US National Identity in the 21st Century
A three-day international conference, 9 - 11 November 2006
Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Plenary Speakers :
ANATOL LIEVEN
Thursday 9th November 5pm
Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation and author of,“America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism” (2004)
JONATHAN RABAN Friday 10th November 5.15pm
Novelist and journalist, and author of, “My Holy War: Dispatches From the Home Front” (2006) and “Surveillance” (2006)
Round Table 1: Fear and Freedom Post 9/11
Friday 10th November, 3.30 pm
Ann Beeson, Associate Legal Director, the American Civil Liberties Union; Walter A. Davies, (Ohio State University), author of “Death’s Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since 9-11”; Frank Furedi, (University of Kent), author of “Politics of Fear”; Corey Robin, (Brooklyn College & CUNY), author of “Fear: The History of a Political Idea”.
Chair, Bill Durodie, (Cranfield University)
Round Table 2: US National Identity in Comparative Context
Saturday 11th November, 2.00 pm
Don Doyle, (University of South Carolina), author of, “Nationalism in the New World”; Joseph Duffey, International Laureate Universities and former Director of the US Information Agency; Bridget Kendall, BBC TV Diplomatic Correspondent; Alan Ryan, Professor of Politics, (University of Oxford).
Chair, Alan Hudson, (University of Oxford)
Issues to be addressed by papers and panels will include:
The Politics of Globalization and National Identity
The Foreign Policy Establishment, the President, and the Conspiracy Theorists: The Rhetoric of Politics Since 9/11
Race, Ethnicity, and American Cultural Identities
Moral Values, Politics and American Identity
Cultural Fictions of America at Home and Abroad
National Identity and American Empire
Nativism or Cosmopolitanism?
Public Memory Making
The New Immigration Debate
Motivations for U.S. Foreign Policy
Aspects of the War on Terror
Law and American Identity
Toward a New Racial Order: Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement in American Politics
Advance registration is essential. For further details about the conference and to register, please see the RAI’s website (www.rai.ox.ac.uk) or contact Andrea Beighton at academic.programme@rai.ox.ac.uk, tel 01865 282 711. The conference is free and open to the public.
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