• Type: None
• Web Address: https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/
• Organising department: Rothermere American Institute

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 09:00 - SYMPOSIUM: Writing Black Women’s Lives: Present and Past
  Various Speakers

Friday 31 May 2019

• 09:30 - A Colloquium in US History: Compromise, Moderatism, Extremism, and Fanaticism: Disagreement in American Politics and Society, 1783-1861
  Various Speakers

Friday 31 January 2020

• 17:00 - RAI Special Event: 'The Great Debate: James Baldwin, William F Buckley and the Civil Rights Revolution'
  Nicolas Buccola (Linfield College), Raphaël Lambert (Kansai University)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 17:00 - RAI Inaugural Lecture: Race and the Problem of the Public in Postwar America
  Professor Margaret Weir (Brown University)

Friday 6 March 2020

• 12:00 - Book launch - The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
  Mark Peterson (Yale)
• 17:00 - Book launch - The Trials of Thomas Morton: an Anglican lawyer, his puritan foes, and the battle for a new England
  Copies of the book will be available for purchase at a discounted price of £15 (payable by cash or cheque).
  Professor Peter C. Mancall (University of Southern California)

Tuesday 16 June 2020

• 15:30 - 'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50
  Alan Curtis (President, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation), Gary Younge (Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester)

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 17:00 - Teaching Histories of Race in America to UK Undergraduates: A Review Panel Discussion
  Various Speakers

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 17:00 - The RAI Goes to the Movies: I am Not Your Negro (2016, dir. Raoul Peck, 95 min)
  Various Speakers

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 17:00 - The RAI Goes to the Movies: Sorry to Bother You (2018, dir. Boots Riley, 102 min) + Blindspotting (2018, dir. Carlos Lopez Estrada, 96 min
  Various Speakers

Thursday 25 March 2021

• 17:00 - The RAI Goes to the Movies: The Watermelon Woman (1996, dir. Cheryl Dunye)
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 20 April 2021

• 09:00 - Conference - Racialisation and the Media: from Television to Twitter
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 17:00 - Exhibition Launch - Evoking the Horse: Indigenous Artists of the North American Plains
  Natalie Hill (Oxford)

Friday 6 May 2022

• 13:00 - Doing History from the Inside: a workshop with Allida Black
  Allida Black (Hillary Rodham Clinton’s historian)

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 17:00 - Richard Nixon’s Liberal Legacy
  John R Price (Former Special Assistant for Urban Affairs to President Nixon), Chair: Professor Adam Smith (Rothermere American Institute, Oxford)

Monday 16 May 2022

• 16:30 - Book launch - Altar Call in Europe: Billy Graham, Mass Evangelism, and the Cold-War West
  Dr Uta Balbier (St Anne's College, Oxford), Professor Jane Shaw (Harris Manchester College, Oxford), Professor Stephen Tuck (Pembroke College, Oxford), Dr Stephen Tuffnell (St Peter's College, Oxford), Chair: Professor Adam Smith (Rothermere American Institute, Oxford)

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 10:30 - The State of Play: The Biden Administration at Midterm
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 17:00 - Book discussion - Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
  Kathryn Olivarius (Stanford University)

Thursday 9 June 2022

• 14:00 - Apparently Personal Poetry: A Symposium on Elizabeth Bishop and Biography
  Professor Thomas Travisano, Interviewer: Jonathan Ellis

Friday 10 June 2022

• 17:00 - Q&A on Apparently Personal Poetry: A Symposium on Elizabeth Bishop and Biography
  Sally Bayley, Jamie McKendrick

Thursday 16 June 2022

• 17:00 - An Evening with Joy Harjo, 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States
  Joy Harjo

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 16:00 - Colonial Time-Consciousness and the American Revolution
  Helena Yoo Roth (CUNY)

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 16:00 - "To Remedy the Evils Under Which We Labor": Internal Improvement as Religious Statecraft in the Antebellum South
  Isaiah Ellis (Toronto)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 16:00 - Engineering Peace: Technology and the End of Politics in the American Nineteenth Century
  This event has been cancelled
  Gordon Fraser (Manchester)

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 16:00 - Book Talk: America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (Chicago, 2022)
  Claire Rydell Arcenas (Montana)

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 12:30 - Book talk - The Floating University: Experience, Empire and the Politics of Knowledge
  Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney)

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 12:30 - Reparations and the Political Imagination
  Registration required
  Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)