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RAI Fellows Maria Fanis and Barbara Reeves-Ellington share their research
Maria Fanis and Barbara Reeves-Ellington, two of the RAI’s 2012-13 visiting fellows are both delivering talks on their research at the RAI in the next two weeks. On Friday 24th May at 5pm, Professor Fanis will speak on ‘Religion and Race in America’s Foreign Policy: How American National Identity Shapes America’s Actions Abroad’; on Tuesday 4th June at 5pm, Professor Reeves-Ellington will speak on ‘Boston on the Bosphorus: Freedom of Religion and Anglo-American Politics in 19th Century Istanbul’.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright David Auburn to give Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
On Wednesday 22 May, the RAI will be delighted to welcome David Auburn, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director, to give the 2013 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters on "Theater in the Age of Twitter". The recipient of a Tony Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Auburn’s work treats many themes – loss, creativity, politics, history, and the bonds between parents and children.
The Presidential Leadership Dilemma
The RAI is pleased to announce the publication of The Presidential Leadership Dilemma: Between the Constitution and a Political Party, co-edited by former RAI student Zim G. Nwokora, together with Julia R. Azari and Lara M. Brown.
Nancy Cott: Re-Signifying the Sexual Revolution of the 1920s
On Tuesday 7th May, the RAI welcomes Nancy Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, to speak on the subject of ‘Re-Signifying the Sexual Revolution of the 1920s’.
Many Contexts, Many Legacies: Recapping the Charles Beard Conference
Latest from the RAI Events blog by Tom Cutterham
This week, the RAI was host to scholars covering the geographic range from California to Copenhagen, and in their academic interests spanning from colonial cohesion to law in the neoliberal state, as it opened its doors for the Charles Beard, Economic Interpretation and History conference, recognising the centenary of Beard's book, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitutution of the United States.
RAI Postgraduate and Undergraduate Travel Awards 2013-14
The Rothermere American Institute is pleased to announce the availability of at least five travel grants to allow postgraduate and undergraduate students to conduct primary research in the United States. Awards are available to Oxford University students writing theses or dissertations in American history or politics.
