June 21 – March Madness, Mascots, and Milkshake Ducks: A Social Psychological Perspective on Reactions to Sister Jean 🗓

June 21 – March Madness, Mascots, and Milkshake Ducks: A Social Psychological Perspective on Reactions to Sister Jean 🗓

Lectures, Lunch Lectures, News

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 underdog run to the 2018 USA collegiate men’s basketball tournament semifinals. In this presentation, I examine her rise in popularity, and subsequent backlash to that popularity, through the lens of social psychological theories on aging and stereotypes, using Twitter as a basis for qualitative analysis.

Scott King is Associate Professor of Psychology at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, USA and Visiting Lecturer in the Obama Institute at JGU Mainz.

 

You can download the poster for this talk here.

July 9-12 – ADDITIONAL COURSE OFFER 🗓

July 9-12 – ADDITIONAL COURSE OFFER 🗓

Events, News, Workshops

Additional Course Offer – Summer Term 2018

for M.A./M.Ed. and advanced B.A./B.Ed. students
Cultural Studies IV and V

For course registration and further information, please contact Dr. Sonja Georgi.

Interdisciplinary Workshop

“History of United States Indian Law and Policy”
Prof. Lindsay G. Robertson (University of Oklahoma)
Faculty Director, Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy
Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law
July 9-12, P 108

This course will trace the development and political and cultural impact of British colonial and United States policy towards indigenous peoples in North America from the Seventeenth Century through the present day. Among other topics, we will explore Treaty-making, Indian Removal, the Reservation System, late-Nineteenth Century Assimilation and Allotment, mid-Twentieth Century Indian Reorganization, and modern Tribal Self-Determination.

You can find the workshop poster here.

June 19 – Encountering Pictures: Materiality, Conceptualist Photography, and the Subject 🗓

June 19 – Encountering Pictures: Materiality, Conceptualist Photography, and the Subject 🗓

Lectures, Lunch Lectures, News

Julia Polyck-O’Neill (Brock University, Canada)

June 19, 2018, 12-2 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II)

 

The idea that artistic practice, after the massive shifts initiated by conceptual art, takes into account, and is accountable to, the material reality of human relations suggests a radical reconceptualization of art’s social, cultural, economic, and political position and role. According to this reading, I consider how conceptualist photography has the capacity to contribute to such considerations to an even greater degree, by means of the visual-cognitive dynamics inherent to the photographic encounter. With its unique epistemological and ontological bearing, such an encounter has the potential to proffer a significant phenomenological intervention: one that uses both evidential and abstract-conceptual information to simultaneously promote deep reflection and propose new perceptions of the world in relation to the self. In comparatively analyzing Canadian artist Jeff Wall’s primary strategies in staging photographic images, I uncover how historic and more recent theoretical and philosophical discussions and material practices in photography emerge from and import specific but variable sets of relations that effectively participate in the construction of subjectivity according to both individual and collective scales.

Julia Polyck-O‘Neill is an artist, curator, critic, and writer, and is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program (Culture and Aesthetics) at Brock University (St Catharines, Ontario, Canada) and Visiting Lecturer in the Obama Institute at JGU Mainz.

You can download the poster for this talk here.

June 19 – Punks and Gay-Cats: Vulnerable Youth in the Hobo Narratives of Jack London and A-No 1 🗓

June 19 – Punks and Gay-Cats: Vulnerable Youth in the Hobo Narratives of Jack London and A-No 1 🗓

Lectures, News

Owen Clayton (University of Lincoln, UK)

June 19, 2018, 10 a.m.-12 noon, P 102 (Philosophicum)

 

Dr. Owen Clayton is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. His research interests include transatlantic visual culture and working–class studies. His first monograph, Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915, came out with Palgrave MacMillan in 2015. He has published articles on photography and class in the work of William Dean Howells and Jack London, and recently edited a special issue of the journal History of Photography. His current monograph project is on transient workers (‘hobos’) in American literature.