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The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies invites paper and panel proposals for its 43nd annual meeting, to be held at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, April 1-3, 2016. The PCCBS invites papers representing all fields of British Studies–broadly defined to include those who study the United Kingdom, its component parts and nationalities, as well as Britain’s imperial cultures. We welcome proposals from scholars and doctoral candidates in a wide range of disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, including History, Literature, Political Science, Philosophy, Religion, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater Studies, and Art History. Proposals for individual papers, partial panels, or complete panels are all welcome, although complete panel proposals are preferred. We encourage the submission of proposals dealing with interdisciplinary topics, as well as panels on new pedagogies and technologies associated with British Studies. We especially encourage graduate student submissions The deadline for submission of proposals is DECEMBER 1, 2015. Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper plus a one-page c.v. for each participant. Those submitting full or partial panel proposals should include a brief description of the panel plus a 1-page c.v. for the panel chair as well as for its commentator. Please place the panel proposal, its constituent paper proposals, and all vitae in a single file, making certain that your contact information, especially e-mail addresses, are correct and current. Proposals should be submitted via e-mail attachment by December 1, 2015, to: PCCBS2016@gmail.com The 2016 Program Committee: Simon Devereaux (University of Victoria); Aaron Windel (Simon Fraser University), and Gordon Fulton (University of Victoria) *Graduate students who have papers accepted by the program committee will be eligible to request reimbursement for some travel expenses from the Stern Trust when registering for the conference. http://www.pccbs.org/

I am one of the USC acceptances. My area is early modern Britain with an emphasis on gender and empire. In early February, I received a phone call from Dr. Harkness informing me that I had been admitted with 5 years of funding and the next day received several emails from other faculty members welcoming me to USC. I received the official offer in the mail about two weeks later. I received my funding offer in the mail about a week ago (and Dr. Harkness emailed me a .pdf copy of it the day before). Next weekend is the recruitment weekend on campus and in the email I received there were about 8-10 names. I have no idea how many of those have been accepted and how many they are still vetting. My sense is that the definite "yes" candidates have already been selected, but I would contact the department and find out.