Past Events from 2016-17

Date: 09 - 10 September 2016
Location:: Nottingham University
Description: Please come to Nottingham Universities Open Days on the 9th and 10th September, all welcome.

Date: 30 November 2016
Location:: Highfield House A02
Description: This year's Annual Canadian Studies Lecture will be given by Dr Audra Simpson (Columbia University, Department of Anthropology), who will speak on the subject of Reconciliation and Its Discontents.

Date: 07 December 2016
Location:: Law and Social Sciences Building A4
Description: This talk, hosted by the Department of American and Canadian Studies, examines the Paris Commune as a sensation and a lived practice of counter-remembrance in the long nineteenth century.

Date: 02 March 2017
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: Rebecca Jeffery, Entrepreneur and Arts graduate, talks about how transferable her undergraduate skills were to a career in Marketing.

Date: 14 March 2017
Location:: Highfield House A09
Description: Historical Perspectives on US-Canadian Relations with the Asia-Pacific Region. Hosted by the Department of American and Canadian Studies in association with the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies

Date: 14 March 2017
Location:: A39 Clive Granger
Description: During the first half of the Cold War, the superpowers endeavored mightily to "win hearts and minds" abroad through what came to be called public diplomacy. Many of the target audiences were on the Cold War front-lines in Europe. However, other, larger ones resided in areas outside Europe then in the throes of decolonization. In these areas, superpower public diplomacy encountered a set of challenges around the issues of race, empire, poverty, and decolonization.

Date: 18 March 2017
Location:: A01, A02, Highfield House
Description: Historical fiction in English constitutes its own enduring tradition but in recent years, it has enjoyed a surge of critical acclaim and commercial popularity, as such scholars as Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons have argued. This one-day symposium at the University of Nottingham will explore how recent writers in the United States have engaged with the form.

Date: 01 April - 01 June 2017
Description: Aspart of the Nottingham Journey to Justice exhibition and in partnership with Galleries of Justice, Cultures, Languages and Area Studies outreach is delivering a range of events and activities for schools and colleges. These activities are inspired by and linked to the Journey to Justice stories of the fight for social justice from the Civil Rights war in the U.S. to the challenges and issue local people in Nottingham face today.

Date: 08 May 2017
Location:: Clive Granger A48
Description: Join the Department of American and Canadian Studies' panel of experts on May 8, at the end of Trump's first 100 days as President.

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