Events, Lectures, News
Stefanie Schäfer
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Jan 30, 2020
12:15-13:45, P 6 (Philosophicum)
This presentation takes a look at the staging of settlement history and its transformation into rodeo sports in North America’s biggest Western Spectacles, the Cheyenne Frontier Days (est. 1897) and the Calgary Stampede (est. 1912). It combines a gendered reading of the Western spectacle with a critique of settler colonialist production of “native” traditions of the West and concludes with a look at contemporary rodeo narratives in popular culture.
PD Dr. Stefanie Schäfer is assistant professor of American Studies at FSU Jena. Stefanie Schäfer’s work centers on iconographies of power and on gendered figurations of the national in the US and Canada. She draws from concepts from Transnational North American Studies, American and Canadian Studies, as well as Popular Culture and Visual Culture.
You can download the poster for the event here.
Conferences, Events, News, Workshops
The research group on Transnational Periodical Cultures, led by Professor Ernst and Professor Scheiding, announces its conference “Transnational Periodical Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” which will take place on campus in Mainz in January 2020.
For the preliminary program and further details, please click here.
Exchange Programs, News, Summer School
Join the American Studies Summer School 2020!
The Civil Rights Movement, Southern Literature, and Southern Food & Music
Experience a unique and intensive research and learning opportunity focusing on the American South. The Obama Institute offers this three-week American Studies Summer School traveling through Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee from the end of July to mid-August. This educational trip provides students with courses in language, literature, and cultural studies. Starting in Little Rock, Arkansas and ending in Washington DC, participants will study the Civil Rights Movement, the history of food and music in the US South, and Southern Literature. They benefit from lectures, readings, and films, as well as on-site learning. Summer School participants can receive course credits in Independent Studies, Cultural Studies, or Written English.
INFO SESSION
Monday, December 9, 2019, 6 p.m., Room P 15
(Philosophicum)
If you cannot come to the info session but are interested in joining,
please contact Julia Velten (juvelten@uni-mainz.de).
You can download the flyer for the info session here.
Events, Exchange Programs, General, News
On Oct 23, Oct 29, and Oct 31 the Department and the Obama Institute will hold info sessions on their various exchange programs.
Oct 23: General Info, 6pm s.t., P2
Oct 29: Direct Exchange American Studies, 6pm s.t., P3
Oct 31: ERASMUS Exchange, 6pm s.t., P2
Please find more details regarding each session on the flyer, which is available for download here and on the Exchange page.
