Posts tagged with ‘Department of American and Canadian Studies’
Black men and invisibility – how to rethink the criminal justice system
In this Get Up Stand Up! event, Martin Glynn (Centre for Health and Social Care Improvement), Vivien Miller (Centre for Research in Race and Rights), and Get Up Stand Up artists will debate the topic ‘Black men and invisibility: how to rethink the criminal justice system’.
Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Get Up Stand Up!, Martin Glynn, NAE, New Art Exchange, race, Vivien Miller
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
Roundtable on the 50th anniversary of the Americanisation of the Vietnam War
Join the Department of American and Canadian Studies for a ‘Roundtable on the 50th anniversary of the Americanisation of the Vietnam War’. Contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars include Professor Judy Wu, Professor Matthew Jones, and Dr Christopher Phelps.
Tags: America, anniversary, Christopher Phelps, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Judy Wu, Matthew Jones, roundtable, Vietnam, war
American sincerity and good posture: Stanley Cavell and David Foster Wallace
The Department of American and Canadian Studies present ‘American sincerity and good posture: Stanley Cavell and David Foster Wallace’, a lecture from Dr Adam Kelly, University of York.
Tags: Adam Kelly, America, culture, David Foster Wallace, Department of American and Canadian Studies, literature, Stanley Cavell
Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives
The Centre for Research in Race and Rights, the Department of American and Canadian Studies, and Nottingham Contemporary present ‘Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives’.
Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, diversity, equality, history, Nottingham Contemporary, race, Sharon Monteith
Representation and abstraction: politics and the body
In this free event, Professor Richard King discusses ‘Representation and abstraction: politics and the body’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.
Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary
Text paintings and speech acts: literary encounters
In this free event, Professor Sharon Monteith discusses ‘Text paintings and speech acts: literary encounters’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.
Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary
Civil rights photojournalism and open letters on race and rights
In this free event, Professor Sharon Monteith discusses ‘Civil rights Photojournalism and open letters on race and rights’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.
Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary
African-American art and influences
In this free event, Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier presents ‘African-American art and influences’. Part of the ‘Encounters and collisions’ workshop series to accompany an exhibition of American and African-American art.
Tags: american, art, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, history, Nottingham Contemporary
Kara Walker’s Pornopticon: racial sensations
The Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R) and New Art Exchange present ‘Kara Walker’s Pornopticon: racial sensations’. Professor Robyn Wiegman, a leading professor of race and gender at Duke University, will be joined in conversation by Professor Zoe Trodd, Department of American and Canadian Studies.
Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, discussion, Duke University, gender, Kara Walker, New Art Exchange, race, Zoe Trodd