Past Events from 2015- 2016

Date: 20 August 2015
Description: Get Up Stand Up! is a collaboration between New Art Exchange and NCCL at Galleries of Justice Museum, exploring the idea of international civil rights with young people.

Date: 10 September 2015
Description: Get Up Stand Up! is a collaboration between New Art Exchange and NCCL at Galleries of Justice Museum, exploring the idea of international civil rights with young people.

Date: 08 October 2015
Description: Book launch at Five Leaves Bookshop: Christopher Phelps with Robin Vandome

Date: 29 October 2015
Description: Marking the end of the 150th anniversary period for the Civil War (2011-2015), please join the Department of American and Canadian Studies for a special lecture by internationally renowned scholar Don Doyle (University of South Carolina).

Date: 18 November 2015
Description: One of a series of talks on popular culture, free and open to all.Underground Resistance, Afrofuturism and the Technonarrative of Blackness By Patrick Henderson

Date: 09 December 2015
Description: Kristin Hoganson (Illinois) will join staff and postgraduates to discuss her latest research in a seminar setting.

Date: 09 December 2015
Description: One of a series of talks for post-graduate students and research staff, also open to the general public.

Date: 14 December 2015
Description: Please join Professor Richard King to launch his new book Arendt and America

Date: 27 January 2016
Location:: a41, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description: The Department of History and Department of American and Canadian Studies present the lecture, 'The power of American conservatism' at 5pm on Wednesday 27 January.

Date: 09 March 2016
Description: One of a series of talks for post-graduate students and research staff, also open to the general public.

Date: 24 May 2016
Location:: 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH, The British Academy
Description: Julian Bond was an activist, politician, lawyer, writer, and educator. In the wake of his sudden passing in 2015, this event celebrates the life of one of the key figures in American Civil Rights with a screening of a documentary of his life followed by a discussion with the director of the film and those who worked with Julian Bond and who knew him well.

Date: 15 June 2016
Location:: Nottingham Playhouse
Description: Pat Barker will be in conversation with Sharon Monteith, Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham, who has followed Barker's work since the 1980s and written about it since the 1990s. She published Pat Barker (Northcote House and the British Council, 2002), the first critical study of the writer, and co-edited Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker (2005).

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