Call for Papers – Being (In)Visible: Representations of Disability and Ableism in Popular Culture 🗓
Call for Papers Being (In)Visible: Representations of Disability and Ableism in Popular Culture Student Conference (Jan 16-17, 2025) This conference will be organized by Ayishat Aluko, Jill Reuter, and Samira Schwarz, who are all M.A. students of American Studies at...
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Call for Papers – Transpacific Connections: Perspectives, Dialogues, Future Visions 🗓
Call for Papers Transpacific Connections: Perspectives, Dialogues, Future Visions The Transpacific Studies Network (TPSN) was established in the fall of 2022 with the goal of providing new impulses in the research of Pacific cultures, ecologies, histories,...
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July 8 – Guest Lecture “Go-To Lines: Reading Political Life Writing in America” 🗓
Irene Gammel(Toronto Metropolitan University) with Carlos Lozada (The New York Times) Go-To Lines: Reading Political Life Writing in America July 8, 2024, 15:10pm, N.206 (Campus Germersheim) This event features Irene Gammel and Carlos Lozada discussing...
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4th of July 2024 – Lectures, Exhibition, Get-together, Food and Drinks 🗓
4th of July Events at the Obama Institute July 4, 2024, 4-8 p.m., P4 & Foyer P2-P5 (Philosophicum) What might the 4th of July mean to Americans and foreigners in general and especially in 2024? From American Poetry to Money and American Identity to students’ takes...
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July 2 – Guest Lecture “World War I, New York Dada, and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven” 🗓
Irene Gammel(Toronto Metropolitan University) "World War I, New York Dada, and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven" July 2, 2024, 09:40pm, N.106 (Campus Germersheim) This lecture explores the intersection of World War I, New York Dada, and the impact of German- born...
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July 1 – Guest Lecture “Dos Hemisferios: Racial Capitalism and the Problem of Latinidad in Hispano-American Newspapers in Paris and New York City, 1852-1856” 🗓
David Luis-Brown(Claremont Graduate University, CA, USA) "Dos Hemisferios: Racial Capitalism and the Problem of Latinidad in Hispano-American Newspapers in Paris and New York City, 1852-1856" July 1, 2024, 15:10pm, N.206 (Campus Germersheim) The phrase dos...
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June 27 – Guest Lecture “Selective Anti-Imperialism, Settler Colonialism and the Lure of Racial Capitalist Progress in Spanish-Language Periodicals in Paris” 🗓
David Luis-Brown(Claremont Graduate University, CA, USA) "Selective Anti-Imperialism, Settler Colonialism and the Lure of Racial Capitalist Progress in Spanish-Language Periodicals in Paris" June 27, 2024, 18:15pm, P 109a (Philosophicum) The Spanish-language...
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June 19 – Student/Alumni Meet & Greet 🗓
Student/Alumni Meet & Greet Wednesday, June 19 5 pm in P 110 (Philosophicum) The OI will be hosting an informal first meet & greet for students and alumni of American Studies and cordially invites all students of the BA and MA programs to connect with each...
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June 18 – Guest Lecture “Imagining Otherwise: Indigenous Futurisms in Andrea L. Rogers’ _Man Made Monsters_” 🗓
Vanessa Evans(Appalachian State University) "Imagining Otherwise: Indigenous Futurisms in Andrea L. Rogers’ Man Made Monsters" June 18, 2024, 12:15pm, P 103 (Philosophicum) Cherokee writer and scholar Daniel Heath Justice tells us that to live otherwise, we must...
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June 19-22 – Conference: The Indian Citizenship Act at 100: Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Futures 🗓
The Indian Citizenship Act at 100: Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Futures Conference June 19-22, 2024 University of Bordeaux-Montaigne, France Together with the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne, the Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Nebraska at...
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Video Periodicals and Indigenous Modernity: Building a Text Corpus of American Indian Magazines, 1890-1930
Take a look at this video introducing you to the DFG-funded research project “Periodicals and Indigenous Modernity.”
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June 18 – Guest Lecture “Quiet Money: The Family Fortune that Transformed New York, the American Southwest, and the Modern Middle East” 🗓
Katherine Benton-Cohen(Georgetown University) "Quiet Money: The Family Fortune that Transformed New York, the American Southwest, and the Modern Middle East" June 18, 2024, 4:15pm, Fakultätssaal (01-185, Philosophicum) In this talk Professor Benton-Cohen examines the...
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