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Department of American and Canadian Studies

Events from the last 12 months

Annual Reception and Prize-Giving

Date
01/06/2016
Location:
Highfield House
Description
Please RSVP to c3r@nottingham.ac.uk so that we can cater for the right numbers

Magic bus: how the hippie trail changed the world

Date
20/04/2016
Location:
A48 Clive Grainger
Description
Talk hosted by the Travel Cultures network

Tennessee Williams' Women and the Autobiographical 'I'

Date
14/03/2016
Location:
Nottingham Playhouse, Ustinov Room
Description
This talk will focus on the women in the playwright's life: his family, his characters, and the actresses for whom he created marvellous roles

American Music Session 3: The Rebirth of the Protest Song in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter

Date
26/05/2016
Location:
Nottingham Contemporary Cafe
Description
Music has played a key role in the angry response to racist policing and contemporary America. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, plays and discusses some examples and asks whether the protest song is enjoying an artistic and political renaissance.

American Music Session 4: Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi: The Art and Philosophy of Easy Listening

Date
23/06/2016
Location:
Nottingham Contemporary Cafe
Description
Alternately despised and rehabilitated, easy listening music dominated the popular music landscape from the 1940s to the 1960s. Nick Heffernan, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies and C3R associate, introduces a selection of recordings that attempts to encompass a sprawling, multifaceted and complex genre.

American Music Session 1: 'I Must Keep Fighting Until I'm Dying': Paul Robeson's Freedom and Protest Songs

Date
31/03/2016
Location:
Nottingham Contemporary Cafe
Description
For this first session, C3R postdoctoral co-director Hannah Durkin plays and discusses the slave spirituals and international protest songs of African American singer Paul Robeson to mark the 40th anniversary of his death

American Music Session 2: 'Black Man Struggle': Jamaican Pop from Mento to Dancehall

Date
28/04/2016
Location:
Nottingham Contemporary Cafe
Description
Patrick Henderson, doctoral student and C3R associate, surveys Jamaican pop music from the 1950s to the present day, playing and discussing examples of mento, ska, reggae and dancehall and considering their cultural significance

'Crossing Borders: Knowledge Networks, Ideas and Values among Cubans in Canada and Western Europe', Professor Jean Stubbs

Date
03/02/2016
Location:
Trent Building LG11
Description
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Centre for Research on Cuba: Research Seminar Series 2015-16 with Professor Jean Stubbs

Hyson Green Workshops: Citizen Design Action Discussion

Date
17/03/2016
Location:
New Art Exchange
Description
In this exhibition, designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, explores an ambitious citizen-led project that emerged in NAE's local neighbourhood in the 1970s: The Hyson Green Workshops

The Early Years of the Black Panther Party

Date
13/06/2016
Location:
A40 Clive Granger
Description
Please join the Centre for Research in Rights and the Department of American and Canadian Studies for this special lecture by Dr. Joe Street to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party
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