Jan 16 – Guest Lecture “twen. Zum Design von Literaturbeiträgen in einem Zeitgeistmagazin der frühen Bundesrepublik” 🗓

Jan 16 – Guest Lecture “twen. Zum Design von Literaturbeiträgen in einem Zeitgeistmagazin der frühen Bundesrepublik” 🗓

Philipp Pabst
(Universität Münster)

twen. Zum Design von Literaturbeiträgen in einem Zeitgeistmagazin der frühen Bundesrepublik”

Jan 16, 2024, 4:15pm, 00-212 (Philo II)

Das Zeitgeistmagazin twen war in den 1960er-Jahren tonangebend in Fragen moderner Lebensführung für junge Menschen. Vor allem als Ikone des Zeitschriftendesigns ist die von Willy Fleckhaus gestaltete Zeitschrift noch heute bekannt. Weniger weiß man über die literarischen und literaturkritischen Beiträge, die einen festen Bestandteil in jedem Heft bildeten. Das ist insofern verwunderlich, da namhafte Autor:innen wie Alfred Andersch, Arno Schmidt, Simone de Beauvoir und Allen Ginsberg in twen publizierten. Der Vortrag geht diesem Bereich exemplarisch nach und fragt dabei, wie Literatur und Literaturkritik im Medium Zeitschrift in Szene gesetzt werden.

Dr. Philipp Pabst studierte Germanistik, Geschichte und Philosophie an der Universität Münster sowie der Universitá degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. 2019 Promotion mit einer Arbeit über das Populäre in der Literatur der frühen Bundesrepublik. Seitdem Postdoc am Germanistischen Institut der Universität Münster. Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Literatur und Populärkultur, kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschriftenforschung, televisuelle Serialität sowie Weltanschauungen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur um 1800 und um 1900.

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Dec 5 – Guest Lecture “Cyphering Books in the Archive” 🗓

Dec 5 – Guest Lecture “Cyphering Books in the Archive” 🗓

Lukas Etter
(Universität Siegen)

“Cyphering Books in the Archive”

Dec 5, 2023, 4:15pm, 00-212 (Philo II)

 

Coupling documented artifacts and methodological reflection, this paper will center around cyphering books (alternative spelling ‘ciphering books’) from archives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North American education. It will present excerpts from these hand-written mathematical exercise books and reflect upon the productive paradox that the cultural historian faces when studying them. On the one hand, these books often testify to the idea of officialism and longevity; they may be several hundred pages long and exhibit rather rigid genre elements (verbatim noting what the schoolmasters read out; adhering to calligraphic precision). On the other, cyphering books may also document social history, as when the exercises of simple and advanced arithmetic are enriched with personal marginalia, including doodles, puns, poems, spontaneous penmanship exercises, and invectives against other individuals in the classroom.

 

The author of Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics (De Gruyter, 2021), Lukas Etter holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Siegen. Recent work has focused on the cultural aspects of mathematical word problems in antebellum America; the current project Clandestine Calculation will circle around similar phenomena in the archive of eighteenth-century North America.

 

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Nov 30 – Obama Lecture with Obama Dissertation Prize & Galinsky Prize 🗓

Nov 30 – Obama Lecture with Obama Dissertation Prize & Galinsky Prize 🗓

Nov 30, 2023 – 11.00-13.00 – Obama Lecture – Fakultätssaal (Philosophicum, 01-185)

Please join us for our annual Obama Lecture a week after Thanksgiving, where we will highlight outstanding work in Transnational American Studies – with a topical contribution from our JGU colleague Prof. Dr. Claudia Landwehr (Political Theory) on “Conceptions of Democracy” – and show appreciation for the work of young scholars by awarding the Obama Dissertation Prize as well as the Hans Galinsky Memorial Prize for student and graduate theses.

Everyone is welcome!

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July 11 – Guest Lecture “Sweet Jesus: How Evangelicalism Became the Religion of Industrial Agriculture, and How It Might Help End It” 🗓

July 11 – Guest Lecture “Sweet Jesus: How Evangelicalism Became the Religion of Industrial Agriculture, and How It Might Help End It” 🗓

Chad Seales
(University of Texas at Austin)

“Sweet Jesus: How Evangelicalism Became the Religion of Industrial Agriculture, and How It Might Help End It”

July 11, 2023, 4:15pm, Fakultätssaal 01-185 (Philosophicum)

This talk will be held as part of the seminar “Thesis Presentation.”

Chad Seales is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Brian F. Bolton Distinguished Professor in Secular Studies. He taught at New College of Florida in Sarasota and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia before arriving at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned a B.A from the University of Florida, an M.T.S. from Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research addresses the cultural relationship between religion and secularism in American life, as evident in the social expressions of evangelical Protestants, the moral prescriptions of workplace chaplains and corporate managers, and the salvific promises of neoliberal capitalism. He is the author of Religion Around Bono: Evangelical Enchantment and Neoliberal Capitalism (Penn State University Press, 2019), and The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town (Oxford University Press, 2013), and has published articles on industrial religion, corporate chaplaincy, religion and film, and secularism and secularization in the United States.

July 5 – Guest Lecture “Love and Debt: The Product Red Campaign and the Racial Dynamics of Neoliberal Religion” 🗓

July 5 – Guest Lecture “Love and Debt: The Product Red Campaign and the Racial Dynamics of Neoliberal Religion” 🗓

Chad Seales
(University of Texas at Austin)

“Love and Debt: The Product Red Campaign and the Racial Dynamics of Neoliberal Religion”

July 5, 2023, 12:15pm, P 203 (Philosophicum)

This talk will be held as part of the seminar “Abundant America.”

Chad Seales is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Brian F. Bolton Distinguished Professor in Secular Studies. He taught at New College of Florida in Sarasota and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia before arriving at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned a B.A from the University of Florida, an M.T.S. from Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research addresses the cultural relationship between religion and secularism in American life, as evident in the social expressions of evangelical Protestants, the moral prescriptions of workplace chaplains and corporate managers, and the salvific promises of neoliberal capitalism. He is the author of Religion Around Bono: Evangelical Enchantment and Neoliberal Capitalism (Penn State University Press, 2019), and The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town (Oxford University Press, 2013), and has published articles on industrial religion, corporate chaplaincy, religion and film, and secularism and secularization in the United States.

4th of July – Lectures, Exhibition, Get-together, Food and Drinks 🗓

4th of July – Lectures, Exhibition, Get-together, Food and Drinks 🗓

4th of July Events at the Obama Institute

July 4, 2023, 4-8 p.m., P1 & Philo-Wiese (Philosophicum)

What might the 4th of July mean to Americans and foreigners in general and especially in 2023?

From insights into the U.S. Senate’s social fabric to an “American Way of Death” to students’ takes on the meaning of the holiday: Join us in discussing the day’s importance and possible criticism but also in celebrating an informal Obama Institute summer get-together of students, faculty, and friends.

Food and drinks will be provided!

4-6 p.m. I Guest Talks I P 1

The Social Fabric of the U.S. Senate
Professor Sean Theriault
The University of Texas at Austin

Selling “The American Way of Death”
PD Dr. Jan Logemann
JGU Mainz/Uni Göttingen

6-8 p.m. I (Graduate) Student Project Exhibition
with Food and Drinks

Posters and performances by students from Dr. Bailey Moorhead’s courses

Pizza, Snacks, and Drinks

You can download the poster for the event here.