North American Studies Programme, St Antony's College, University of Oxford

Canada Seminar: Quebec and Scotland - Two Dialogues in Contrast

http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/Events/Canada-Seminar-with-Christos-Sirros.aspx

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Trump and World Order: Will a New US Foreign Policy Change Global Governance? A seminar by the Global Economic Governance Programme, Blavatnik School of Government. Please note you will need to register to attend.
http://www.geg.ox.ac.uk/events/trump-world-order

Trump and World Order: Will a New US Foreign Policy Change Global Governance? | Global Economic Governance The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States raises the prospect of fundamental shifts in American foreign policy and global governance. Trump campaigned against NATO and US military alliances in Asia, against current and planned free trade agreements, against international coopera...

Rothermere American Institute - Visiting Fellowships for 2017-18

Applications are invited for Visiting Fellowships to be held in the academic year 2017-18. RAI Visiting Fellows pursue research on diverse aspects of American history, politics and culture in the Vere Harmsworth Library’s collections and elsewhere at Oxford University, write books and articles, and engage in the Institute’s lively scholarly community. The RAI offers four types of fellowship:

• Senior Visiting Research Fellowships, tenable for one academic year by a mid-late career scholar.
• Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellowships, for academics who have recently completed a doctorate, or are at an early stage of their academic career. Fellowships are tenable for one or two terms.
• Associate Visiting Research Fellowships, tenable for one academic year, usually by scholars who have an academic post in the UK or elsewhere.
• Vacation Visiting Research Fellowships, tenable from June to September by academics wishing to conduct research in Oxford during the summer.

For details and how to apply, please visit http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/fellows/apply. The deadline for applications is 30 January 2017. Any further questions can be addressed to [email protected].

Professor Alan Taylor will give his Inaugural Lecture as this year's Visiting Harmsworth Professor of American History today at 5pm in Exam Schools

We Did Not Anticipate the Trump Nightmare... Article by St Antony's College Academic Visitor, Dr Iván Farías

Pelcastrehttp://eaworldview.com/2016/11/us-opinion-we-did-not-anticipate-the-trump-nightmare/

US Opinion: We Did Not Anticipate the Trump Nightmare - EA WorldView The Trump nightmare --- how did we not see this coming? And if we saw it coming, why did we not do anything about it, to prevent this from happening?

A new report on America’s Overseas Voters: 2016’s Forgotten Constituency?, co-authored by Halbert Jones and Patrick Andelic, has been released. Earlier this year, the RAI published a report highlighting the impact overseas voters could have in a tight election. This study triggered widespread discussion in the U.S. and international media and helped to prompt a major overseas voter registration drive by the online pressure group Avaaz. The new report develops that analysis considerably, providing a more detailed look at US states where the result is most likely to be influenced by overseas voters, the profile of the population of overseas voters from a key swing state, and some of the countries in which overseas voters reside. In particular, this report highlights that in certain key swing states – where polling suggests the race is particularly tight – the results could hinge on just a few thousand overseas votes. It can be accessed at http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/voters

America's Overseas Voters: 2016's Forgotten Constituency? | Rothermere American Institute Earlier this year the Rothermere American Institute (RAI) at the University of Oxford published a report highlighting the impact overseas voters could have in a tight election. This study triggered widespread discussion in the US and international media and helped to prompt a major overseas voter re...

Harmsworth Lecture: American Revolutions: Empires and Republics in North America, 1750-1804. South School, Examinations Schools,Tuesday 15 November

Please see Rothermere American Institute's Termcard for Michaelmas 2016 http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/termcard

Termcard | Rothermere American Institute

Dr Iván Farías Pelcastre, writing in the LSE Impact Blog: http://bit.ly/2dFVwhc

The current system of knowledge dissemination isn’t working and Sci-Hub is merely a symptom of the problem That Sci-Hub’s activities are illegal is not disputed. However, according to Iván Farías Pelcastre and Flor González Correa the issue at the core of the debate is the current publishing and knowled…

The North American Studies Programme's Academic Visitor, Iván Farías Pelcastre has published his first book review as Academic Visitor at NASP. His review of "Free Speech after 9/11" by Katharine Gelber can be viewed here: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/08/11/book-review-free-speech-after-911-by-katharine-gelber/
Iván is also a Postdoctoral Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the University of Southern California.

Book Review: Free Speech after 9/11 by Katharine Gelber In Free Speech After 9/11, Katharine Gelber compares three liberal democracies – the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia – to consider the ways in which Western governments …

With the entire world waiting for the American people to pick their next Commander and Chief, the stakes are high. The candidates for President of the United States have presented what seems like contrasting visions for U.S. foreign policy. But is U.S. foreign policy really so malleable that one single person can dramatically change course, even if President?

Join Ambassador (Ret.) Derek Shearer to discuss the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections and what is at stake from a foreign policy perspective.

Wednesday 18 May, 5pm, Pavilion Room, St Antony's College, Oxford

Seminar tomorrow! 5.00pm St Antony's College, Oxford: The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era. All welcome!http://bit.ly/1YRYuwz