Seminars in Semester 2: January to May 2025
Published: 29 January 2025
The latest Hook Centre seminars
Feb 12
Hook Centre Social
Room 209, 2 University Gardens
16.00-18.00
Feb 24
Dan Scroop – William E. Leuchtenburg and the limits of liberalism: US history and historians,1948-1968
McKechnie Room, 10 University Gardens
16.00-17.30
Mar 5
Christopher Tounsel – Book Talk: Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity
Online
17.00-18.00
Mar 6
‘Broken Kites’: The Representation of Vets in Comics of the Vietnam War
Harriet EH Earle, Sheffield Hallam University
Seminar Room 306 (TalkLab), University Library
In-person and on Zoom.
16.00-17.30
Mar 20
Ideas in American Studies: Piracy
Room 302, 59 Oakfield Avenue
14.00-16.00
Apr 22
Sean Vanatta – Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
Room 461 (Senate Room), Gilbert Scott Building
16.00-18.00
May 29
Annual Gordon Lecture in American Studies: Authoritarianism and Resistance in America
Yuddowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical Building
16:00-18:00, followed by a wine reception
To be delivered by Professor Liam Kennedy (Director of the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin) and Professor Scott Lucas (also the Clinton Institute and founder and editor of EA WorldView). The event promises to be a significant assessment of the current state of the nation from two preeminent scholars of the contemporary American scene.
June 12-13
First published: 29 January 2025
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