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
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
Joining the Revolution	Lyndon Johnson, the modern presidency and the Civil Rights Movement.	Sidney M Milkis	7 March, 2017
‘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
“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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
America’s Healthcare Crisis: Lessons for Policymakers	Gary Lauer (eHealth Inc.) gives a talk on the American Healthcare system	Gary Lauer	22 October, 2014
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
'The "Age of Revolutions" as an Age of Civil Wars'	The Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History 2014 by Professor David Armitage.	David Armitage	12 June, 2014
The Futility of Economic Forecasting?	Michael Aronstein, President, Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer of Marketfield Asset Management (New York) delivers a lecture in the Institute’s ‘American Business: Past, Present and Future’ series.	Michael Aronstein	21 May, 2014
Kant's little East Prussian Head and Other Reasons why we Write	Writer Claire Messud gives the Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters 2014	Claire Messud	20 May, 2014
Social Sector Dynamics - Opportunities Abound!	Chairman and Founder of the Bridgespan Group Thomas J. Tierney gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute on philanthropy and how many Americans are giving back to society	Thomas J Tierney	7 May, 2014
Nixon the President, Nixon the Man	Please note. The final 10 minutes to this podcast are Audio Only. We apologise for the inconvenience.	Alexander Butterfield, John Price	25 March, 2014
The Assassination of President Kennedy: 50 years on	Godfrey Hodgson and Randall Woods discuss President Kennedy's life in a special event marking the anniversary of his assassination on November 22, 1963.	Godfrey Hodgson, Randall Woods	2 December, 2013
The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler	David Roll's portrait of Hopkins discusses his early life and career, but emphasizes his role alongside FDR (and later Truman) in World War II, making use of previously private diaries and letters.	David L Roll	15 November, 2013
Esmond Harmsworth Lecture 2013: Theater in the Age of Twitter	The annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given in May 2013 by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn.	David Auburn	16 October, 2013
Panel 2 Keynote Lecture - Preserves	Second Keynote lecture for the Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Debra Priestly	24 July, 2013
Panel 4 Lecture 3 - Guyana, 1763 and 1960: Art, Memory and Modernism	Panel 4 Lecture 3 - African American and Black Diasporic Visual Cultures in Comparative Perspective - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Leon Wainwright	24 July, 2013
Panel 4 Lecture 2 - Could the Master's Tools Dismantle the Master's House?	Panel 4 lecture 2 - African American and Black Diasporic Visual Cultures in Comparative Perspective - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Elvan Zabunyan	24 July, 2013
Panel 4 Lecture 1: 'The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth': Richmond Barthé's Memorials to Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines	Panel 4- African American and Black Diasporic Visual Cultures in Comparative Perspective - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Hannah Durkin	24 July, 2013
Special Lecture at Modern Art Oxford: Lost and Found at the Swop Meet: Betye Saar and the Everyday Object	Special Lecture at Modern Art Oxford. Part of the Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Lubaina Himid MBE	24 July, 2013
Panel 2 Lecture 3 The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Twentieth-Century Black Visual Culture	Panel 2, Lecture 3 - The Histories, Narratives, and Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Zoe Trodd	24 July, 2013
Panel 2 lecture 2 Uncle Tom and the Problem of 'Soft' Resistance to Slavery	Panel 2, Lecture 2 The Histories, Narratives, and Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	David Bindman	24 July, 2013
Panel 2 Lecture 1 Slavery, Literature, and the Image of the African American Woman as Public Record	Panel 2, Lecture 1 The Histories, Narratives, and Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Fionnghuala Sweeney	24 July, 2013
Panel 1 Lecture 3 - Getting into Character: Encounters with 'Tricksterism' in Contemporary Depictions of the American Slave Plantation	Panel 1, Lecture 3 Theorizing Black Diasporic Visual Cultures - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Keith Piper	24 July, 2013
Panel 1 Lecture 2 Playing In the Dark (with the Archive): African Atlantic Artists and Radical Interventions	Panel 1, Lecture 2 Theorizing Black Diasporic Visual Cultures - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Alan Rice	24 July, 2013
Panel 1 Keynote Lecture - What goes without saying	Panel 1, Lecture 1 Theorizing Black Diasporic Visual Cultures - Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America An International Symposium.	Hank Willis Thomas	24 July, 2013
A Great Deal of Ruin in a Nation	In this lecture, Professor Barry Supple (FBA) and Professor Avner Offer (FBA) will analyse the post-war economic development of the United States.	Barry Supple, Avner Offer	14 November, 2012
Sabina Murray: Bouncing Across the Plank: Politics, History, and Literary Imagination	The Annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given by award-winning Filipina American screenwriter and novelist, Sabina Murray at the Rothermere American Institute on 13th June 2012.	Sabina Murray	25 June, 2012
C.K. Williams: A Life in Poems (2010 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture)	The Annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner C.K. Williams on 'A Life in Poems' at the Rothermere American Institute on 24th May 2010.	C.K. Williams	28 May, 2010
Standing Neustadt on his Head: The Leadership Style of Dwight D. Eisenhower	Fred L. Greenstein (Professor of Politics Emeritus, Princeton University) delivers the 2010 John Lees Memorial Lecture at the American Politics Group conference.	Fred Greenstein	5 March, 2010
He's got the whole world in his hands: US History and its discontents in the Obama Era	Robin Kelley's inaugral lecture comments on the absence of discussion about race as connected to Barak Obama's presidency, particularly in light of American history and politics.	Robin D Kelley	1 December, 2009
Arthur Miller: Un-American (2009 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture)	The 2009 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters, given on 21 May 2009 at the Rothermere American Institute, by Professor Christopher Bigsby, University of East Anglia.	Christopher Bigsby	9 October, 2009

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