University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Cambridge American History Seminar

  Browse A-Z

Log in

University Account External (via Google)

🔐 Log In

Information on

Subscribing to talksdetails Finding a talkdetails Adding a talkdetails Disseminating talksdetails Help and Documentationdetails

ℹ️ Information

Cambridge American History Seminar

Further detail
Subscribe using ical/vcal (Help)

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Jonathan Goodwin. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

0 upcoming talks and 47 talks in the archive.

CANCELLED: Beverly Gage: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century

UserBeverly Gage, Yale University.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 12 March 2018, 17:00-19:00

CANCELLED: Alex Goodall: The US Marine Empire in the Caribbean and Central America, c.1870-1920

UserAlex Goodall, University College London.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 05 March 2018, 17:00-19:00

CANCELLED Jennifer Luff: Secrets, Lies, and the 'Special Relationship' in the Early Cold War

UserJennifer Luff, University of Durham.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 26 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Rhys Jones: Temporal Claustrophobia at the Continental Congress, 1774-1776

UserRhys Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 19 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Molly Geidel: Mid-Century Liberalism and the Development Film

UserMolly Geidel, University of Manchester.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 12 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Emma Hart: Remaking the Public Good in the American Marketplace during the Early Republic

UserEmma Hart, St Andrews University.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 05 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Elliott West: Coincidence and Empire: The United States and the Pacific

UserElliott West, University of Oxford and University of Arkansas.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 29 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Ira Katznelson: Pitt Inaugural: 'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections on the State in Early America

UserIra Katznelson, University of Cambridge and Columbia University.

HouseQueens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Jonathan Levy: Instability and Inequality: American after the Volcker Shock of 1990

UserJonathan Levy, University of Chicago.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 22 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Carl Nightingale: From a Global History of Divided Cities to a Global Urban History

UserCarl Nightingale, University of Buffalo.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 20 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Glenda Gilmore: 'The Mystery That is Left Out of History': Romare Bearden's Art and the Search for an African American Past

UserGlenda Gilmore, Yale University.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 06 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

*CANCELLED* Ira Katznelson: Pitt Inaugural: 'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections on the State in Early America

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 30 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Mae Ngai: The Chinese Question and Global Politics 1850-1910

UserMae Ngai, Columbia University.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 23 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Max Edling: Peace Pact and Nation: The U.S. Constitution as a Federal Treaty

UserMax Edling, King's College London.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 16 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Gareth Davies: How Black Suffering Became Visible: The Racial Politics of Gulf Hurricanes Since 1945

UserGareth Davies, St Anne's College, University of Oxford.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 09 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

George Chauncey: Rethinking the Post-War History of Gay Life and Politics in the US

UserGeorge, Chauncey, Yale University.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 17:00-19:00

David Lubin: Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution

UserDavid Lubin, University of Oxford.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Kate Dossett: "I Fear I Have No Papers of Historical Interest": Women's History and Feminist Archives Since the New Deal

UserKate Dossett, University of Leeds.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 20 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Emily Charnock: More Than A Score: Interest Group Ratings and Polarized Politics

UserEmily Charnock, University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 13 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Alan Taylor: Premature Independence: College Violence in Virginia, 1750-1826

UserAlan Taylor, University of Oxford.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 06 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Simon Newman: Hidden in Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves in Jamaica

UserSimon Newman, University of Glasgow.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 23 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Jill Lepore: The Rise and Fall of the Fact

UserJill Lepore, Harvard University and the New Yorker.

HouseThe Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 16:00-18:00

Thomas Sugrue: Obama's Urban Policy: A First Appraisal

UserThomas Sugrue, New York University.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 16 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Loïc Wacquant: Peculiar Institutions: Four Centuries of race-Making in the United States

UserLoïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley and 2016-17 Pitt Professor, University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Seth Archer: Throwing Away the Gods: Hawai'i, 1818-1825

UserSeth Archer, University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 21 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Darren Dochuk: Blood on the Earth: Wildcat Religion and Oil in America's Age of Civil War

UserDarren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 14 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Bronwen Everill: Free Produce, Free Labour, and the Africa Question

UserBronwen Everill, University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 31 October 2016, 17:00-19:00

Nick Witham: Remembering 1968: Life Writing, Politics and Protest

UserDr Nick Witham, University College London.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 24 October 2016, 17:00-19:00

Pekka Hämäläinen: A Place in the World

UserPekka Hämäläinen, University of Oxford.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 17 October 2016, 17:00-19:00

Mark A. Peterson: Dismembering the Body: The Demise of the City-State of Boston, 1822-1860

UserMark A. Peterson, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseOld Library, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 23 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Nicholas Guyatt Book Launch: Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

UserNicholas Guyatt, University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 16 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Joanna Cohen: Accounting for Loss: Technology and Tragedy in America's Civil War

UserJoanna Cohen, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 09 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Anthony G. Hopkins: Rethinking the American Empire

UserAnthony G. Hopkins, Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge.

HouseBoard Room, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 17:00-19:00

Sarah M.S. Pearsall: Enlightenment, Polygamy, Vampires

UserDr Sarah M.S Pearsall, University of Cambridge.

HouseStaircase 1, Room 4, Corpus Christi College.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Gareth Stedman Jones: Karl Marx and American Politics - The New York Tribune Years

UserGareth Stedman Jones, Queen Mary, University of London and University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 29 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Sarah Miller-Davenport: The Power of Mutual Understanding: Teaching 'New Modes of Life' in Post-Statehood Hawai'i

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Michael Kazin: War Against War: The American Fight for Peace

UserProfessor Michael Kazin, Georgetown University.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 15 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Marie-Jeanne Rossignol: The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet

UserProfessor Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Diderot.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

John A. Thompson: Why Did the United States Assume a Global Role?

UserDr John A. Thompson, University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 01 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Stephen Tuck: The Doubts of Their Fathers: The Secular Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

UserProfessor Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Margaret Jacobs: Reconciling Native American and Twentieth Century American History

UserMargaret Jacobs, 2015-16 Pitt Professor, University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 18 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Charlie Laderman: Theodore Roosevelt and the Humanitarian Tradition in U.S. Diplomacy

UserCharlie Laderman, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Andrew R. Graybill: For the Sake of the Common Happiness: The Taos Revolt of 1847 and the Limits of U.S. Conquest

UserProfessor Andrew R. Graybill, Southern Methodist University.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Reading and Remembering Michael O'Brien

UserProfessor Richard King, Dr Joel Isaac, Dr Samuel James.

HouseOld Library, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Robin L. Einhorn: The Long View of American Tax Politics

UserProfessor Robin L. Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley and The American Academy in Berlin.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Jonathan Bell: Rethinking the "Straight State": Welfare Politics, Health Care, and Public Policy in the Shadow of AIDS

UserProfessor Jonathan Bell, University College London.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Brian Ward: The Beatles' White (Photograph) Album: Race, Class and Gender in Miami Beach, 1964

UserProfessor Brian Ward, Northumbria University.

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 02 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Please see above for contact details for this list.

Other lists

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon Alison Richard Building- 7 West Road (Room 119) Old Library at Pembroke College

Other talks

Ice in a mostly-Arctic Context TBC C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2026 Title to be confirmed Washing machines and their rare components: lessons from kidney patients What Can a Spectrum Learn? AI Perspectives on the Kohn Laplacian of Sphere Quotients
 

© 2006-2025 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity