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Forthcoming events and conferences

The Eccles Centre for American Studies regularly organises and supports conferences, seminars, lectures and other events on North American and transatlantic themes, often in partnership with other institutions and organisations.

Conference: The Launch of 1960s Civil Rights Protest: The 50th Anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-Ins and the Formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee

Tuesday 2 March 2010, 10.30 - 17.00
Conference Centre, the British Library
Registration £10, contact olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

This conference examines the development of the student protest in Greensboro, North Carolina against segregated lunch counters at the local Woolworth stores and other restaurants, and the consequent development of the SNCC as a forum of youth protest for civil rights. Leading UK students of 1960s black civil rights will present papers at the conference on the development of the local protest, the national significance of the SNCC in the achievement of the civil rights revolution and the consequences of the organization’s post-1964 radicalization.

Speakers: Simon Hall (Leeds), John Kirk (Royal Holloway), George Lewis (Leicester), Peter Ling (Nottingham), Sharon Monteith (Nottingham), Joe Street (Northumbria), Stephen Tuck (Oxford), Clive Webb (Sussex)

The conference is cohosted by the Eccles Centre for American Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London

Related event:

The 2010 Harry Allen Memorial Lecture
The Long Origins of the Short Civil Rights Movement
given by Steven Lawson, Rutgers and Senior Mellon Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge
Monday 1 March, 18:00 - 20:00
Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Free, but by prior registration only, contact olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk.

Dressing Edith Wharton: Fashion, Material Culture and Literature

Wednesday 3rd March 2010, 18.45-20.00
Conference Centre (Meeting Room 4), the British Library
Attendance free by advance reservation ONLY
To reserve a place phone +44 (0) 20 7412 7757 (voice mail) or email eccles-centre@bl.uk

Katherine Joslin 2009 12kb Katherine Joslin's work brings together social, intellectual and political history with literature in the best American Studies tradition. Joslin's writing on Edith Wharton has been reviewed as 'deliciously witty', and 'a feminist reading which gives Wharton back her social and intellectual control'. Drawing on her most recent book, Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion (University Press of New England, 2009), Joslin places fashion history and dress at the centre of Wharton's thinking about art and culture, in her knowledge both of the couture houses of Paris, and of the workshops where seamstresses, milliners and textile workers laboured.

This event is sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library

Conference: The Early Obama Presidency

Friday 14th May 2010, 10.00 - 16.00
The Boardroom, 309 Regent Street London
£30 conference Fee, includes buffet lunch, payable to The University of Westminster, contact s.robson@westminster.ac.uk or +44 (0) 20 7207 5138

George C. Edwards (Texas A&M University) Strategic Assessments in the Early Obama Presidency; Stephen Wayne(Georgetown University) Obama's Personality and its Impact on his Presidency; Gary C. Jacobson (UCLA) Obama’s Evolving Public Support; James P. Pfiffner (George Mason University) Organizing the Obama Presidency; John E. Owens (University of Westminster) Obama and the Democratic Congress; Richard M. Pious (Columbia University) Prerogative Power in the Obama Administration; James A. Thurber (American University) Changing the Way Washington Works? Obama, Congress and Lobbyists.

Conference sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Democracy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, and the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library

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