September 30, 2021 | 20.00-21.00 CET With Dr. Katharina Wilkinson, author, strategist, teacher and co-founder of The All We Can Save Project and Dr. Catrin Gersdorf, Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Würzburg Time magazine featured Dr. Wilkinson as one of 15 “women who will save the world” and Apolitical named…
Read More11. und 12. November 2021 | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Programm und Anmeldung auf www.rkfu-workshop.de Dieser interdisziplinäre Workshop setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, wie rassismuskritischer Fremdsprachenunterricht ganz konkret aussehen kann. Welche Chancen und Herausforderungen ergeben sich für Lehrkräfte und was brauchen sie, um das Thema Rassismus im Unterricht zu reflektieren? Was für Materialien, Methoden und Themen bieten…
Read More16. September, 17:00 CEST | Civics in the Hot Seat: Civic Education & Politische Bildung Under Pressure Bitte melden Sie sich hier an: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvdeqgqj0rHtU3wQ0i2cWzvpyIKhbk9KBr Civics and history education has received an enormous increase in attention recently from policy-makers, funders, and the general public in both Germany and the U.S. Similar societal challenges – racism and…
Read MoreMission Statement | 22 May 2021 The DICE Network (Decolonial, Indigenous, and Critical Ethnic Studies Network of the European Association of American Studies [EAAS]) is committed to creating discussions amongst, and connecting, scholars working in these fields. Inherent to the network’s approach is an inclusive participation of our members in the direction of our network…
Read MoreDate: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | 18.30-20.00 (CET) Across literature, film, radio, television, and computational media, seriality and serialization have been important formal and narrative strategies for popular media cultures from the nineteenth century onward. Series mark out temporal trajectories that invite long-term integration into our lives, providing opportunities for ongoing identification/disidentification and accompanying our…
Read MoreDate: Sept. 10, 2021 9/11: Twenty Years On When the second of four hijacked passenger airliners flew into the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, shocked onlookers around the globe realized that what they were watching on television was unlikely to be an accident. The terrorists behind the attacks had orchestrated…
Read MoreDie DGfA ist Unterstützer der von der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft veröffentlichten Stellungnahme zur Situation von befristet angestellten und verbeamteten Wissenschaftler_innen während der Corona-Pandemie. Link zur Stellungnahme: https://gfmedienwissenschaft.de/sites/gfm/files/file/2021-03/Gemeinsame%20Stellungnahme.pdf Die Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft und die unterstützenden Fachgesellschaften weisen mit Nachdruck darauf hin, dass die aktuellen Belastungen durch die Corona-Pandemie gerade für die große Mehrheit der befristet beschäftigten…
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Dear DGfA members, Our first townhall meeting will take place on Friday, November 27, 2020 between 2 and 5pm.It will be organized in cooperation with the Obama Institute in Mainz. You will receive an invitation link via e-mail. We hope, that this event will help to stay in touch in difficult times, as well as…
Read MoreGerman version below We, the members of the executive advisory boards of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS), acknowledge that the current pandemic is exacerbating existing structural inequalities in ways that negatively affect academic life in our association and the German academic landscape as a whole. We recognize the challenges that the current situation…
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Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, the executive board of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS), together with the local organizers at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, decided to cancel this year’s GAAS conference. At the same time, and in close communication with future local organizers, we postpone the annual conference schedule by…
Read MoreEva Hesse: A Life for Literature The author and translator Eva Hesse dedicated much of her long life to the study and translation of modern Anglo-American literature. During the 1950s, modern literature—due to the success of the American version of New Criticism—was mostly understood to be poetry, by poets such as William Butler Yeats, T.…
Read MoreSpendenaufruf: Du Bois Plakette an der Humboldt Universität Auf Anregung der Abteilung Amerikanistik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin wird zurzeit die Gestaltung und Anbringung einer Gedenk-Plakette zu Ehren von W.E.B. Du Bois im Hauptgebäude der Universität vorbereitet. Du Bois war von 1892 bis 1894 Austauschstudent an der damaligen Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität. Im Jahr 1958 erhielt er dort…
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The German Association of American Studies (DGfA) is following developments closely with regard to the current COVID-19 pandemic, in particular with respect to the realization of the association’s 67th Annual Meeting scheduled to take place in Heidelberg on June 4-6, 2020. Heidelberg University has set up a task force constantly monitoring the reports of health…
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Publications in American Studies 2018 (Jahresbibliographie) At the annual conference of the GAAS in Hamburg, the new editorial team and editorial board of the journal Amerikastudien / American Studies were appointed this summer. Together with Universitätsverlag Winter, the new General Editors are currently working on the transition into an open-access format and are finalizing the…
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In der Zeit vom 21.10. bis 18.11.2019 finden die Wahlen für die Fachkollegien der DFG für die Amtsperiode 2020-2023 statt.Folgen Sie dem Link, um den Rundbrief des DGfA Präsidenten Philipp Gassert an alle Mitglieder zu lesen: https://dgfa.de/wp-content/uploads/DFG-Rundbrief_2019.pdf
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Siehe Pressemitteilung, 03. April 2019 Millionenförderung für Regensburger Regionalwissenschaften: Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus „Europa und Amerika in der modernen Welt“ bewilligt Die regionalwissenschaftliche Forschung in Regensburg wird weiter gestärkt: Ab Mai entsteht der neue Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus „Europa und Amerika in der modernen Welt. Transformationen und Friktionen der Globalisierung in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart“. Die damit verbundene Förderung in Höhe von…
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