Termcard
Michaelmas term 2020
Term dates: Sunday 11 October to Saturday 5 December
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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Monday 12 October 16:00-17:00
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American History Graduate Seminar This seminar is convened by the graduate community in American History, meeting via Teams. Papers are normally pre-circulated on the Friday before the seminar, and the session itself takes the form of a Q&A. Please contact the convenor at neil.suchak@history.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the relevant paper.
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Monday 12 October 17:00-18:00
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America Decides 2020 The 2020 US Election: Who’s Winning? David Wasserman (Cook Political Report) Samara Klar (University of Arizona) Thomas Edsall (New York Times)
For further information: https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/election2020 To register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/122961692733
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Thursday 15 October 17:00-18:00
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The RAI Goes to the Movies Do the Right Thing (1989, dir. Spike Lee, 130 mins) Speakers: Robert Greene II (Claflin University) Quincy Ledbetter (Filmmaker)
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2nd Week |
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Monday 19 October 16:00-17:00
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American History Graduate Seminar This seminar is convened by the graduate community in American History, meeting via Teams. Papers are normally pre-circulated on the Friday before the seminar, and the session itself takes the form of a Q&A. Please contact the convenor at neil.suchak@history.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the relevant paper.
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Tuesday 20 October 17:00-18:00
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RAI Community Social Further details to follow. |
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Wednesday 21 October 16:30-18:00
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Oxford Early American Republic Seminar The Law Must Rule Us: Somerset and the Limits of the 1793 Fugitive Slave Law Evan Turiano (CUNY)
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 22 October 10:30-12:00
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American Literature Research Seminar Contemporary African American Poetry Reading Group I This is the first of two sessions that will focus on contemporary African American poetry in preparation for the seminar with Professor Evie Shockley in Week 6.
Seminars will be held at 10.30am or 5.30pm on Zoom. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the ALRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: alrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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Thursday 22 October 17:00-18:15
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Teaching Histories of Race in America to UK Undergraduates: A Review Panel The RAI invites you to a review panel discussion on a collaborative bibliography project which asks: What readings are most effective for teaching UK history undergraduates about race in America? The focus is on works that provide accessible historical insights into conceptions of race, the social construction of difference, and the freedom struggles that have attempted to dismantle white supremacy. The project seeks to centre current research on early America and the United States, including Atlantic, global, national and regional approaches. All registered attendees will be sent the draft bibliography in advance of the event. The review panel aims to facilitate a productive conversation on pedagogy and the history of race among the community of American historians based in the UK. After the view, the resulting bibliography will be hosted on the publicly accessible Bodleian LibGuides website.
Please register by 21 October: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/122221211935
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3rd Week |
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Monday 26 October 16:00-17:00
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American History Graduate Seminar This seminar is convened by the graduate community in American History, meeting via Teams. Papers are normally pre-circulated on the Friday before the seminar, and the session itself takes the form of a Q&A. Please contact the convenor at neil.suchak@history.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the relevant paper.
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Monday 26 October 17:00-18:00
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America Decides 2020 Race and the 2020 US Election Wesley Lowery (CBS News) Maria Givens (Native American Agricultural Fund) Nazita Lajevardi (Michigan State University)
For further information: https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/election2020 To register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/123045553563
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Tuesday 27 October 13:00-14:00
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American History Research Seminar ‘Hoodoos and Voodoos’: Theories of Black Superstition and Madness Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton)
All are welcome to these seminars. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the AHRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: ahrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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Wednesday 28 October 17:00-18:00
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Book launch Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Join us for a discussion of Laura Rattray’s acclaimed new book with an international panel of Wharton experts.
Speakers: Laura Rattray (Glasgow) Jennifer Haytock (SUNY Brockport) Julie Olin-Ammentorp (Le Moyne College) Emily Orlando (Fairfield University)
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Thursday 29 October 17:00-18:00
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The RAI Goes to the Movies Selma (2014, dir. Ava DuVernay, 128 mins)
Introduced by: Tayo Amos (Filmmaker) James T. Campbell (Stanford University)
To register:
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Friday 30 October 17:00-18:00 |
America Decides 2020 The US Presidential Election: Who Will Win Clare Malone (FiveThirtyEight) Bob Shrum (USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future) Mike Murphy (USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future)
For further information: https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/election2020 To register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/126382618815
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4th Week |
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Monday 2 November 17:00-18:00
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America Decides 2020 A Postgraduate and ECR Perspective Emma Day on women’s issues. Rivers Gambrell on sport and the presidency. Ella St George Carey on Evangelics and the Kanye West presidential campaign. Joseph Guido on African foreign policy. Daniel Rowe on trade. Grace Mallon on the ‘revolution of 1800’ and the presidential transfer of power. Dr Chris Nitschke on Wall Street.
Click this link to join: https://zoom.us/j/97465198032
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Tuesday 3 November 13:00-14:00
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American History Research Seminar A Problem of Labor: Colonial Work and US Military Governance in the Moro Province Oliver Charbonneau (Glasgow)
All are welcome to these seminars. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the AHRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: ahrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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Wednesday 4 November 17:00-18:00
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America Decides 2020 The 2020 US Election: What Happened? Adam Smith (RAI Director) Kate Guy (Oxford; former Hillary for America campaign worker) Tom Packer (School of Advanced Study)
Click this link to join: https://zoom.us/j/91459891250
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Wednesday 4 November 16:30-18:00
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Oxford Early American Republic Seminar Naval Nationalism: The Material Culture of the War of 1812 Evelyn Strope (Cambridge)
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 5 November 10:30-12:00
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American Literature Research Seminar Contemporary African American Poetry Reading Group II The second session on contemporary African American poetry, with an emphasis on the intersection of text and image.
