June 26 – Some ‘Age-Friendly’ Advice?: Ableism, Austerity, and New Stories of ‘Active Aging’ 🗓
Sally Chivers (Trent University) June 26, 2018, 4-6 p.m., 00 025 SR 03 (BKM) This talk comes from a larger research project that asks how gender and culture matter in creating age-friendly environments. Understanding that austerity thought warps age advice, making...
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June 21 – “What Does the Transnational Perspective Change About U.S. History?” 🗓
Prof. Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University) June 21, 2018, 4–6 p.m. (c.t.), SB II, 01-531 (Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2) Urban history has long had a strong transnational character, on account of the functions that cities historically have served as nexuses in...
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June 28 – “Power to the Powerless”: Black Artists, Art Movements, and Art-Making Traditions 🗓
Prof. Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Edinburgh) June 28, 2018, 4–6 p.m. (c.t.), SB II, 01-531 (Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2) This talk will introduce audiences to the drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, mixed-media installations and performance art created by...
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June 25 – Kanienkehaka: the Mohawk People,Christian Missions, and Native Survivance 🗓
Prof. Laura Stevens (U Tulsa) June 25, 2018, 12 p.m.–2 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum I, P 5 This lecture will provide an introduction to the Mohawk People, who called themselves “Kanienkehaka,” or “People of the Flint.“ The Easternmost tribe of the Iroquois or...
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June 28 – Urban Ecologies 🗓
Prof. Alan Lessoff (Illinois State University) June 28, 2018, 6–8 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum I, P 15 In recent years, an environmental perspective on urban history has been transforming both urban and environmental history, by emphasizing the city as an especially...
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June 21 – March Madness, Mascots, and Milkshake Ducks: A Social Psychological Perspective on Reactions to Sister Jean 🗓
Scott P. King (Shenandoah University, USA) June 21, 2018, 1-2.30 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II) Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, a 98-year-old nun and team chaplain for Loyola University Chicago, became a sensation in both social and traditional media during her school’s...
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June 20 – California’s Counterculture Turns 180 Degrees South: Obsessively Documenting Drop-Outs While Saving the Planet 🗓
Prof. Marcus Reisenleitner (York U) June 20, 2018, 4 p.m.–6 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum II, 00-212 When President Trump announced a reduction of protected federal land in two of Utah’s national monuments, clothing outfitter Patagonia, protested, changing their...
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June 18 – #HAMLET⏐KOMPLEX 🗓
Peter W. Marx (Universität zu Köln) June 18, 2018, 6-8 p.m. (c.t.), 00.212 (Philo II) Book Launch & Talk Please find more information on this event on the poster. Please note: The event will be held in German....
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July 9-12 – ADDITIONAL COURSE OFFER 🗓
Additional Course Offer – Summer Term 2018 for M.A./M.Ed. and advanced B.A./B.Ed. students Cultural Studies IV and V For course registration and further information, please contact Dr. Sonja Georgi. Interdisciplinary Workshop "History of United States Indian Law and...
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June 19 – Encountering Pictures: Materiality, Conceptualist Photography, and the Subject 🗓
Julia Polyck-O'Neill (Brock University, Canada) June 19, 2018, 12-2 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II) The idea that artistic practice, after the massive shifts initiated by conceptual art, takes into account, and is accountable to, the material reality of human relations...
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June 19 – Punks and Gay-Cats: Vulnerable Youth in the Hobo Narratives of Jack London and A-No 1 🗓
Owen Clayton (University of Lincoln, UK) June 19, 2018, 10 a.m.-12 noon, P 102 (Philosophicum) Dr. Owen Clayton is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. His research interests include transatlantic visual culture and working–class...
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June 18 – Climate Theories in Early American Literature 🗓
Prof. Michael Boyden (Uppsala University) June 18, 2018, 12-2 p.m., P 5 (Philosophicum) Environmental humanists routinely take their departure from the romantic ecology of the mid- nineteenth century, dismissing earlier climate theories as racist, unscientific, or...
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