American History events 2021/22 *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 at 5pm (UK time) on Thursdays. Method of delivery is to be finalised. Please contact Dr David Silkenat (david.silkenat@ed.ac.uk) to be added to the mailing list.
Events schedule
Semester 2 2021/22
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Thu 27 Jan |
Kellen Heniford (Penn State University): 'Slavery is slavery: The invention of the 'Free State' in the 1820s' |
| Thu 10 Feb |
Justin Randolph (Texas State University): 'Jim Crow policing at the southern border' |
| Thu 17 Feb |
Tim Galsworthy (University of Sussex): 'The Party of Lincoln? American Civil War memory, civil rights, and the Republican Party, 1960-68' |
| Thu 10 Mar |
Katherine Burns (University of Edinburgh): 'Information wanted advertisements: Ads and intergenerational family trauma' ROOM LG.08, 40 George Square, Edinburgh |
| Thu 17 Mar |
Adam McNeil (Rutgers University): '“He don't like the country and cannot consent to go out": Black Philadelphians and the fight to dismantle slavery, 1765-1783' |
| Thu 24 Mar |
POSTPONED Fabian Hilfrich (University of Edinburgh): 'A democratic war? The battle about the domestic legitimacy of the Vietnam War' - ROOM LG.06, 40 George Square, Edinburgh |
| Thu 7 Apr | David Ballantyne (Keele University): 'Creating "The Tragic Era": Reconstruction and its afterlife in central Louisiana' |
| Thu 14 Apr |
Hannah Jeffery (University of Edinburgh): ‘"I had to fight with my brushes": Revolution in Black murals of the New Deal era' |
Semester 1 2021/22
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Thursday 23 September |
Rachel Herrmann (Cardiff): Victual Imperialism: Expanding a Concept on Hunger and Borders in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Florida, Louisiana, and California. |
| Thursday 30 September | Stephanie Narrow (University of California – Irvine): Systems of Subordination: Race, Culture, and Imperial Order in Hong Kong and Gold Rush California |
| Thursday 7 October | Jason Herbert (Minnesota): "East Florida is Necessarily a Frontier": Beef, the Treaty of Moultrie Creek, and the Origins of American Indian Reservation Policy in Florida |
| Thursday 14 October | Brianna Nofil (William & Mary): Detention Power: American Jails and the Origins of Immigrant Incarceration |
| Thursday 21 October | Alice King (Virginia): Tributary Colonialism in 1630s Connecticut |
| Thursday 4 November |
Laurie Manson (Glasgow): The Constitution, its 25th Amendment, the Presidency and Eight Novels |
| Thursday 11 November |
Emma Day (Oxford): Of Childbearing Age: AIDS, the Reagan Administration, and Reproduction, 1981-1994 |
| Thursday 18 November |
Nicole Gipson (Manchester): The Rise and Fall of Welfare Hotels: housing precarity and homelessness in New York City 1970 – 1990 |
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