American History events 2020/21 *INCLUDE*
The American History workshops take place throughout the academic year and which are open to all.
Time and location
The events will take place on Thursdays from 5pm on Zoom. To receive precirculated papers and links to the session please contact Dr David Silkenat, David.Silkenat@ed.ac.uk
Events schedule
Semester 2 2020/21
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 14 Jan | Hannah -Rose Murray (University of Edinburgh) |
'"Death or Liberty": Henry Box Brown "personificating" himself in Edward Gascoigne Burton 's "The Fugitive Free" and "The Nubian Captive"' |
| Thursday 28 Jan |
Abena Boakye wa-Ansah (Vanderbilt University) |
'"She Was Hunting Freedom": Black women's efforts to leave the Confederacy' |
| Thursday 4 Feb | Frank Cogliano (University of Edinburgh) |
'"The Same World will Not Do for Them and Us": Washington, Jefferson, indigenous peoples, and the American Revolution' |
| Thursday 11 Feb | Eva Ward (University of Strathclyde) |
'Colonial resistance and international cooperation: Drug policy in the American Philippines, 1905-1909' |
| Thursday 25 Feb | Jessica Parr (Simmons University) |
'Entangled spaces, entangled places: Early Black intellectuals and the structures of slavery in the Anglo-American Atlantic world, c.1760-1804' |
| Thursday 18 Mar | Sage Goodwin (U niversity of Oxford) |
'Adding colour to the lilywhite newsroom: Desegregation on the screen and behind the scenes of mid-century television news' |
| Thursday 1 Apr | Emma Day (University of Oxford) |
'Women's healthcare activism in and beyond prison' |
Semester 1 2020/21
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 24 Sept |
Megan Hunt (University of Edinburgh) |
'Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: "To Kill a Mockingbird", black protest and racial moderation in April 1963' |
| Thursday 1 Oct | Iain Flood (University of Newcastle) |
'Experiences of grief in Missouri's Guerrilla Conflict' |
| Thursday 8 Oct | Kate Ballantyne (Keele University) |
'Kneel, sit, or stand: Creating a student movement in Civil Rights era Tennessee' |
| Thursday 15 Oct | Timo McGregor (New York University) |
'Protective politics: Violence, property and the boundaries of the Polis in New Netherland, 1624-1664' |
| Thursday 22 Oct | Sally Gordon (Univeristy of Pennsylvania) and Kevin Waite (Durham University) |
'An unlikely freedom: Westward migration and the law of slavery in California' |
| Thursday 29 Oct |
Gideon Cohn-Postar (University of Pennsylvania) |
‘"That infernal race prejudice": Dr George Wellington Bryant and the political exploitation of African American officeholding in Gilded Age Maryland' |
| Thursday 5 Nov |
Sveinn Johanesson (University of Edinburgh) |
'The war of 1812 and the hidden transformation of the American central state' |
| Thursday 19 Nov | Abena Boakyewa-Ansah (Vanderbilt University) |
'"She was hunting freedom": Black women's paths out of the Confederacy' |
| Thursday 3 Dec |
Claire Aubin (University of Edinburgh) |
'"A task worth doing at all is a task worth doing well": Holocaust perpetrators and Post-war US immigration mechanisms' |
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