Andrew Hook Centre Events
Andrew Hook Centre seminar series, 2021-22
We hope you'll join us at one of our Hook Centre for American Studies Zoom events. All welcome!
Semester 1 seminars
21 September 2021
Welcome event for staff, students, and anyone connected to the University of Glasgow American Studies community
5 October 2021
Sean Vanatta (University of Glasgow), "Where Did All this Debt Come From?” Citibank, Credit Cards, and the End of the New Deal Financial Economy" [3pm start]
19 October 2021
Yana Shtilman (Univeristé de Paris), Breaking the binary: the exploration of racial stereotypes and queer identity in Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography
9 November 2021
Harriet Earle (Sheffield Hallam), The Monstrous and the Missing: Visualising the Enemy in American Comics of the Vietnam War
16 November 2021
Oscar Winberg (Åbo Akademi University), “A Coalition of Spiro Agnews:” Station Managers in the Political Fight over Television News
25 November 2021
at 2pm BST: Rountable on Faulkner, Japan and the Cold War - For the zoom link please contact BTJ0005uk@aol.com
30 November 2021
Ellen Bishell (University of Newcastle), Cuban Music, Global Screen: Identity Politics, Hypervisibility, and Resistance in Seidy ‘La Niña’ Carrera’s Tumbao
Semester 2 seminars
Seminars begin at 4pm GMT unless otherwise stated.
Please register on Eventbrite for zoom link for the zoom link.
18 January 2022
Alex Ferguson (University of Sheffield), Reassessing US Involvement in Ngo Dinh Diem’s Appointment: Nguyen Huu Tri and the American Search for a ‘Third Force’ in Vietnam, 1950-1954
1 February 2022
Laura Kettel (Freie Universität Berlin), Unequal Streets: Homelessness Policy in the American City
15 February 2022 - CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION
Erik Mathisen (University of Kent), "The Making of the Atlantic Working Classes: Slavery, Emancipation and Free Labor in the 1830s"
1 March 2022 - CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION
Fionnghuala Sweeney & Bruce Baker (University of Newcastle), Moses Roper in Scotland
15 March 2022
Ben Anderson (University of Edinburgh), Vermont, Ethan Allen, and Allegiance,1749-1791
- Please register on Eventbrite for zoom link
American Studies Book Club
All events at 4.30pm - please DM @UofGAmStudies for zoom details
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
Tuesday 23 November 2021
Woman Hollering Creek (1991) by Sandra Cisneros is a short story collection presenting multiple, diverse snippets of contemporary Chicana life. With its array of different female protagonists, this text offers an exploration into the interwoven issues of gender, race, class, and immigration as experienced by Mexican American women.
Tuesday 7 December 2021
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers is a novel set in the 1930s which unravels the story of a deaf man, John Singer, and the several different people he encounters along the way