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,…
Read MoreThursday, 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…
Read MoreMAY 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…
Read MoreJune 14, 2022, 10.30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Read More5th 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…
Read MoreApril 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…
Read MoreParis Lodron University of Salzburg | October 21-23, 2022 Deadline: May 31, 2022 Conference website: https://aaas.at/salzburg-2022/
Read MoreDoing│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…
Read MoreVeranstaltet 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…
Read MoreTuesday, April 26, 2022, 19:00-20:00 CET (10:00 am PST) Registration and more information: https://virtualspeakerseries.org/
Read MoreApril 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…
Read MoreObama 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…
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Read MoreOnline Event, 30 March 2022, 6 p.m. CET
Read MoreVirtual 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…
Read MoreMay 6-7, 2022 | University of Innsbruck Deadline: March 28, 2022
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Read MoreFebruary 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…
Read MoreOnline 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…
Read MoreAn 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…
Read MoreUniversity 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…
Read MoreFebruary 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,…
Read More“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)
Read MoreInstitute 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,…
Read MoreBereich North American Studies | Political Science (Besoldungsgruppe A 14 Z, Vollzeit, 7 SWS) Deadline: December 31, 2021
Read MoreDecember 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)
Read MoreJanuary 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.
Read MoreDate: February 3, 2022 | 7.30 – 9.15 p.m. | Zoom Proposal Deadline: December 20, 2021 During our first teach-in in February 2021, we considered the Trump administration’s 1776 Report and its impact on teaching American Studies (in Germany). Our proposal for a new event picks up the underlying baseline of “doing” and “teaching” American Studies by…
Read MoreNovember 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…
Read MoreNovember 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,…
Read MoreFriday, December 3, 2021, 4-7 pm CEST | 10 am-1 pm EDT (on zoom) Poet Taylor Johnson (Washington, D.C.), whose debut collection Inheritance appeared in 2020, is joining us for our third installment in this series. Taylor Johnson received fellowships from Cave Canem and the Conversation Literary Festival and their work has appeared in The…
Read MoreSwiss Association for North American Studies Biennial Conference | Online, November 5-6, 2021 It is with great pleasure that we are inviting you to sign up for the SANAS Biennial Conference entitled “Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History,” which will take place online on 5-6 November 2021. The conference uses a mix of…
Read MoreTitle: Saving Our Planet? What We Need to Do Now to Combat Climate Challenges and Secure Our Future Thursday, October 28, 19:00 Prof. Dr. Miranda SchreursDr. Miranda Schreurs is Professor and Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University Munich. Her main research areas are in…
Read MoreSeptember 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 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 MoreRegistration deadline: Oct 7 (workshop & keynotes)/ Oct 19 (keynotes only) Organized by Dr. Katrin Horn, PD Dr. Karin Hoepker, and Selina Foltinek This conference investigates the ways in which cultures of knowledge and forms of capital intersect in the US during the long nineteenth century. Epistemological and economic concerns complexly intertwine in the US,…
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 More20/20 Vision: Citizenship/Space/Renewal – 2020 EAAS Conference — Warsaw, April 30 – May 2, 2021 (Online) Find the EAAS Programm here: http://eaas2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/EAAS%202021%20-%20program.pdf
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The third Town Hall will take place on April 16, 3-5PM (CET). In the third town hall, we would like to turn back to an integral facet of the discussion of the first town hall, that of structural racism and the GAAS’s role as an organization of American Studies scholars, many of whom are based…
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Dear DGfA members, Our second town hall meeting will take place on Friday, March 5, between 3 and 5pm and will be organized in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI). This event is for all GAAS members and will address the career paths of non-tenured scholars. The planned #2 GAAS Town Hall will…
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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…
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DASI, the Digital American Studies Initiative, will offer a second public Zoom meeting for American studies scholars to discuss how the ongoing pandemic pushes us to embrace digital technologies to an extent unimaginable just a few months ago. The meeting will take place on September 28, 2020, at 10am. We want to use this second…
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With regard to the recent travel ban to the United States, the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) supports the Resolution “Science is International” of the Science Organizations in Germany (February 7, 2017).
