Rothermere American Institute

Jun 30 2020 29 ep. 48 mins 176

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Podcasts of lectures and seminars held at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

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'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50

Jun 30 2020 85 mins

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. Alan Curtis, President, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester Chair: Mitch Robertson, Politics Graduate

Race and the problem of the public in postwar America

Feb 25 2020 51 mins

Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government

The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters

Dec 12 2019 46 mins

New Yorker fiction through the decades Deborah Treisman has been fiction editor at The New Yorker since 2003, having joined the magazine in 1998. She hosts the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast. She has edited the anthology 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker (2010) and most recently (with Anne Doran), Walter Hopps’s The Dream Colony: A Life in Art (2017). Published s

The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History

Jun 06 2019 63 mins

Health and disease history of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: two syndemics John R. McNeill is widely considered a pioneer in the study of environmental history. His books include The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History (1992), Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World (2000), Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the G

The long-term implications of President Nixon's healthcare programme

Feb 26 2019 46 mins

A talk on President Nixon's radical new healthcare programme proposed in early 1971. In early 1971, President Nixon proposed a radical new healthcare programme. The Family Health Insurance Plan (FHIP) proposed a national floor under health insurance, with national eligibility standards. All employers with one (later revised to ten) or more employees were to provide standard health

Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance

Feb 26 2019 62 mins

Winant Lecture in American Government

Making Oscar Wilde

Feb 26 2019 39 mins

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. With superb style and an instinct for story-telling, Mendelssohn brings to life the charming young Irishman who set out to captiv

Politics After God

Feb 15 2018 45 mins

The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government. David Sehat is a cultural and intellectual historian of the United States. He writes broadly on American intellectual, political, and cultural life. He is the author of The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible (Simon and Schuster, 2015) and The Myth of American Religious Freedom (Oxfor

The Dream Colony: The Life in Art of Walter Hopps

Nov 13 2017 46 mins

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 Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

The Trump Administration and The New Nationalism

Jun 05 2017 36 mins

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.