May 3 – Beautiful Deceptions: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Early American Novel
Philipp Schweighauser (University of Basel) May 2, 2018, 10-12 a.m., P 10 This talk starts with a brief overview of the three main subgenres of the early American novel—the picaresque, the gothic, and the sentimental—before zooming in on deception. The stories these...
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April 24 – Re-Mapping the Canon: Early American Newspaper Printers and Their Transnational Routes
Mark Noonan (New York City College of Technology) April 24, 2018, 6-8 p.m., P 103 In her recent book Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time, Wai Chee Dimock writes: “For too long, American literature has been seen as a world apart, sufficient...
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Call for Papers – Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies 🗓
Closing Conference of the DFG-funded research network “Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies” (DFG # BA 3567/4-1)
June 21-23, 2018, Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.
Conference organizers: Dr. Pia Wiegmink (Obama Institute) and Dr. Birgit M. Bauridl (U Regensburg)
Call for Papers – The Post-Obama Ethos. A Symposium at GSU
“The Post-Obama Ethos: The Transnational U.S. in the Aftermath of Hope” International Interdisciplinary Symposium Symposium Sponsors: Obama Institute & Georgia State University Host Institution: Georgia State University March 22 – 23, 2018 CfP Post...
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Jan 12-14 – 3-day Workshop on Narrative Medicine 🗓
Workshop in cooperation with Columbia University
Jan 12-14, Alte Mensa
Season’s Greetings from the Obama Institute
The Obama Institute wishes you all Happy Holidays!
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Dec 20 – Info Session on American Studies Summer School 2018 🗓
Info Session
American Studies Summer School 2018
Dec 20, 2-4 p.m., Fakultätssaal (Philosophicum)
Dec 4, 5 & 7 – Lectures by Dorota Filipczak (ERASMUS exchange lecturer from the University of Łódź) 🗓
Series of lectures
by ERASMUS exchange lecturer Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź)
Dec 5 – The President That Is Not One 🗓
Lecture by Prof. Donald E. Pease
Dec 5, 10-12 a.m., P 6 (Philosophicum)
Nov 23 – Annual Dietz Memorial Lecture 🗓
Lecture by Jerry Ellis, Obama Prize, Hans Galinsky Prize
Nov 23, P 5 (Philosophicum)
Jerry Ellis: “The Trail Leads Home”
Obama Dissertation Prize
Hans Galinsky Memorial Prize
Oct 26-28 – From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Past and Present Forms of Transnational Black Resistance 🗓
Conference
Oct 26-28, Fakultätssaal (Philosophicum)
Keynotes by
Dorothy Randall Tsuruta (Chair of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University, USA)
Charmaine Nelson (Professor of Art History, Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Harvard University, USA)
Vincent Carretta (Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, University of Maryland, USA)
October 12 – Health Care in America: How, Why, What Next? 🗓
William Pierce (APCO Worldwide, former assistant secretary for public affairs, DHHS) 10-11.30a.m., P 105 Among the most developed nations, the United States has a rather unique health care system. The basic question is why? While often leading in drug discovery, new...
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