| '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 |
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| 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 |
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| The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters |
New Yorker fiction through the decades |
Deborah Treisman |
12 December, 2019 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance |
Winant Lecture in American Government |
Stephen Skowronek |
26 February, 2019 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Politics After God |
The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government. |
David Sehat, Hal Jones |
15 February, 2018 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| America and the Treaty of Versailles |
A public lecture for a series on the United States and World War One. |
Margaret MacMillan |
15 May, 2017 |
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| Joining the Revolution |
Lyndon Johnson, the modern presidency and the Civil Rights Movement. |
Sidney M Milkis |
7 March, 2017 |
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| ‘O Say Can You See?’ Art, Propaganda and the First World War |
A public lecture by Professor David Lubin (Wake Forest University) as part of a series on the history of the United States and World War One. |
David Lubin |
28 February, 2017 |
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| “Deeds Not Words”: American Social Justice Movements and World War One |
A public lecture on the United States and World War One |
Jennifer Keene |
14 February, 2017 |
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| ‘Exiled Children’ and the Easter Rising: America and Irish Independence |
Robert Schmuhl (Notre Dame) gives a talk on the Easter Rising as part of the American History Research Seminar series. |
Robert Schmuhl |
19 October, 2016 |
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| Masters of the Seas: Naval Power and the First World War |
Sir Hew Strachan delivers the first Rothermere American Institute Lecture at the annual Chalke Valley History Festival on 29 June 2016. |
Hew Strachan |
12 September, 2016 |
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| The Not So Odd Couple: Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Mr Price, who joined the staff of the Nixon administration in 1969, working in the Urban Affairs Council, discusses the relationship between Moynihan and Nixon during the Nixon presidency. |
John Price |
9 May, 2016 |
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| American Higher Education: Observations from the Field |
Robert Scott (President Emeritus, Adelphi University, and RAI), gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on the state of American higher education. |
Robert Scott |
28 October, 2015 |
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| Anglo-American Relations - The Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture 2015 |
The Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, delivers the RAI’s inaugural Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations |
Chris Patten |
27 May, 2015 |
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| Combatting Fraud in the US Capital Markets |
Christopher P. ‘Kip’ Hall (DLA Piper and University of Connecticut) gives a talk on Fraud in American Capital markets. Part of the American Business: Past, Present and Future series. |
Christopher P Kip Hall |
23 February, 2015 |
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| American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century |
The Hon. Christopher Bancroft Burnham, Former US Under Secretary of State and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute seminar series |
Christopher Bancroft Burnham |
3 November, 2014 |
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| America’s Healthcare Crisis: Lessons for Policymakers |
Gary Lauer (eHealth Inc.) gives a talk on the American Healthcare system |
Gary Lauer |
22 October, 2014 |
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| A Progressive Disease: Is Micro-Regulation Killing America’s ‘Can Do’ Culture? |
Philip K. Howard (Common Good legal reform coalition) gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute |
Phillip K Howard |
22 October, 2014 |
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