CFP: Movement and Mobility in America (Online)

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 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.