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January 16, 2024
Rhian Davies Named Second Kinder-BrANCH Fellow
This summer (2024), we will welcome our second Kinder-BrANCH Fellow to the M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics. Rhian Davies is currently reading History at the University of Cardiff in the U.K. She has volunteered as a Research Assistant at the Glamorgan Archives, served as Student Rep for the Cardiff History Department and as Publicity […]
December 6, 2023
RECAP: “Beyond Jefferson,” 12/1 Colloquium w/ KICD Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow Christa Dierksheide
The 1825 rendering of Monticello with which Kinder Institute Distinguished Research Fellow Christa Dierksheide began her December 1 Friday Colloquium Series presentation framed the talk both because of what it depicted and what it didn’t. A vision of pastoral 19th-century domesticity and whiteness, we see two of Jefferson’s granddaughters strolling the mansion’s front lawn while […]
December 6, 2023
RECAP: “Imagining Freedom: Toni Morrison and the Work of Words,” 11/17 Colloquium w/ UVA Prof. Lawrie Balfour
A term both inspiring and misunderstood, ‘freedom’ holds a particular place in the historical and lexical narrative of the United States, where its meaning is rooted as much in a right to enslave as it is in a defense of liberty. What would it take, UVA James Hart Professor of Politics Lawrie Balfour asked in […]
November 10, 2023
RECAP: “John Locke in America,” 10/20 Colloquium w/ University of Montana Prof. Claire Rydell Arcenas
“I’m gonna tell you everything you need to know about…local government. ‘Life, Liberty, and Property.’ John Locke.” —Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation Though not necessarily the most reliable narrator—at the very least, not the most ideologically neutral one—Ron Swanson does capture Locke’s uniquely central place in American culture and the American political imagination today. His […]
September 14, 2023
RECAP: 9/12 James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain Constitution Day Lecture with University of Cambridge’s Gary Gerstle
So much of political discourse in the United States focuses on two-, four-, and six-year election cycles. Yet, so much of politics happens outside of them. As a way to both broaden and refine the conception of political time, University of Cambridge Paul Mellon Professor of American History Gary Gerstle, the Kinder Institute’s 2023 James […]
September 6, 2023
RECAP: “State of Silence,” 9/1 Colloquium with George Mason Prof. Sam Lebovic
There are any number of contradictions that can trace their roots back to the Espionage Act. It’s the final legal backstop propping up America’s secrecy regime, yet it’s repeatedly been at the center of the crises of legitimacy this regime has faced over time (for recent examples, see: Trump/Mar-a-Lago, Biden/Garage, Clinton/Server). In the 21st century […]