Annual American Studies Postgraduate Conference
Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Friday 23rd May, 1100-1800
The Annual American Studies Postgraduate Conference at the University of Manchester has become a firm fixture in Manchester’s academic conference calendar and each year more invited speakers and participants from beyond the university join us to help promote postgraduate research and innovation.
Alongside papers from current and recent postgraduates at Manchester and from further afield, the conference provides a training element focused on research and public engagement designed to aid postgraduate students looking to make a career in academia. In addition, this year marks the first time the conference is to be held in the new Graduate School, a bespoke space for postgraduate study and training within the university.
This years keynote address will be delivered by Stacey Robertson, the Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Oglesby Professor of American Heritage at Bradley University in Illinois. Stacey is the author of a number of booksincluding Betsy Mix Cowles: Champion of Equality (2014) and Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old
Northwest (2010). She has lectured at more than one hundred different venues nationally and internationally and is the co-director of the non-profit organization Historians Against Slavery.
Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Friday 23rd May, 1100-1800
The Annual American Studies Postgraduate Conference at the University of Manchester has become a firm fixture in Manchester’s academic conference calendar and each year more invited speakers and participants from beyond the university join us to help promote postgraduate research and innovation.
Alongside papers from current and recent postgraduates at Manchester and from further afield, the conference provides a training element focused on research and public engagement designed to aid postgraduate students looking to make a career in academia. In addition, this year marks the first time the conference is to be held in the new Graduate School, a bespoke space for postgraduate study and training within the university.
This years keynote address will be delivered by Stacey Robertson, the Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Oglesby Professor of American Heritage at Bradley University in Illinois. Stacey is the author of a number of booksincluding Betsy Mix Cowles: Champion of Equality (2014) and Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old
Northwest (2010). She has lectured at more than one hundred different venues nationally and internationally and is the co-director of the non-profit organization Historians Against Slavery.
Location and Directions
The Graduate School is located on the ground floor of the Ellen Wilkinson Building, number 77 on the campus map which is available to download here
Public Transport and Parking:
The University of Manchester Campus is within walking distance of both Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Piccadilly Railway Stations, and is regularly serviced by all buses running along Oxford Road
If driving, there are a number of car parks on campus located close to the Ellen Wilkinson building and clearly signposted on the campus map available above. Oxford Road is easily accessible from the Manchester Ring Road if travelling from outside of the city.
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M15 6JA
The Graduate School is located on the ground floor of the Ellen Wilkinson Building, number 77 on the campus map which is available to download here
Public Transport and Parking:
The University of Manchester Campus is within walking distance of both Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Piccadilly Railway Stations, and is regularly serviced by all buses running along Oxford Road
If driving, there are a number of car parks on campus located close to the Ellen Wilkinson building and clearly signposted on the campus map available above. Oxford Road is easily accessible from the Manchester Ring Road if travelling from outside of the city.
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M15 6JA