American History Research Seminars 2020/21

List of American History Research Seminars at the RAI – academic year 2020/21

19 January 2021:

Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Black Atlantic

Jennifer Morgan (NYU)

26 January 2021:

What Snoopy Can Teach Us about Popular Political Discourse

Blake Scott Ball (Huntingdon College)

2 February 2021:

The Camden slave conspiracy of 1816

Tim Lockley (Warwick)

16 February 2021:

Remembering American Slavery and Russian Serfdom during the Post-Emancipation Era

Amanda Bellows (The New School)

23 February 2021:

Branding a Business of Bigotry: John Van Evrie and the Mass Marketing of ‘White Supremacy’

Michael Woods (Tennessee, Knoxville)

2 March 2021:

Educating for a New Economy: The Struggle to Rebuild a Jim Crow State

William Goldsmith (UNC-Chapel Hill)

9 March 2021:

Financial Matters, Black Lives: White Collar Crime and the Racial Wealth Gap

Devin Fergus (Missouri)

27 April 2021:

Settler Colonialism, Alaska Natives, and Tribal Sovereignty: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government

Maximilien Zahnd (RAI Fellow in Residence)

4 May 2021:

Class and State in America's Greater Reconstruction

Emma Teitelman (University of Cambridge)

11 May 2021:

"The importance of money in the therapeutic relationship": sexual health services and the politics of LGBTQ rights in 1970s and 80s America

Jonathan Bell (UCL)

18 May 2021:

Safari for Souls: Billy Graham, US Evangelicalism, and the Cold War in Africa

Uta Balbier (Kings College London)

25 May 2021:

Johnny Cash and Black Lives

Michael S. Foley (Université Grenoble Alpes)