Name: Zachary Seager

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Dissenting Atlantic: The Transatlantic Journey of The Experience of Thomas Jones (1850)
Date: 17 October 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Bridget Bennett
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: Daniel Abdalla, Zachary Seager
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘In the deep end, every stroke counts’: Aphorisms in Troubled Times, Yahia Lababidi in conversation with Ben Grant
Date: 31 October 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker s: Yahia Lababidi, Ben Grant
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: Daniel Abdalla, Zachary Seager
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

'The Garbage of Our Lives’: Toward a Minoritarian Theory of Waste
Date: 14 November 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Dr Diarmuid Hester
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: Zachary Seager, Daniel Abdalla
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Whale, or Moby Dick, International Copyright and the Transatlantic Fashioning of American Authorship
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 28 November 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Dr Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: Zachary Seager, Daniel Abdalla
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

“Because the world does not exist”: Afrofuturism’s Radical Past
Date: 6 February 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Erin E Forbes (University of Bristol)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: Zachary Seager, Daniel Abdalla
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

CANCELLED: Melting-Pot Media: "Americanization" in the Early Twentieth Century
Date: 20 February 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Michael McCluskey (Boston University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: Zachary Seager, Daniel Abdalla
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

The Limits of Transnational Exceptionalism: The Case of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba
Date: 6 March 2020, 10:30 - 11:45 (Friday, 7th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera (Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest; Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: Zachary Seager, Daniel Abdalla
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 14 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

E.E. Cummings as a Poet of the Great War: Love, Sex, Brutality, and ‘the Beauty of Living’
Date: 14 May 2020, 16:00 - 17:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Dr Alison Rosenblitt (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom, Rothermere American Institute
Organisers: Zachary Seager, Daniel Abdalla
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Edith Wharton as Playwright, a panel
Date: 28 May 2020, 16:00 - 17:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker s: Dr Laura Rattray (University of Glasgow), Mary Chinery (Georgian Court University), Daniel Abdalla
Venue Details: Zoom, Rothermere American Institute
Organisers: Zachary Seager, Daniel Abdalla
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

The 'Oriental' Detective: Reading Race and Masculinity in Contemporary Asian American Crime Fiction
Date: 11 June 2020, 16:00 - 17:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Harriet Stilley (University of Edinburgh)
Venue Details: Zoom, Rothermere American Institute
Organisers: Zachary Seager, Daniel Abdalla
Hosts: TBA