Department of American and Canadian Studies

Events from the last 12 months

Making it in Business: from arts to The Apprentice and beyond

Date
02/03/2017
Location:
A01 Highfield House
Description
Rebecca Jeffery, Entrepreneur and Arts graduate, talks about how transferable her undergraduate skills were to a career in Marketing.

Historical Fiction In The United States Since 2000: Contemporary Responses To The Past

Date
18/03/2017
Location:
A01, A02, Highfield House
Description
Historical fiction in English constitutes its own enduring tradition but in recent years, it has enjoyed a surge of critical acclaim and commercial popularity, as such scholars as Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons have argued. This one-day symposium at the University of Nottingham will explore how recent writers in the United States have engaged with the form.

Summer Teachers and Scholar Institute at Columbia University

Date
09 - 14/07/2017
Location:
Columbia University, Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Description
This Summer Institute offers what few others are able: the opportunity to study Black Activism through the lens of New York, and in New York

America in the 'Asian Century': a one day symposium

Date
14/03/2017
Location:
Highfield House A09
Description
Historical Perspectives on US-Canadian Relations with the Asia-Pacific Region. Hosted by the Department of American and Canadian Studies in association with the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies

Nottingham Interdisciplinary Modernism Research Network seminar

Date
15/02/2017
Location:
Trent Building C40
Description
Seminar on women and modernism

Nottingham Interdisciplinary Modernism Research Network: Reading group

Date
22/03/2017
Location:
Trent Building C5
Description
Texts for discussion will be Victor Shklovsky, 'Art as Technique', and T.E. Hulme, 'Notes on Language and Style'.

The War of 1974: The Kootenai Nation of Idaho Defeats the USA

Date
15/02/2017
Location:
Highfield House A02
Description
On September 20, 1974, the tiny 67 member Kootenai Nation of Northern Idaho declared war on the USA. In the weeks following, almost every aspect of US – Native American interaction was played out on the Kootenai

Unlocking the Science of Slavery

Date
01/02/2017
Location:
B63 Law and Social Sciences Building, University Park
Description
Join us for a lecture by Professor Kevin Bales on 'Unlocking the Science of Slavery'. Professor Kevin Bales is Professor of Contemporary Slavery in the School of Politics and International Relations at The University of Nottingham.

Feminists on the Shift to the Right A teach-in with staff and students

Date
13/12/2016
Location:
Law & Social Sciences Building B62
Description
Topics covered: Models of females in power ; The normalisation of sexual violence ; LGBT politics and right-wing nationalism ; Identity politics and the left ; Race and power; Sex education and far-right protest ?

The Paris Commune and US Internationalism

Date
07/12/2016
Location:
Law and Social Sciences Building A4
Description
This talk, hosted by the Department of American and Canadian Studies, examines the Paris Commune as a sensation and a lived practice of counter-remembrance in the long nineteenth century.
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