Oct 23/24 – Four Lectures by Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (U of Lodz) 🗓
The ERASMUS Exchange Lecturer Dr. Justyna Fruzinska (University of Lodz, Poland) will give four lectures in various seminars on Oct 23 and 24. Everyone is welcome! You can find the list of talks below and on this poster here. Identity and Masculinity in Ernest...
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Oct 17 – Markets, Standardization and Adaptation (Workshop) 🗓
Research Group "Transnational Periodical Cultures" Markets, Standardization and Adaptation (Workshop I) Oct 17, 2018, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Senatssaal (NatFak, 07-232) The research group "Transnational Periodical Cultures" (Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, Bjørn von Rimscha,...
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Oct 16 – The Self-Written Epitaph: Chinese Autobiographical Writing 🗓
Wang Ying (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing) Oct 16, 2018, 4-6 p.m., P 7 (Philosophicum) Dr. Ying WANG is a Research Fellow, Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her main...
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Oct 16 – Chinese Academic Education 🗓
Wang Ying (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing) Oct 16, 2018, 10 a.m.-12 noon, 00 030 SR04 (BKM) Dr. Ying WANG is a Research Fellow, Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her...
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Oct 13 – Apartheid’s Lessons: Transnational Networks and US Evangelical Politics in the Cold War 🗓
Melani McAlister (George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA) Oct 13, 2018, 9:15 a.m., Linke Aula/Alte Mensa Melani McAlister is Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA. This event is...
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Oct 11 – Prosperity, Sex, and Politics: Evangelicals Changing Mission to the World 🗓
Anthea Butler (U of Pennsylvania, USA) Oct 11, 2018, 6 p.m. (s.t.), Linke Aula/Alte Mensa The missionary impulse of Evangelicals has been saving souls, but that has changed in the last 40 years. Political, economic and social issues are part of the changing impetus...
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Oct 4 – Trans-Atlantic Bodies: American Nationalism and the Politics of Corporeality 🗓
Maurizio Valsania (University of Turin) Oct 4, 2018, 5-6 p.m., P 110 (Philosophicum) In the 1760s, British colonies in North America agreed on boycotting the importation of goods. On occasion, upper-class Americans could reenact the so-called “age of homespun” much...
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4th of July Celebration 2018 at the Obama Institute
The second annual 4th of July celebration at the Obama Institute picked up on Frederick Douglass's famous oration, ”What to the American Slave Is the 4th of July?" Obama Institute Speaker and board member Prof. Alfred Hornung made this connection in his introductory...
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4th of July Lecture – Suffering, Struggle, Survival: The Activism, Artistry, and Authorship of Frederick Douglass and Family (1818–2018) 🗓
Prof. Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Edinburgh) July 4, 2018, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. (c.t.), Philosophicum I, P 5 While there have been many Frederick Douglasses – Douglass the abolitionist, Douglass the statesman, Douglass the autobiographer, Douglass the orator,...
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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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