Department of American and Canadian Studies

Past Events from 2012- 2013

Pentecostal Modernism lecture by Stephen Shapiro

Date
03 October 2012
Description
Stephen Shapiro (Warwick) "Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and the New World-Systems Literary Studies" Visiting Speakers at Nottingham University

American and Canadian Studies: Inaugural Lecture from Professor Bernier

Date
11 October 2012
Description
Inaugural lecture from Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier entitled "Imaging Slavery"

American and Canadian Studies Annual Lecture: Gary Gestle reads at UoN

Date
24 October 2012
Description
American and Canadian Studies Annual Lecture "Paradoxes of State Power in America" on 24 October 2012

Anouk Lang - Between the Real and the Imaginary

Date
14 November 2012
Description
"Between the Real and the Imaginary: Using Digital Mapping in Literary Studies" by Anouk Lang (Strathclyde) - a Visiting Speakers at Nottingham University

Steve Hewitt - spotted throughout with red

Date
21 November 2012
Description
Visiting Speakers at Nottingham University - Steve Hewitt (Birmingham) "'spotted throughout with red': The RCMP Framing of English-Canadian Women's Liberation Groups During the Cold War" on 21 November 2012

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speaker Series

Date
14 January 2013
Description
Stephen Robertson (Sydney) - "Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s"

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speakers Series

Date
28 January 2013
Description
Lloyd Pratt (Oxford) - "I Am a Stranger With Thee: Frederick Douglass and Recognition After 1845"

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speakers Series

Date
30 January 2013
Description
American and Canadian Studies Roundtable - Emancipation at 150 Years: Remembering Slavery and Freedom (with Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman and Zoe Trodd)

American and Canadian Studies: Book Party

Date
30 January 2013
Description
The Department of American & Canadian Studies is hosting a book party to celebrate all the books published by staff in the Department in the past year.

American and Canadian Studies: 'The Rosa Parks Centenary: Civil Rights, Women's Rights & Human Rights'

Date
06 February 2013
Description
This event is being held to celebrate 100 years since the birth of Rosa Parks, the African-American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger.

American and Canadian Studies: Research Seminar Series

Date
20 February 2013
Description
Discussion - "Spielberg's Lincoln and American Presidents on Screen" - Wednesday 13th Feb, Hallward Screening Room LG140, at 2pm

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speakers Series

Date
27 February 2013
Description
Erin Moure and Chus Pato - Title TBC

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speakers Series

Date
06 March 2013
Description
Daniel Kane (Sussex) - "What Did Poetry Learn from Punk? What Did Punk Learn from Poetry?"

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speakers Series

Date
20 March 2013
Description
Inderjeet Parmar (City University London) - "Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power"

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speakers Series

Date
01 May 2013
Description
Bruce Baker (Royal Holloway) - "Rat Proofing the Gulf Coast: Bubonic Plague, Public Health, and Urban Life in New Orleans"

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speaker Series

Date
08 May 2013
Description
American and Canadian Studies Roundtable - "Postwar American Fiction and the State of the Novel: Reflections on Mark McGurl's The Program Era" (with Nick Heffernan, Tony Hutchison, Ruth Maxey and Graham Thompson)

American and Canadian Studies: Assistant Cultural Attaché Lecture

Date
09 May 2013
Description
A short lecture followed by a question and answer session with a representative of the United States Embassy.

Department of American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speaker Series

Date
09 May 2013
Description
Lecture by Michael Prosser, Assistant Cultural Attaché, United States Embassy in the United Kingdom

American and Canadian Studies: Hallward Library Drinks Reception

Date
09 May 2013
Description
A drinks reception organised by the department of American and Canadian Studies and the Hallward Library to acknowledge a substantial donation from the United States Embassy and showcase some of the materials.

Department of American and Canadian Studies: Drinks Reception

Date
09 May 2013
Description
To acknowledge a substantial donation from the United States Embassy and showcase some of the materials

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speakers Series

Date
15 May 2013
Description
Kate Dossett (Leeds) - Author of Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism and Integration, 1896-1935

American and Canadian Studies: Visiting Speaker Series

Date
29 May 2013
Description
Daniel Matlin (Kings College London) - Author of On the Corner: African-American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis
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