Department of American and Canadian Studies

Events from the last 12 months

Poster Presentations - Reading Week

Date
04/11/2019
Description
What makes an effective poster and ideas on design.Aimed at all undergraduate and taught masters students

Scaling the Nineteenth Century: British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 4th Biennial Symposium

Date
16 - 17/12/2019
Location:
Nottingham Trent University (City Campus), University of Nottingham University Park Campus
Description
This symposium offers a rich variety of historical and methodological interpretations of the "problem of scale" in nineteenth-century America.

Image and Narrative: Illness, Recovery, Change

Date
29/04/2019
Location:
B1 Law and Social Sciences Building
Description
A free one-day workshop reflecting on the ways in which different forms of digital, visual and textual representation can support health.

Commemorating literature

Date
25/05/2019
Location:
Universiity Park
Description
This workshop aims to bring together scholars and representatives of museums and literary heritage organisations, to discuss practices of literary commemoration, both past and present.

Linguistic Policy in a Nation of Immigrants

Date
20/03/2019
Location:
Highfield House A02
Description
As more countries become 'nations of immigration' what are the obligations and limits of linguistic accommodation?

Language as a Human Right: Justice, Fairness and Equality

Date
10/04/2019
Location:
Highfield House A02
Description
This year marks the centenary of the inclusion of language as a human right in international treaties. Has this been an effective approach to linguistic inequalities?

Language Standards and Linguistic Inequality in Europe

Date
15/04/2019
Location:
Highfield House A02
Description
With the Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (Council of Europe, 1992) Although Europe appears to be a leader in linguistic equality, why do many inequalities remain?

Translating Alice in Wonderland

Date
13/03/2019
Location:
Teaching and Learning Building D13
Description
Simple words, such as the conjunction 'and' and the negative adverb 'never', are revealed, through the comparison of multiple translations of a single work, to be quite complex.

Reading Between the Borderlines and The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism book launch

Date
13/02/2019
Location:
Blackwells Bookshop
Description
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Reading Between the Borderlines, edited by Gillian Roberts and the Rise of Neoliberal Feminism by Catherine Rottenberg.

Lesbian mothers and practices of conception in post-war Britain

Date
13/02/2019
Location:
A39 Clive Granger
Description
For LGBT History Month the Centre for Research in Race and Rights hosts a talk by Rebecca Jennings (University College Londong) who will draw on her current research into lesbian relationships and parenting practices in post-war Britain and Australia to explore the history of lesbian motherhood in Britain between 1945 and 1978.
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