On May 2, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading, Sir David Bell, will formally launch \u2018The Monroe Group\u2019 a new interdisciplinary research group at the university focused around the politics and political history of North America and the Caribbean. I\u2019m proud, alongside my colleague Dr. Maddi Davies from our English Literature Department, to be part of the triumvirate spearheading this new initiative, but all credit for this first event has to go to History\u2019s Dr. Mara Oliva who first came up with the idea of the research group and has driven it from its genesis to near-launch with passion and determination few can match.<\/p>\n
Our launch event is a one-day research conference \u2013\u00a0Trump\u2019s First 100 Days<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which will look at a unique 100 days in the life of America from both political and historical perspectives. The conference is free to University of Reading staff and students, with a small charge for visitors from elsewhere.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how the day shapes up:<\/p>\n TRUMP\u2019S FIRST 100 DAYS 9.30-9.45 University of Reading Vice-Chancellor, Sir David Bell, launches new research 9.45-11.00 Keynote Address: Professor Andrew Rudalevige \u2013 Bowdoin College<\/p>\n 11.00-11.30 coffee<\/p>\n 11.30-13.00 Panel 1: The first 100 days in historical perspective<\/p>\n Mark Shanahan (Reading): Dwight D. Eisenhower & Trump 13.00-14.00 lunch<\/p>\n 14.00-15.15 Panel 2: Political thinking and Minorities 15.15-15.45 coffee<\/p>\n 15.45-17.00 Panel 3: 100 Days of Donald Trump: Devil, Detail and Domestic Policy 17.00-18.00 Foreign Policy Roundtable The event is free but booking is essential, please follow the link:http:\/\/www.store.reading.ac.uk\/conferences-and-events\/faculty-of-arts-humanities-social-science\/department-of-history\/reading-interdisciplinary-research-network-for-the-study-of-political-history-politics-in-america<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMay 2, 2017,\u00a0University of Reading<\/p>\n
\ncentre for the study of politics in the Americas and introduces keynote address<\/p>\n
\nMark White (Queen Mary, University of London): JFK & Trump
\nIwan Morgan (UCL): Reagan & Trump<\/p>\n
\nEddie Ashbee (Copenhagen Business School): The Trump administration and the contemporary
\npopulist surge
\nKevern Verney (Edge Hill University): \u2018Bad Hombres\u2019: The Trump Administration, Mexican
\nImmigration, and the Border Wall
\nRichard Johnson (University of Oxford): White Flight from the Democratic Party: Explaining
\nTrump\u2019s Victory in the Midwest<\/p>\n
\nLee Marsden (East Anglia University): Pushing Back the Obama Legacy: Trump\u2019s First 100
\nDays and the Alt Right \u2013 Evangelical \u2013 Catholic coalition
\nClodagh Harrington (DeMonfort University): Pushing Forward, Rolling Back: The Fate of
\nReproductive Rights in the Trump Era
\nAlex Waddan (Leicester University): President Trump and Social Policy<\/p>\n
\nJacob Parakilas (Chatham House), Maria Ryan (Nottingham), Darius Wainwright (Reading),\u00a0(Mara Oliva (Reading)
\n18.00 \u2013 18.10 Closing Remarks<\/p>\n