Department: Rothermere American Institute
Talks:
Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Book Launch: Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
Date: 24 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Marc Palen (University of Exeter)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser:
Rothermere American Institute
Hosts:
Dr Uta Balbier (St Anne's College, Oxford),
Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: The Queer Politics of Literariness’
Date: 25 April 2024, 16:45 - 17:45 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Prof. Lee Edelman (Tufts University)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Special Lecture: Time to Get Ready: Resistance Through My Lens
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Maria Varela
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser:
Emily Brady (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Book Launch: Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront
Date: 2 May 2024, 12:30 - 13:45 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Dr Rachel Williams (University of Hull)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Book Launch: Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
Date: 8 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Adam Smith (Rothermere American Institute),
Patricia Owens (University of Oxford),
Dr Sophie Smith (Christ Church, Oxford University)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
‘Black Internationalism's Politics of Land’
Date: 9 May 2024, 16:45 - 17:45 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Dr Christine Okoth (KCL)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Large seminar room, Rothermere American Institute
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Public Talk: Immigration Politics in an Age of Uncertainty
Date: 15 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Dr Terri Givens (McGill University),
Professor Justin Gest (George Mason University),
Professor Tim Bale (Queen Mary University),
Professor Jason Casellas (University of Houston)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters with author Maggie Nelson
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Maggie Nelson
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
‘The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora: Lorraine Hansberry and the Multiplications of Insurgency’
Date: 23 May 2024, 16:45 - 17:45 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Prof. Rod Ferguson (Yale)
Venue Details: Large seminar room, Rothermere American Institute
Organisers:
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Hosts:
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Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Fellow's Forum: Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet
Date: 29 May 2024, 12:30 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Dr Michael Lundblad (University of Oslo)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Prof. Lloyd Pratt (University of Oxford)
Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
The Rise and Fall of Confederate Monuments: Memory and the American Civil War
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Caroline Janney (University of Virginia)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers:
Elizabeth R. Varon (University of Virginia),
Chair: Adam Smith (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA