Department of American Studies

Research seminars

AMERICAN STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR SPRING 2013
Tuesdays 4.15pm - JUBILEE BUILDING G36

DateSeminar

5 Feb      

Michael Jonik (Sussex) - Thoreau's Intimacies 

19 Feb  

Gary Gerstle (Vanderbilt and Oxford) - Paradoxes of State Power in America

5 March  

Robert Cook (Sussex) - Back to the Future: The African-American Counter-Memory of the Civil War Since 1865

19 March

Lydia Plath (Christ Church, Canterbury) - Edward Isham's Honour: Manhood and Class in the Antebellum South

9 April  

James Hall (Alabama) - Segregated Knowledge and the Pursuit of Community: Solon Kimball and Anthropology at the University of Alabama 1948-1956

16 April 

John Wills (Kent) - 'Bam! Shot Me!' Videogames of the American West