Past Events from 2017-18

Date: 22 - 26 September 2017
Location:: Broadway Cinema
Description: A chance to celebrate rarely seen classics of Indian cinema. Many of these films have been previously unavailable to screen in the UK and there is no better time to watch them than this seventieth anniversary year of India's independence.

Date: 04 October 2017
Location:: Clive Granger A41
Description: In this lecture Professor David Sehat will consider the question of whether Trump represents a departure from Republican Party politics of the last fifty years, or rather the apotheoisis of that politics.

Date: 10 October 2017
Description: "How the South Won the American Civil War…. and Why the United States is Still Fighting It". Annual American Studies Lecture and Black History Month Event. Professor John Stauffer, Harvard University

Date: 06 December 2017
Location:: A3 Law and Social Sciences
Description: Visiting lecture hosted by the Department of American and Canadian Studies and Department of Classics

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

Date: 07 February 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: 14 February 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: 14 March 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: 02 May 2018
Location:: B55 Law and Social Science Building
Description: The new co-leads of the Rights and Justice RPA, Annamaria La Chimia and Karen Salt, would like to invite you to a networking event aimed at bringing together our research cluster and sharing information about the new funding opportunities available through the RPA. We will share plans for the upcoming months and create space for you to share your research ideas and interests. In essence, we want the RPA to reflect the nearly 700 members who have found a home within it. Whether you have previously been a member of the RPA or have never participated, please do join us. We are refreshing membership in the RPA and are also seeking volunteers for a new steering committee (to start from May).

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