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Past Events from 2014- 2015
The American Mind – Race, slavery and liberty
Date
01 January 1900
Description
Please join the University of Nottingham for its annual American Studies lecture and a special Black History Month event.
Critical Whiteness: US and UK Perspectives
Date
01 January 1900
Description
Offered in collaboration with the Nottingham Contemporary, this panel discussion focuses on critical whiteness - from its emergence as an area of enquiry though to its significance within contemporary struggles around race and class.
Get Up Stand Up Exhibition Dialogues Series: Racial Equality and Antiracism
Date
01 January 1900
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.
God loves Uganda screening
Date
01 January 1900
Description
The Department of American and Canadian Studies present a screening of 'God loves Uganda', followed by a discussion led by Coral Leather.
Workers of all lands unite?
Date
01 January 1900
Description
Workers of all lands, unite? is a conference organized by a group of postgraduate students from the Department of History and the Department of American and Canadian Studies at The University of Nottingham.
Exploring Martin Luther King: the paradox of non-violence
Date
19 October 2014
Description
People often think they know Martin Luther King Jr., but do they? Over four lectures on two Sundays in Black History Month, Peter Ling will bring you closer to the life and the man, addressing topics such as what did King bring to the civil rights movement and what did he find within it? What was his form of non-violence and how radical was it?
Malcolm X in Britain – race, immigration and the transatlantic civil rights movement
Date
28 October 2014
Description
In late 1964 and early 1965, just weeks before he was killed, Malcolm X visited Britain. He took part in a debate at the Oxford Union, spoke at the London School of Economics and Birmingham University Students' Union, and visited Smethwick in the West Midlands to highlight the racist policies of the local MP and council who were trying to prevent the sale of homes to non-white families.
The Ends of the Earth: Print Culture and Polar Exploration
Date
10 November 2014
Description
American and Canadian Studies: visiting speakers
A black loyalist food riot in eighteenth-century Sierra Leone
Date
19 November 2014
Description
American and Canadian Studies: visiting speaker
Event on Rock n Roll
Date
10 December 2014
Description
Please join the American & Canadian Studies Department for our final event of the semester: a double-header on Rock n Roll!
Where else did they copy their styles but from church groups?' Rock and Religion in the 1950s South
Date
10 December 2014
Description
American and Canadian Studies: visiting speakers
Presenting Philippines
Date
04 February 2015
Description
Professor Anders Stephanson, from Columbia University, will join UoN's Ben Offiler to talk about 'Presenting Philippines: world expositions, architecture, empire, concrete, roads, race and maybe the real'.
Paris is Burning screening
Date
09 February 2015
Description
The Department of American and Canadian Studies present a screening of the documentary 'Paris is Burning'. There will also be a post-screening discussion with Roy Ward, Editor and co-founder of EQView, and Hannah Murray.
Selma screening
Date
11 February 2015
Description
with an introduction by Professor Peter Ling, Department of American and Canadian Studies
Stop erasing bisexuals – including the 'B' in LGBT
Date
13 February 2015
Description
Join Grant Denkinson, counsellor and psychotherapist, in converstion with Francesca Kitson, postgraduate researcher in the Department of American and Canadian Studies.
The Black Power Mixtape The Black Power Mixtape screening
Date
16 February 2015
Description
with introduction by Christopher Phelps, Department of American and Canadian Studies
Gay rights in the US: the promise and perils of patriotism
Date
17 February 2015
Description
The Department of American and Canadian Studies, Rainbow Heritage and the Centre for Advanced Studies present 'Gay rights in the US: the promise of perils and patriotism'.
Pre-show talk and discussion (free) with Professor Sharon Monteith for performance of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Date
23 February 2015
Description
Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Enslaved Wetnurses in the Antebellum United States
Date
04 March 2015
Description
American and Canadian Studies research seminar
Unsettling Appropriations: Writing at the Intersection of Indigenous Decolonization and the Canadian Avant-Garde
Date
05 March 2015
Description
Department of American and Canadian Studies guest lecture
Canadian Studies Annual Lecture
Date
11 March 2015
Description
Canadian Culture as Material Culture: Forms and Formats, Will Straw (McGill University)
Discussion with Larilyn Reffett - U.S. Embassy
Date
13 March 2015
Description
Department of American and Canadian Studies Visiting Speaker
Kara Walker's Pornopticon
Date
27 April 2015
Description
Visiting speaker Professor Robyn Wiegman, Duke University discusses "Kara Walker's Pornopticon: Racial Sensations", including public conversation with Zoe Trodd
Get Up Stand Up Exhibition Dialogues Series: Modern Day Slavery
Date
07 May 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.
Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: African American Art and Influences
Date
07 May 2015
Description
Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.
American Sincerity and Good Posture: Stanley Cavell and David Foster Wallace
Date
13 May 2015
Description
American and Canadian Studies research seminar
Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Civil Rights Photojournalism and Open Letters on Race and Rights
Date
14 May 2015
Description
Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.
The 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War
Date
27 May 2015
Description
American and Canadian Studies Visiting Speaker
Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Text Paintings and Speech Acts - Literary Encounters
Date
28 May 2015
Description
Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.
Get Up Stand Up Exhibition Dialogues Series: Grassroots Activism
Date
04 June 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.
Film Screening and Discussion: At the River I Stand (1993)
Date
09 June 2015
Description
Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skilfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Representation and Abstraction - Politics and the Body
Date
11 June 2015
Description
Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary.
Money Talks: Inequality and North American Identity"
Date
19 June 2015
Description
Highfield House: 49th Parallel Interdisciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Conference
In Conversation: The Impact and Representation of the US South in Harper Lee's writing
Date
15 July 2015
Description
Sharon Monteith and Katie Hamilton will be in conversation about the impact and representation of the US South in Harper Lee's writing to celebrate the publication of Go Set a Watchman
Conference: Rights and Justice in Nixon's America
Date
18 September 2015
Description
American and Canadian Studies conference: Call for papers deadline 30 April
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