The Postgraduate Forum was founded in 1989 when a group of postgraduates first met under this rubric at the Freie Universität Berlin. For more information on the history and development of the forum, you may consult the COPAS editorial “25 Years of PGF: Past, Present, and Future” by Sabine Sielke and Karsten Fitz (issue 16.1).
2023
“Spaces of Affect in the Americas”
November 9-11, 2023
Location: Leibniz University Hannover
Team: Alejandra Bulla, Katerina Steffan, Lujain Youssef, Stefan Dierkes
CfP: CfP_PGF_2023_Spaces_of_Affect_in_the_Americas
Conference website: PGF 2023 Hannover – English Department – Leibniz University Hannover (uni-hannover.de)
2022
“Remembering: Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies”
November 9-12, 2022
Location: University of Regensburg
Team: Verena Baier, Markus Diepold, Lena Gotteswinter, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon Matlack, Efthalia Prokopiou, Katharina Röder, and Jiann-Chyng Tu
CfP: PGF_2022_CfP
Conference website: PGF 2022 – Universität Regensburg (uni-regensburg.de)
2021
“Transnational Relations: Past, Present, and Future”
December 2-3, 2021
Location: Virtual (organized by the University of Stuttgart and the German Historical Institute Washington)
Team: Jana Keck, Whitney Peterson, and Melissa Schlecht
Conference website: https://pgf2021.hypotheses.org
2019
“Challenges of the Post-Truth Era in American Studies”
December 5-7, 2019
Location: University of Passau
Team: Alexandra Hauke, Bettina Huber, and Thomas Stelzl
Find the Call for Papers here.
2018
November 8-10, 2018
Location: University of Duisburg Essen
Organization: RuhrCenter of American Studies
Team: Anna Bongers, Chris Katzenberg, Anna Krüger, Hanna Rückl, Sabrina Schäfer, Dilara SerhatSawitzki, Martin Stöckmann, Timo Weidner
You can find the CfP here.
2017
November 9–11, 2017
Location: Humboldt University Berlin
Organization: John F. Kennedy Institute (FU Berlin) & Department of English and American Studies (HU Berlin)
Team: Florian Gabriel, Helen Gibson (FU Berlin); Anne Potjans, Simon Rienäcker, Jiann-Chyng Tu (HU Berlin)
Find more information on their website.
2016
October 6–8, 2016
Location: University of Hamburg
Organization: Institute for English and American Studies (University of Hamburg) & Department of Languages and Literatures (University of Bremen)
Team: Marius Henderson, Jasmin Humburg, Julia Lange (Hamburg); Paula von Gleich, Samira Spatzek (Bremen); Mariya Nikolova (Potsdam)
2015
November 6–8, 2015
Location: University of Bamberg
Organization: Department of American Studies (University of Bamberg) & Department of North American Studies (University of Bayreuth)
Team: Judith Rauscher, Theresa Roth, Mareike Spychala (Bamberg); Laura Oehme (Bayreuth)
2014
October 10-12, 2014
Location: University of Mainz
Organization: Department of English and Linguistics, American Studies (University of Mainz) Team: Caroline Heller, Diane Bélisle-Wolf, Melanie Hanslik, Nele Sawallisch, Nicole Poppenhagen, Xiuming He
2013
October 25–27, 2013
Location: University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Organization: Department of American Studies (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg)
Team: Cedric Essi, Stephen Koetzing, Monika Sauter
2012
November 2–4, 2012
Location: University of Marburg
Organization: Department of English and North American Studies, North American Literary and Cultural Studies (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Team: Britta Bein, Johanna Heil, Janina Rojek, Silke Schmidt
2011
November 4–6, 2011 Location: University of Gießen
Organization: Department of English and the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Team: Daniel Holder, Andreas Hübner, Ottilie P. Klein
2010
November 5–7, 2010 Location: University of Leipzig
Organization: American Studies Leipzig
Team: Florian Bast, Anne Grob, Sebastian M. Herrmann, Franziska Kloth, Frank Usbeck
2009
October 30–November 1, 2009 Location: University of Munich
Organization: Amerika Institut (LMU München) Team: Torsten Kathke, Sascha Pöhlmann
The PGF before 2009
PGF 2008 in Münster
PGF 2007 in Erlangen
PGF 2006 in Chemnitz
PGF 2005 in Dortmund
PGF 2004 in Frankfurt
PGF 2002 in Leipzig
PGF 2001 in Munich
PGF 1999 in Regensburg
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