Happy Holidays! 🗓
On behalf of the faculty and staff at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, we thank you – our supporters, colleagues, students, and friends – for another successful year filled with meaningful and inspiring...
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Dec 15: Online Guest Lecture “Claiming ‘The Great Black North’ in Contemporary Short Stories from Canada” 🗓
"Claiming ‘The Great Black North’ in Contemporary Short Stories from Canada" Dr. Nele Sawallisch(Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany) Dec 15, 09:40-11:00, BigBlueButton Free access: https://bbb.rlp.net/b/ern-ciz-knc-2v5(BigBlueButton does not require a...
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Dec 14 – Online Info Session: American Studies Summer School 🗓
Join the American Studies Summer School 2021! 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 26 – Thanksgiving Obama Lecture, Obama Dissertation Prize & Galinsky Memorial Prize 🗓
Nov. 26, 2020 – 16.15 - 18.00 – BigBlueButtonhttps://bbb.rlp.net/b/pli-bby-4tg-fr3 Come join us online for the annual Thanksgiving Obama Lecture, where we will hear from the Obama Institute's Executive Board members about the OI's activities and current research and...
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Nov 14-21 + Nov 19: On-demand Film Screening + Talk and Q&A with filmmaker Yehuda Sharim (UC Merced) 🗓
Watch Songs That Never End (2019) on-demandNov. 14-21 (register on eventbrite) Talk with filmmaker Yehuda SharimNov. 19, 6 pm CET (on BigBlueButton) The Obama Institute is hosting a week-long on-demand film screening (Nov 14-21,...
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Direct Exchange – Info Sessions 2020 for Programs in 2021/22 🗓
On Nov 11 the Obama Institute will hold info sessions on its Direct Exchange programs. Please join us on BigBlueButton for more information about the exciting exchange opportunities! Nov 11, 6-7 p.m. Universities Group A (https://bbb.rlp.net/b/mee-xih-fuc-v4k) Nov 11,...
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Oct 22: Online Talk/Film Screening with Yehuda Sharim (UC Merced) 🗓
"We & We: Cinema of Two" Oct. 22, 7pm, BigBlueButton https://bbb.rlp.net/b/pli-yvk-y8a-lot We would very much like to invite you to the virtual guest lecture by Prof. Yehuda Sharim (UC Merced). Prof. Sharim is an accomplished scholar, a professor in film and...
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Job Posting: Student Assistant (6h/w) for the DFG Research Training Group “Life Sciences – Life Writing” 🗓
Literary and Cultural Studies meet Life Sciences – Join the team! The interdisciplinary DFG-funded research training group "Life Sciences – Life Writing" is looking for a student (3rd semester or higher) to assist and support the team 6 hours/week at the Unimedizin...
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Ep. 2 of American Literature Association Conversations (Podcast) 🗓
"The Flexibility, Durability, and Portability of the Short Story" In our second installment of the ALA Conversations series, Society for the Study of the American Short Story president James Nagel speaks with Kasia Boddy (University of Cambridge) and Oliver Scheiding...
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CfP for Student Papers: aspeers 14 (2021): General Section and Topical Section “Narratives of American Colonization and Imperialism” 🗓
CfP for Student Papers: aspeers 14 (2021): General Section and Topical Section “Narratives of American Colonization and Imperialism” aspeers, the first and currently only MA-level peer-reviewed journal for American studies in Europe, will accept submissions by October...
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First episode of podcast American Literature Association Conversations 🗓
"Teaching American Literature Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Push for Social Justice" ALA executive director Alfred Bendixen explores with a roundtable of faculty from diverse institutions the challenges of teaching American literature during the Coronavirus...
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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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