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On March 23, 2026, the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy welcomed renowned legal scholar and civil rights advocate Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw for a sold‑out public lecture at the Isabel Bader Theatre. Backtalking to Save Democracy was an urgent and wide‑ranging reflection on truth‑telling, justice, and democratic possibility.
On December 4th, 2025 Alexander Reisenbichler presents key insights from his new book, Through the Roof: Housing, Capitalism, and the State in America and Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2025). The event was sponsored by the University of Toronto’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (JIGES), School of Cities, Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS), and the Department of Political Science (UTM), with generous support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).
Canada’s foreign relations are at a crossroads. On November 13th, 2023 the Centre for the STudy of the United States co-sponsored this talk on Canada-China-US elations. Trump’s re-election has cast tremendous uncertainty over both economic and security partnerships Canada traditionally provided by the US. China, which is supposed to provide trade diversification from our overreliance on the US market, has proved to be an unreliable trade partner. How should Canada engage or deal with China, given the known risks and uncertainty? Should Canada engage with China at all, given its authoritarian nature and record of arbitrary detention? Do these calculations change under Trump 2.0
On Thursday, September 18, Genevieve Yue, Associate Professor at Eugene Lang College, The New School, gave a talk, "Owens Valley Exports: Extractive Media in the Early Film Industry," at the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto. This talk was sponsored by the Cinema Studies Institute, the Centre for the Study of the United States, and the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
On January 3rd, 2025, The Centre for the Study of the United States co-sponsored a Harney Lecture on Migration. This timely event brought together three experts in relations between Canada and the United States to discuss the impact of the second Trump administration on migration and borders. Panelists include Leah Montange, the Bissell-Heyd Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in American Studies at the Munk School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of Toronto; Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the Chief of the Canada Bureau of the New York Times; and Marta Morgan, who recently retired after a long and distinguished career in the Government of Canada.
On October 24th, 2024, the Centre for the Study of the United States greeted Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton University) for a presentation on the State of Play in U.S. Politics Leading Up to the 2024 Presidential Election. This was the third and final event of the U.S. Democracy at the Crossroads: The 2024 Election series.
On September 26th, 2024, the Centre for the Study of the United States hosted D.D. Guttenplan (Editor of The Nation) for a presentation on the state of play leading up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This was the second event of the U.S. Democracy at the Crossroads: The 2024 Election series.
On September 12th, 2024, the Centre for the Study of the United States welcomed New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie to present on the 2024 U.S. presidential election from his perspective. This was the first event of the U.S. Democracy at the Crossroads: The 2024 Election series.
On May 10th, 2024, Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford University) gave the closing keynote lecture at the 2024 Bissel-Heyd Symposium - American Constitutionalism in Crisis? This lecture on the "Crisis of History in U.S. Constitutional interpretation" wrapped up a two-day symposium on the state of American Constitutionalism.
On May 10th, 2024, Maggie Blackhawk (NYU Law School) gave a keynote lecture on the "Constitution of American Colonialism" at the 2024 Bissel-Heyd Symposium - American Constitutionalism in Crisis?
On May 9th, 2024, Rogers Smith (University of Pennsylvania) gave the opening keynote lecture on "America's Conflicting Constitutional Visions: The Quest for Common Ground" at the 2024 Bissel-Heyd Symposium - American Constitutionalism in Crisis?
On January 20th, 2022, speaker Julie Carr (University of Colorado Boulder) and respondent Cristina Rivera Garza (University of Houston) discussed overlaps between radical agrarian Populism, white feminism, Jim Crow segregation and violence, and eugenics running through the early 20th-century, U.S. West. This web event was moderated by Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto)
On January 13th, 2022, the Centre for the Study of the United States welcomed Gustavus Stadler (Haverford College) and David Suisman (University of Delaware) for a conversation about Gustavus Stadler's book Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life.
On November 29th, 2021, the Centre for the Study of the United States hosted a webinar with Garrett Felber (Yale University) on the abolitionist lessons from his biography-in-progress of Black Puerto Rican anarchist and former U.S. political prisoner Martin Sostre. Brett Story (Ryerson University), Max Mishler (University of Toronto), Khaleel Grant, PhD Student (University of Toronto), and moderator Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto) all took part in this webinar.
On March 11th, 2021, Session 1 of the 2021 Bissell-Heyd Public Research Event took place on the topic of "The Indian Question in the United States." The Centre for the Study of the United States hosted Dr. Mamdani (Colombia University) for a talk that calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities.
On January 18th, 2021, the Centre for the Study of the United States hosted a webinar in the aftermath of the January 6th Insurrection. Julilly Kohler-Hausman (Cornell University), Russell Kazal (UTSC), Alexandra Rahr (University of Toronto), and Max Mishler (University of Toronto) will offer some initial reflections on the January 6 insurrection and engage in a dialogue before questions and comment from the audience. This event was moderated by Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto).
On November 19th, 2020 the Centre for the Study of the United States held the F. Ross Johnson Virtual Colloquium on Precarity. Cynthia Cranford (University of Toronto), Pamela Herd (Georgetown University), Michelle Maroto (University of Alberta), Maggie Dickinson (Guttman Community College - CUNY), Trevon D. Logan (The Ohio State University) all delivered talks at the virtual colloquium.
On July 21st, 2020, the Centre for the Study of the United States hosted an online forum that questioned what exactly it might mean to “defund the police” and how this demand might help us to realize the slogan “Black Lives Matter.” Panelists included, Julilly Kohler-Hausmann (Cornell University), Robyn Maynard (University of Toronto), Max Mishler (University of Toronto), Brett Story (University of Toronto), Dexter Voisin (University of Toronto). Moderated by Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto).