The Research Centre for American Studies, which is affiliated with the
Humanities Research Centres, organises conferences and lectures by visiting scholars.
Over the last several years many distinguished academics, poets and writers from the United States and Europe have visited the Centre.
We have organised conferences on many aspects of American Studies since 1993: The Western, Native Americans, Lewis Mumford, FO Matthiessen, African-American Culture at Mid-Century, American Painting at Mid-Century (in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute), Charles Olson and American Poetics, Hollywood and American Culture, English and American Poetry and Poetics, and American Music of the Twentieth Century, Visible Women: American Women & Public Space 1865-1910, and most recently Gay Divorce.
Individual visiting speakers have given talks on American Law, Western Emigration and settlement, Lincoln and Law, The Blues, American Photography, Curtis's photographs of Native Americans, American 19th- century landscape painting, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound and the notation of Provencal song.
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