Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Police Violence, Perceived Powerlessness, and Riots from Paris to Ferguson
  TBA
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Canada’s 2015 Federal Election: Interpreting the Results
  Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s), Professor Christopher Kirkey ((SUNY-Plattsburgh)), Professor Michael Hawes (Queen's), Prof Jocelyn Létourneau (Laval)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Foreign Policy in Pluralist Societies: Lessons from the Canadian Experience
  Ambassador Jillian Stirk
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What Problem Does Big Data Pose? Reconsidering American Security Policy after 9/11
  Dr Matthew Longo (St Anne’s)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - US Relations with Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, 1973-76
  Dr Halbert Jones (University of Oxford), Professor James Dunkerley (Queen Mary, London)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Continental Histories: Situating the U.S. Midwest on a North-South Axis a Century before NAFTA
  Professor Kristin Hoganson, Harmsworth Professor of American History
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Latin America confronts the United States: asymmetry and influence
  Dr Tom Long (Reading)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED! The cultural left and the Reagan era: US protest and Central American revolution
  CANCELLED! We hope to reschedule in Trinity term
  TBA
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Race, class and the politics of decolonization: Jamaica Journals, 1961 and 1968
  Professor Colin Clarke (Oxford)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: US Protest and Central American Revolution
  Dr Nick Witham (UCL)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - President John F. Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress
  TBA
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Predicting the North: Sovereignty and the Canadian Brand in the Arctic
  Professor Patrick James (University of Southern California)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Whole World Is Watching: Foreign Policy and the US Presidential Election
  Ambassador Derek Shearer (Occidental College)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Friday 3 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Governing the North American Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and Institutions
  Halbert Jones (St. Antony’s College), Dr Nigel Bowles (Corpus Christi College), Dr Dawn Alexandrea Berry (Cornell University)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Enemies of the People: defending the independence of the Judges. A little too late and a lot too little?
  ***UPDATE*** ED MILIBAND MP WILL NO LONGER BE SPEAKING AT THIS SEMINAR***
  Lord Falconer (former Lord Chancellor), Baroness Helena Kennedy (Principal, Mansfield College), Professor Graham Gee (University of Sheffield)