Out Now: Issue 67.2 of Amerikastudien / American Studies

We are excited to share with you that issue 67.2 of Amerikastudien / American Studies is now online at https://amst.winter-verlag.de.  This special issue on “Archives of Resistance: Picturing the Black Americas” has been guest-edited by Dustin Breitenwischer, Jasmin Wrobel, and Robert F. Rheid-Pharr and collects articles on a variety of themes from Black visual culture across the Americas,…

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Opening: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m,w,d) für die Dauer von 3 Jahren mit 26,2878 Wochenstunden  (TVL E13)

Lehrstuhl für American Studies, Englisches Seminar der Fakultät für Philologie | Ruhr Universität Bochum Deadline: July 1, 2022 Der Lehrstuhl für American Studies, Englisches Seminar der Fakultät für Philologie sucht ab dem nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt einen Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (m,w,d) für die Dauer von 3 Jahren mit 26,2878 Wochenstunden  (TVL E13) Der Lehrstuhl für American Studies vertritt die amerikanistische…

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Call for contributions: Orbit, special issue on Percival Everett

Deadline: August 30, 2022 Percival Everett is among the most significant and prolific living contemporary American writers. The author of over twenty novels, four short-story collections, five volumes of poetry, and a children’s book, Everett is famed for his versatility and range while retaining a distinctly recognizable style. His prose oeuvre includes masterful satires as…

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Erklärung der Verbände vom 29. Juni 2021 zum WissZeitVG. Reaktion auf die Evaluation

Sehr geehrte Frau Stark-Watzinger, wir kommen zurück auf die Erklärung von 32 geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Verbänden an das Ministerium für Bildung und Forschung vom 29. Juni 2021, in der wir den #ichbinhanna-Protest am WissZeitVG unterstützen. Auf diese Erklärung sowie eine Erinnerung vom Februar 2022 reagierte das BMBF mit Verweis auf die laufende Evaluation des Gesetzes.…

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Opening: Postdoc position / Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) in American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt

100% E 13 TV-L, starts October 1, 2022 Deadline: June 25, 2022 Am Institut für England- und Amerikastudien, Fachbereich Neuere Philologien, der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main ist in der Abteilung Amerikanistik zum 01.10.2022 die Stelle (100%) für eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) (Postdoc) (E13 TV-G-U) befristet für die Dauer von zunächst drei Jahren zu besetzen. Die…

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CfP: “MATTERS OF LIFE: HUMAN SCAPES AND SCOPES”

Interdisciplinary Conference in New Delhi, India | November 22-24, 2022 Deadline: July 31, 2022 This international conference focuses on addressing the impact of CoVID-19 on the marginalized by studying a variety of aspects pertaining to inclusion and marginalization, particularly through the lens of the pandemic, both in historical and contemporary contexts.  For more information and registration, visit:…

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Workshop: “The Algorithmic Road to Socialism? A Workshop on Digital Technologies and Postcapitalist Imaginaries”

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…

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BAA Conference 2022: “Representations and Uses of the American Revolution in Past and Present”

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,…

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DOK.fest München 2022: USA und Anglophone Länder

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…

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Reading: Diane Glancy

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…

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Opening: Tenure-Track Professorship of North American History

Faculty of Humanities, History Department, Contemporary History Section at the University of Tübingen Deadline: May 27, 2022 English version below An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen ist im Seminar für Zeitgeschichte zum 01.10.2022 die Tenure Track-Professur für Nordamerikanische Geschichte (m/w/d) zu besetzen. Die Inhaberin oder der Inhaber der Tenure Track-Professur soll das Gebiet der…

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The Subjugated/Subversive Knowledges of ‘Failed Individuals’ and Questions of Affect vs. Knowledge

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…

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Conference Announcement: Blackness and the Knowledge(s) of Intersectionality: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference

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…

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Call for Contributions: “Food, Fatness and Fitness – Critical Perspectives”

Food is everywhere because everybody has to eat. At the same time, food is political: specific foods and ways of eating are connected to particular socio-economic structures and have become prime markers of social distinction. Because food nourishes our bodies, food is also directly associated with our bodies’ health, with our fitness and/or our fatness.…

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Call for Contributions: “Teach-In #3: Invisible Man at 70: Keywords for Teaching Ellison’s Classic Today”

Doing│Teaching American Studies Series | Thursday, June 2, 2022, 7:30 PM, online Deadline (short abstract): May 9, 2022 “I was to dream of a prose which was flexible, and swift as American change is swift, confronting the inequalities and brutalities of our society forthrightly, yet thrusting forth its images of hope, human fraternity and individual…

