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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
Speaker
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