Events
Each semester the Bruce Centre hosts a series of seminars given by distinguished national and international scholars. These events are central to the maintenance of a research culture at Keele. Bruce Centre Seminars provide a means to meet and debate with some of the leading scholars of American history, culture, literature, and politics. The seminars also provide a valuable opportunity to hear voices from outside the Keele community.
Author event: Curtis Chin
On 22 May 2025 The David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas was delighted to welcome writer, producer and director Curtis Chin, author
Legacy and Survival: Evolving Global Threats from the Atomic Bomb to Climate Change
On 2 April 2025, The David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas, in conjunction with British Pugwash, hosted a major symposium on nuclear proliferation, disarmament, and anti-nuclear activism. On the 80th anniversary of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, our speakers discussed the continuing existential threat of nuclear weapons and the role of nuclear and non-nuclear weapons states and youth activists in confronting that threat. The three speakers were David Alexandre Ellwood, a member of the Pugwash Council and the executive committees of International Pugwash and the British Pugwash group; María Antonieta Jáquez, current Coordinator for Disarmament and Nonproliferation at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico; and Franco Castro Escobar, a PhD student at Keele University who is affiliated to the David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas.
Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb: Legacy and Survival (Virtual Reality Experience and Book Exhibition)
On 29 and 30 October 2024, Keele staff and students and
There was also a small display of pictures, Japanese comic
Unfolding Our Shared Future - Keele Hall 8 May 2024
On 8 May 2024 the David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas, in collaboration with the American Politics Group (and with the support of a special award from the US Embassy) hosted
Loretta Lees (left) and Ray Bromley (right)
Watch the event here.
David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas seminar programme
Seminars will be held at 2.15pm in the David Bruce Centre (CBB 1.030). Online seminars will be held on Teams. Please follow public health advice, and do not attend in-person if you are feeling unwell or experiencing any COVID symptoms.
Please direct queries to the DBC director Dr James Peacock
Seminar programme 2016/2017 | Seminar programme 2017/2018 | Seminar programme 2018/2019 |Seminar programme 2019/2020 | Seminar programme 2020/2021
Semester 1, 2024/25
December 6 (hybrid)
Dr Harriet Earle (Sheffield
Semester 1, 2022/23
November 23 (in-person)
Dr David Brown (Manchester)
Duet with John Bull: The Black Abolitionist Mission to the British Isles during the Civil War
November 30, 2022 (in-person)
Dr Jenny Woodley (Nottingham Trent)
Ghosts, Mourning and Death at Louisiana's Plantations
December 14, 2022 (online)
Professor Maria Sulimma (Freiburg)
Microscripts of Gentrification: Leisure and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Literature
Seminar programme 2021/22
October 27, 2021 at 3.15pm
Dr Sam McBean (Queen Mary, University of London)
Queer Enumeration
December 8, 2021 at 2.15pm
Dr Megan Hunt (University of Edinburgh)
‘When things made sense, when we were the good guys’: representing the white South in late-twentieth century American cinema'.