Research Seminar: Mike Lee

The speaker at this week's research seminar is Mike Lee, a former American television newsman who was originally hired by none other than Walter Cronkite. As he puts it on his website:

Mike Lee is an Emmy and Peabody award winning former U.S. TV network correspondent.  Mike covered the world for 47 years for ABC (see ABC News Bio), CBS, and other news organizations.    Mike Lee has reported from over 40 nations.   His global news reporting includes virtually every major news story from Europe, Russia, Middle East, and Africa.    Mike has produced human interest feature profiles of people and issues in dozens of locations from the Artic Circle to the South Pacific.

And you can follow Mike on Twitter here.

Wednesday 25th April 2012, A2.51, 3pm. All welcome.

Research Seminar: Anthony Stanonis

At this week's research seminar we're delighted to be welcoming Anthony Stanonis from Queen's University Belfast. Anthony is the author of
Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945 (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2006) and, most recently, the editor of Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South (Athens, Ga: University of Georgia Press, 2008).


He'll be talking about: "Getting Color: Race, Tanning, and Tourism in the American South, 1900-1970."

February 15, Arts 2.51, 3pm. See you there.

Research Seminar: Susan-Mary Grant

At this week's research seminar, we're very pleased to be welcoming Professor Susan-Mary Grant (Newcastle University). The author of a number of books including The War for a Nation : the American Civil War (Routledge, 2006) and the forthcoming A Concise History of the United States of America (Cambridge, 2012), she will be talking about: "‘A wooden leg is no excuse for anything’: Maiming, Masculinity, and the Medicalization of the Civil War Soldier."

Arts 2.51, 4pm, all welcome.

Research Seminar: Kaeten Mistry

At this week's Research Seminar, AMS's very own Kaeten Mistry will be talking about "Narratives of Intervention: The CIA and the Framing of Covert Action."

Arts 2.51, 3pm, Wednesday February 1st. See you there!

Research Seminar: Jon Mitchell

At this week's Research Seminar, AMS's very own Jonathan Mitchell - author of Revisions of the American Adam: Innocence, Identity and Masculinity in Twentieth Century America (Continuum, 2011) will be talking about, "Cutting out the ‘I’s in American Psycho."

Wednesday 25th, Arts 2.51, 3pm. See you there!

Research Seminars: Spring Schedule

The new semester's approaching fast so, hot off the press, here's the compelling schedule for our Research Seminars this semester. See you there!

Research Seminar: Ross Hair

At this week's research seminar, AMS' very own Ross Hair - author, most recently, of Ronald Johnson's Modernist Collage Poetry (Palgrave, 2010) - will be speaking about: "Pan's People: Transatlantic Pastoral and the Jargon 'Society'".

Arts 2.84, 3pm, all welcome.

Research Seminar: Karen Huntress

This week, we're excited to welcome Karen Huntress to the School of American Studies. Karen is currently the Cultural Outreach Officer for the US Embassy in London, and she'll be talking about issues related to race, gender and American justice.

In the meantime, Karen blogs for the Embassy here, and you can follow her on Twitter here.

Arts 2.84, 3pm, all welcome.

Research Seminar: Roger Thompson

At this week's research seminar, AMS's own Professor Roger Thompson will be talking about: "From Deference to Defiance: Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629-1692."

Roger is the author of a wide range of books about colonial New England, and is about to publish a new book which shares the title of his talk.

Wednesday November 2nd, 4pm, A2.86. All welcome.

Research Seminar: A. Robert Lee

At this week's research seminar, A. Robert Lee will be visiting. He is the author and editor of an wide-ranging number of books, and is, most recently, editor of this four volume collection of Native American Writing. On Wednesday, he will be talking about: "Postcolonial/Postindian: Literary and Other Representations of Native America."

Wednesday 26 October, 3pm, Arts 2.84. All welcome.

Research Seminar: Matthew Ward

At this week's research seminar we're being treated to a visit by Matthew Ward (University of Dundee). Matthew is the author, most recently, of The Battle for Quebec: 1759. He writes:

My current research examines the Seven Years' War in North America and its effects on Native Americans, French-Canadians and Anglo-American settlers. More broadly I am interested in Britain's involvement in early America, and the interaction of the British Empire with different peoples. This is reflected in my background, as I have been described in one review of my work as a 'genuinely trans-Atlantic product' with English roots, an American PhD, Canadian research interests, living and working in Scotland. These research interests take me to both sides of the Atlantic, conducting much of my research in archives in London, Canada and the United States, and giving conference papers on both sides of the Atlantic.