Seminars will be held at 10.30am or 5.30pm on Zoom. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the ALRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: alrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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5th Week |
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Monday 9 November 16:00-17:00
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American History Graduate Seminar This seminar is convened by the graduate community in American History, meeting via Teams. Papers are normally pre-circulated on the Friday before the seminar, and the session itself takes the form of a Q&A. Please contact the convenor at neil.suchak@history.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the relevant paper.
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Tuesday 10 November 13:00-14:00
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American History Research Seminar Round table: Discussion of Stephen Tuffnell’s Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America (University of California Press, 2020) Patricia Clavin (Oxford) Nathan Cardon (Birmingham) Adam Smith (RAI Director) Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
All are welcome to these seminars. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the AHRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: ahrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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Wednesday 11 November 17:00-18:00
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Book launch Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War (2020) Speakers: Elleke Boehmer (Oxford) Alice Kelly (Sussex/RAI) Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes) John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
To register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-commemorative-modernisms-2020-tickets-128010399551
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Thursday 12 November 17:15-18:15
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The RAI Goes to the Movies Moonlight (2016, dir. Barry Jenkins, 111 mins) Speakers: Tione Trice (Artist) Jonathan Ward (Kings College London)
To register:
Please note changed time.
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6th Week |
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Monday 16 November 16:00-17:00
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American History Graduate Seminar This seminar is convened by the graduate community in American History, meeting via Teams. Papers are normally pre-circulated on the Friday before the seminar, and the session itself takes the form of a Q&A. Please contact the convenor at neil.suchak@history.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the relevant paper.
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Monday 16 November 17:00-18:00
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America Decides 2020 The 2020 Election Results: What They Mean for the UK and the World Lord Darroch of Kew (former UK Ambassador to the United States) Amy Pope (former Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to President Barack Obama) Jay Sexton (University of Missouri)
Click this link to join: https://zoom.us/j/98634940982
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Tuesday 17 November 13:00-14:00
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American History Research Seminar Mama and the Devil: Female Slaveholders and Enslaved Children in the Antebellum US South Rosie Knight (Sheffield)
All are welcome to these seminars. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the AHRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: ahrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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Wednesday 18 November 16:30-18:00
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Oxford Early American Republic Seminar A Peculiar Status: Anti-Blackness and the Creation of the US Citizenship Derek Litvak (Maryland)
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 19 November 17:30-19:00
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American Literature Research Seminar Black Graphics: ‘Colorblindness’ and the Survival of Black Being Evie Shockley (Rutgers)
Please note later time.
Seminars will be held at 10.30am or 5.30pm on Zoom. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the ALRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: alrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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7th Week |
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Monday 23 November 16:00-17:00
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American History Graduate Seminar This seminar is convened by the graduate community in American History, meeting via Teams. Papers are normally pre-circulated on the Friday before the seminar, and the session itself takes the form of a Q&A. Please contact the convenor at neil.suchak@history.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the relevant paper.
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Tuesday 24 November 13:00-14:00
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American History Research Seminar Round table: Capitalism and Slavery: America, the Caribbean, and the New History of Capitalism Michael Joseph (Oxford) Dexnell Peters (Oxford) Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
All are welcome to these seminars. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the AHRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: ahrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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Wednesday 25 November 13:00-14:00
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RAI Fellows’ Forum Olivier Burtin (Munich/RAI Fellow-in-Residence) A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America
Open to all. Please email enquiries@rai.ox.ac.uk for a copy of the pre- circulated paper.
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8th Week |
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Tuesday 1 December 13:00-14:00
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American History Research Seminar Round table: What is US history for? Speakers to be confirmed
All are welcome to these seminars. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the AHRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: ahrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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Tuesday 1 December 17:00-18:00
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RAI Book Club Barack Obama’s A Promised Land Discussants: Robert Reid-Pharr (Harvard) Jennifer Szalai (New York Times Nonfiction Book Critic) Chair: Lloyd Pratt (Oxford)
Join us for a discussion of Barack Obama’s much-anticipated new memoir. If you would like to read the book in advance (not compulsory), it is available from all good booksellers.
To register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XeIBkpG8SpOJzJg0A1HK5g
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Wednesday 2 December 13:00-14:00
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RAI Fellows’ Forum Katharina Rietzler (Sussex/RAI Fellow-in-Residence) ‘Lady Authorities’: American International Relations Think Tanks and Women’s Intellectual Production, 1920-1960
Open to all.
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Wednesday 2 December 16:30-18:00
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Oxford Early American Research Seminar Writing Home: Dispatches from the Mississippi Frontier Jennifer McGillan (Mississippi State University Libraries)
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 3 December 15:00-16:00
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Christmas Social Further details to follow. |
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Thursday 3 December 18:00-19:00
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The RAI Goes to the Movies Get Out (2017, dir. Jordan Peele, 104 mins) Introduced by: Dr Robyn Citizen (Senior Manager of Festival Programming, Toronto International Film Festival)
To register:
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Thursday 3 December 17:30-19:00
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American Literature Research Seminar Book discussion: Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (NYU Press, 2020) Lindsay V. Reckson (Haverford College)
A discussion of pre-circulated selections of Lindsay Reckson’s new book, held in collaboration with the University of Manchester. Realist Ecstasy explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of racial and spiritual embodiment: https://nyupress.org/9781479850365/realist-ecstasy/
Please note later time.
Seminars will be held at 10.30am or 5.30pm on Zoom. To receive Zoom links and circulated readings, please join the ALRS mailing list by sending a blank email to: alrs-subscribe [at] maillist.ox.ac.uk
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