Termcard
Hilary term 2021
Term dates: Sunday 17 January to Saturday 13 March
Venue: All events will be held online until further notice.
Daytime events are for Oxford academics, undergraduates, and graduate students unless otherwise indicated. Colleagues from other institutions and members of the public are welcome to attend RAI Special Seminars and Special Lectures, and Book Launches, which normally begin between 4pm and 6pm.
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1st Week |
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Tuesday 19 January 14:30-15:30
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American History Research Seminar Jennifer Morgan (NYU) Reckoning with slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Black Atlantic
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2nd Week |
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Tuesday 26 January 16:00-17:00
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American History Research Seminar Blake Scott Ball (Huntingdon College) What Snoopy can teach us about popular political discourse
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Wednesday 27 January 16:30-18:00
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Oxford Early American Republic Seminar Ann Daly (Brown) Dollars and Cents: Money, Politics, and the Establishment of the U.S. Mint, 1784-1828
The Oxford Early American Republic Seminar facilitates a network for UK-based graduate students and early career scholars who study the United States between the Revolution and Reconstruction. All are welcome to attend. Many papers are pre-circulated: for details please email grace.mallon@univ.ox.ac.uk or stephen.symchych@sant.ox.ac.uk.
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Thursday 28 January 17:30-18:30
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American Literature Research Seminar Erica Fretwell (SUNY Albany) Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling
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Thursday 28 January 17:00-18:00
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The Future of American Politics The Biden Administration: Priorities and Challenges Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins/RAI) Margaret Weir (Brown) Chair and Discussant: Desmond King (Oxford)
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iLxyNr-RTQqsYv_pKY-3Tw
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3rd Week |
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Tuesday 2 February 14:30-15:30
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American History Research Seminar Tim Lockley (Warwick) The Camden slave conspiracy of 1816
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Tuesday 2 February 16:00-16:30
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RAI Community Welcome Virtual welcome event open to all.
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Wednesday 3 February 13:00-14:00
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Fellows’ Forum Emily Burns (Auburn/Oxford) Primitive / Incipient: Projections of Blackness in the US colony in Fin-de-siècle Paris
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4th Week |
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Monday 8 February 17:00-18:00
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The Future of American Politics The Future of the Republican Party Evan McMullin (2016 independent presidential candidate) Donald Critchlow (Arizona State) Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ufKZZKUsRL2D8u1c-2K1DA
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Wednesday 10 February 14:30-16:00
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Oxford Early American Republic Seminar Briana Royster (NYU) The Liberating Prospects of British Guiana
The Oxford Early American Republic Seminar facilitates a network for UK-based graduate students and early career scholars who study the United States between the Revolution and Reconstruction. All are welcome to attend. Many papers are pre-circulated: for details please email grace.mallon@univ.ox.ac.uk or stephen.symchych@sant.ox.ac.uk.
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Thursday 11 February 19:00-20:00 |
The RAI Goes to the Movies Daughters of the Dust (1991, dir. Julie Dash, 103 min) Introduced by: Melissa Cooper (Rutgers University) Alexandria Smith (Rutgers University) Winter Dunn (award-winning producer and director)
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rai-goes-to-the-movies-daughters-of-the-dust-1991-dir-julie-dash-tickets-139961818567
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Thursday 11 February 17:30-18:30 |
American Literature Research Seminar Tessa Roynon (RAI) Julia Adamo (Kenyon ’20) Kasia Boddy (Cambridge) Stephen Harrison (Oxford) Michael Kalisch (Oxford)
Discussion of Tessa Roynon’s The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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5th Week |
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Tuesday 16 February 14:30-15:30
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American History Research Seminar Amanda Bellows (The New School) Remembering American Slavery and Russian Serfdom during the Post-Emancipation Era
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6th Week |
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Monday 22 February 17:00-18:00
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The Future of American Politics The Future of the Democratic Party Seth Masket (Denver) Julia Azari (Marquette)
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r8Ee5fUNTe-EmY0-j9gQ1w
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Tuesday 23 February 16:00-17:00
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American History Research Seminar Michael Woods (Tennessee, Knoxville) Branding a Business of Bigotry: John Van Evrie and the Mass Marketing of ‘White Supremacy’
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Wednesday 24 February 16:30-18:00
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Oxford Early American Republic Seminar Adam Challoner (Warwick) “No Class or Age Escapes It”: The Novel Reading Disease and the Democratisation of American Nationalism
The Oxford Early American Republic Seminar facilitates a network for UK-based graduate students and early career scholars who study the United States between the Revolution and Reconstruction. All are welcome to attend. Many papers are pre-circulated: for details please email grace.mallon@univ.ox.ac.uk or stephen.symchych@sant.ox.ac.uk.
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Thursday 25 February 17:00-18:00
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The RAI Goes to the Movies I am Not Your Negro (2016, dir. Raoul Peck, 95 min) Introduced by: Nigel Hatton (UC Merced) Phil Bertelsen and Rachel Dretzin (award-winning filmmakers and executive producers of Netflix docuseries ‘Who Killed Malcolm X?’)
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rai-goes-to-the-movies-i-am-not-your-negro-2016-dir-raoul-peck-tickets-139975332989
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Thursday 25 February 17:30-18:30
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American Literature Research Seminar James Baldwin’s Another Country: Reading Group and Discussion
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7th Week |
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Tuesday 2 March 16:00-17:00
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American History Research Seminar William Goldsmith (UNC-Chapel Hill) Educating for a New Economy: The Struggle to Rebuild a Jim Crow State
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Wednesday 3 March 13:00-14:00
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Fellows’ Forum Maximilien Zahnd (Cambridge) Praise the Native Gardener, but Tax His Hunter Counterpart: The Case of the 1921 Alaska Fur Tax
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Wednesday 3 March 17:00-18:15
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RAI Book Club Details to follow.
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8th Week |
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Tuesday 9 March 16:00-17:00
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American History Research Seminar Devin Fergus (Missouri) Financial Matters, Black Lives: White Collar Crime and the Racial Wealth Gap
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Wednesday 10 March 16:30-18:00
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Oxford Early American Republic Seminar Aisha Djelid (Reading) “Dey jus’ puts a man and breedin’ woman together like mules”: Forced Reproduction in the Antebellum South, 1808-1865
The Oxford Early American Republic Seminar facilitates a network for UK-based graduate students and early career scholars who study the United States between the Revolution and Reconstruction. All are welcome to attend. Many papers are pre-circulated: for details please email grace.mallon@univ.ox.ac.uk or stephen.symchych@sant.ox.ac.uk.
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Thursday 11 March 17:00-18:00
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The RAI Goes to the Movies Sorry to Both You (2018, dir. Boots Riley, 102 mins) Blindspotting (2018, dir. Carlos Lopez Estrada, 96 min) Introduced by: Brittney Edmonds (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Brandi Thompson Summers (UC Berkeley) Denzel Whitaker (award-winning actor and filmmaker)
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rai-goes-to-the-movies-sorry-to-bother-you-blindspotting-tickets-139993226509
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Thursday 11 March 17:30-18:30
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American Literature Research Seminar Dagmawi Woubshet (Pennsylvania) James Baldwin’s Another Country (1962): a discussion
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Easter vac. |
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Thursday 25 March 17:00-18:00
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The RAI Goes to the Movies The Watermelon Woman (1996, dir. Cheryl Dunye, 90 min) Introduced by: Terri Francis (Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University) Sarah-Tai Black (Film programmer and arts curator) Grace Barber-Plentie (British Film Institute)
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rai-goes-to-the-movies-the-watermelon-woman-1996-dir-cheryl-dunye-tickets-139997697883
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