News, Workshops
Research Group “Transnational Periodical Cultures”
Independent Magazines (Workshop VII)
Oct 30, 2019, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Senatssaal NatFak (Room 07-232)
The research group “Transnational Periodical Cultures” (Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, Bjørn von Rimscha, Oliver Scheiding) holds a series of workshops.
You can find the program for the event on Oct 30, 2019 here.
If you are interested in attending one of the workshops or specific talks, please contact one of the organizers mentioned above.
For further information, please visit www.transnationalperiodicalcultures.net.
Events, Lectures, News
4th of July Events at the Obama Institute
July 4, 2019, 2–8 p.m., Philosophicum
2-4 p.m. (P4, Philosophicum) ………………………………
Guest Lecture
“Loyalty, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Times of Crisis”
Prof. Richard King
(University of Nottingham, UK)
What might the 4th of July mean to Americans and us in general? From America’s Frederick Douglass to German American Hannah Arendt and on to Jürgen Habermas, the nature of loyalty, patriotism and nationalism have proven to be elusive but still necessary.
4-6 p.m. (Fakultätssaal 01-185, Philosophicum)
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(Graduate) Student Project Presentations
Project pitches by Frederick Billmeier, Neslihan Bulut, Jacqueline Dagdadan, Josephine Koennecke, Frank Newton, Daniel Scott, Johanna Seibert, Filiz Touchton, Katharina Weygold
Performance presentation “Streaming America” (Niklas Müller, Maike Schiffler, Anna Sophie Ullmann)
6-8 p.m. (Fakultätssaal 01-185, Philosophicum)
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Öffentliche Antrittsvorlesung
“Reading and the Futures of Literary Studies”
Dr. Tim Lanzendörfer
(JGU, Obama Institute)
You can download the poster for the event here.
Events, Lectures, News
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 avant-garde art. My talk will highlight some of the achievements and dynamics of avant-gardism in the contemporary Canadian context, including highlighting some of the implications of the Indigenous Renaissance on the category of avant-garde art and literature. The first part of my talk will elaborate on the idea of avant-gardism, especially in Canada, while the second half will focus on what happens to this category when we attend to Indigenous art and culture.
Gregory Betts is the current Craig Dobbin Professor of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin. While he is a poet, with six books to his name, he is primarily known for his research into the Canadian avant-garde. On that subject, Betts wrote the definitive study called Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations (University of Toronto Press) and recently, just this year, published an essential status-update of contemporary avant-garde writing called Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries (co-edited with Christian Bök, published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press). He is the former Director of Canadian Studies at Brock University, where he is a Professor of Canadian Literature.
You can download the poster for the event here.
Events, Lectures, News, Workshops
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 the Workshop “The Black Diaspora and African American Intellectual History”.
Professor Merze Tate (1905-1996), an African American woman, pioneered in the fields of diplomatic history and international relations during her tenure at Howard University from 1942 to 1977. Trained at both Oxford and Harvard, Tate was one of the few black women academics of her generation. A prolific scholar with a wide-range of interests, her works covered the fields of disarmament, the diplomatic and political histories of the Pacific, and the role of railways and mineral extraction industries in the colonization of Africa.
Professor Barbara D. Savage is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought in the Department of Africana Studies of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of the prize-winning books Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion (Harvard University Press, 2008) and Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999). She is currently at work on an intellectual biography of Professor Merze Tate.
You can download the poster for the event here.
