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Semester 1 seminars 2024-25
Thursday 24 October, 5:00-6:30pm
Doug Rossinow will be talking on his forthcoming book Promised Land: The Worlds of American Zionism. The talk will take place in 42 Bute Gardens, LT916, at 5:00pm. All welcome!
Monday 4 November 4, 4.30-6.00pm
Trump v. Harris 2024: Making Sense of the US Presidential Election (Roundtable). Venue TBA.
Wednesday 13 November
'The US Presidential Election: Cross-Disciplinary Responses'. A Teams round table in conjunction with Keele University's David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas. Time TBA.
Wednesday 20 November, 4.00-5.30pm
Christopher Tounsel (University of Washington) – Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity (Cornell UP, 2024). Online book talk, link forthcoming. Co-sponsored with the Global History research cluster.
January, 2025 (postponed from October 2024)
John Hinshelwood: Called Back (the poems of Emily Dickinson)
A selection of Emily Dickinson's verse, set to music by John Hinshelwood
Date and Venue TBC
TBA – Book Launch – Sean Vanatta (University of Glasgow) – Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control (Yale UP, 2024).
Other events TBC, including pre- and post-Presidential Election roundtables.
2023 Annual Gordon Lecture in American Studies
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:41:00 BST
The Challenge of Regulating the Virtual World: AI, The Internet and the Future
Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:34:00 BST
Day of Events with Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:31:44 GMT
2022 Annual Gordon Lecture in American Studies
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:41:00 BST
International panel - Fictional Maximalism and the Americas: New Voices, New Perspectives
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:11:00 BST
Scottish Association for the Study of America annual conference
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:37:00 GMT
Joe Ryan-Hume receives a Fulbright-Royal Society of Edinburgh Scholarship
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:31:00 GMT
Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) International PhD seminar, 27-29 November 2024
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:41:00 BST
2019 Annual Gordon Lecture in American Studies
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:41:00 GMT
Centre for American Studies Seminar Series 2018-19
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:50:00 GMT
14th annual Gordon Lecture in American Studies on 7 May 2014.
Wed, 07 May 2014 10:47:00 BST
14th annual Gordon Lecture in American Studies on 7 May 2014.