Pathfinders Wanted! Independent Studies/Internship Opportunity (July-Dec) 🗓
Internship/Independent Studies PATHFINDER Program July – December, 2023 We are looking for students who will assist incoming exchange students from the U.S. in all organizational matters prior to their stay and during their first weeks in Germany. Your tasks will...
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June 20 – Guest Lecture “The Racial Sellout: Language, History, and Popular Culture” 🗓
Associate Professor Ian Afflerbach(University of North Georgia, USA) "The Racial Sellout: Language, History, and Popular Culture" June 20, 2023, 4:15pm, 00.212 (Philo II, Jakob-Welder-Weg 20) What does it mean to "sell out" your race? This talk will examine the...
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June 18 – Interstellar – Ein Menschlicher Blick auf das Universum 🗓
„Interstellar - Ein Menschlicher Blick auf das Universum“ Filmvorführung und Gespräch im Rahmen der Reihe „Akademie Trifft Kino im Wissenschaftsjahr ‚Unser Universum‘“ Am Sonntag, den 18. Juni 2023, 15.30 Uhr, zeigen wir im CAPITOL Mainz Christopher...
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June 14 – Reading: FAMILY MATTERS – Of Life in Two Worlds 🗓
FAMILY MATTERS – Of Life in Two Worlds A Reading with American Studies Mainz Alumna Martina J. Kohl Co-organized by the Obama Institute and the Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz June 14, 6 pmP 4 (Philosophicum) Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, Mainz FAMILY MATTERS follows the...
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May 16 – Guest Lecture Germersheim: “Margaret Atwood’s Venture into Graphic Novels” 🗓
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Johanna Glaser (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) May 16, 2023, 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 Canadian...
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“One University – One Book” Shared Reading of THE WHALE RIDER 🗓
This summer term, all members of JGU - students, teachers, administrative staff - are invited to come together to immerse themselves into Witi Ihimaera's novel The Whale Rider. The book tells the story of Kahu, the daughter of a respectable Māori family, who struggles...
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Apr 25 – Student/Alumni Meet & Greet 🗓
Student/Alumni Meet & Greet Tuesday, April 25 6-8 pm in P 13 (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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Apr 25 – American Retail Capitalism (Guest Lecture) 🗓
Professor Kathleen Thelen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA) "Attention Shoppers:American Retail Capitalism and the Rise of the Amazon Economy" April 25, 2023, 4:15pm, Fakultätssaal (01-185, Philosophicum) American Retail...
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Mar 21 – “Materialism and Consumption: Circulating Christian Love with American Things” Presentation and Chapter Discussion 🗓
Prof. Hillary Kaell (Anthropology/ Religious Studies, McGill University) "Materialism and Consumption: Circulating Christian Love with American Things" March 21, 2023, 3.00-4.30pm, 02.102 (Philo II, Jakob-Welder-Weg 20) Please join us for a short...
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Feb 14 & 15 – Film Screening and Workshop with Filmmaker Yehuda Sharim (UC Merced) 🗓
February 14, 2023: Screening of Yehuda Sharim’s film Letters2Maybe (2021) February 15, 2023: Workshop with Yehuda Sharim ("A Map of Light: Creativity & Inspiration during Dark Times") On behalf of The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Prof. Dr....
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Jan 26 – Exhibition “Intersecting Lives: Life Writing and the U.S. Military in Germany and Beyond” 🗓
January 26, 2023 Thu, 14:00-17:00 Landesmuseum Mainz (Forum) Große Bleiche 49-51, 55116 Mainz Exhibition "Intersecting Lives: Life Writing and the U.S. Military in Germany and Beyond" Die in Deutschland stationierten U.S.-amerikanischen Truppen sind fester Bestandteil...
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Apply now! Fulbright Scholarships for Bachelor Diversity Summer Program (San Antonio, Texas) 🗓
Für Bachelor-Vollzeitstudierende mit Migrationshintergrund aller Studiengänge an deutschen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen Fulbright Sommerstudienprogramm in den USA: „Diversity Initiative” an der Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas vom 17. August bis 16....
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