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Online-Podiumsdiskussion „Wissenschaftsleugnung und ihre digitalen Logiken“

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…

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Digital American Studies Townhall

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…

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Intercontinental Crosscurrents Network Event: “Transatlantic Women at Work: Service in the Long Nineteenth Century” 

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…

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CfP: Playing the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American Studies

November 17-19, 2022 | Amerikahaus Munich, Germany Deadline: March 15, 2022 Call for PapersPlaying the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American StudiesNovember 17-19, 2022Amerikahaus Munich, Germany “Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” is the third conference organized by “Playing the Field,” a collaborative research initiative for the study of video games in American studies:…

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Opening: 2 Assistantships (60%) in North American and General Literature at the University of Basel

Deadline: May 2, 2022 2 Assistantships (60%) in North American and General Literature As of August 1, 2022, the Department of English at the University of Basel is looking for two 60% assistants in North American and General Literature (with Prof. Philipp Schweighauser). You will work in a vibrant and research-active department. The conditions of…

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Zoom Symposium: “Interrogating the Modes of Videographic Criticism”

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…

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“Activist Writing – The Pamphlet in Practice, History, Media, and the Public Sphere”

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…

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Symposium: “Designs of Tomorrow: Indigenous Futurities in Literature and Culture”

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…

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Call for Papers: Special Issue “New Perspectives on Pop Culture” of the journal Arts

Deadline: March 1, 2022 Dear Colleagues, Popular culture has long been identified either as the expression of working class or common folk or as the lowly substratum of an idealized high culture; thus, the emergence of a media-crossing pop aesthetic in the 1950s marked the beginning of a whole-scale social and cultural transformation. As an…

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Call for Papers: “Embodiments of Truth? An Intersectional Approach”

University of Erfurt | July 14th-15th, 2022 Deadline: February 28, 2022 This workshop is convened by the research group “Praxeologies of Truth.” We regard truth as a performative and as a social operator, observable in scenarios that foreground the embodied relationalities of a set of actors and their communicative practices. The workshop seeks to examine…

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Opening: PhD position in the Emmy Noether Research Group “Hollywood Memories: Cinematic Remaking and the Construction of Global Movie Generations” | Leibniz University Hannover

Deadline: January 31, 2022 Leibniz University Hannover invites applications for the position of Research Assistant (m/f/d) at the English Department / American Studies Division (Salary Scale 13 TV-L, 65 %) starting 01.04.2022. The position is limited to 3,5 years. Responsibilities and duties Responsibilities and duties include research in a sub-project of the DFG-funded Emmy Noether Research Group…

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“In Transit|ion: Frankfurt Lectures in Literary and Cultural Studies”: Afropessimism – A Reading and Conversation with Frank Wilderson III

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,…

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Out now: Amerikastudien/American Studies 66.4 “The Continuity of Change? New Perspectives on U.S. Reform Movements”

On behalf of the editorial team, we are happy to announce that the last issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies has just gone online in time for the Christmas break. In this special issue entitled “The Continuity of Change? New Perspectives on U.S. Reform Movements,” guest editors Charlotte Lerg and Jana Weiß invite readers to discover the…

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Call for Papers: History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society

Edited by Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling, Jana Weiß Deadline: March 15, 2022 History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) is seeking new contributions for publication in Volume 2 (2023). We are inviting proposals for (1) individual articles for sections I & III as well as (2) guest editors for the thematic section II. HIC focuses on…

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Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship | Jointly sponsored by DGfA/GAAS and AAS

Deadline: March 1, 2022 The German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS), in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), offers one fellowship to support research at AAS by doctoral and postdoctoral candidates in American Studies at German universities. The American Antiquarian Society’s preeminent collections offer broad research opportunities in American history and culture through the…

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Fulbright American Studies Award 2022-23

Deadline: March 1, 2022 Das 1946 gegründete Fulbright-Programm genießt hohes Ansehen. Es fördert durch akademischen und kulturellen Austausch das gegenseitige Verständnis zwischen den USA und 150 Ländern weltweit. Benannt nach US-Senator J. William Fulbright, verwirklicht das Programm dessen Vision “that education is the best means […] by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity…

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Call for Papers: “Slavery and Dependency: New Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and German Global History

Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies | July 6-8, 2022 Deadline: January 31, 2022 Conference organizers: Claudia Jarzebowski and Pia Wiegmink (BCDSS), Susanne Lettow (FU Berlin)and Heike Raphael-Hernandez (University of Würzburg) The conference will explore questions regarding the heritage of slaveries and other forms of strong asymmetrical dependencies in history such as peonage, indentured…