On Wednesday 19, he will be speaking about: "Justice from the law is fled’: Court and Community in the First American West, ca. 1730-1815.

Arts 2.84, 3pm - all welcome.

Research Seminar: Richard Martin

This Wednesday, it's the first AMS research seminar of the semester, and it's something a little out of the ordinary. Richard Martin (Birkbeck) is currently undertaking a research project sponsored by the British Association for American Studies. From the BAAS website:

American Studies in the UK, 2000-2010The British Association for American Studies, in association with the Fulbright Commission, is embarking on an important new research project tracing the development of American Studies in the UK between 2000 and 2010. The project will produce a contemporary census document and a historical resource for future scholars.

Alongside statistical data, the report will also include commentary and case studies, involving a wide range of voices and experiences. Contributions are therefore invited from all sections of the American Studies community in the UK, including researchers, lecturers, administrators, teachers and students. Contributors are asked to respond to the central question: In what ways did American Studies in the UK change between 2000 and 2010?

Accordingly, on Wednesday, Richard will be talking about "American Studies in the U.K., 2000-2011." Should be a good one. All welcome.

Wednesday October 12, 3 pm, Arts 2.84.

Research Seminar: Maria Sabina Alexandru

At this week's research seminar, UEA alum Maria-Sabina Alexandru (University of Bucharest) will be talking about: ‘Surreal Transatlantic Dialogues: Forgiven Submarine by Ruxandra Cesereanu and Andrei Codrescu.’

Wednesday, 16th February, Room 1.16, 5 pm- 7 pm. Refreshments provided. All welcome!

Research Seminar: Anthony Howe

This is a double announcement: first, normal blogging service is now resumed. Look for periodic updates about life in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia and wider issues in American culture.

Second: at this week's research seminar, the UEA's very own Professor Anthony Howe will be talking about: "John Bull and Brother Jonathan: Cobden, America and the Liberal Mind."

Wednesday 2 February, 5pm-7pm in room 1.16.  All welcome. Refreshments provided. See you there!

Research Seminar: Steven F. Lawson

The Little Rock Nine Return to Central High School, via the New Yorker

At this week's research seminar, Steven F. Lawson (Rutgers University, currently Senior Mellon Visiting School, Cambridge University), author of Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community and the Black Freedom Struggle (University Press of Kentucky, 2006) will be speaking about: "The Long Origins of the Short Civil Rights Movement".

Wednesday March 17th. Arts 2.51. 4pm. All welcome.

Research Seminar: Karen Jones

At this week's research seminar, Karen Jones (University of Kent), author (with John Wills) of The Invention of the Park: Recreational Landscapes from the Garden of Eden to Disney's Magic Kingdom (Polity Press, 2005), will be talking about: "'The Old West in Modern Splendor': Frontier folklore and the selling of Las Vegas."

Wednesday 10th March. A2.51. 4pm. All welcome.

Research Seminar: Nancy Hewitt

At today's research seminar, Nancy Hewitt (Rutgers University, currently Pitt Professor 2009-10 at Cambridge University), editor of No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of US Feminism, will be talking about: "The Long U.S. Suffrage Movement, 1776-1965."

Wednesday March 3rd, Arts 2.51, 4pm. All welcome.

Research Seminar: Laura Pollard

At this week's research seminar, Laura Pollard (University of East Anglia), will be talking about:
“How Can They See With Sequins in Their Eyes?”: Nostalgia, Celebrity and Showbusiness in Chicago (1975).

Wednesday February 24, Arts 2.51, 4pm. All welcome.

Research Seminar: Daniel Williams

At this week's research seminar, Daniel Williams (Swansea University), author of the forthcoming Transatlantic Exchange: African Americans and the Welsh 1845 – 1945 (University of Wales Press), will be talking about: "Paul Robeson, Jazz and the Cold War."

Wednesday February 10, A2.51, 4pm. All welcome.

Research Seminar: Geoffrey Morgan

At this week's Research Seminar, Geoffrey Morgan will be talking about "Black American G.I.s in WW2 Britain".

Wednesday February 3rd, A2.51, 4pm. All welcome.