DBC Colloquium

American Evangelicalism and the 1960s  was the topic of the Tenth International Colloquium organised by the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele on 16-19 April 2011.

The Colloquium for the first time brought together younger scholars from the US, the UK and mainland Europe who in recent years have pioneered the reinterpretation of the New Christian Right, one of the most significant developments in modern US politics and culture. Participants presented new research on topics such as the relationship between conservative Protestants and corporate America, the counterculture, the sexual revolution, and the welfare state. 

The Colloquium, which was supported by the Research Institute for the Humanities, featured a well-attended and well-received keynote address by Professor Paul S. Boyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), a leading American scholar in the field of cultural, intellectual and religious history. It also included a tour of the Englesea Brook Museum and Mow Cop Castle, the site of the 1807 Primitive Methodist Revival.

Previous themes included:

Allies and Clients: America's Special Relationships  (2007)

The Moral Republic:  Social Regulation, Cultural Politics and the State in the United States (2003)

Writing Southern Poverty Between the Wars  (2000)

Frederick Douglass in Britain (1995)

The Future of American Politics: Towards the Third Century  (1989)