Events from the last 12 months

Date: 12/03/2014
Description: Indigenous ideas and innovations are shaping the development of Canada's youngest territory of Nunavut. This lecture considers the integration of Inuit knowledge into political institutions and public policies in the territory and much more.

Date: 26/03/2014
Description: Keynote speaker Dan Hancox, author of 'The Village Against the World' (Verso)

Date: 12/03/2014
Description: How far can languages take you? Find out at the LangugesExpo on 12 March 2014. Nottingham Conference Centre, Nottingham City Centre

Date: 12/02/2014
Description: How should Americans think? Please come to hear Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University) talk about the battle for the American mind, followed by a public debate with Richard King

Date: 08 - 09/05/2014
Description: An interdisciplinary conference on technology & resistance; University of Nottingham; Thursday 8th May & Friday 9th May, 2014

Date: 20 - 22/06/2014
Description: This conference seeks to probe the implications for the production, consumption, and reception of literature, film, television, music, theatre, and visual art in relation to the Canada-US border. The conference will encourage analysis of cultural texts, phenomena, and industries both in terms of how they might operate differently in Canada and the United States and the ways in which they might straddle, or ignore, the border altogether.

Date: 24/01/2014
Description: Celeste-Marie Bernier will be talking about slavery and its representations on a BBC Culture Show

Date: 04/03/2014
Description: Special Event for International Women's Day: Screening of Eastern Promises with introduction and discussion on human trafficking by Zoe Trodd

Date: 08/04/2014
Description: Packaged Pleasure: How Technology and Marketing Shaped Desire in Modern America by Gary Cross

Date: 19/03/2014
Description: Lectures on Identity Series and Special Event for Women's History Month - You are Nobody: Contemporary Slavery

Department of American and Canadian Studies