Department of American and Canadian Studies

Events from the last 12 months

American and Canadian Visiting Speaker

Date
02/05/2012
Description
Douglas Egerton (LeMoyne University/University College, Dublin) will be visiting the Department of American and Canadian Studies to give a talk on 'Death of Liberty: African Americans and the American Revolution'. Talk Co-Sponsored with the Institute for the Study of Slavery.

American and Canadian Visiting Speaker

Date
14/03/2012
Description
John Thompson (Cambridge) will be visiting the Department of American and Canadian Studies to give a talk on 'The US Rise to Become a World Power, 1890-1950'.

American and Canadian Studies Visiting Speak

Date
01/02/2012
Description
Ellie Shermer (Loyola University/Cambridge) will be visiting the Department of American and Canadian Studies to give a talk on 'Creating the Sunbelt: Phoenix and the Political Economy of Metropolitan Growth'

Godzilla meets Fukushima: Science fiction and vernacular sense making regarding nuclear disasters in Japan, US and UK

Date
09/12/2011
Description
'Godzilla meets Fukushima: Science fiction and vernacular sense making regarding nuclear disasters in Japan, US and UK', a seminar from Dr Alan Valdez, Open University.

ISOS Seminar Series: Hidden in Plain Sight

Date
08/03/2012
Description
Dr Jackie Sheehan (University of Nottingham) will speak on 'Hidden in Plain Sight: The Recruitment, Transportation and Employment of Chinese Victims of Transnational Trafficking to the UK'

ISOS Seminar Series: From Peace to Freedom

Date
14/02/2012
Description
Dr Brycchan Carey (Kingston University, London) will speak on 'From Peace to Freedom: Colonial Quakers and the Origins of the Anti-Slavery International, 1657-1758'

ISOS Seminar Series: Slave 'marriages' at Gortyn

Date
28/02/2012
Description
Dr David Lewis (Durham) will speak on 'Slave "marriages" at Gortyn: A Matter of Rights?'

Creating Guerrilla Memorials in a Regional Context

Date
17/11/2011
Description
Dr Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire) will speak on 'Creating Guerrilla Memorials in a Regional Context: Slavery and Abolition in the North-West of England from the 1760s to the Present'

ISOS Seminar Series: Compensating Slave Owners; Compensating for Slavery?

Date
08/12/2011
Description
Dr Nick Draper (LSE) will speak on 'Compensating Slave Owners; Compensating for Slavery?British Emancipation and its Implications'

Visiting the theme of the Museum

Date
10/11/2011
Description
Two sessions led by Prof Joy Kasson, Professor of American Studies and English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
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