To kickstart our new series on American Studies on the continent, we travelled to Middelburg in the Netherlands to hear all about the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, a centre for research and collaboration established in 1986. Since 2003, RIAS’ PhD seminars have brought the best and brightest of American… Continue reading
It’s BAAS Annual Conference time again! In this week’s Eyes on Events, we met with David Ballantyne and Hannah M. Smith (both Keele University) to discuss this week’s conference taking place at Keele from April 12th to April 14th. Along the way, we heard advice for organising such a colossal… Continue reading
https://youtu.be/QNPsZIt2Ivk This week, USSO’s Eyes on Events continued our new series on Teaching and American Studies with a review of the BAAS initiative Bridging the Resource Gap. Bridging the Resource Gap aims to create resources for 16-to-19-year-olds interested in American Studies, including resources discussing the careers open to American Studies… Continue reading
https://youtu.be/czGijmoy_S4 In this week’s episode of Eyes on Events, we interviewed Dr Marie Molloy (Manchester Metropolitan University) and the award-winning creative producer, historian, and theatre-maker Pamela Roberts about an outreach screening of the play ‘An Evening With Mrs Terrell and Friends.’ Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was a celebrated Black women… Continue reading
This was the second episode in our new subseries ‘American Politics and Policy’ in which we discussed the ‘Unfolding our Shared Future’ series with Professor Philip Davies, Emeritus Professor at De Montfort University in Leicester. As this was a particularly expansive interview and several details regarding the event series have… Continue reading
https://youtu.be/yWI9fl9TUZI In this very special episode from our new Eyes on Events subseries on American Politics and Policy, we talked about the prestigious Ditchley Foundation with John B. Bellinger III, an American lawyer who served as the Legal Advisor for the U.S. Department of State and the National Security Council… Continue reading
https://youtu.be/GzRbSL9EaeA What don’t A-level courses on U.S. Civil Rights tell British students? After BLM, George Floyd and President Trump what should they tell? We sat down with Dr Andrew Fearnley (University of Manchester) to discuss all these questions following his co-produced pamphlet ‘New Approaches to US Civil Rights History’, co-funded… Continue reading
https://youtu.be/-Fw4wsZ5Wc0 This week’s Eyes on Events sees the continuation of our new sub-series ‘Eyes on Exhibits‘, a special series in which we’ll be previewing exciting upcoming events from the world of arts and heritage. This is the second part of our two-part interview with Christopher Riopelle, Neil Weistreich curator of… Continue reading
https://youtu.be/1eTEMMy9jQ4 For this week’s episode of Eyes on Events we talked to Dr Oliver Gruner (University of Portsmouth) about an event he is organising from December 7th to December 9th 2022, ‘The Whole Earth: NASA’s Blue Marble Photograph Fifty Years On.’ We discussed the historical impact of images taken from… Continue reading
https://youtu.be/trOodDIVtX4 This week’s Eyes on Events sees the start of our new sub-series ‘Eyes on Exhibits‘, a special series in which we’ll be previewing exciting upcoming events from the world of arts and heritage. This is the first part of our two-part interview with Christopher Riopelle, Neil Weistreich curator of… Continue reading