Winter Symposium

Attendees at the 2026 HOTCUS Winter Symposium in Liverpool.

The 2027 HOTCUS Winter Symposium will be organised by Becca Stone (University of Warwick) and Kate Ballantyne (Liverpool John Moores University). The event, which will take place at the University of Warwick, will focus on higher education. Full details and a CfP will be announced soon on the website and newsletter.

Previous Winter Symposiums

Professor Audra J. Wolfe delivers the Keynote at the 2019 Winter Symposium (University of Lincoln).

2026: **The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250** (University of Liverpool, 27 February 2026)

2025: The United States and World War II: Impacts and Legacies at Home and Abroad (University of Gloucestershire, 21 February 2025)

2024: The uses and abuses of ‘neoliberalism’ in modern US history (University College London, 16 February 2024)

2023: 1 963: A Watershed Year? (Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 24 February 2023)

2022: The Manhattan Project Turns 80: Reflections on the Nuclear Age (Liverpool John Moores University, 12 March 2022)

2020: Food, Health, and Welfare in U.S. History (Keele University, 22 February 2020)

2019: “Nuclear States”: Science, Technology, and American Society in the Atomic Age (University of Lincoln, 16 February 2019)

2018: The State of the State: What is American Political History Now? (University of Nottingham, 17 February 2018)

2017: War and Conflict in Twentieth-Century American Society and Culture (Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library, 18 February 2017)

2016: “Ordinary People”: Grassroots Organizing and Protest Movements in Twentieth Century America (University of Dundee, 13 February 2016)

2015: Memory and History in the Twentieth-Century United States (Canterbury Christ Church University, 21 February 2015)

2014: Dixie’s Great War: The American South and World War I (Portsmouth University, 28 February 2014)

2013: Religion and Politics in the United States (King’s College London, 22 February 2013)

2012: Punishment in the American Century (University of Southampton, 3 February 2012)

2011: Immigration and the Federal Government (University of Sunderland, 25 February 2011)

2010: American Music and Popular Culture (University of Reading, 4 March 2010)

2009: Beyond Otherness: The Politics of Sexuality in the Twentieth Century United States (University of Sheffield, 27 February 2009)