Lecture and Seminar Series, Autumn 2008

Wednesday 15th October

Dr. Paul Grainge (Nottingham)
‘Selling Spectacular Sound: Dolby and Entertainment Branding’
(sponsored by Theatre Film and TV Studies, and to be held in Room 408 Gilmorehill Centre at 5.15pm))

Tuesday 21st October

Dr. Phillips O’Brien (Glasgow)
‘He kept us out of war? The United States and the Outbreak of the First World War’
(sponsored by War Studies, and to be held in Room 208, 2 University Gardens at 5.15pm)

Thursday 23rd October

Professor Brian Ward (Manchester)
‘The American South and the British Beat Boom of the 1960s: Race, Religion and Region in the Modern Atlantic World’
(sponsored by American Studies, and to be held in Room 208, 2 University Gardens at 5.15pm)

Wednesday 29th October

Roundtable forum on US Presidential Election
(sponsored by American Studies and Politics)

Wednesday 12 November

Professor Paul Giles (Oxford)
‘The Global Remapping of American Literature: Metaregionalism and the Global Pacific Northwest’
(sponsored by American Studies and English Literature, and to be held in Room 208, 2 University Gardens at 5.15pm)

Thursday 27th November

Dr. Sarah Churchwell (University of East Anglia)
Title to be confirmed
(sponsored by American Studies and English Literature, and to be held in Department of English)

Wednesday 3rd December

Professor Brian Holden-Reid (King’s College London)
‘Abraham Lincoln as a war leader’
(sponsored by American Studies and War Studies, and to be held in Room 208, 2 University Gardens at 5.15pm)  

The Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow gratefully acknowledges the support of the Embassy of the United States in London.

Lecture and Seminar Series, Spring 2009

Thursday 29th January 2009

Dr. Stephen Shapiro (Warwick)
‘Reconstructing English, Scottish, and American Studies:  Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland (1798) as a Case Study in World Literature’
(sponsored by American Studies and English Literature, and to be held in Department of English)

Wednesday 11th February 2009

Professor Michael Parrish (University of California San Diego)
Title to be confirmed
(sponsored by American Studies, and to be held in Room 208, 2 University Gardens at 5.15pm)

Wednesday 11th March 2009

Dr. Mike Chopra-Gant (London Metropolitan University)
‘The Waltons’
(sponsored by American Studies and Theatre, Film & TV Studies, and to be held in Room 208, 2 University Gardens at 5.15pm)

Monday 16th March 2009

Professor George C. Edwards III (Texas A&M University)
Title to be confirmed
(sponsored by American Studies and Politics, and to be held in the Department of Politics)

The Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow gratefully acknowledges the support of the Embassy of the United States in London.