Location: British Library
Date: Friday 10th November, 2023
Keynote: Professor Tommy Curry (University of Edinburgh)
The APG/BAAS annual colloquium will be held at the British Library on Friday, November 10th, 2023. The event will run from 12.30 to 5.30 and will be headlined by Professor Tommy Curry (Edinburgh), whose keynote address will be
America as Racist Polity: Enslavement, Segregation, and Racial Violence as Determinates of Political Structuration. The paper argues that racial violence against Black Americans is not simply a moral failure of some white Americans or an aberration of American democracy, but a foundational social process that reinforces the social hierarchies and political proxemics of the country.
REGISTRATION
Registration includes an afternoon refreshment break of tea, coffee and pastries.
£25, full price (for those in permanent employment)
£5, reduced price (for those precariously employed, PG and UG students, retired, and unwaged)
To register for this event, please contact the American politics convenor [email protected]
PROGRAMME
12.30 | Registration
12.50 | Welcome from APG Chair Phil Davies
13.00 | Keynote address:
America as Racist Polity: Enslavement, Segregation, and Racial Violence as Determinates of Political Structuration. by Prof. Tommy Curry (Edinburgh)
14.10 | Refreshment Break
14.40 | Roundtable discussion
The Impact of the war in Ukraine on US Politics
15.50 | Prizes presentation by APG Chair Phil Davies
16.10 | Comfort Break
16.30 | Congress to Campus Q&A Chair: Dr Alex Waddan (Leicester) and FMC Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and FMC Greg Walden (R-OR)
18.00 | Closing Remarks from APG Chair Phil Davies.
The colloquium is organised by the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association in collaboration with the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library. Supported by the US Embassy and the British Association for American Studies.
Former Members of Congress are visiting as part of the Congress to Campus UK programme, which brings former Members of the US Congress to the UK to talk with student and general audiences about contemporary US politics. Working with the US Association of Former Members of Congress, the programme is coordinated by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, with support from the British Association for American Studies and the US Embassy London.
