Welcome to the Obama Institute
for Transnational American Studies!
The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz offers a dynamic and wide-ranging program in both research and teaching for all students interested in topics related to the Americas in a global context.
With a special focus on interculturality, transnationalism, and interdisciplinarity, our expertise lies in the fields of Early American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Life Writing/Life Sciences, Political & Intellectual History, Film & Media Studies, Religion and American Culture, and Materiality.
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Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
University of Mainz
Jakob-Welder-Weg 20
55128 Mainz
Germany
+49 6131 39-22357
+49 6131 39-29097
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June 26 – Some ‘Age-Friendly’ Advice?: Ableism, Austerity, and New Stories of ‘Active Aging’ 🗓
Sally Chivers (Trent University) June 26, 2018, 4-6 p.m., 00 025 SR 03 (BKM) This talk comes from a larger research project that asks how gender and culture matter in creating age-friendly environments. Understanding that austerity thought warps age advice, making...
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June 21 – “What Does the Transnational Perspective Change About U.S. History?” 🗓
Prof. Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University) June 21, 2018, 4–6 p.m. (c.t.), SB II, 01-531 (Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2) Urban history has long had a strong transnational character, on account of the functions that cities historically have served as nexuses in...
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June 28 – “Power to the Powerless”: Black Artists, Art Movements, and Art-Making Traditions 🗓
Prof. Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Edinburgh) June 28, 2018, 4–6 p.m. (c.t.), SB II, 01-531 (Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2) This talk will introduce audiences to the drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, mixed-media installations and performance art created by...
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June 25 – Kanienkehaka: the Mohawk People,Christian Missions, and Native Survivance 🗓
Prof. Laura Stevens (U Tulsa) June 25, 2018, 12 p.m.–2 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum I, P 5 This lecture will provide an introduction to the Mohawk People, who called themselves “Kanienkehaka,” or “People of the Flint.“ The Easternmost tribe of the Iroquois or...
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June 28 – Urban Ecologies 🗓
Prof. Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University) June 28, 2018, 6–8 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum I, P 15 In recent years, an environmental perspective on urban history has been transforming both urban and environmental history, by emphasizing the city as an especially...
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June 21 – March Madness, Mascots, and Milkshake Ducks: A Social Psychological Perspective on Reactions to Sister Jean 🗓
Scott P. King (Shenandoah University, USA) June 21, 2018, 1-2.30 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II) Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, a 98-year-old nun and team chaplain for Loyola University Chicago, became a sensation in both social and traditional media during her school’s...
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