American History Research Seminars 2021/22
List of American History Research Seminars at the RAI – academic year 2021/22
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19 October 2021:
Women’s Worlds: New Histories of the United States and the World
Panel: Jennifer Chochinov (KCL), Katie Fapp (Oxford), Alex Penler (LSE) and Katharina Rietzler (Sussex)
Chaired by: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford) and Elisabeth Leake (Leeds)
26 October 2021:
Round table: Medicine and Slavery in Early America
Eric Herschthal (Utah), Carolyn Roberts (Yale), Suman Seth (Cornell), and Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
2 November 2021:
Concealing Intervention: Assisting the Automobile Industry in the "Age of Reagan"
Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
17 November 2021:
Response to the Harmsworth Lecture
Frank Cogliano (Edinburgh)
23 November 2021:
Tennessee Student Activism from Brown to Kent State
Katherine Ballantyne (Oxford)
25 January 2022:
A Spectacular Fall: Moncure Conway's Civil War
Frank Cirillo (University of Bonn)
1 February 2022:
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Vincent Brown (Harvard University)
8 February 2022:
"The American Invasion of Our Theatre": Black Cultural Archives, African American Theatre Makers and Surveillance in 1940s London
Kate Dossett (University of Leeds)
22 February 2022:
The Birth of Neoliberal Anti-Environmentalism in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s
Niklas Olsen (University of Copenhagen)
8 March 2022:
#Charlottesville: Media Events and the Long Struggle Against White Supremacy
Aniko Bodroghkozy (University of Virginia)
10 May 2022:
Faith and Philanthropy: America's Charitable Impulse for the Global Good
David King (Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh)
31 May 2022:
Rethinking America in Africa: U.S. Expansion, Race, and the 'Scramble for Africa'
Jeannette Eileen Jones (University of Buffalo and University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
14 June 2022:
US Evangelicalism Abroad
Speakers: Uta Balbier and Gwion Jones. Chair: Stephen Tuffnell
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