July 2 – Decolonizing the Garde: Avant-Garde Canadian Writing and the Indigenous Renaissance 🗓
Gregory Betts (University College, Dublin/Brock University, Canada) July 2, 2019 4-6 p.m., P 207 (Philosophicum) Indigenous art has always been interconnected with the avant-garde, and it is increasingly fallacious to speak of the difference between Indigenous and...
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June 27 – Race and Anti-Imperialism in Merze Tate’s International Thought 🗓
KEYNOTE: Race and Anti-Imperialism in Merze Tate’s International Thought Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania) Thursday, June 27, 2019 6 p.m. (s.t.) Helmholtz-Institut Mainz – Staudingerweg 18 Conference Ground Floor II – Room 1395-00-133 This keynote is part of...
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June 18 – ‘Thinking against the Grain’: Challenging the (Emerging) Liberal Consensus 🗓
'Thinking against the Grain': Challenging the (Emerging) Liberal Consensus Richard King (University of Nottingham, UK) Tuesday, June 18, 2019 4-6 p.m. P 207 - Philosophicum After World War II, there was an emerging consensus on matters of race, including racial...
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June 27 – Sehen, Blättern, Lesen, Zählen: Wie sich Zeitschriftenordnungen erschließen lassen 🗓
Madleen Podewski (FU Berlin) June 27, 2019 6-8 p.m. (c.t.) Room 02.102 (Philosophicum II) Zeitschriften sind aus verschiedenen Text-, Bild- und graphischen Elementen aufgebaut. Abhängig von Formatgröße und Seitenumfang und abhängig vom jeweiligen Formattypus werden...
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June 27 – Early America through the Lens of Science Fiction 🗓
Early America through the Lens of Science Fiction Laura M. Stevens (University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) Thursday, June 27, 2019 4 p.m. P 15 - Philosophicum This talk will consider some of the frameworks that science fiction has provided for depicting and understanding...
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June 25 – Heinrich the Shoemaker and the S/Cistrunks that Followed: A Narrative of Black and White in the U.S. South 🗓
Elizabeth J. West (Georgia State University) June 25, 2019 4 p.m.-6 p.m., Philosophicum I, P207 From 1739–1748 the centuries long dispute between Britain and Spain over contested territories in present day Florida and Georgia heightened into the conflict that became...
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July 15-19 – Interdisciplinary Workshop: U.S. Indian Law and Policy 🗓
Interdisciplinary Workshop "History of United States Indian Law and Policy" Prof. Lindsay G. Robertson (University of Oklahoma) Faculty Director, Center for the Study of American Indian Law and PolicyChickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law July 15-19, P...
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June 11 – Transnational Indigenous Histories in the North American Borderlands 🗓
Brenden Rensink (Brigham Young University) June 11, 2019 4-6 p.m., P 207 (Philosophicum) Drawing from his recent award-winning book, Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands, historian Brenden W. Rensink will compare the...
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June 7 – WORKSHOP: From Confucius to Mickey Mouse 🗓
"From Confucius to Mickey Mouse" June 7 11.30 a.m. - 5 p.m. 02.102 (Philosophicum II) Alfred Hornung (OI), Florian Freitag (OI), and Chang Liu (U of Heidelberg) invite you to a workshop on U.S.-Chinese Transcultural Dynamics. Please see below for the program and...
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June 6 – Strong or Weak Theory? Reading Modern Magazines 🗓
Ian Afflerbach (University of North Georgia, USA) June 6, 2019 6-8 p.m. ROOM CHANGE: 02.102 (Philosophicum II) This talk examines debates about method in modernist periodical studies and the digital humanities, focusing on recent conversations abount “strong” and...
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June 20-23 – Conference “Cultures of Medicine” & Workshop “Narrative Medicine” 🗓
The Obama Institute and the "Narrative Medicine" program at Columbia University, New York invite everyone to a conference (June 20 & 21) and a workshop (June 22 & 23) on "Cultures of Medicine" and "Narrative Medicine" (co-organized with the Center of...
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May 28 – Border Encounters: Theorizing the US-Mexico Border as Transa 🗓
Jennifer Reimer (University of Graz, Austria) Tuesday, May 28, 2019 10 a.m.-12 noon P 109a (Philosophicum) Transa may originate in Tijuana, but like so many Tijuanese, it is a mobile, border-crossing word. In transa, we hear the echo not only of transaction but also...
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