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 Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 18:00 P3 (Philosophicum)
If you cannot attend the info session but are interested in joining, please contact Julia Velten (juvelten@uni-mainz.de).
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Johanna Glaser (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
November 22, 2022, 9:40am, N.106 (Stufenhörsaal)
“Margaret Atwood’s Venture into Graphic Novels: The Angel Catbird Trilogy and the War Bears Series”
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Professor Glaser’s research focus is in Canadian Studies, Globalization and Transcultural Literature, Postcolonial Studies as well as 18th-Century Literature and Culture. Her publications include the co- edited volumes Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim (2020) and Transgressions / Transformations: Literature and Beyond (2018). Since February 2021, she has been the president of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries.
Please join us for our annual Obama Lecture on Thanksgiving, where we will celebrate 70 years of American Studies at JGU Mainz, with contributions from three professors who helped shape what has eventually become the Obama Institute. In addition, we will learn more about the current management of the USA library collection and award the Obama Dissertation Prize as well as the Galinsky Prize for outstanding student theses.
On Nov 10 the Obama Institute will hold an info session on its Direct Exchange programs. Please join us in room P 11 (Philosophicum) for more information about the exciting exchange opportunities!
Nov 10, 18:00-20:00 (s.t.)
P 11 (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 10, when we will be happy to answer all your questions!
Forschungsförderpreis der Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität Mainz e.V.
Dissertation von Johanna Franziska Seibert
Archipelagic Media: Early African Caribbean Newspapers and the Whirls of Emancipation, 1827-1838
Die von Frau Seibert vorgelegte Dissertation ist eine wegweisende Studie zur afrokaribischen Presselandschaft im frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Die Dissertation analysiert eine Sattelzeit für die anglophone Karibik, die sowohl mediengeschichtlich für die Expansion afrokaribischer Zeitungen als auch politisch für die Emanzipationsbewegung in Nord- und Südamerika höchst zentral ist. Frau Seibert betritt Neuland und zeigt zum ersten Mal am Gegenstand des afrokaribischen Zeitungswesens, welche Rolle die Karibik als Wegbereiter der Moderne spielt. Mit ihrer Fragestellung schließt die Dissertation bislang existierende Forschungslücken im Bereich einer transatlantischen Verflechtungsgeschichte und revidiert Ansätze des Postkolonialismus, der Medienwissenschaft und der Presseforschung.
