy and propped up authoritarian regimes around the world.
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| 13th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony
When: Thursday, May 4, 2023; 4:00-5:00 PM
Where: Jack Morton Auditorium
*Reception to follow from 5:00-6:00 PM
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The Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs is pleased to announce GW’s 13th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony! Please join us to recognize a diverse group of talented GW faculty and graduate teaching assistants who have shown extraordinary dedication to teaching, research, and service to the university.
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Call for Papers: The American & New England Studies Graduate Students at Boston University invite you to contribute to Ampersand: An American Studies Journal. They are currently accepting submissions for their Summer 2023 edition, "Colonialism's Long Shadow," with abstracts due by May 19.
Call for Papers: The 2023 conference of the Southeastern American Studies Association, to be held Sept 28-30 in Atlanta, Georgia, seeks papers addressing any aspect of the theme, “undiscovered country”: colonial, decolonial, catastrophic, utopian, and/or speculative. View more and submit here // Deadline: May 5, 2023.
Call for Papers: The 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast MLA, in Boston, seeks session and abstract proposals. To submit a proposal, log in here. Session proposals are due by May 10, 2023, and abstract proposals by September 30, 2023.
Call for Papers: The Massachusetts Historical Society seeks individual paper proposals and session proposals for the 2024 Conrad E. Wright Research Conference on Citizenship. View more details on how to submit here // Deadline: June 13, 2023.
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I’m a current student and I’d like to declare a major or minor in American Studies. Where do I start?
If you are interested in declaring either a major or minor in American Studies, please contact our Director of Undergraduate Studies to schedule a meeting. In addition, be sure to complete your Declaration Form for the DUS to review.
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