Department of American and Canadian Studies

Events from the last 12 months

Content Stinks! The Forms, Materials, and Institutions of American Periodicals

Date
21/09/2018
Location:
A21 Trent Building
Description
This symposium seeks to challenge the narrow content-orientation of much existing periodicals scholarship by engaging with new, deeper and more complex contextualizations of these unique textual objects. In particular, it will showcase work that offers considerations of the American periodical from the perspective not of its content-providers but the perspective of the multiple human and nonhuman actors responsible for assembling and distributing what in the aggregate is a mass of literary material simply too large and various for conventional interpretive approaches.

Race, Sexual Violence, and Moral Testimony during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Date
09/05/2018
Location:
A01 Highfields House
Description
Speaker: Kaisha Esty (Rutgers)

Nottingham Poetry Festival

Date
21 - 30/04/2018

'Wet Paper Between Us': Whitman and the Transformations of Labour

Date
02/05/2018
Location:
Highfield House A01

Nottingham and Malaysia Day

Date
25/04/2018
Location:
Djanogly Terrace Portland Building
Description
We mark our first ever Nottingham and Malaysia Day celebrating our connections between Nottingham and Malaysia. Throughout the day we will showcase a range of activities taking place at our Malaysia campus and collaborations between the UK and Malaysia, as well as the opportunity to meet with staff who have worked in Malaysia and find out how working overseas has shaped their career. Students will have the opportunity to find out more about studying in Malaysia. Between 12 and 3, Malaysian food will be available for purchase on the Djanogly Terrace (Portland Building).

Historicising trauma in colonial and post-colonial contexts: An artist's interpretation

Date
25/04/2018
Location:
Machicado Suite Willoughby Hall
Description
Centre for Research in Race and Rights presents this talk by Dr Michael McMillan

Networking and Book Launch, hosted by Rights and Justice RPA

Date
02/05/2018
Location:
B55 Law and Social Science Building
Description
The new co-leads of the Rights and Justice RPA, Annamaria La Chimia and Karen Salt, would like to invite you to a networking event aimed at bringing together our research cluster and sharing information about the new funding opportunities available through the RPA. We will share plans for the upcoming months and create space for you to share your research ideas and interests. In essence, we want the RPA to reflect the nearly 700 members who have found a home within it. Whether you have previously been a member of the RPA or have never participated, please do join us. We are refreshing membership in the RPA and are also seeking volunteers for a new steering committee (to start from May).

PSA Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 2018

Date
08 - 09/11/2018
Location:
University of Nottingham
Description
Recent elections and referenda have thrown up some unexpected results - outside candidates have emerged rapidly to take power, and established politicians have suffered an unexpected decline or increase in support. Traditional institutions such as political parties and trade unions have experienced a revival in membership. Received wisdom on public opinion and political behaviour has been disrupted, not least assumptions about the political engagement of millenials. This conference will explore mediated communication of politics in the context of such instability and insurgency.

Call for Poems on male 'disordered' eating: deadline 18 May 2018

Date
18/05/2018
Location:
Universiity Park
Description
Writers of poetry – in English or any other language (ideally with a 'translation note') are encouraged to submit their own poems for inclusion on the Hungry for Words: An interdisciplinary approach to articulating, communicating and understanding male anorexia nervosa website. £100 will be awarded to the author of the poem considered most suitable and £50 each for the two runner up poems.

Mental Health in Higher Education

Date
26/03/2018
Location:
Portland Building, Room C27
Description
Mental Health in Higher Education is run by the charity 'Mental Health First Aid'. This one day course qualifies you as a Higher Education MHFA Champion.This intensive mental health awareness and skills course has been created in consultation with leading student mental health charity Student Minds, piloted in 16 universities and evaluated by the University of Chester. Everyone who completes the day gets an MHFA manual to keep and refer to whenever they need it, and a badge and certificate to say they are an MHFA Champion.
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