Dec 9 – Info Session: American Studies Summer School 🗓
Join the American Studies Summer School 2020! The Civil Rights Movement, Southern Literature, and Southern Food & Music Experience a unique and intensive research and learning opportunity focusing on the American South. The Obama Institute offers this three-week...
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Nov 28 – Thanksgiving Obama Lecture, Obama Dissertation Prize & Galinsky Memorial Prize 🗓
Nov. 28, 2019 – 10.15 - 12.00 – Dekanatssaal (ReWi, 03-150) Come join us for the annual Thanksgiving Obama Lecture, where we will hear a lecture by Prof. Dr. Heike Paul from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and will give out awards for outstanding undergrad and PhD...
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Studying Abroad – Info Sessions 2019 for Exchange Programs in 2020/21 🗓
On Oct 23, Oct 29, and Oct 31 the Department and the Obama Institute will hold info sessions on their various exchange programs. Oct 23: General Info, 6pm s.t., P2 Oct 29: Direct Exchange American Studies, 6pm s.t., P3 Oct 31: ERASMUS Exchange, 6pm s.t., P2 Please...
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Oct 30 – Independent Magazines (Workshop) 🗓
Research Group "Transnational Periodical Cultures" Independent Magazines (Workshop VII) Oct 30, 2019, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Senatssaal NatFak (Room 07-232) The research group "Transnational Periodical Cultures" (Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, Bjørn von Rimscha, Oliver...
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Inaugural Lecture: “Muscle Beach and the History of American Bodybuilding” 🗓
Florian Freitag (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz) July 2, 2019JGU Campus Gemersheim On 2 July, Dr. habil. Florian Freitag delivered his inaugural lecture (Antrittsvorlesung), entitled "Muscle Beach and the History of American Bodybuilding" at the...
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July 5 – Developing a Local University Ecosystem: Transdisciplinary, Collaborative Local Scholarship 🗓
Brennan Collins (Georgia State University) July 5, 2019 9-11 p.m., (Fakultätssaal 01-185, Philosophicum) Transdisciplinary collaboration between local universities can thrive when scholars combine resources and begin to create projects with a local audience in...
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4th of July Events – Keynote “Loyalty, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Times of Crisis”, Student Presentations, and Lecture 🗓
4th of July Events at the Obama Institute July 4, 2019, 2–8 p.m., Philosophicum 2-4 p.m. (P4, Philosophicum) .................................... Guest Lecture“Loyalty, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Times of Crisis” Prof. Richard King(University of Nottingham, UK)...
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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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