The JFK Conspiracies: Special Event to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination
25/10/2013
Who killed President Kennedy? Why did the Warren Commission lie? Why did Jack Ruby murder Lee Harvey Oswald? Why are there so many different theories about the assassination? November 22 1963. For decades afterwards, most Americans, and many people around the world, could respond instantly to the question: ‘Where were you when you heard the …
Alice Munro: Nobel Laureate
14/10/2013
‘It was anarchy she was up against – a devouring muddle. Sudden holes and impromptu tricks and radiant vanishing consolations.’ (Alice Munro, Open Secrets) The award of the Nobel Prize to Canadian short story writer Alice Munro (b. 1931) has been greeted with pleasure by admirers from around the globe. Munro’s artistry is appreciated equally …
Final sneak peak: Windows on Russia
10/10/2013
The eagerly-anticipated book ‘Windows on Russia and Eastern Europe’, written by Nottingham alumni, finally launches on 26 October! In our final sneak peak before the launch, Rod Thornton describes his experience as part of a British army contingent sent to protect fuel supplies in Bosnia… We arrived at the Egyptian barracks in the middle of …
Booker without Borders?
07/10/2013
The diverse 2013 Man Booker-shortlisted authors – the Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo; the Canadian-born New Zealander Eleanor Catton; the Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri; the Japanese-American-Canadian Ruth Ozeki; the Irish Colm Toíbín; and the British Jim Crace – will be the last to be celebrated under the prize’s traditional catchment area. In 2014, the prize opens to “any …
The March on Washington 1963 and the Untold Stories Behind the Dream
03/10/2013
Co-convened by three professors of American History and American Studies — Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Sharon Monteith and Marcia Chatelain, from Germany, Britain and the US — a September 2013 symposium reflected the global impact of the March on Washington by forging a transatlantic conversation in the city of the March. Hosted by the German Historical Institute …
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