Posts tagged with ‘Department of American and Canadian Studies’
Archipelagic Justice: climate, politics and environmental protection in Penghu and the Bahamas
The Taiwan Studies Programme is delighted to announce this seminar by Dr Karen Salt, Assistant Professor in Transnational American Studies, Department of American and Canadian Studies.
Tags: Department of American and Canadian Studies, Karen Salt, Taiwan Studies Programme, Transnational American Studies
Trump: one year on
Debate and exchange of ideas on the first year of Donald Trump’s administration.
Tags: American and Canadian Studies, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Donald Trump, Dr Christopher Phelps, Professor Todd Landman, social sciences, trump
Radical life on the Mississippi: a global history of the US Civil War
Please join us for this exciting talk by Professor Andrew Zimmerman, who will present his ongoing research on a global history of the US Civil War. Zimmerman is Full Professor in American History at George Washington University (Washington D.C.).
Tags: American history, Department of American and Canadian Studies, US, US civil war
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
Cacophony and coalescence: Cold War public diplomacy and the rise of the ‘Tiers-Monde’
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. We will be joined by Jason C Parker, Texas A and M University for this lecture.
Tags: Cold War, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies, superpowers
Making it in business: from arts to The Apprentice and beyond
Rebecca Jeffery, Entrepreneur and Arts graduate, talks about how transferable her undergraduate skills were to a career in marketing. The former American and Canadian Studies student (2006 graduate) and 2016 candidate on The Apprentice, set up her own successful marketing and design agency with her sister Fi in 2013.
Tags: alumni, American and Canadian Studies, business, Department of American and Canadian Studies, design, entrepreneurship, Marketing, The Apprentice
Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business
Join us to hear from best-selling author Loretta Napoleoni, whose new book uncovers a disturbing trend in the continuing fallout from the post-9/11 Patriot Act: the massive number of people trafficked to fund terror organizations, which is “historically unprecedented.”
Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Loretta Napoleoni, Rights and Justice, Rights and Justice RPA, terrorism
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 Paris Commune and US Internationalism
The Department of American and Canadian Studies presents this talk from Dr J Michelle Coghlan, University of Manchester, examining the Paris Commune as a sensation and a lived practice of counter-remembrance in the long nineteenth century.
Tags: culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, France, history, Paris, University of Manchester
Reconciliation and its discontents
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’.
Tags: annual lecture, Canada, Canada-UK foundation, Department of American and Canadian Studies, public lecture