Events from the last 12 months

Date: 20 - 21/10/2017
Location:: Nottingham Contemporary
Description: The 2017 edition of October Dialogues hosts public conversations, presentations and performances exploring issues of representation, race and equity in contemporary society and in the cultural sector.

Date: 12 - 13/10/2016
Description: This conference will examine the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain. It will consider how academic history has shaped public perceptions of slavery and how public debate has challenged and inspired scholarship

Date: 27/11/2017
Location:: Highfield House A01
Description: Find out about the writing of runes and the making of runestones in North America.

Date: 22 - 26/09/2017
Location:: Broadway Cinema
Description: A chance to celebrate rarely seen classics of Indian cinema. Many of these films have been previously unavailable to screen in the UK and there is no better time to watch them than this seventieth anniversary year of India's independence.

Date: 04/10/2017
Location:: Clive Granger A41
Description: In this lecture Professor David Sehat will consider the question of whether Trump represents a departure from Republican Party politics of the last fifty years, or rather the apotheoisis of that politics.

Date: 11 - 12/05/2018
Location:: University Park
Description: Call for papers: We welcome papers examining the history of the uprisings in France from fresh perspectives but likewise proposals on a broad range of topics relating to the different contexts and contested legacies of May '68.

Date: 14 - 16/09/2017
Location:: C7 Trent Building
Description: This conference brings together academics who work in the areas of political violence and historical memory, archaeologists who work on Civil War sites, including the team that carried out the recent search for the mass grave containing the body of Federico García Lorca and three further victims, Spanish journalists who report on matters relating to historical memory, and representatives of three of Spain's national political parties.

Date: 10/10/2017
Description: "How the South Won the American Civil War…. and Why the United States is Still Fighting It". Annual American Studies Lecture and Black History Month Event. Professor John Stauffer, Harvard University

Date: 07/07/2017
Location:: Ashley Street, NG3 1JG, Nottingham
Description: Please join Backlit Art Gallery and the University of Nottingham for an evening performance celebrating the lives of Samuel Morley and Josiah Henson.

Date: 24 - 25/06/2017
Location:: Djanogly Recital Hall
Description: Re-purposing period zarzuela on topics of political relevance for a contemporary, international audience.

Department of American and Canadian Studies