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The Centre for American Studies and The School of English are delighted announce the launch of a new online journal. Transmotion is a biannual, fully and … Read more

A documentary charting the story of the largest demonstration in human history will be shown on Wednesday 25 March at 5pm, in Woolf Lecture Theatre, The University of … Read more

In an open lecture on Wed 4 February, Dr. Ruth Blakeley will explore the development and operation of a global system for the rendition, secret … Read more

Entitled ‘Unravelling the Special Relationship: British Reaction to the Kennedy Assassination’, this year’s Bolt Lecture will be given by Professor Clive Webb, Professor of Modern … Read more

Matthew Barzun, US Ambassador to the UK, has given a talk at Kent to coincide with the launch of a new diplomacy initiative. The Ambassador’s … Read more

Peruvian filmmaker Rossana Di­az Costa will present her award-winning film Trip to Timbuktu (2013) at a special screening on Thursday, 16th October 2014 at 6pm … Read more

Claire Hurley, a third year PhD student in the School of English, has been awarded this year’s Christine and Ian Bolt scholarship. [1] The scholarship … Read more

The Centre for American Studies welcomes visiting Professor Kathryn Lofton, specialist in religious studies at Yale, who will be speaking on religion and American life … Read more

The University of Kent is hosting a one-day symposium on 19th May 2014, entitled ‘Ethnography and American Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920’. … Read more

Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair of the University of Manitoba, will be giving a talk about his involvement with the Idle No More  movement in Canada both as … Read more