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Semester 1 seminars 2024-25

Thursday 24 October, 5:00-6:30pm

Doug Rossinow will be talking on his forthcoming book Promised Land: The Worlds of American Zionism. The talk will take place in 42 Bute Gardens, LT916, at 5:00pm. All welcome!

During the 75 years after the creation of the State of Israel, Zionists in the United States achieved hegemony in American Jewry and served as a pillar of support for Israel. American Zionism was a major branch of a transnational religious-national movement that navigated international affairs and the challenges of Jewish life in the USA while continually negotiating the terms of its fidelity to an overseas state. This presentation explains that negotiation by examining themes and events in US Zionism’s history after 1948 in national, transnational, and international contexts.

Doug Rossinow is professor in the Department of Ethnic, Gender, Historical, and Philosophical Studies at Metro State University in St. Paul, Minnesota (USA). The author of several books, he is composing Promised Land: The Worlds of American Zionism, 1942–2024, which will be published by Oxford University Press.

Monday 4 November, 4.30-6.00pm

Trump v. Harris 2024: Making Sense of the US Presidential Election (Roundtable). Venue TBA.

Wednesday 13 November, 2.30-4.00pm

'The US Presidential Election: Cross-Disciplinary Responses'. A Teams round table in conjunction with Keele University's David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas.

Confirmed speakers are:

Oli Charbonneau, Lecturer in American History (Glasgow)

Sarah Dunstan, Lecturer in the International History of Modern Human Rights (Glasgow)

Alex Benchimol, Senior Lecturer in Scottish Romantic Print Culture (Glasgow)

Kristen Brill, Senior Lecturer in American History (Keele)

Jon Herbert, Senior Lecturer in American Politics (Keele)

Forough Ramezankhah, Lecturer in Law (Keele)

Each speaker will take a few minutes to share their thoughts on the outcome of the presidential election and its possible consequences, after which we will open the floor for a wider discussion. This promises to be a rich and exciting event, of interest to colleagues in all disciplines, and we would be delighted to welcome you to the discussion.

Wednesday 20 November, 4.00-5.30pm

Christopher Tounsel (University of Washington) – Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity (Cornell UP, 2024). Online book talk, link forthcoming. Co-sponsored with the Global History research cluster.

January, 2025 (postponed from October 2024)

John Hinshelwood: Called Back (the poems of Emily Dickinson)

A selection of Emily Dickinson's verse, set to music by John Hinshelwood

Date and Venue TBC

TBA – Book Launch – Sean Vanatta (University of Glasgow) – Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control (Yale UP, 2024).

Other events TBC, including pre- and post-Presidential Election roundtables.