14:15Madleen Podewski (Berlin/Erfurt): „Die NBI (Neue Berliner Illustrierte) während der ‚Wende‘ oder: Wie erfasst man eine rasant beschleunigte Titeldynamik?“
15:30 Nora Ramtke (Bochum/Freiburg): “From Preprint to Piracy: Heinrich Böll’s Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum as a 1970s Press Affair”
16:45Jörg Requate (Kassel): “How Far Can We Push the Limits? The Satire Magazines Pardon/Titanic and Hara-Kiri/Charlie Hebdo and Their Handling of Social Taboo Topics”
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.
You can find further information in the Download section on the Summer School page.
INFO SESSION Monday, December 16, 2024, 18:00 P13 (Philosophicum)
If you cannot attend the info session but are interested in joining, please contact Dr. Claudia Görg (cgoerg@uni-mainz.de).
“Canada-US Borderlands: From Wallace Stegner to Thomas King”
Nov 19, 2024, 09:40 am, N.106 (Campus Germersheim)
Guest lecture as part of the lecture series “Diversity in Canadian Literature and Culture” by Prof. Dr. Jutta Ernst
Prof. Dr. Astrid Fellner is a Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the American Studies department of the Saarland University (Universität des Saarlandes). She specialises North American Literature and Culture – e.g. Latinx Literature and Canadian Literature – as well as Body Studies, American Pop Culture, Gender Studies and Border Studies. Among her numerous publications are the book Narratives of Border Crossings: Literary Approaches and Negotiations (2021) which she edited, as well as the article “‘To Live in the Borderlands Means…’: The Transcultural Poetics of Lee Maracle” (2019), published in Le Canada: une culture de métissage/Transcultural Canada.
Please join us for our annual Obama Lecture a week after Thanksgiving, where we will highlight outstanding work in Transnational American Studies – with a contribution from our current Obama Fellow Dr. Renae Watchman (Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies, McMaster University, Canada) – and show appreciation for the work of young scholars by awarding the Obama Dissertation Prize as well as the Hans Galinsky Memorial Prize for student and graduate theses.
Everyone is welcome!
Please see the flyer below for details or download it here.
Magazines as bodies – human bodies. Alive. Breathing, moving. Preaching. In this lecture, we will look at Black independent magazines as spiritual bodies. In fact, magazines like CRWN, Womanly, and HANNAH become spiritual leaders whose teachings are ubiquitous in their pages, though not necessarily obvious. In their missions to represent authentic Black women, these magazines depict as well as build a Black female community. This focus on strengthening the larger Black community sets the indies apart from mainstream publications, which tend to focus on individuals’ achievements and exceptionalism. Based on Christian and African-based spiritualities, African Americans have forged a unique spirituality in which knowledge of the interwovenness of all things and beings, dead or alive, is crucial. Thus, we will see how selected Black independent magazines spiritually guide the Black individual into community, inspired by the belief that the self is most authentic, free and self-actualized when in relation.
