Nov 22 – Annual Obama Lecture & Award Ceremony 🗓

Nov 22 – Annual Obama Lecture & Award Ceremony 🗓

Events, Lectures, News

Gabriele Rippl (University of Bern, Switzerland)

“Picture This! Transcultural American Literature in the Digital Age”

Nov 22, 2018, 12 noon-2 p.m.
Senatssaal (7th floor, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät)

 

On Nov 22, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl will give the annual Obama Lecture and the Obama Institute’s Executive Board members will award the Obama Dissertation Prize to Argelia Segovia Liga from Missouri State U, USA, who will also give a short talk on her thesis.
Furthermore, the Obama Institute will award the Galinsky Prize to outstanding student papers in the field of Early American Studies.

For further informaton and the full program, please download the flyer here.

 

Nov 21 – Unternehmen und Akteure (Workshop) 🗓

Nov 21 – Unternehmen und Akteure (Workshop) 🗓

News, Workshops

Research Group “Transnational Periodical Cultures”

Unternehmen und Akteure (Workshop II)

Nov 21, 2018, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Campus Germersheim (Raum 117, Sitzungsraum)

 

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 IV – Zeitschriften, Gestaltung, Design

You can find the program for the event on Nov 21, 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.

Workshop for PhD Students (Transnational Periodical Cultures) 🗓

Workshop for PhD Students (Transnational Periodical Cultures) 🗓

News, Workshops

Transnational Periodical Cultures
Workshop for PhD Students

Jan 23, 2019, 10-16
Philosophicum II (Ground Floor, Conference Room)

 

On January 23, 2019, the research group Transnational Periodical Cultures will hold a workshop for PhD students where the participants’ current projects, dissertations, or masters theses will be discussed.

All those who are interested in participating are kindly asked to hand in their topics (to Prof. Ernst or Prof. Scheiding) until mid-December 2018.

The presentation format will be a short talk (approx. 20min.) followed by a discussion (not longer than 45min. for each project).

Oct 23/24 – Four Lectures by Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (U of Lodz) 🗓

Oct 23/24 – Four Lectures by Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (U of Lodz) 🗓

General, Lectures, News

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)