Dec 4, 5 & 7 – Lectures by Dorota Filipczak (ERASMUS exchange lecturer from the University of Łódź) 🗓

Dec 4, 5 & 7 – Lectures by Dorota Filipczak (ERASMUS exchange lecturer from the University of Łódź) 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Series of lectures
by ERASMUS exchange lecturer
Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź)

Disrupting the Textual Monolith: Malcolm Lowry’s Through the Panama as a Precursor of a Multimodal Novel
Monday, December 4, 2017
12-2 p.m., 02-432 (SB II) and
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
12-2 p.m., P 106 (Philosophicum)

Speaking Identity Through Trauma: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
4-6 p.m., P 101 (Philosophicum)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood as a Cautionary Text on the Oppression of Women
Thursday, December 7, 2017
10-12 a.m., 01-611 (GFG)

You can download the series’ poster here.

 

 

Oct 26-28 – From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Black Resistance 🗓

Oct 26-28 – From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Black Resistance 🗓

Conferences, Events, News

From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Black Resistance

October 26-28, 2017, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.

Conference organizers: Nele Sawallisch, Johanna Seibert, Pia Wiegmink, Frank Obenland

This conference hosted by the Transnational American Studies Institute aims at assessing and theorizing past and present forms of black intellectual, political, and cultural resistance from the era of abolitionist campaigns against the transatlantic slave trade to the recent global protest formation of Black Lives Matter.

For more information, please visit the conference page.

 

 

America First and the 4th of July 🗓

Events

The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies invites you to an original Fourth of July celebration in the spirit of Independence and the legacy of President Barack Obama. Two eminent speakers, Dr. David Sirakov, Director of the Atlantic Academy, and Prof. Philipp Gassert, President of the German Association of American Studies, will focus in their keynotes on transnational aspects of populism and global transformations, including an American note of optimism. Sandwiched in between these lectures are poster presentations by students and faculty of the Obama Institute. Their research projects amply document the multi-ethnic constitution of the United States and the transnational orientation of the American society, paradigmatically embodied in the Obama family. A reception will round off this celebration with toasts to America’s First ideas.

Invitation & Program (PDF)

June 29 – Retrieving the Extinguished: Poems from an Assimilated Jewish American Connecting to her Jewish German Past 🗓

June 29 – Retrieving the Extinguished: Poems from an Assimilated Jewish American Connecting to her Jewish German Past 🗓

Events, News

Renée Ruderman (Metropolitan State University of Denver)

June 29, 2017, 6 p.m., Fakultätssaal (Philosophicum)

This reading will feature poems from my new collection, “Where She Was Going” as well as poems from my earlier books. These poems are based on sketches and fragments, found in photographs, art, and faint memories.
Renée Ruderman, an Associate Professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado, has two published books, Poems from the Rooms Below (Permanence Press, San Diego, CA, 1995) and Certain Losses, a chapbook (Main Street Rag, Charlotte, NC, 2004). She has won prizes for her poems, and some of them have appeared in The Bellingham Review, I-70 Review, Borderlands, and the Raleigh Review. Renée taught at Universität Siegen, Germany during a sabbatical in 2009, and she taught a poetry workshop at Palacky University (2013) in the Czech Republic.