What's happening in the United States? Historians' Reflections

What's happening in the United States? Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about public and private universities, Republican and Democratic states, and developments past and present to do with sexuality, gender, race, and religion. US-based historians Colin Johnson (Indiana University) and Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania) will be in conversation with Sarah Knott (Oxford).

Colin Johnson is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University and the author or coeditor of Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America and Queering the Countryside. In Bloomington, he was President of the Faculty in 2023-24, and served on the Bloomington Faculty Council from 2022-2025.  

Anthea Butler is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America and Women in the Church of God in Christ. At MSNBC, she is an opinion writer.

Sarah Knott is the Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History and the author or co-editor of Mother Is A Verb, Mothering's Many Labours and the forthcoming Care and Capitalism in the Twentieth Century. She is a Senior Research Fellow of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.  

Thursday 23rd October, 4.30-5.45pm, Larkin Room, St John's College