David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas

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Join the international Paul Auster Society! You can find out more about the society and sign up for free here: https://t.co/P0lr2GSIEm

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James Peacock's new monograph is out: https://t.co/5B1xS0bh1k

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Free author event, 22 May! Curtis Chin is coming to Keele! Sign up here: https://t.co/nKlB0tAsnE

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Wonderful opportunity for American literature scholars! Paul Auster Research Library Visiting Fellowship 2026: https://t.co/sELwuQUaC5 Closing date 15 May 2025.

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Watch the screening at Keele University of the wonderful Heartlands: Earth and Bones film, followed by a Q and A with its creative team: https://t.co/S7vqhYAdR4

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Check out the events page for The David Bruce Centre for the Study of the Americas, Keele University: https://t.co/dqv6pZig9z There are some exciting things coming up...

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The David Bruce Centre for the Study of Americas is delighted to welcome Curtis Chin, author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant on 22 May 2025. Sign up for free here: https://t.co/3THxeC9RGg

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David Bruce Centre seminar, 26 Feb, 15.30 (UK time). Prof. Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa (Cambridge): "What is internalised oppression and why should we care?"

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US Presidential Election: Cross-Disciplinary Responses - 13 Nov, 2.30 p.m. UK time (online). 6 speakers - 3 from Glasgow, 3 from Keele - share thoughts on the US election, before wider discussion. To join, please email DBC director James Peacock; [email protected].

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Our pop-up exhibit on the legacy of Hiroshima's atomic bomb was a great success. Thank you to all the staff, students and friends who came. Thanks to the Hiroshima Peace Institute for lending us the VR headset. Thank you to Franco Escobar for organising the event.

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There will also be pictures, Japanese comic books, and other materials, adding up to a fascinating mini pop-up exhibition on nuclear threat, and the legacy of and survival of war more generally. Please visit the exhibition between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on 29 and 30 October.

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Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb: Legacy and Survival (Virtual Reality Experience and Book Exhibition)
Location: Chancellor’s Gallery, Chancellor’s Building
Date: Tuesday 29th & Wednesday 30th October 2024
Time: 10:00 – 17:00

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Join DBC colleagues to use a virtual reality headset, loaned by the Hiroshima Peace Institute, and experience its unique 5-minute immersive film about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The DBC is the first institute outside Japan to have been loaned the headset.

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Confirmed speakers: Kristen Brill, Jon Herbert and Forough Ramezankhah (Keele); Oli Charbonneau, Sarah Dunstan and Alex Benchimol (Glasgow). Please email James Peacock (Keele) for the Teams meeting link. See you there!

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Online event: The U.S. Presidential Election: Cross-Disciplinary Responses, Weds. 13 Nov. 2.30 p.m. UK time. Co-hosted by DBC for the Study of the Americas and Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies, Glasgow...

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UN staff in Mexico have interviewed our PhD researcher, Franco Castro Escobar, about nuclear disarmament: https://t.co/abMxck1sUm

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We are sad to hear of the death of Fredric Jameson, aged 90. One of the most influential theorists and critics of the 20th and 21st centuries.