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July 24-29, 2022 | WWU Münster

July 2, 2022 | University of Freiburg The ubiquity of digital connectivity and the subsequent diminishing of human connection have become truths of our time. This conference starts with the assumption that digital overload takes a toll on people’s ability to connect meaningfully with themselves or with others. As many studies have shown hyperconnectivity can lead…

July 6-8, 2022 | Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University Conference website: New Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and German Global History — BCDSS (uni-bonn.de)

July 1, 2022, 5-8 p.m. on Zoom

Begegnungsstätte Kleine Synagoge Erfurt | June 23-24, 2022

The American Studies Program at HU Berlin is happy to announce that Jean-Ulrick Désert’s beautiful memorial marker for W.E.B. Du Bois’s study years at the university of Berlin has been installed earlier this year. A big thank you to all GAAS members who donated! We will celebrate the memorial with an official unveiling in July:…

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | June 3, 2022, 2-7 p.m. In July 2021, readers of the Financial Times may have been surprised to read an op-ed calling for central planning to meet the challenges of global warming. While the article’s proposals were hardly as radical as recent calls for a renewed “war communism,” it was remarkable…

July 7-9, 2022 | Bayerische Amerika-Akademie / Amerikahaus München | Hybrid Event This year’s annual conference of the Bavarian American Academy investigates how the American Revolution functioned as a usable past, inspiring social movements, informing both state- and nation-building processes, and justifying political change in other world regions throughout the ages. The American Revolution is,…

04. bis 15. Mai 2022 in den Münchner Spielorten | 09. bis 22. Mai 2022 deutschlandweit @home Herzlich willkommen zum ersten dualen DOK.fest München! Kino oder Online? Warum nicht beides? Das duale DOK.fest München 2022 macht unser ausgewähltes Filmprogramm für ein größtmögliches Publikum zugänglich:  Die 124 Filme aus 55 Ländern werden sowohl in München auf…

Veranstaltungsreihe des Bund demokratischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler gemeinsam mit dem freien zusammenschluss von student*innenschaften und dem Netzwerk Gute Arbeit in der Wissenschaft

8th International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law University of Osnabrueck | July 16-24, 2022 Application Deadline: May 15, 2022 http://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/ The International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) will be held from July 16 to 24, 2022 at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Since 2009,…

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 6:00-8:00 pm | Lecture Hall 17 (HS XVII), Regina- Pacis-Weg 5, 53113 Bonn The North American Studies Program at the University of Bonn is proud to welcome the acclaimed Native American writer and academic Diane Glancy (Cherokee) for a reading from her diverse body of work. With over 60 books of…

MAY 13, 2022 | 2 P.M. – 4 P.M. VIA ZOOM The GAAS will organize a Town Hall on May 13, 2022, 2 to 4 p.m. (organizer: Miriam Strube, moderator: Jeanne Cortiel) This meeting focuses on women’s roles in German Academia at large and in the GAAS in particular. Featuring short statements by four women…

June 14, 2022, 10.30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

5th workshop of the DFG research network “The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure.” April 21-22, 2022 Hosted by the Institute for English and American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, organized by Marius Henderson, Molina Klingler (University of Würzburg), and Marlon Lieber (Christian- Albrechts-University Kiel) More information: https://knowledge-failure.org/events/ and https://knowledge-failure.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Poster-Erlangen.pdf Keynote Susan J. Matt:  https://fau.zoom.us/j/62861104661?pwd=WkV1Q0I3Q2M1ZWZ4dy8vTjQ1VFpTUT09…

April 28-29, 2022 | Virtual At a moment in history when the Covid-19 crisis coincides with the Black Lives Matter movement’s protests against racism and systemic oppression, this interdisciplinary conference investigates how intersectionality, as an analytical category and an experience focusing on mutually constitutive systems of discrimination, engages and narrates blackness in the U.S. and…

