Events from the last 12 months

Date: 14/03/2018
Location:: A40 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: As part of Women's History Month 2018, please join Dr Mara Keire from The University of Oxford for a historical talk that uses film, music, and popular novels to analyse the portrayal of sexual consent in working-class recreation. Dr Keire will chart the contours of a pervasive rape culture in early twentieth-century New York.

Date: 14/02/2018
Location:: Five Leaves Bookshop
Description: Presented by the Department of American and Canadian Studies, please join our own Christopher Phelps and guest speaker Jonathan Bell (UCL) for a relaxed discussion on the legacies of the gay liberation movement on Valentine's Day.

Date: 08/02/2018
Location:: Five Leaves Bookshop
Description: Celebrating LGBT History Month, the Centre for Research in Race and Rights presents a discussion which asks what it means, in different contexts, to be 'queer'.

Date: 07/02/2018
Location:: Broadway Cinema
Description: Celebrating LGBT History Month, the Centre for Research in Race and Rights presents a screening of No Easy Walk to Freedom followed by a Q&A session at the Broadway Cinema, Nottingham

Date: 17/02/2018
Location:: Rough Trade Nottingham
Description: Nottingham has a growing and vibrant LGBTQ+ community that is at its best when it celebrates its intersectional diversity. To mark 2018 History Month, we are hosting a networking event where various LGBTQ+ groups and allies are invited to join together to discuss the future of the community and how we can take steps toward a fairer and more representative tomorrow.

Date: 31/01/2018
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: The Department of American and Canadian Studies presents a research seminar with ?Natalia Cecire (University of Sussex)

Date: 26/01/2018
Location:: The Hemsley (Room B2)
Description: Join us for a workshop articulating, communicating and understanding male eating disorders with particular focus on anorexia nervosa: approaches by charities, academia, psychotherapy, medicine and science.

Date: 25/01/2018
Location:: Portland building University Park Campus
Description: Dr Heike Bartel, Associate Professor of German, Principle Investigator AHRC research network "Hungry for Words" hosts a stand-up comedy gig by Dave Chawner. Dave is an award-winning comic, published author and mental health campaigner. He is also an ambassador for the eating disorders charity Men Get Eating Disorders Too and will be a delegate at the Friday workshop.

Date: 07/02/2018
Location:: B63 Law and Social Sciences
Description: Debate and exchange of ideas on the first year of Donald Trump's administration, with Professor Todd Landman (PVC, Social Sciences), Dr Christopher Phelps (associate professor, American and Canadian Studies), and audience participation and dialogue.

Date: 17/02/2018
Location:: Highfield House; University Park
Description: One-day symposium exploring the state of 20th-century American political history today

Department of American and Canadian Studies