Direct Exchange – Info Sessions 2024 for Programs in 2025/26 🗓

Direct Exchange – Info Sessions 2024 for Programs in 2025/26 🗓

Events, Exchange Programs, General, News, Opportunities

On Nov 6 the Obama Institute will hold an info session on its Direct Exchange programs. Please join us in room P 2 (Philosophicum) for more information about the exciting exchange opportunities!

Nov 6, 18:15-19:45
P 2 (Philosophicum)

Please find all details about the session on the flyer, which is available for download here and on the Exchange page, where you can also browse general information on the programs in order to get a headstart on what your options are and what an application would entail.

Looking forward to talking to you in person on Nov 6, when we will be happy to answer all your questions!

Anne Bull, Sandra Meerwein, Samira Deq, and Julia Velten

Election Night 2024 – Viewing Event 🗓

Election Night 2024 – Viewing Event 🗓

Events, News

Election Night 2024 at the Obama Institute

November 5, 2024, 8 p.m., meeting room 02.102, Philosophicum II

Join us in following the live coverage of the U.S. presidential election 2024!

During times of rising concerns about political stability and democratic integrity, not only in the United States but all over the world, observers anxiously await the 2024 U.S. presidential election, and expect a landmark event that will set the tone for the future of global politics and power relations. Let’s discuss the events as they unfold and check out U.S. and international reactions in a variety of news outlets and on social media.

Watch I Play I Discuss I Eat I (Sleep)

We will follow the live election coverage on CNN International and watch video messages (recorded specifically for our event) from colleagues and friends in the U.S. They will share with us their personal election insights and perspectives from their respective locations.

This will be a casual meet and mingle potluck event, including election night bingo and (shared) food and drinks. We will provide some snacks and welcome any and all contributions. Bring your friends and stay as long as you like. Sweatpants and sleeping bags allowed!

8 p.m. I Video Messages from the U.S.

Food and Drinks

Election Night Bingo

10 p.m. I CNN International Broadcast Starts

 

Contact
Dr. Julia Velten

You can download the poster for the event here.

 

4th of July 2024 – Lectures, Exhibition, Get-together, Food and Drinks 🗓

4th of July 2024 – Lectures, Exhibition, Get-together, Food and Drinks 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

4th of July Events at the Obama Institute

July 4, 2024, 4-8 p.m., P4 & Foyer P2-P5 (Philosophicum)

What might the 4th of July mean to Americans and foreigners in general and especially in 2024?

From American Poetry to Money and American Identity to students’ takes on the meaning of the holiday: Join us in discussing the day’s importance and possible criticism but also in celebrating an informal Obama Institute summer get-together of students, faculty, and friends.

Food and drinks will be provided!

 

4-6 p.m. I Guest Talks I P 4

“World-losers elsewhere, conquerors here!”: The Fourth of July in American Poetry
Thomas Austenfeld
Université de Fribourg, Switzerland

Red, White, and Blue—and Greenbacks: Money and American Identity since the Civil War
Atiba Pertilla
German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, USA

 

6-8 p.m. I (Graduate) Student Project Exhibition
with Food and Drinks

Posters and other presentations by students from Dr. Claudia Görg’s and Dr. Allison Nick’s courses

Pizza, Snacks, and Drinks

 

You can download the poster for the event here.

June 19 – Student/Alumni Meet & Greet 🗓

June 19 – Student/Alumni Meet & Greet 🗓

Career Talks, Events, News, Opportunities

Student/Alumni Meet & Greet

Wednesday, June 19

5 pm in P 110 (Philosophicum)

 

The OI will be hosting an informal first meet & greet for students and alumni of American Studies and cordially invites all students of the BA and MA programs to connect with each other and our alumni. This is your chance to talk about possible careers after finishing an American Studies program and ask any question you might have on how to make the most of your degree and ambitions.

Three alumnae of American Studies at JGU will speak about their jobs and their working experiences to students interested in finding out more about opportunities and perspectives for American Studies graduates.

You can download the poster for the event here.

Watch out for news about future alumni events and stay in touch!

Contact
Dr. Julia Velten
Dr. Sonja Georgi

 

June 19-22 – Conference: The Indian Citizenship Act at 100: Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Futures 🗓

June 19-22 – Conference: The Indian Citizenship Act at 100: Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Futures 🗓

Conferences, Events, News

The Indian Citizenship Act at 100:
Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Futures

Conference

June 19-22, 2024
University of Bordeaux-Montaigne, France

Together with the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne, the Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the Obama Institute is hosting an international conference on the centenary of the Indian Citizenship Act in Bordeaux, France.

Current and former members of the Obama Institute will chair panels and present papers amongst a large group of internationally renowned Indigenous Studies scholars. Check out and download the complete program here or visit the conference web page here.

If you would like to find out more about the event or specific conference content, please contact Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding or Frank Newton.

June 19 – Film Screening _Bisbee ’17_ 🗓

June 19 – Film Screening _Bisbee ’17_ 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Screening of Bisbee ’17 (2018)

Introduction by the Film’s Historical Adviser:
Katherine Benton-Cohen (Georgetown University)

June 19, 2024, 6:00pm, N2, Muschel (Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 23)

FREE ADMISSION

The Obama Institute cordially invites everyone to a screening of Bisbee ’17 and its introduction by Katherine Benton-Cohen who served as the film’s historical adviser. Blending documentary and Western, the film explores the community reconciliation effort of the people of Bisbee, Arizona. With the event’s upcoming centennial, the town stages a reenactment of the 1917 deportation of striking Mexican and Eastern European migrant laborers to the New Mexican desert, awakening old resentments, shifting perspectives, and probing the relationship between truth, memory, and history. The film won the American Historical Association’s O’Connor 2019 prize for best documentary film.

Katherine Benton-Cohen is professor and director of doctoral studies in the department of history at Georgetown University. She is the author of Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy (Harvard, 2018) and Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Harvard, 2009). Benton-Cohen has held fellowships from Princeton Library, the New York Public Library, American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, amongst others. She has appeared in a variety of media outlets including the BBC, NPR, and PBS American Experience, and is currently writing a global history of the Phelps-Dodge copper-mining family, whose capitalist and philanthropic links between New York, the US-Mexico Borderlands, and the Middle East profoundly changed each region.

You can download the poster for the event here.