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Department of American and Canadian Studies

Events from the last 12 months

Remembering Rosa Parks: Understanding the US Civil Rights Movement

Date
15/10/2015
Description
An educational day on a university campus which will immerse you in our current historical understanding of the US Civil Rights Movement.

Land of the Free?: Immigration and Exile in Contemporary America

Date
22/10/2015
Description
American Studies Annual Lecture by Glenda Carpio (Harvard University).

Screening of "Fruitvale Station"

Date
14/10/2015
Description
With a post-screening discussion with Hannah-Rose Murray, PhD student with the Department of American and Canadian Studies.

Telling Tales of Nottingham...through the eye of a camera lens

Date
07/10/2015
Description
Interested in photography and iconic images? Join David Sillitoe for a photography masterclass, followed by a film screening of Saturday Night Sunday Morning. Open to all º£½ÇºÚÁÏ students. Places limited.

Postponed: Illness, infirmity and US foreign policy in the 1950s

Date
22/06/2015
Description
Dr Bevan Sewell, Department of American and Canadian Studies, and the Health Humanities Network present '"I felt I ought not to have argued with this dying man" – illness, infirmity and US foreign policy in the 1950s'.

Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives

Date
20/05/2015
Description
The Centre for Research in Race and Rights, the Department of American and Canadian Studies, and Nottingham Contemporary present 'Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives'.

Film Screening and Discussion: At the River I Stand (1993)

Date
09/06/2015
Description
This civil right documentary on the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis in 1968 is introduced by Sharon Monteith.

Critical Whiteness: US and UK Perspectives

Date
20/05/2015
Description
David Roediger, Sharon Monteith and Marquese MacFerguson discuss critical whiteness.

Kara Walker's Pornopticon: racial sensations

Date
27/04/2015
Description
The Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R) and New Art Exchange present 'Kara Walker's Pornopticon: racial sensations'. Professor Robyn Wiegman, a leading professor of race and gender at Duke University, will be joined in conversation by Professor Zoe Trodd, Department of American and Canadian Studies.

Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: African American Art and Influences

Date
07/05/2015
Description
Celeste-Marie Bernier (American and Canadian Studies) hosts the first of four discussions to accompany the Nottingham Contemporary exhibition.
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