Fourth of July 2020 at the Obama Institute 🗓
Dear Colleagues, Students and Friends of the Obama Institute: The Corona pandemic has upset all our plans of teaching and research, also a Fourth of July conference with the Fellows of the Obama Institute. The proliferation of COVID-19 has questioned conventional...
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Statement of Solidarity 🗓
As members of the Obama Institute at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and personally, we are terribly saddened to see the developments in the United States of America. We, therefore, express our solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and those who are...
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First volume of Studies in the American Short Story (SASS) 🗓
Penn State University Press publishes first volume of Studies in the American Short Story (SASS) As one of the centers for the study of the American short story in Germany, the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies proudly announces the publication of the...
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Safety update re: Contacting faculty and staff 🗓
Dear Students, Because of the current situation, we have to change our policies regarding personal consultations during walk-in office hours. We are to minimize personal contact with our students; consequently, Most office hours will be suspended until further notice....
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DFG funds new project: “Periodicals and Indigenous Modernity” 🗓
Periodicals and Indigenous Modernity The German Research Foundation (DFG) has announced to fund the research project “Periodicals and Indigenous Modernity: Building a Text Corpus of American Indian Magazines,1890–1930” (SCHE 1616/12-1) conducted by Professor Scheiding...
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Aug 10-14 – OI Summer School in Oklahoma: Native American Culture, Law, and Film 🗓
Aug 10-14, 2020 The University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma, USA In August 2020, the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies offers a Summer School to Norman, Oklahoma. Join us for workshop sessions on Indigenous filmmaking with directors and faculty from...
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Feb 6 – The Legacy of Residential Schools in Native North American Literature and Culture: Pedagogical and Theoretical Considerations 🗓
Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) Feb 6, 2020 16:15-17:45, P 203 (Philosophicum) This presentation, part of a new research project on Indigenous writing in the aftermath of residential schools in four settler states, has two interrelated goals:...
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Feb 4 – Native Education, Print Culture, and Americanization at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918 🗓
Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) Feb 4, 2020 16:15-17:45, Fakultätssaal (Philosophicum) This talk turns to print culture, zooming in on a key archive: the records of Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first federally-funded off-reservation...
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Jan 31 – History Reloaded? Eternal Girlhood and the Afterlives of Annie Oakley 🗓
Stefanie Schäfer Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Jan 31, 2020 08:15-09:45, P 206 (Philosophicum) This presentation examines the influence of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West on the Western genre and zooms in on the gendered representation of cowboy culture by female...
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Jan 30 – Cowboys All! Settler Colonialism and the Invention of Tradition at the Western Spectacle 🗓
Stefanie Schäfer Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Jan 30, 2020 12:15-13:45, P 6 (Philosophicum) This presentation takes a look at the staging of settlement history and its transformation into rodeo sports in North America’s biggest Western Spectacles, the Cheyenne...
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December 17 – “Winosburg, Ohio” – Community, Regionalism, and Cultural Mobility in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919) and Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff (2008) 🗓
Jochen Achilles (University of Würzburg) December 17, 2019 6–8 p.m., P 103 (Philosophicum I) Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff are linked by common structural features as well as cultural concerns. Held side by side, both story...
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January 29-31 – CONFERENCE “Transnational Periodical Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” 🗓
The research group on Transnational Periodical Cultures, led by Professor Ernst and Professor Scheiding, announces its conference "Transnational Periodical Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives," which will take place on campus in Mainz in January 2020. For the...
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