Veranstaltet vom DFG-Netzwerk „The Failure of Knowledge –  Knowledges of Failure“ 18. Mai 2022, 18:00-19:30 Uhr Referent_innen: Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (Soziologie/Gender  Studies, LMU), Jörg Radtke (Politikwissenschaft, Univ. Siegen), Simon  Strick (Amerikanistik/Medienwissenschaft, ZeM Brandenburg) Moderation: Katharina Motyl (Amerikanistik, Univ. Mannheim) Link erhältlich unter: l.fender@stud.uni-hannover.de Das Thema Wissenschaftsleugnung ist angesichts der Pandemie noch  virulenter geworden. Coronaleugner_innen lehnen…

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 19:00-20:00 CET (10:00 am PST)  Registration and more information: https://virtualspeakerseries.org/

April 1, 2022 | 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. via Zoom The GAAS’s Digital American Studies Initiative (DASI) will organize a townhall meeting on April 1, 2022, 2 to 5 p.m. Featuring a panel of international experts and an extensive Q&A session, the meeting focuses on the role of DH methods, the politics of data…

Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz | April 29, 2022, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies organizes a symposium on the heritage of Colonial Germany and the presence of people of African descent in German society. This trilateral investigation ranges from Germany to Africa, America…

April 20, 2022 6 p.m. CEST via Zoom

Online Event, 30 March 2022, 6 p.m. CET

Virtual Conversations Continued April 7, 2022, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. (Berlin, CET) via Zoom Conference Organizer: Laura-Isabella Heitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Khristeena Lute (SUNY Adirondack), Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Sandra H. Petrulionis (Penn State University, Altoona) “The London and Berlin Lyceum Clubs – Service, Transnational Advocacies and Nationalist Self-interest before World War I” by Christine Spreizer…

February 24-25, 2022 Located at the intersection of art, scholarship, and personal exploration, videographic criticism refers to the study of audiovisual culture in audiovisual form. The videographic critic uses editing software to produce analyses and commentaries about film, television, games, online material etc., and typically communicates the results in the form of video essays. The…

Online Conference | February 24-26, 2022 Pamphlets are everywhere. In recent years, the polemical texts of the #MeToo movement, of Black Lives Matter, of anticapitalist movements, of Brexit, of anti-abortion coalitions, or of digital secessionists have demonstrably affected the normative fabric of Western societies. Pamphletary literature and the responses it elicits are at the core…

An International Symposium at Europa-Universität Flensburg | May 16-17, 2022 Registration Deadline: May 1, 2022 Designs of Tomorrow: Indigenous Futurities in Literature and Culture An International Symposium at Europa-Universität Flensburg, May 16-17, 2022 Conference website: https://www.uni-flensburg.de?49737 The conference will be on-site/in person, everyone interested is welcome. Please register by May 1, 2022 via native.futures@uni-flensburg.de. When we…

University of Bamberg | April 29-30, 2022 | Via Zoom Deadline: February 28, 2022 “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” Vanessa Redgrave speaks these lines on stage, in the monologue play The Year of Magical Thinking , impersonating Joan Didion and…

February 11 & 12, 2022 | Online Dear colleagues,   We are pleased to open registration and present the program for this year’s annual meeting of historians of the German Association for American Studies on the topic of “Labor and Capital in U.S. History” (February 11 and 12).   Due to the current pandemic situation,…

“Learning from Black History about Building Bridges across Race, Ethnicity, and Religion” A program of the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Consulates in Germany in cooperation with Virtual Speaker Series Monday, February 14, 2022, 19:00 – 20:00 CET (virtual)

Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt Jan 28 2022, 6pm (s.t.), CET, Zoom AfropessimismA Reading and Conversation with Frank Wilderson III Frank Wilderson’s 2020 book Afropessimism has generated a fervent debate about the lasting presence of slavery and the centrality of anti-Black violence for the project of modernity. Wilderson’s melange of memoir, philosophy,…

December 16, 2021 | 7 p.m. CET | 1 p.m. EDT | 10 a.m. PDT Fulbright Lecture on Afrofuturism Speakers: Prof. Dr. Dennis Chester (California State University, East Bay) Prof. Dr. Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

January 13, 2022 | Zoom An Online Symposium with John Stauffer (Harvard) and Maurice Wallace (Rutgers). Organized by Dustin Breitenwischer (Universität Hamburg). January 13, 2022, 16-20h. Open to the Public (via Zoom). Please register via email to dustin.breitenwischer@uni-hamburg.de by January 11, 2022.