Department of American and Canadian Studies

Events from the last 12 months

Trump, Sanders, and the US Primaries: a Dialogue on American Populism

Date
25/05/2016
Location:
A40 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
Please join the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies and the Department of American and Canadian Studies for a dialogue on Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and the rise of American populism.

Magic bus: how the hippie trail changed the world

Date
20/04/2016
Location:
A48 Clive Grainger
Description
Talk hosted by the Travel Cultures network

Pat Barker In Conversation

Date
15/06/2016
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).

World-wide welcome? Plight of female refugees to be debated at Nottingham event

Date
08/03/2016
Location:
Nottingham Trent UniVersity Newton Building
Description
On International Women's Day, Tuesday 8 March, The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University are holding a joint event to discuss the plight of female refugees.

Tennessee Williams' Women and the Autobiographical 'I'

Date
14/03/2016
Location:
Nottingham Playhouse, Ustinov Room
Description
This talk will focus on the women in the playwright's life: his family, his characters, and the actresses for whom he created marvellous roles

Feminist: Stories from Women's Liberation

Date
01/01/1900
Description
In celebration of Women's History Month 2016, please join the Rights and Justice Research Priority Area, the Centre for Research in Race and Rights and the Department of American and Canadian Studies for a screening of the award-winning documentary Feminist: Stories From Women's Liberation, 1963-1970

American Music Session 1: 'I Must Keep Fighting Until I'm Dying': Paul Robeson's Freedom and Protest Songs

Date
31/03/2016
Location:
Nottingham Contemporary Cafe
Description
For this first session, C3R postdoctoral co-director Hannah Durkin plays and discusses the slave spirituals and international protest songs of African American singer Paul Robeson to mark the 40th anniversary of his death

American Music Session 2: 'Black Man Struggle': Jamaican Pop from Mento to Dancehall

Date
28/04/2016
Location:
Nottingham Contemporary Cafe
Description
Patrick Henderson, doctoral student and C3R associate, surveys Jamaican pop music from the 1950s to the present day, playing and discussing examples of mento, ska, reggae and dancehall and considering their cultural significance

American Music Session 3: The Rebirth of the Protest Song in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter

Date
26/05/2016
Location:
Nottingham Contemporary Cafe
Description
Music has played a key role in the angry response to racist policing and contemporary America. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, plays and discusses some examples and asks whether the protest song is enjoying an artistic and political renaissance.

American Music Session 4: Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi: The Art and Philosophy of Easy Listening

Date
23/06/2016
Location:
Nottingham Contemporary Cafe
Description
Alternately despised and rehabilitated, easy listening music dominated the popular music landscape from the 1940s to the 1960s. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, introduces a selection of recordings that attempts to encompass a sprawling, multifaceted and complex genre.
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