Lecture with Prof. Dr. Margaret Stephenson on 12/15/15: “Comparative Perspectives on Indigenous Rights: Australia and North America”

Lecture with Prof. Dr. Margaret Stephenson on 12/15/15: “Comparative Perspectives on Indigenous Rights: Australia and North America”

Events, Lectures

Lecture with

Professor Dr. Margaret Stephenson

“Comparative Perspectives on Indigenous Rights: Australia and North America”

 

The Atlantic Academy and the Transnational American Studies Institute at Mainz University jointly invite you to this event.

December 15, 2015; 4-6 pm
Senatssaal NatFak-Gebäude
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

For indigenous communities in the U.S. and around the globe, the question of rights has been a central one. In recent debates, this question has been closely connected to issues of land and water rights, as well as to concepts of indigenous sovereignty.

Margaret Stephenson (University of Queensland, Australia), a renowned expert in comparative indigenous law, will compare current debates on indigenous rights in Australia and North America, looking both at the specificity of national histories and at the possibility of a comparative, transnational perspective on indigenous rights.

For more information, download the poster here.

“Karl Dietz Memorial Lecture“ & Symposium in Honor of Prof. Herget & Prof. Lubbers

“Karl Dietz Memorial Lecture“ & Symposium in Honor of Prof. Herget & Prof. Lubbers

Events, Lectures, News

“Karl Dietz Memorial Lecture“ & Symposium in Honor of Prof. Herget & Prof. Lubbers

 

+++ UPDATE +++

You can now download the speeches given by PD Dr. Gessner and Prof. Achilles in honor of Prof. Herget and
Prof. Lubbers:

Laudatio Professor Herget and Slides
Laudatio Professor Lubbers

Also, Prof. Kelleter kindly sent a video message with greetings (in German) which you can watch here.

 

11/26/2015

10:15am-3:45pm, Philosophicum, Hörsaal P5

The faculty and staff of the Transnational American Studies Institute are pleased to invite to this year’s Karl Dietz Memorial Lecture on Thursday, 26 November 2015. It is a great pleasure to combine this annual event with a symposium in honor of two eminent members of Mainz American Studies, Professor Winfried Herget and Professor Klaus Lubbers, to celebrate their 80th birthday. We have selected Thanksgiving for this special occasion to recognize the important achievements of these American Studies scholars.

Lectures:
Prof. David Hall (Harvard University): “New Life in Old Bones? The State of ‛Puritan Studies’ in America and Britain“ (10:15am-11:45pm)

Prof. Julie Rak (University of Alberta): “Mountaineering and First Nations People: Min Aodla Freeman“ (2:15-3:45pm)

For more information, please see the flyer.

Lecture with Prof. Dr. Erik Redling on 12/10/15: “Ideology of Form and Framing Devices”

Lecture with Prof. Dr. Erik Redling on 12/10/15: “Ideology of Form and Framing Devices”

Lectures, News

Lecture with

Professor Dr. Erik Redling

“Ideology of Form und Framing Devices in Dialekterzählungen der amerikanischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts”

This lecture is part of the lecture series “Ideology of Form” (co-organized by the Transnational American Studies Institute and the Romanisches Seminar)

December 10, 2015; 6 pm (18 Uhr c.t.)
Philosophicum P204
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Bisherige Studien zu Rahmenerzählungen unterschiedliche Funktionen und Wirkungen des narrative Rahmens (wie etwa die Beglaubigungsfunktion oder die Herbeiführung einer Erzählsituation) und vernachlässigen dabei dessen sozialpolitische Dimension. Dieser Vortrag rückt die linguistisch markierte Beziehung zwischen Binnenteil (Dialekt) und Rahmen (Standardsprache) von amerikanischen Dialekterzählungen in den Vordergrund und illustriert mit Rückgriff auf Fredric Jamesons einflussreiches Konzept einer “Ideologie der Form” die divergierenden sozialpolitischen Ideologien derselben erzählerischen Form. Der Vortrag diskutiert die Kurzprosa der “Southwestern Humorists” (1830er und 40er Jahre) und der “plantation tradition” (1880er Jahre) sowie die “conjure tales” des afroamerikanischen Autors Charles W. Chesnutt.

Download the poster here.

Evening Lecture with Rita Charon, MD, PhD on 12/02/15

Evening Lecture with Rita Charon, MD, PhD on 12/02/15

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Evening Lecture with

Rita Charon, MD, PhD

(the founder of Narrative Medicine)

December 2, 2015; 6.30 pm
Hörsaal 19, Anatomie
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

 

From the twentieth century to the twenty-first century, the interpretative models and spaces of action in medicine have shifted from observing and influencing biological processes towards the biological and technological shaping of health and disease. Examples are manifold: assisted reproduction, prenatal diagnostics, organ transplantation, longevity and dying – in all of these boundary experiences, the role of medicine has changed fundamentally and has influenced the ways in which we conceptualize and deal with human life.

These developments have also resulted in new approaches to explaining and understanding human life and life narratives in social and cultural studies (life writing). As a result, the field of the humanities with its expertise in narratives and interpretation has increasingly been incorporated in biomedical research and health care. The inter-disciplinary graduate program is dedicated to investigate the complexities of narrativity and narratability between the life sciences and life writing.

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Guest Lecture with Paula A. Treichler on 11/24/2015: “Medicine, Money, and Illness Narratives: Whose Story?”

Guest Lecture with Paula A. Treichler on 11/24/2015: “Medicine, Money, and Illness Narratives: Whose Story?”

Lectures, News

Guest Lecture

Paula A. Treichler

“Medicine, Money, and Illness Narratives: Whose Story?”

11/24/2015
4-6pm, SB II, 03-436

Paula A. Treichler is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS, A Feminist Dictionary, and The Visible Woman: Imagining Technologies, Gender, and Science.

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Guest Lecture with Elisabeth Engel on 11/18/2015: “Risks will be Taken”

Guest Lecture with Elisabeth Engel on 11/18/2015: “Risks will be Taken”

Lectures, News

Guest Lecture

Elisabeth Engel

“‘Risks will be Taken:’ Insurance and the Uncertain Beginnings of American Independence, 1770s -1840s”

11/18/2015

4:15-5:45pm, Philosophicum, P103

Elisabeth Engel is postdoctoral research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. In her lecture, she will explore how notions of “risk” were constructed and inscribed into the everyday routines of revolutionary Americans as the British imperial power retreated.