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English Department, University of Münster, February 20-21, 2017 Registration is now open. To register, please send a short e-mail with the header ‘registration literature and citizenship’ stating your name and affiliation to citizenshipandliterature@wwu.de. There are no conference fees but in order to facilitate our planning, please register at your earliest convenience For the conference program and…
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7.-8. Juli 2016, Alte Gießerei (Heyligenstaedt, Aulweg 41, 35392 Gießen) Laden Jubiläen meist zur Reflexion über Vergangenes ein, richtet das Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften im Jubiläumsjahr 2016 den Blick nach vorn. Mit dem internationalen Symposium „Futures of the Study of Culture“ feiern das GGK und das GCSC (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture) ihr…
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April 9-10, 2016; Alte Universitätsbibliothek (Universitätsstraße 4/Eingang: Schuhstraße), 91054 Erlangen Organized by Katharina Gerund and Heike Paul Following a broader ‘turn to affect’ (Patricia Clough) in the humanities and the social sciences, this conference seeks to investigate public feeling – as articulation, representation, and cultural and institutional practice – and the various functions it has…
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In Memoriam Professor Dr. Peter Schäfer, 1931-2016 Am 29. Februar 2016 ist Professor Dr. Peter Schäfer im Alter von 84 Jahren verstorben. Er war bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 1996 ordentlicher Professor für Neue Geschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt Geschichte Nordamerikas an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität. Nachruf Amerikanische Geschichte jahrzehntelang als nicht-ideologisierte Wissenschaft in der ehemaligen DDR…
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Symposium zu Ehren von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung, ehemaliger Präsident der DGfA, ehemaliger General Editor der Amerikastudien/American Studies, Ehrensprecher des Zentrums für Interkulturelle Studien / ZIS, anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstages Atrium Maximum der Alten Mensa Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 5./6. Februar 2016
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University of Goettingen, February 26-28, 2016 This conference aims to study the cultures and society of surveillance. The goal is to bring together literary, cultural and surveillance studies to provide a transdisciplinary framework and generate new approaches to fundamental questions: How has surveillance changed historically and how have these changes been discussed both in the American and in the…
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Auto/Biographies in American History February 5 – 7, 2016 Biography and autobiography are central to the study of American history, and this not only because U.S. history was structured and shaped by a specific and yet diverse set of historical actors. Rather, a culture based on individualism, ‘doability,’ and achievement seems to systematically create an…
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Liebe Mitglieder der DGfA: In der Zeit vom 26.10. bis 23.11.2015 finden die Wahlen für die Fachkollegien der DFG für die Amtsperiode 2016-2019 statt. Alle promovierten Mitglieder sind wahlberechtigt, und ich möchte Sie bitten, dieses Wahlrecht im Sinne unserer Gesellschaft zu nutzen. Wenn Sie nach Abschluss der Promotion vor dem ersten Wahltag keine Aufforderung bzw.…
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23rd–24th October 2015, Schloss Thurnau University of Bayreuth / University of Erlangen-Nuremberg This conference draws attention to the crucial role the nineteenth century played—particularly in the transatlantic North American context—in transforming the meaning of risk and moving it from the margins of particular trade enterprises to the center of social cohesion and individual identity. For…
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“The United States and the Question of Rights” Deadline: October 01, 2015 In U.S.-American politics, society and culture, questions concerning the justification, attainment and protection of human and civil rights have always been essential. Despite its obvious legal connotations, however, the intense concern with the question of rights cannot be understood exclusively from a legal…
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We kindly invite you to revisit the 62nd GAAS Conference on “Knowledge Landscapes North America” at the University of Bonn: On our conference website you find a selection of the photographs taken by Katharina Lurz, a student in our MA program, during the events at the end of May. Just follow this link: http://gaas2015.com/2015/06/10/impressions-from-the-conference/ In…
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5.2.-7.2.2016, Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing Deadline for abstracts (500 words max): July 31, 2015. Biography and autobiography are central to the study of American history, and this not only because U.S. history was structured and shaped by a specific and yet diverse set of historical actors. Rather, a culture based on individualism, “doability,” and…
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Goethe-University Frankfurt, Institute for English and American Studies June 25-27, 2015 American Studies has recently witnessed a surging interest in inquiries that bring together the disciplines of literary studies and sociology. Scholars within this vibrant field of research have so far mostly aimed at embedding literature in society and conceptualizing it as a social institution.…
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Von Hanno Scheerer, Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz “Are microwaves really that bad?” Diese Frage aus dem Plenum auf der Konferenz “Histories of American Foodways” dürfte wohl gut zusammenfassen, was man gemeinhin mit Nordamerika und Ernährung verbindet: Billiges und industriell hergestelltes Essen und Fettleibigkeit. Dass die Geschichte des Essens in Nordamerika jedoch…
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Alliances: Un/Common Causes and the Politics of Participation Keynote lectures will be held by José David Saldívar (Literature, Stanford University), Wil Verhoeven (Culture, University of Groningen), and Andrei Markovits (Sociology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor). The conference will be concluded with closing remarks delivered by Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (Brandeis University / FU Berlin). Registration We encourage you…
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If you are a member of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA|GAAS) please transfer the conference fee to the account specified below. Once you have done so, you are automatically registered. You will find your receipt in your conference folder. If you register for the conference only, the reference (‘Verwendungszweck’) should read as follows:…
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62nd Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) Knowledge Landscapes North America Date: May 28-31, 2015 Conference venue: Universität Bonn, Main Building, Regina-Pacis-Weg 3, 53111 Bonn Local organizer: North American Studies Program, Universität Bonn Conference Program Thursday, May 28 7:30-9:00 am(during breakfast) Business Meeting of the…
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This conference aims to explore the history of everyday heroism (Alltagsheldentum) in the United States, Germany, and Britain between 1800 and the present. For the purposes of this conference, everyday heroes and heroines are defined as ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats that are considered heroic by their…
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In 20th-century America, military heroism became a key symbol of what was regarded as a heterosexual, masculine white nation. Military heroism thus became a major discursive battleground on which dominant notions of race, gender, and national identity were negotiated, challenged, and revised. The conference seeks to probe this complex interrelationship and how it changed between…
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Date and Venue: 13 Feb. 2015 – 15 Feb. 2015, Augustinerkloster, Erfurt Conveners: Nina Mackert, Jürgen Martschukat (Erfurt University) we are happy to invite you to the next annual meeting of the historians in the GAAS on “Histories of American Foodways.” Attached you’ll find our conference program which reflects the many angles and exciting variety…
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Deadline January 15, 2015. All members of the association and those interested are invited to submit paper proposals for the 2015 Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies “Knowledge Landscapes North America.“ The 2015 Annual Conference endeavors to map North American knowledge landscapes from the perspectives of literary, cultural, and media studies, history,…
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International Conference and Photography Exhibition American Studies, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, December 5-6, 2014 “To be in the world, to be situated at all, is to be in place,” writes philosopher Edward Casey. In a culture dominated by images, photography is the prime medium for situating us in such specific places, as photography relates to…
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Date and Venue: 13 Feb. 2015 – 15 Feb. 2015, Augustinerkloster, Erfurt Conveners: Nina Mackert, Jürgen Martschukat (Erfurt University) we are happy to invite you to the next annual meeting of the historians in the GAAS on “Histories of American Foodways.” Attached you’ll find our conference program which reflects the many angles and exciting variety…
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