Studying Abroad – Info Sessions 🗓
On Oct 24, Nov 6, and Nov 27 the Department and the Obama Institute will hold info sessions on their various exchange programs.
Please find more details regarding each session on this flyer here.
Oct 23/24 – Four Lectures by Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (U of Lodz) 🗓
The ERASMUS Exchange Lecturer Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (University of Lodz, Poland) will give four lectures in various seminars on Oct 23 and 24. Everyone is welcome!
You can find the list of talks below and on this poster here.
Identity and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s Garden of Eden
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
10 a.m.-12 noon, 00-025 SR 03 (BKM)
James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” and Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”:
Two 20th-Century Approaches to Blackness
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
6-8 p.m., P 15 (Philosophicum)
Late Nineteenth-Century Women’s Literature:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two”
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
12 noon-2 p.m., P 102 (Philosophicum)
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The Father of Transcendentalism
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
4-6 p.m., P 103 (Philosophicum)
Oct 17 – Markets, Standardization and Adaptation (Workshop) 🗓
Research Group “Transnational Periodical Cultures”
Markets, Standardization and Adaptation (Workshop I)
Oct 17, 2018, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Senatssaal (NatFak, 07-232)
The research group “Transnational Periodical Cultures” (Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, Bjørn von Rimscha, Oliver Scheiding) holds a series of workshops on the following dates:
Oct 17, 2018 – Workshop I – Markets, Standardization and Adaptation
Nov 21, 2018 – Workshop II – Unternehmen und Akteure
Dec 12, 2018 – Workshop III – Zeitschriften und Digitalisierung
Jan 16, 2019 – Workshop III – Zeitschriften, Gestaltung, Design
You can find the program for the event on Oct 17, 2018 here.
If you are interested in attending one of the workshops or specific talks, please contact one of the organizers mentioned above.
For further information, please visit www.transnationalperiodicalcultures.net.
Oct 16 – The Self-Written Epitaph: Chinese Autobiographical Writing 🗓
Wang Ying (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing)
Oct 16, 2018, 4-6 p.m., P 7 (Philosophicum)
Dr. Ying WANG is a Research Fellow, Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Her main field of research is Life Writing Studies as well as Literary and Cultural Studies. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Society for Aesthetics and was a visiting scholar and visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge. She has published research papers in The Medieval History Journal and the Global Journal of Human Social Science. She is co-author of the English monograph Fashioning the Elusive Self: Autobiography in China and the West (Cambridge: Bringfield’s Head Press, 2015).
You can find the poster for the event here.
The event is sponsored by:
Oct 16 – Chinese Academic Education 🗓
Wang Ying (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing)
Oct 16, 2018, 10 a.m.-12 noon, 00 030 SR04 (BKM)
Dr. Ying WANG is a Research Fellow, Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Her main field of research is Life Writing Studies as well as Literary and Cultural Studies. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Society for Aesthetics and was a visiting scholar and visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge. She has published research papers in The Medieval History Journal and the Global Journal of Human Social Science. She is co-author of the English monograph Fashioning the Elusive Self: Autobiography in China and the West (Cambridge: Bringfield’s Head Press, 2015).
You can find the poster for the event here.
The event is sponsored by:
Oct 13 – Apartheid’s Lessons: Transnational Networks and US Evangelical Politics in the Cold War 🗓
Melani McAlister (George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA)
Oct 13, 2018, 9:15 a.m., Linke Aula/Alte Mensa
Melani McAlister is Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA.
This event is part of the international conference Global Faith and Worldly Power: Evangelical Encounters with American Empire. The lecture will be livestreamed here: Webcast of Keynote