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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Dec 18 – Slavery Reconsidered: Colson Whitehead’s _The Underground Railroad_ and Other Recent Representations 🗓
Jutta Zimmermann (Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel) Dec 18, 2018, 9.40-11.10 a.m., Room 328 (Campus Germersheim, FB 06) In recent years, slavery has been the topic of a whole number of popular literary texts and films. Compared to earlier representations,...
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Dec 13 – Leaving the Land Before Time: The Planetary Presence of Indigenous World Literatures 🗓
Vanessa Evans (York University, Canada) December 13, 2018, 12-1 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II) Too often, the pull of the policy audience has resulted in decolonization being enlisted as a hollow metaphor that seeks to reconcile settler complicity and secure settler...
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CANCELED // Nov 28 – Whitman’s Sexual Politics 🗓
Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Nov 28, 2018, 4-6 p.m., P 103 (Philosophicum) Russ Castronovo is Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he is also...
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Nov 22-23 – Interdisciplinary Symposium: Aging Cultures/Cultures of Aging 🗓
Aging Cultures – Cultures of Aging Interdisciplinary Symposium Nov 22, 2018, 6-8 p.m. Nov 23, 2018, 10.30 a.m.-4.30 p.m. Philosophicum II, room 00.212 Keynotes by Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kunow (Potsdam) and Dr. Scott King (Winchester, VA, USA) Everybody welcome! Download...
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Nov 22 – Annual Obama Lecture & Award Ceremony 🗓
Gabriele Rippl (University of Bern, Switzerland) “Picture This! Transcultural American Literature in the Digital Age” Nov 22, 2018, 12 noon-2 p.m. Senatssaal (7th floor, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät) On Nov 22, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl will give the annual Obama...
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Nov 21 – Unternehmen und Akteure (Workshop) 🗓
Research Group "Transnational Periodical Cultures" Unternehmen und Akteure (Workshop II) Nov 21, 2018, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Campus Germersheim (Raum 117, Sitzungsraum) The research group "Transnational Periodical Cultures" (Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, Bjørn von...
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