Outreach Projects


Norfolk Black History Month

This October the School of American Studies will co-sponsor an exhibition as well as a series of lectures and cafes as part of the Norfolk Black History Month. AMS's Containing Multitudes Exhibition is featured on pages 44-49 of the programme. View the Norfolk Black History Month programme online.

Ecopoetry in Schools

Ecopoetry in Schools is an outreach programme initiated by the Literature and American Studies departments at the University of East Anglia, and supported by CUE East, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and Norfolk County Council.
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What America Means to Me

'What America Means To Me' is part of a pilot-project where Dr Wendy McMahon from the School of American Studies and two PhD students, Catherine Barter and Lucien Giordano, went into three local schools and work-shopped the place of the USA in the lives of the children as well as its history and diverse culture.
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Engagement Events

 

Community University Engagement

UEA has a small dedicated Community University Engagement team, Julie Worrall and Ruth Selwyn-Crome, who are on hand to advise staff and students about different aspects of their engagement activity including ideas, planning, evaluation and impact.  Financial and practical assistance is also available via a Small Expenses Fund and the loan of equipment such as audio recorders.  You can find more information and case studies on the Community University Engagement website

 

Containing Multitudes

Location: Millennium Library and Fusion, The Forum, Norwich
Date: 1 Oct 2012  – 14 Oct 2012
Organiser: American Studies
Ticket Price: Free
Contact: Becky Fraser

A public exhibition and series of lectures and cafe conversations hosted at the Forum, Norwich during October 2012.

The School of American Studies presents a public exhibition of the Sarah Hicks Williams letters, a northerner in the slaveholding South during the mid-nineteenth century.

There will also be a related series of free public lectures to be hosted at Fusion and the Millennium Library, and cafe conversations, taking place in Cafe Bar Marzano at the Forum, reflecting on Black History in the African Diaspora.

Go to: theforumnorwich.co.uk/events/black-history-month or containingmultitudes.co.uk  for further details. 

Download a poster.

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Material kindly on loan from the Sarah Hicks Williams Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill