Mar 14 – Exhibition “Young Adult Fiction” 🗓
Mar 14, 2025 – 10:00-14:00Philosophicum II – room 02.102 Exhibition "Young Adult Fiction" Developed from student projects during the American Studies Graduate Seminar 522 "Young Adult Fiction," this exhibition shows how creative, diplomatic, and inspiring young adult...
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Jan 31 – Guest Lecture “Back to the Future: Reflektionen zu den Übertragungen von zwei antirassistischen Romanen der 1920er Jahre” 🗓
Peter Höyng(Emory University) Back to the Future:Reflektionen zu den Übertragungen von zwei antirassistischen Romanen der 1920er Jahre Jan 31, 2025, 12:15-13:45, 00.212, Philosophicum II (Jakob-Welder-Weg 20) Zusammen mit einem Kollegen hat Peter Höyng zwei Romane...
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Jan 20 – Guest Lecture “Pop Art, Activism, and Indigenous Futurism: The Visual Art of Ryan Singer” 🗓
Karsten Fitz(Universität Passau) Pop Art, Activism, and Indigenous Futurism: The Visual Art of Ryan Singer Jan 20, 2025, 16:15-17:45, 02.102, Philosophicum II (Jakob-Welder-Weg 20) Writing against the Western tradition of freezing Native cultures in a long-gone...
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Jan 28 – Guest Lecture “Far Right Zines and Gender Activities” 🗓
Alexandra Mehnert(JGU Mainz/Universität Leipzig) Far Right Zines and Gender Activities Jan 28, 2025, 18:15-19:45, P 109a (Philosophicum) The seminar will show perspectives for the research with subcultural print media. For this purpose, Zines will be...
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Jan 20 – Guest Lecture “Performing the Archive in Contemporary Testimonial Plays” 🗓
Julia Rössler(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Performing the Archive in Contemporary Testimonial Plays Jan 20, 2025, 10:15-11:45, Fakultätssaal (01-185, Philosophicum) Documentary practices currently proliferate in contemporary drama and theater in the...
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Jan 20 – Guest Lecture “Writing In Between: Relationality in Siri Hustvedt’s and Zadie Smith’s Works” 🗓
Christine Marks(CUNY LaGuardia Community College, NY, USA) Writing In Between:Relationality in Siri Hustvedt’s and Zadie Smith’s Works Jan 20, 2025, 10:15-11:45, P 5 (Philosophicum) This talk considers the works of Siri Hustvedt and Zadie Smith, two...
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Jan 7, 14 & 21 – Public Student Presentations Advanced Research Seminar “Magazine Studies” 🗓
Public Student Presentations Advanced Research Seminar "Magazine Studies" January 7, 14 & 21, 2025 P 109a (Philosophicum) 6:15–7:45pm We cordially invite anyone interested in Magazine Studies to join one or all upcoming sessions of our Advanced Research Seminar on...
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Jan 16-17 – Student Conference: Being (In)Visible: Representations of Disability and Ableism in Popular Culture 🗓
Student Conference Being (In)Visible: Representations of Disability and Ableism in Popular Culture Jan 16-17, 2025 Fakultätssaal (room 01-185), Philosophicum (Jakob-Welder-Weg 18) Organized by Jill Reuter, Ayishat Aluko, and Samira Schwarz at the Obama Institute We...
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Jan 6 – Guest Lecture “On Ecology, Literature, and Slow Disasters: Climate Anxiety and the American Novel” 🗓
Jonas Müller(JGU Mainz) On Ecology, Literature, and Slow Disasters: Climate Anxiety and the American Novel Jan 6, 2025, 10:15-11:45, P 5 (Philosophicum) While the climate crisis continues to ravage planetary systems, a concomitant psychological crisis has...
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Call for Papers – Metamorphoses in Contemporary Literature 🗓
Call for Papers Metamorphoses in Contemporary Literature May 22-25, 2025, JGU Mainz The conference’s focus is on contemporary tales of metamorphosis. We are especially interested in human to non-human transformations from (queer)feminist, ecocritical, posthuman, and...
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Dec 10 – Book Talk “‘There Are No Natives Here’: Hannah Arendt and the Erasure of Native American Citizenship” 🗓
David D. Kim(University of California, Los Angeles) “'There Are No Natives Here': Hannah Arendt and the Erasure of Native American Citizenship" Dec 10, 2024, 12:15, 00.212 (ground floor), Philo II At the height of the Cold War, Hannah Arendt mapped out...
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Dec 10 – Guest Lecture “The Defenders. The Popularist Attempt to Uphold Protectionism in the United States, ca. 1880-1930” 🗓
Fritz Kusch(Universität Bremen) "The Defenders. The Popularist Attempt to Uphold Protectionism in the United States, ca. 1880-1930" Dec 10, 2024, 16:15, 01-618, kl. Bib. (Philosophicum) The project examines the popularist agitation for protectionist...
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