Eccles Centre Plenary Lectures

• British Association for American Studies Conferences
• British Association for Canadian Studies Conferences
• European Association for American Studies Conferences

British Association for American Studies Conferences

Since 2004, the Centre has sponsored a plenary lecture at the annual conference of the British Association for American Studies. The lectures have been delivered by major British scholars in American Studies.

• 2012  Red and Grey: Toward a Natural History of British Anti-Americanism (PDF format) 196KB by Peter Coates, University of Bristol
• 2011  The First Financial Crisis of the Twenty First Century: Lessons for America (PDF format) 202KB by Nigel Bowles, Rothermere American Institute
• 2010  'America, Empire of Liberty' and the challenges of 'popular' history (PDF format) 94KB by David Reynolds
• 2009  The Special Relationship: what does America teach us about ourseves? (PDF format) 364KB by Janet Beer, Oxford Brookes University, and Jon Snow, Channel 4
• 2008   John Cage was all the rage (PDF format) 160KB by Peter Dickinson, Keele University and University of London
• 2007   Postmodernism vs. evangelical religion in post-1960s America (PDF format) 136KB by Professor Richard H. King, University of Nottingham
• 2006   At home at the wheel: the American woman and her car in the 1950s (PDF format) 283KB by Professor Margaret Walsh, University of Nottingham
• 2005   Evaluating the foreign policy of President Clinton - or, Bill Clinton: between the Bushes(PDF format) 232KB by Professor John Dumbrell, Leicester University
• 2004   Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished: some notes on recent southern fiction and social change (PDF format) 200KB by Professor Richard J. Gray, Essex University

British Association for Canadian Studies Conferences

Commencing 2006, the Eccles Centre sponsors a plenary lecture at the annual conference of the British Association for Canadian Studies

• 2012  Wilderness / Sophistication (PDF format) 203KB by Faye Hammill, University of Strathclyde.
• 2011  Insecurity in Canada's Past: James Douglas Keeps the Peace on Vancouver Island (PDF format) 233KB by Stephen A. Royle, Queen's University, Belfast
• 2010  Citizen Reader: Canadian Literature, Mass Reading Events and the Promise of Belonging (PDF format) 148KB by Danielle Fuller
• 2009  Mouthy Enemies: Canadian writers and the power of being, belonging, and celebrity (PDF format) 108KB by Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson, De Montfort University
• 2008   Governance, globalization and unruly populations: governing the aboriginal cross-border economy in Canada (PDF format) 2.11MB by Jane Dickson-Gilmore, Carleton University/University of the West of England
• 2007   Hunting, shooting and phishing: new cybercrime challenges for cyber-Canadians in the 21st century (PDF format) 181KB by Professor David Wall, University of Leeds
• 2006 "Abenaki people from where the sun rises" by Alanis Obomsawin

European Association for American Studies Conferences

In 2012, the Centre sponsored a plenary lecture at the biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies.

• 2012  Therapeutic Communities and Community Healthcare in 1960s America (PDF format) 571KB by Martin Halliwell

Hard copy pamphlets of most of the above lectures are available on application. Contact eccles-centre@bl.uk

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