Posts tagged with ‘America’
Trump: the first 100 days
Please 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.
Tags: America, Department of American and Canadian Studies, first 100 days, trump, white house
Pay It No Mind screening
Join us for a screening of Pay It No Mind, a film about the life of Marsha P Johnson, a revolutionary trans activist, Stonewall instigator, Andy Warhol model, drag queen and prostitute, as well as a downtown New York fixture. Part of LGBT History Month.
Tags: America, Broadway, film, history, LGBT, LGBT History Month, LGBT History Month 2017, Marsha P Johnson, screening, Stonewall, trans
America in the ‘Asian Century’
This one-day symposium, convened by the University’s Department of American and Canadian Studies and in association with the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies, brings together leading scholars from across the globe to historicise and debate, through an array of regional and thematic prisms, North America’s increasingly tumultuous relationship with Asia.
Tags: America, Asia, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Insitute of Asia and Pacific Studies, politics, symposium
The early years of the Black Panther Party
Please join the Centre for Research in Rights and the Department of American and Canadian Studies for this special lecture by Dr. Joe Street to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party: “The Baddest Motherf****rs Who Ever Stepped Foot Inside History: The Early Years of the Black Panther Party.”
Tags: America, Black Panther Party, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, civil rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Joe Street, race
Injustice – a film about the struggle for justice
Please join the Centre for Research in Race and Rights in association with Bright Ideas Nottingham, Embrace, Nottingham Black History Society, and the Nottingham Black Lives Matter chapter for a screening of Injustice (2001).
Tags: America, Black Lives Matter, Bright Ideas, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Embrace in Community, justice, law, Nottingham Black History Society, police, race, Rights and Justice
Race, masculinity and citizenship: a dialogue on the American Civil War
Please join two Civil War experts for a discussion of race, masculinity, and citizenship during the American Civil War (1861-1865), hosted by the Centre for Research in Race and Rights.
Tags: America, American Civil War, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Civil War, Department of American and Canadian Studies, James Brookes, race
The power of American conservatism
Jefferson Cowie, Andrew J. Nathanson Professor of Labor History and Chair of the Department of Labor Relations, Law, & History, Cornell University, will speak on the influence of Conservatism on contemporary American society.
Tags: America, Cornell University, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Department of History, Jefferson Cowie, politics
No Drama Obama? Race and the politics of policing during the Obama presidency
As we approach the final year of the Obama era, this lecture will assess what became of a leader whose election in 2008 apparently heralded a new post-racial America. Has Barack Obama’s presidency delivered the kind of deep-rooted changes that were initially prophesised? Had Obama abandoned his core African-American constituency in favour of projecting a race-neutral approach designed to maintain centrist support? How do we assess Obama’s leadership on issues like policing in the context of the current Black Lives Matter movement that is challenging police brutality? What has become of Obama’s ‘no drama’ persona in this final period of his two-term presidency?
Tags: America, Barack Obama, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Kevin Verney, politics, race
Land of the free? Immigration and exile in today’s America
Please join the Department of American and Canadian Studies for its distinguished annual lecture, delivered this year by Professor Glenda Carpio of Harvard University, who will talk about multicultural America, new American identities, and the problem of exile in the land of the free.
Tags: America, American Studies Distinguished Annual Lecture, annual lecture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Glenda Carpio, immigration
Postponed: Illness, infirmity and US foreign policy in the 1950s
Dr Bevan Sewell, Department of American and Canadian Studies, and the Health Humanities Network present ‘”I felt I ought not to have argued with this dying man” – illness, infirmity and US foreign policy in the 1950s’.
Tags: America, Bevan Sewell, Department of American and Canadian Studies, health, Health Humanities Network, healthcare, history