Postgraduate and Early Career Conference in Early American History 2017 Date 31 Mar 2017, 09:00 to 31 Mar 2017, 18:00 Type Conference / Symposium Venue IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Description The IHR and British Group of Early American Historians (BGEAH) invite you to attend the 2nd annual Early American History conference for postgraduate researchers and early career academics working on any facet of American or Atlantic history from the seventeenth century through to the American Civil War, to discuss ideas amongst your peers and, where appropriate, to assess the current state of early American research in Britain. London, with its unique colonial archival resources and lively research student populati­­on, is one of the leading centres of early American scholarship in Europe, and the IHR is a natural location for this event. The IHR Library’s North American Room houses one of the […]

Do American Universities Promote Income Inequality? Affluent Americans support more conservative economic policies than the non-affluent and government responds disproportionately to these views. Yet little is known about the emergence of these consequential views which are partly traceable to socialization that occurs on predominately affluent college campuses, especially those with norms of financial gain and especially among socially embedded students. Tali Mendelberg explores how ‘the affluent campus effect’ of college socialization partly explains why affluent Americans support economically conservative policies. Mendelberg is a professor at Princeton University and author of several award-winning books including The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality and The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation and Institutions. Date: 21 March 2017
 Time: 6:30pm – 8pm
 Venue:  Wolfson Theatre, NAB Speaker: Tali Mendelberg, Professor of Politics at Princeton University Event Chair: Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the US Centre

Date of Event 18th March 2017 Last Booking Date for this Event 17th March 2017 Description Historical fiction in English constitutes its own enduring tradition but in recent years, it has enjoyed a surge of critical acclaim and commercial popularity, as such scholars as Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons have argued. This one-day symposium at the University of Nottingham will explore how recent writers in the United States have engaged with the form. In what sense are American writers reinterpreting the past to produce what Elodie Rousselot has termed “neo-historical fiction”? Which periods are they examining? And why do US writers favor particular historical eras and episodes over others? Event webpage