IHR seminars > American history
American history
Convenors: Dr Bruce Baker (RHUL), Dr Jonathan Bell (Reading), Dr Elizabeth Clapp (Leicester), Jo Cohen (QMUL), Dr Joel Isaac (QMUL), Prof John Kirk (RHUL), Prof. Iwan Morgan (ISA), Dr Kendrick Oliver (Southampton), Dr Adam Smith (UCL), Emily West (Reading).
Venue: Rooms as announced in the programmes below.
Time: Thursday, 5.30pm
| 12 January | Cara Rodway (US Embassy) Motorvatin' the Citizen Consumer: Contesting Segregation in Postwar African-American Travel Guides
Chair: Jon Bell Gordon Room (G34), Senate House, ground floor |
| 26 January | Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University and Mellon Fellow at Cambridge) Creating the Sunbelt: Political Upheaval, Economic Dynamism, and Metropolitan Growth in Twentieth Century Phoenix
Chair: Iwan Morgan Gordon Room (G34), Senate House, ground floor |
| 9 February | William Pettigrew (Kent) Freedom's Debt: Politics and the Development of American Slavery, 1672-1712
Chair: Erik Mathisen Gordon Room (G34), Senate House, ground floor |
| 23 February | Dawn-Marie Gibson (RHUL) Nation Building: African American women's experiences and work in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975
Chair: Emily West Room (G34), Senate House, ground floor |
| 8 March | Robin Vandome (Nottingham) 'Strength and Unity' in American Science: Hugo Munsterberg and the St. Louis Congress of 1904
Chair: Bruce Baker Room (G34), Senate House, ground floor |
