Department of American and Canadian Studies

Events from the last 12 months

In Conversation: The Impact and Representation of the US South in Harper Lee's writing

Date
15/07/2015
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

Making the Headlines

Date
11/06/2015
Description
A workshop on publicising your expertise and how to make the media work for you

Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives

Date
20/05/2015
Description
The Centre for Research in Race and Rights, the Department of American and Canadian Studies, and Nottingham Contemporary present 'Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives'.

Leverhulme Trust to visit Nottingham

Date
06/05/2015
Description
A session from Jean Cater, Assistant Director and Anna Grundy, Grants Manager of The Leverhulme Trust

Varieties of Capitalism in the Americas – workshop

Date
04/06/2015
Description
The Centre for Economic and Business History is hosting a workshop on 'Varieties of Capitalism in the Americas' on Thursday 4 June 2015

Critical Whiteness: US and UK Perspectives

Date
20/05/2015
Description
David Roediger, Sharon Monteith and Marquese MacFerguson discuss critical whiteness.

Film Screening and Discussion: At the River I Stand (1993)

Date
09/06/2015
Description
This civil right documentary on the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis in 1968 is introduced by Sharon Monteith.

Kara Walker's Pornopticon: racial sensations

Date
27/04/2015
Description
The Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R) and New Art Exchange present 'Kara Walker's Pornopticon: racial sensations'. Professor Robyn Wiegman, a leading professor of race and gender at Duke University, will be joined in conversation by Professor Zoe Trodd, Department of American and Canadian Studies.

Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: African American Art and Influences

Date
07/05/2015
Description
Celeste-Marie Bernier (American and Canadian Studies) hosts the first of four discussions to accompany the Nottingham Contemporary exhibition.

Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Civil Rights Photojournalism and Open Letters on Race and Rights

Date
14/05/2015
Description
Sharon Monteith (American and Canadian Studies) hosts the second of four discussions to accompany the Nottingham Contemporary exhibition.
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