Call for Papers, News, Workshops
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.
Lectures, News
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:
Lectures, News
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:
Conferences, Lectures, News
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
Conferences, Lectures, News
Anthea Butler (U of Pennsylvania, USA)
Oct 11, 2018, 6 p.m. (s.t.), Linke Aula/Alte Mensa
The missionary impulse of Evangelicals has been saving souls, but that has changed in the last 40 years. Political, economic and social issues are part of the changing impetus of Evangelical engagement around the world, because of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. This keynote will address the changes to belief, ideology and practice of Evangelical mission work, to show how Pentecostal and Charismatic movements have changed the impetus of Evangelical fervor and interests throughout the world.
Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religion and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 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
Conferences, Events, Lectures, News
Maurizio Valsania (University of Turin)
Oct 4, 2018, 5-6 p.m., P 110 (Philosophicum)
In the 1760s, British colonies in North America agreed on boycotting the importation of goods. On occasion, upper-class Americans could reenact the so-called “age of homespun” much later on—George Washington’s 1789 mythic brown inaugural suit made in Hartford, Connecticut, is a wonderful example. But this may give the impression that Americans, including American republican leaders, did not care about style; that they had been created rugged; that they were cut off from the main trans-Atlantic cultural trends that, in the period, were being redefining fashion, civility, politeness, sensibility, and masculinity. My paper discusses two hypotheses. The first is that the Founding Figures (George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in particular) took part, knowingly, in a trans-Atlantic ongoing debate about style; second, that these men idealized their own bodies and deployed them as tools to channel a message of modernity. New political visions as well as new ideals concerning the modern white upper-class male were thus made visible.
This talk constitutes the keynote address of the “Transatlantic Conversations: New and Emerging Approaches to Early American Studies” conference (Oct 4-6, 2018).
Click here to access the conference page and the complete conference program.
