So Judie Newman remembers when Richard King was…

So Judie Newman remembers when Richard King was chair of BAAS better than he does… #baas2015

Sue Wedlake says the disco was main point of anxiety at the 50th anniversary conference… @BAASSPUTNIK must remember those days #baas2015

Sue is explaining how the BAAS networks have helped @USAinUK extend their work beyond London and into newer cultural fields #baas2015

Sue is telling us the story of how relations between BAAS and the embassy grave evolved over time #baas2015

Now we have Sue Wedlake who has just retired from @USAinUK giving us her reflections on her experiences in American Studies #baas2015

.@ndwitham Leo Marx: “moral of Am Stud should be the story of relations btw intellectuals & power”. Bt this is not the full story #baas2015

.@ndwitham showing that early work in the @jnlamstudies was transnational before the transnational turn #baas2015

.@ndwitham are paradigms of cold war expansionism really stable or simple? Always competing interests at work in area studies #baas2015

.@ndwitham BAAS turned down $100,000 from embassy in 1956 because they didn’t want to look like they were spreading propaganda #baas2015

.@ndwitham is starting with emergence of Am Stud in Britain & history of BAAS, decentring cold war to give more complex picture #baas2015