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/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/-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
https://youtu.be/1EMESNg9V44 For this week’s Eyes on Events, we interviewed Andrew Clarke and Janice Deitner about the Irish Association of American Studies 2022 Symposium’Rupture and Repair’, held at Maynooth University on November 4th and 5th. We discussed the IAAS’s return to a mixed hybrid/in-person format, talked about the role of American Studies in a… Continue reading
For the first in our 2022-2023 series of ‘Eyes on Events’ we talked to Emma Rhodes (PhD Candidate, University of Leicester) about the HOTCUS 2022 PG and ECR Conference, ‘Poverty and (In)Equality in U.S. History’. We discussed the current intellectual, political, and economic conditions that make discussing poverty and inequality… Continue reading