HOTCUS Annual Conference 2021 (Online)

Held three weeks out from the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, join our expert panel to discover the real state of the race. About this Event This event is part of the Rothermere American Institute's 'America Decides' series of election events, supported by the U.S. Embassy in London. Held three weeks out from the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, join our expert panel to discover the real state of the race. Who’s up and who’s down? What is the effect of early voting? How are demographic shifts affecting electoral outcomes? How important is turnout, and what early signs are we seeing to indicate who is (and is not) turning out to vote? How impactful were the Presidential debates? What are the state of House and Senate races? For this first panel in our election series, the Rothermere American Institute is delighted to welcome David Wasserman, House Editor for the Cook Political Report, […]

October 15  Timo McGregor (New York University): Protective Politics: Violence, Property, and the Boundaries of the Polis in New Netherland, 1624-1664 This session is part of the University of Edinburgh’s American History Fall Workshop series. If you are interested in participating in these workshops, please contact David Silkenat at the in order to be added to the mailing list and receive the pre-circulated papers. All of these workshops will occur on Zoom at 5pm on the indicated date.

Speaker Event via Zoom: Tuesday 20 October, 4.15 (UK), Dr Megan Hunt, University of Edinburgh Please join us on Tues 20 Oct at 4.15, when Dr Megan Hunt will give a talk, ' “You don’t see Billy Graham walking any picket lines”: visible and audible Protestants in Selma’s Beloved Community'. All welcome. If you'd like to attend, email Dr Laura Rattray (Laura.Rattray@glasgow.ac.uk) and you'll receive a secure Zoom link on the day of the talk. Dr Megan Hunt, University of Edinburgh “You don’t see Billy Graham walking any picket lines”: visible and audible Protestants in Selma’s Beloved Community Pitting dignified black Protestants against zealous Klansmen in a simplified battle of good versus evil, cinematic constructions of the civil rights movement frequently rely on popular preconceptions about Protestantism in the American South. But Ava DuVernay’s Selma (2014) exposes and expands the limited projection of religion in previous films and highlights a […]

October 22  Sally Gordon (Penn) and Kevin Waite (Durham): An Unlikely Freedom: Westward Migration and the Law of Slavery in California This session is part of the University of Edinburgh’s American History Fall Workshop series. If you are interested in participating in these workshops, please contact David Silkenat at the in order to be added to the mailing list and receive the pre-circulated papers. All of these workshops will occur on Zoom at 5pm on the indicated date.

About this Event This event is part of the Rothermere American Institute's 'America Decides' series of election events, supported by the U.S. Embassy in London. Speakers Wesley Lowery is a journalist at CBS News. He previously worked at the Washington Post where he led the led the newspaper’s ‘Fatal Force’ project which investigated fatal police shootings. This project was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism. He has been named by the National Association of Black Journalists as the ‘Emerging Journalist of the Year’. He is the author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement (Hachette). Maria Givens is a member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in northern Idaho and serves as the Communications and Public Relations Director for the Native American Agriculture Fund. She has worked as a freelance journalist on tribal political issues and native food systems, and […]

US Elections Roundtable Event Confirmed panellists: Dr Mark McLay (Glasgow) Dr Clodagh Harrington (De Montfort) Dr Patrick Andelic (Northumbria) Chair: Dr Oliver Charbonneau (Glasgow) For info: email Mark.McLay@glasgow.ac.uk

October 29   Gideon Cohn-Postar (Penn): 'That Infernal Race Prejudice:' Dr. George Wellington Bryant and the Political Exploitation of African American Officeholding in Gilded Age Maryland This session is part of the University of Edinburgh’s American History Fall Workshop series. If you are interested in participating in these workshops, please contact David Silkenat at the in order to be added to the mailing list and receive the pre-circulated papers. All of these workshops will occur on Zoom at 5pm on the indicated date.

AMERICANISTS VIRTUAL MEET-UP 15:00 (GMT) 30th October 2020 This is a free online event for PhD students, aimed at creating a stronger sense of community for those of us researching within the broad field of American Studies. This event will give PhD students the opportunity to give a short, five minute presentation on their research, and to meet others working in similar areas. If your research focusses on the Americas, and you would like to sign up for the virtual meet-up, please register at https://forms.gle/nJEyFk75rGynsN1W9 by Friday 23rd October. Feel free to contact patrick.1.turner@kcl.ac.uk or a.djelid@pgr.reading.ac.uk if you have any questions.

About this Event This event is part of the Rothermere American Institute's 'America Decides' series of election events, supported by the U.S. Embassy in London. In this special election-eve event, please join some of the RAI's Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers as they discuss the intersection between their area of research expertise and the 2020 election.   Speakers include: Dr. Emma Day on women's issues Dr. Rivers Gambrell on sport and the presidency Ella St George Carey on Evangelics and the Kanye West presidential campaign Joseph Guido on African foreign policy Dr. Daniel Rowe on trade Grace Mallon on the 'revolution of 1800' and the presidential transfer of power