UCL Americas Research Network 2024 Conference – Historical Roots, Modern Realities: Nationalism Across the Americas

To coincide with the 2018 midterm campaigns, this colloquium seeks to analyse these elections over time. Although presidential elections are the subject of extensive scholarly interest, midterm elections are comparatively neglected. Focusing on a series of case studies, covering the period from Franklin Roosevelt to the present day, the colloquium explores how presidents interact with their parties during midterm campaigns (and how the “out-party” mobilizes support in the absence of a president as party leader), and of how midterms modify a president’s mandate. Midterms and Mandates will take place on November 1-2, 2018, at the National Library of Scotland and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. The project is supported by the British Association for American Studies and the US Embassy in London.

America’s Urgent and Great Problems: Antecedents and Legacies of 1968 BAAS Postgraduate Conference 2018 3rd November 2018 Department of Arts and Humanities, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon-Tyne “There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the United States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 was a watershed moment in American and global history. It witnessed mass social movements, student and anti-war protests, shifting racial consciousness, urban riots, and several high-profile political assassinations; a year emblematic of America’s ‘three urgent and indeed great problems’ which Martin Luther King described during his visit to Newcastle upon-Tyne a few months before his death: War, Poverty and Racism. These issues and the challenges they posed, along with other sites of conflict and inequality, including place, gender, […]