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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July 2 – Decolonizing the Garde: Avant-Garde Canadian Writing and the Indigenous Renaissance 🗓
Gregory Betts (University College, Dublin/Brock University, Canada) July 2, 2019 4-6 p.m., P 207 (Philosophicum) Indigenous art has always been interconnected with the avant-garde, and it is increasingly fallacious to speak of the difference between Indigenous and...
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June 27 – Race and Anti-Imperialism in Merze Tate’s International Thought 🗓
KEYNOTE: Race and Anti-Imperialism in Merze Tate’s International Thought Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania) Thursday, June 27, 2019 6 p.m. (s.t.) Helmholtz-Institut Mainz – Staudingerweg 18 Conference Ground Floor II – Room 1395-00-133 This keynote is part of...
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June 18 – ‘Thinking against the Grain’: Challenging the (Emerging) Liberal Consensus 🗓
'Thinking against the Grain': Challenging the (Emerging) Liberal Consensus Richard King (University of Nottingham, UK) Tuesday, June 18, 2019 4-6 p.m. P 207 - Philosophicum After World War II, there was an emerging consensus on matters of race, including racial...
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June 27 – Sehen, Blättern, Lesen, Zählen: Wie sich Zeitschriftenordnungen erschließen lassen 🗓
Madleen Podewski (FU Berlin) June 27, 2019 6-8 p.m. (c.t.) Room 02.102 (Philosophicum II) Zeitschriften sind aus verschiedenen Text-, Bild- und graphischen Elementen aufgebaut. Abhängig von Formatgröße und Seitenumfang und abhängig vom jeweiligen Formattypus werden...
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June 27 – Early America through the Lens of Science Fiction 🗓
Early America through the Lens of Science Fiction Laura M. Stevens (University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) Thursday, June 27, 2019 4 p.m. P 15 - Philosophicum This talk will consider some of the frameworks that science fiction has provided for depicting and understanding...
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June 25 – Heinrich the Shoemaker and the S/Cistrunks that Followed: A Narrative of Black and White in the U.S. South 🗓
Elizabeth J. West (Georgia State University) June 25, 2019 4 p.m.-6 p.m., Philosophicum I, P207 From 1739–1748 the centuries long dispute between Britain and Spain over contested territories in present day Florida and Georgia heightened into the conflict that became...
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