Department of American and Canadian Studies

Past Events from 2015- 2016

Get Up Stand Up Exhibition Dialogues Series: Cultural Activism

Date
20 August 2015
Description
Get Up Stand Up! is a collaboration between New Art Exchange and NCCL at Galleries of Justice Museum, exploring the idea of international civil rights with young people.

Get Up Stand Up Exhibition Dialogues Series: Black Men and Invisibility

Date
10 September 2015
Description
Get Up Stand Up! is a collaboration between New Art Exchange and NCCL at Galleries of Justice Museum, exploring the idea of international civil rights with young people.

Pre-show talk for "The Rubenstein Kiss"

Date
05 October 2015
Description
The Playhouse: Anthony Hutchison

Radicals in America - The U.S. Left since the Second World War

Date
08 October 2015
Description
Book launch at Five Leaves Bookshop: Christopher Phelps with Robin Vandome

The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War

Date
29 October 2015
Description
Marking the end of the 150th anniversary period for the Civil War (2011-2015), please join the Department of American and Canadian Studies for a special lecture by internationally renowned scholar Don Doyle (University of South Carolina).

Underground Resistance, Afrofuturism and the technonarrative of blackness

Date
18 November 2015
Description
One of a series of talks on popular culture, free and open to all.Underground Resistance, Afrofuturism and the Technonarrative of Blackness By Patrick Henderson

Intersecting Empires

Date
09 December 2015
Description
Kristin Hoganson (Illinois) will join staff and postgraduates to discuss her latest research in a seminar setting.

Bunker mentality, The family fallout shelter in U.S. thought and culture

Date
09 December 2015
Description
One of a series of talks for post-graduate students and research staff, also open to the general public.

Hannah Arendt and America

Date
14 December 2015
Description
Please join Professor Richard King to launch his new book Arendt and America

The Power of American Conservatism

Date
27 January 2016
Location:
a41, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
The Department of History and Department of American and Canadian Studies present the lecture, 'The power of American conservatism' at 5pm on Wednesday 27 January.

Prize Winning Comics, a post-millenial phenomenon

Date
09 March 2016
Description
One of a series of talks for post-graduate students and research staff, also open to the general public.

Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement

Date
24 May 2016
Location:
10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH, The British Academy
Description
Julian Bond was an activist, politician, lawyer, writer, and educator. In the wake of his sudden passing in 2015, this event celebrates the life of one of the key figures in American Civil Rights with a screening of a documentary of his life followed by a discussion with the director of the film and those who worked with Julian Bond and who knew him well.

Pat Barker In Conversation

Date
15 June 2016
Location:
Nottingham Playhouse
Description
Pat Barker will be in conversation with Sharon Monteith, Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham, who has followed Barker's work since the 1980s and written about it since the 1990s. She published Pat Barker (Northcote House and the British Council, 2002), the first critical study of the writer, and co-edited Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker (2005).
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