Department: Rothermere American Institute
Talks:

Tuesday 20 January 2025

Reimagining Race in the US Military: Culture, Communication, and the Making of the Miami Experiment
Date: 20 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Beth Bailey (University of Kansas)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 January 2025

Frauds We Are Yet But in Sight Of': Fighting Civil War Pension Fraud in Gilded Age America, 1884-1897
Date: 27 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Rob Bates (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 January 2025

The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Steven Sarson (Université Jean Moulin - Lyon), Professor Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 February 2025

From Americanism to Maga: redefining the bounds of citizenship
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford's Koch Centre)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Trump 2.0 and Threats to American Democracy
Date: 4 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 February 2025

Fellows’ Forum - Citizenship and Conquest: Hawaiʻi and the Architecture of U.S. Expansion
Date: 10 February 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Maye Henning (Suffolk University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 February 2025

Winant Lecture ni American Government: States and American Constitutional Development
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Emily Zackin (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 February 2025

REGNAT POPULUS IN ARKANSAS: The partnership to lead on state constitutional history
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2025

High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Josh Hollands (UCL)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2025

Midshipmen Moralists: Jimmy Carter, H. Ross Perot, and the Enduring Mugwump Tradition
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Bruce Schulman (Boston University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2025

By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2025

Un-Americanism: A History of the Battle to Control an Idea
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : George Lewis (University of Leicester)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2025

"A Happy, Angry Man"? John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of Black History in Public
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tom Cryer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 March 2025

America 250: What Makes A Revolution?
Date: 19 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Mancall (University of Southern California)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 March 2025

America 250: The Declaration of Independence and American Identity at 250
Date: 20 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Hosts: TBA