Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - A Liberal Utopia I
  TBA
  Reading Rorty

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Inside American Politics 2024 Conference
  Registration required
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - 2024 Harmsworth Lecture in American History: The Roots of American Authoritarianism
  Please note this lecture will be held at the Examination Schools at 17:00
  Professor Lisa McGirr (Harvard)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: The Urban-Suburban Divide
  Kimberly Johnson (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Harmsworth Lecture Response
  Please note this seminar will take place on Thursday 14 November at 12:30
  Andrew Preston (Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965
  Harvey Cohen (KCL)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Political Violence
  Professor Desmond Kind (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - John Reed, Edgar Snow, Herbert Matthews, and the Question of Journalistic Truth
  Simon Hall (Leeds)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Shifting Voter Allegiances
  Richard Johnson (Queen Mary, University of London)
  The Present and Future of US Politics

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - A Liberal Utopia III
  TBA
  Reading Rorty

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South
  Beth Wilson (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Conservatism
  Professor Desmond Kind (University of Oxford), Gillian Peele (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Criticism and Conclusion
  TBA
  Reading Rorty

Tuesday 21 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
  Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
  John Bird (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
  Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
  Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
  Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
  Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Black American leisure time 20th century
  Tiffany M Gill (Rutgers)
  American History Research Seminar