Dec 6 – Guest Lecture “Selling Out Your Art” 🗓
Associate Professor Ian Afflerbach (University of North Georgia, USA) "Selling Out Your Art" December 6, 2022, 4:15pm, 02-611 (GFG) What does it mean to say that an artist has “sold out”? Where did this expression come from, and why has it gained such...
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Dec 6 – Info Session: American Studies Summer School 🗓
Join the American Studies Summer School 2023! 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 three-week...
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Nov 22 – Guest Lecture Germersheim: “Margaret Atwood’s Venture into Graphic Novels” 🗓
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Johanna Glaser (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) November 22, 2022, 9:40am, N.106 (Stufenhörsaal) "Margaret Atwood's Venture into Graphic Novels: The Angel Catbird Trilogy and the War Bears Series" Professor Glaser’s research focus is in...
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Nov 24 – Obama Lecture with Obama Dissertation Prize & Galinsky Prize 🗓
Nov. 24, 2022 – 11:00-13.00 – Obama Lecture – Dekanatssaal (ReWi, 03-150) Please join us for our annual Obama Lecture on Thanksgiving, where we will celebrate 70 years of American Studies at JGU Mainz, with contributions from three professors who helped shape what has...
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Direct Exchange – Info Sessions 2022 for Programs in 2023/24 🗓
On Nov 10 the Obama Institute will hold an info session on its Direct Exchange programs. Please join us in room P 11 (Philosophicum) for more information about the exciting exchange opportunities! Nov 10, 18:00-20:00 (s.t.) P 11 (Philosophicum) Please find all details...
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Research Colloquiy WS 2022/23 – Periodical Studies
Join us for our research colloquy in the upcoming winter term 2022/23 in both Mainz can Germersheim.
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Forschungsförderpreis für Dissertation von Johanna Seibert 🗓
Verleihung am 14. Juli 2022 Forschungsförderpreis der Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität Mainz e.V. Dissertation von Johanna Franziska Seibert Archipelagic Media: Early African Caribbean Newspapers and the Whirls of Emancipation, 1827-1838 Die von Frau Seibert...
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June 14 – Online Guest Lecture: “Imagining the Indo-Pacific—U.S. Regional Vision and Politics” 🗓
Wade Turvold Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi June 14, 2022, 6pm–7:30pm (s.t.)., online via Zoom. Access the event here. Meeting-ID: 894 5748 9483 Code: 185247 During the last decade, the U.S. has reinforced its diplomatic,...
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Indigenous Print Cultures, Media, and Literatures 🗓
Date: July 6-9, 2022 Location: Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz Hosted by the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies and the Humanities Research Center at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
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May 24 – Lunch Lecture on Narrative Medicine 🗓
Danielle Spencer Academic Director, Narrative Medicine Program Columbia University, New York May 24, 2022, 12-1 p.m., 02.102 (Philo II) This talk offers an introduction to Narrative Medicine, as well as the concept of metagnosis as the revelation of a longstanding...
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Research Summer 2022
The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies welcomes several internationally renowned scholars in the summer term of 2022. Please join us for their contributions to our course and research program! May 92–4pm, P3, Philosophicum I Imagined Pasts: Historical...
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Oliver Scheiding receives Gutenberg Research College “Zielgerade” Fellowship 🗓
Oliver Scheiding has been awarded the Gutenberg Research College fellowship “Zielgerade” to finish his book project Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Culture, which is under contract with Wiley-Blackwell. The fellowship includes funding for a...
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