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Call for Papers: “Flyover Fictions”

Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria | May 27-28, 2022 Deadline: December 1, 2021 The term “flyover country” has specifically US-American roots and has developed into a metaphorical condensation of several interrelated issues: a geographical image that suggests many (political, social, cultural) forms of marginalization; a technological image that speaks of different forms…

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Deadline Extended: Call for Workshop Proposals for the DGfA/GAAS 2022 Annual Meeting

Extended Deadline: December 1, 2021 Dear Members of the German Association for American Studies, The deadline for submission of workshop proposals for the 2022 annual meeting of the DGfA/GAAS on “Political Education and American Studies” from June 9-11, 2022, in Tübingen has been extended to December 1, 2021. We received a number of great proposals,…

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Call for Papers: Beyond Work for Pay? Basic-Income Concepts in Global Debates on Automation, Poverty, and Unemployment (1920-2020)

Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington | Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022 Deadline: February 15, 2022 Conveners: Axel Jansen (GHI), Manuel Franzmann (Sociology, Kiel), Alice O’Connor (History, University of California, Santa Barbara) Political utopias have long envisioned a life without the need for paid work and free of economic struggle. At…

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Call for Papers: The Power(s) of Language. Negotiating Voice and Recognition

Bremen-Turku-Warsaw-Stockholm-Dresden Series | Contradictory Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalizations | June 17-18, 2022, Stockholm University Submission Deadline: December 15, 2021 Debates on language use, political correctness and identity politics seem to gain more and more attention in an increasingly polarizing society. Buzzwords such as cancel culture, snowflakes, woke, white fragility, safe spaces and trigger warnings…

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Call for Papers: Agency, Community, Kinship – Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood

Interdisciplinary Online Symposium | February 23–24, 2022 | University of Wuppertal, Germany Submission Deadline: December 12, 2021 Following the work of Michaela Maroufof and Hara Kouki (2017, 78), “[m]igration must be understood as a complex social process that is also shaped by the agency of the migrants.” Agency, however, is often neglected in seemingly benevolent…

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Virtual Seminar: “The Mobile Archive Project”

November 10, 2021, 3-7 PM Virtual Seminar: “The Mobile Archive Project”, November 10, 2021, 3-7 PMRegistration: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglistik/mobilearchives/ (Please register by November 9, 2021) Keywords: archive, nationalism, colonial America, translation, historiographyConference organizers: Markus Heide (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany), Thomas Hallock (University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA), Marcel Hartwig (University of Siegen, Germany), Lenin Martell Gámez (Autonomous University of…

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Workshop: The Failures of Institutional Knowledge

November 10-12, 2021 | John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin and online The fourth thematic workshop of the DFG research network “The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure” addresses the dynamics of knowledge production within and among social institutions. With sustained challenges from divergent political actors to the ideal of knowledge as rational, objective,…

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Opening: Universitätsprofessur für Literatur Nordamerikas Besoldungsgruppe: W 3 oder vergleichbares Beschäftigungsverhältnis | Freie Universität Berlin

Application Deadline: October 28, 2021 Freie Universität Berlin | Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften und Zentralinstitut John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Universitätsprofessur für Literatur Nordamerikas Besoldungsgruppe: W 3 oder vergleichbares Beschäftigungsverhältnis Kennung: W3LitNordamerika Bewerbungsende: 28.10.2021 Aufgabengebiet: Vertretung des o. g. Faches in Forschung und Lehre Einstellungsvoraussetzungen: gem. § 100 BerIHG Weitere Anforderungen: exzellente, internationale Erfahrungen in…

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Call for Papers: “Political Norms and Normative Politics? Development, Stagnation, Erosion”

Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies | University of Jena | May 19-21, 2022 Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021 Call for PapersPolitical Norms and Normative Politics?Development, Stagnation, Erosion Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.Political Science…

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Openings: 2 Research Assistants (3 years), University of Vienna – Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World

Application Deadline: November 5, 2021 Dear colleagues, My project “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World” has been funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). You can find a brief description of the project below. I am currently looking for 2 research assistants (research foci: environmental humanities and medical humanities) to be employed for…

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Call for Papers: Conference “Black Mobilities in the Atlantic World”

Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), UK, 13-14 January 2022, Preston campus and online Submission deadline: October 31, 2021 Practices and discourses of mobility have been crucial for the Black experience across the Atlantic World. Civilisations from Africa and Europe have been in contact since antiquity, and interactions between Africa and…

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