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Für das WS 2016/17 wird Prof. Charles Wilson als Obama Fellow am Institute for Transnational American Studies mit einer Vortragsreihe zu Gast sein. Folgende Vorträge sind im Rahmen verschiedener Lehrveranstaltungen und für die Dietz Lecture am 24.11.2016 geplant:
22.11.2016, 10-12 Uhr Raum P 205, Philosophicum: “The South in the Obama Era”
22.11.2016, 16-18 Uhr Raum 04-432, SB II: “Creativity in the American South: Literature and Music”
24.11.2016, 10 (s.t.)-12 Uhr Raum 03-150, Dekanatssaal Rewi: “Donald Trump’s South (Dietz Lecture)”
29.11.2016, 18-20 Uhr Raum 01-611, Georg Forster-Gebäude: “The Southern Way of Life: An Evolving Ideology”
01.12.2016, 14-16 Uhr Raum P 15, Philosophicum: “Religion in the Civil Rights South”
Im Anschluss an die Dietz Lecture am 24.11.16, die im Dekanatssaal des ReWi stattfinden wird, wird der Obama Dissertationspreis sowie der Hans Galinsky-Preis an 1-2 Studierende für herausragende Hausarbeiten vergeben werden. Hierzu sind Sie alle herzlich eingeladen.
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Public Lecture by Prof. em. Arthur Frank
Selves, Their Guidance System, and Narrative Fallibility”
On Monday, November 7, 12 am (Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin)
Prof. Frank will give a public lecture on “Selves, Their Guidance System, and Narrative Fallibility”. In discussing Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Prof. Frank will demonstrate the importance of literature to medicine, ethics, and therapy. For more information on his talk, follow this link:https://www.grk.lifesciences-lifewriting.uni-mainz.de/news-and-announcements-2/
Workshop by Prof. em. Arthur Frank
Introduction to Narrative Ethics
On Tuesday, November 8, 12-14 pm (Philosophikum, P 201).
Prof. Frank will hold a workshop, more specifically an “Introduction to Narrative Ethics”. If you cannot join us on Monday, we warmly invite you to participate in this smaller and more intimate workshop.
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Lecture with Prof. G. Thomas Couser
Hofstra University, New York
Vulnerable Subjects: Illness, Disability, and Ethical Life Writing
18 October 2016
4 pm (16 Uhr)
Georg Forster-Gebäude, Raum 01-611
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
About G. Thomas Couser:
He is the author of Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin, 1997), Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (Cornell, 2004), Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (Michigan, 2009), Memoir: An Introduction, (Oxford University Press, 2011).
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Conferences, Events, News
Organized by Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Tim Lanzendörfer in the context of the MAINZ MEDIA FORUM
The interdisciplinary conference Novel—Seeming—Goods explores the futures of the Anglophone novel at the intersections of content, form, production, and distribution. The conference takes its title from a line in Fredric Jameson’s 1991 groundbreaking study Postmodernism. 25 years after Jameson’s work, in an epoch perhaps after postmodernism, this international conference brings together scholars from English and American literary studies and Book Studies with the aim of discussing several questions related to the possible combinations of the terms in the conference title. What does the novel, understood as a preeminent literary form, look like today, in an age of again-increasing anxiety over its role as a cultural capstone? What are we to make of its connection with its often-proclaimed replacement by novel-seeming texts like graphic novels or TV series, especially when those cultural forms so frequently refer back to the novel for their own prestige? What happens when these concerns are confronted with the question of the novel-as-good, the novel as both a commodity and an increasingly complex digital and physical artifact? And finally, what about the possibility that in many instances, celebrated formal and thematic innovations are only seemingly goods, or explicitly novel-seeming goods—that is to say, what is the practical context in which referencing the novel remains a crucial step in sales, or in which the novel’s character as a good becomes more complicated (as in the sale of digital novels, in the production of free web novels, and other contemporary phenomena)?
We will discuss these questions with a view to answering the question of the novel’s future as a form and as an object both. Does the oft-announced death of the novel loom again today, both because of its obsolescence as a form and the digitalization of everyday life with the constant availability of all kinds of new media has made it a thing of the past? Or does and will it adapt again (as it has so often before) to remain a key format for cultural narratives?
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Conferences, Events, News
TERMINE
- 28.10.2016, Freitag: 18-21 Uhr
Mainz, genauer Ort wird noch bekannt gegeben
- 29.10. 2016, Samstag: 10-17 Uhr Landesmuseum Mainz
ANMELDUNG
Der Workshop ist eine Veranstaltung des Transnational American Studies Institute der Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz (JGU) und richtet sich an MedizinerInnen und Medizinstudierende. Die maximale Gruppengröße umfasst 15 Teilnehmende.
Anmeldungen sind bis zum 15. Oktober 2016 möglich.
Ein Frühbucherrabatt von 20% wird bei Anmeldung bis zum 15. September 2016 gewährt.
Die Kosten von € 150,- (MedizinerInnen) und € 40,- (Studierende) umfassen
- Eintritt ins Landesmuseum am Samstag
- Materialien
- JGU Zertifikat zur Teilnahme
Der Workshop ist bei der Ärztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz zur Zertifizierung als Fortbildungsveranstaltung angemeldet.
Bitte senden Sie eine Email an die unten angegebenen Email-Adressen für eine verbindliche Anmeldung.
Bei zu wenigen Anmeldungen behalten wir uns vor, den Workshop abzusagen.
KONTAKT
Dr. Anita Wohlmann: wohlmann@uni-mainz.de Dr. Katharina Bahlmann: bahlmank@uni-mainz.de
JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSIT T MAINZ
Transnational American Studies Institute
Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
D 55128 Mainz
Tel.: +49 6131 39-25994
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