Rothermere American Institute

The Rothermere American Institute is an international centre of excellence dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the United States. Bringing together scholars, intellectuals, policy-makers and public figures from around the world, the Institute promotes a greater public and academic understanding of the history, culture and politics of the United States.

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Title	Description	People	Date
'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50	This presentation and discussion, features Gary Younge (University of Manchester) Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation) on the legacies and lessons of the Kerner Commission and their relevance to the current American moment.	Mitch Robertson, Alan Curtis, Gary Younge	30 June, 2020
Race and the problem of the public in postwar America	Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government	Margaret Weir	25 February, 2020
The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters	New Yorker fiction through the decades	Deborah Treisman	12 December, 2019
The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History	Health and disease history of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: two syndemics	John R. McNeill	6 June, 2019
The long-term implications of President Nixon's healthcare programme	A talk on President Nixon's radical new healthcare programme proposed in early 1971.	John Price	26 February, 2019
Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance	Winant Lecture in American Government	Stephen Skowronek	26 February, 2019
Making Oscar Wilde	Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar’s career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim.	Michèle Mendelssohn	26 February, 2019
Party Balance, Partisan Polarization, and Policy Conflict: The Evolution of American Politics, 1932-2014	The 2015 Winant Lecture in American Government. Byron Shafer is Hawkins Chair of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.	Byron Shafer	29 August, 2018
Politics After God	The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government.	David Sehat, Hal Jones	15 February, 2018
The Dream Colony: The Life in Art of Walter Hopps	Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, discusses the life and work of American museum director and curator of modern art, Walter Hopps, with visiting professor of American Art, Miguel De Baca	Deborah Treisman, Miguel De Baca	13 November, 2017
The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism	The Rothermere American Institute’s annual Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations given by The Hon. Jamie Rubin, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State.	Jamie Rubin	5 June, 2017
Merchants of Death? The Nye Commission, the Business of War, and the Politics of Memory	Professor Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and cultural history of the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. His research interests are in the history of war, politics, and citizenship in modern American history.	Christopher Capozzola	22 May, 2017

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