May 15 – The Image of America in pre-revolutionary France (1763-1789): A New Look at Prize-Winning Contests in French Académies 🗓
Bertrand van Ruymbeke (Université Paris 8) May 15, 2019 10 a.m.-12 noon, N3 (Muschel) How did the image of the New World evolve in France from the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 to the French Revolution in 1789? What was the intellectual and constitutional impact...
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Obama Institute @ JGU Open Day 2019
As part of the university-wide open day on Jan 30, 2019, Dr. Nele Sawallisch, Dr. Damien Schlarb, and Julia Velten, M.A. (together with our student assistants Ana Elisa Gomez Laris and Amina Touzos) welcomed high school students to the Obama Institute and introduced...
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Feb 8 – Pomo Feminist: Serious, Funny and Unhinged Performances by a Former Sacred Naked Nature Girl 🗓
Denise Uyehara (Performance Artist) February 8, 2019 10 a.m.-12 noon, P 103 (Philosophicum) Denise Uyehara was supposed to be a “good girl” from the suburbs, but instead she turned out “bad.” What went wrong — or right — depends on who you ask. In her talk, she...
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Feb 8 – Career Workshop: American Art 🗓
Career Workshop: American Art February 8, 2019 Helmholtz Institute Mainz Staudingerweg 18 55128 Mainz Conference Room 1395-00-133/135 (Ground Floor), 10 a.m.–11 a.m. Interested in studying American art, working in museums, applying for research funding, or...
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Feb 7 – Radical Time Travel: Shooting Columbus and Other Works by Denise Uyehara 🗓
Denise Uyehara (Performance Artist) February 7, 2019 6-8 p.m., P 203 (Philosophicum) This evening, Denise Uyehara discusses her work as part of the Fifth World Collective, a group of Indigenous and non-indigenous artists from the Southwest, U.S., as they...
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Feb 7 – Symposium: International Perspectives on American Art 🗓
International Perspectives on American Art Symposium hosted by the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies and the Art History Department, Johannes Gutenberg University The symposium, International Perspectives on American Art, brings together scholars from...
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Jan 31 – ‘Road Trippin:’ Twentieth-Century American Road Narratives and Petrocultures from On The Road to The Road 🗓
Scott Obernesser (University of Mississippi) January 31, 2019, 12-1 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II) “‘Road Trippin:’ Twentieth-Century American Road Narratives and Petrocultures from On The Road to The Road” examines late-twentieth century U.S. road narratives in an...
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Jan 29 – Language and Domestic Space in Mary Wilkins Freeman’s Short Fiction 🗓
Alfred Bendixen (Princeton University) Tuesday, January 29, 2018; 6 p.m.–8 p.m. (c.t.) Philosophicum I, P15 Professor Alfred Bendixen of Princeton University explores the intersection of language and domestic space in establishing the feminist foundations of Mary...
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Jan 22 – Discovering Difference: A Narrative Medicine Investigation of Lived Retrospective Diagnosis 🗓
Danielle Spencer (Columbia University) January 22, 2019, 12-2 p.m. 02-709 Georg-Forster Gebäude In this project I “diagnose” a phenomenon I term discovering difference: the experience of newly learning in adulthood that one has a longstanding cognitive or...
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Jan 24 – Urban Patterns: The Textual Making of Race and Space, Chicago 1893-1945 🗓
Sophia L. Bamert (University of California, Davis) January 24, 2019, 12-1 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II) In 1915, sociologist Robert E. Park described the modern city as “a mosaic of little worlds which touch but do not interpenetrate,” a spatial—and racial—imaginary...
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Jan 21 – American Studies Summer School – Info Session 🗓
Apply for the American Studies Summer School 2019! 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...
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Jan 16–18 – Keeping the Faith: Glaube und Journalismus – Conference Room, Helmholtz Institute. Organized by Prof. Oliver Scheiding and Anja-Maria Bassimir 🗓
Religious media are part of the knowledge production of faith communities. As producers, disseminators and archivists they play important roles for perpetuating a certain faith tradition. In this workshop, we will analyze how religious journalists and...
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