Special Lectures
Guest Lectures:
American Studies
Date | Speaker | Topic |
| June 21, 2023 | Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa) | "From Cold War Modernism to Diasporic Diplomacy: Langston Hughes as Cold War Diplomat" |
| June 14, 2023 | Jon Pineda (Queens University of Charlotte, College of William & Mary) | Reading Let's No One Get Hurt |
| May 10, 2023 | Werner Sollors (Havard University, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Regensburg) | "Goethe and Black America" |
| Jun. 22, 2022 | Jessica Conrad? (Clayton State University/University of Graz) | "Change Is Not a Luxury: Writing for the Future in Butler's?Parable?Series"? |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Wibke Schniedermann (Ghent University) | "Kings of the Road? Homelessness in Popular Music" |
| Jun. 14, 2021 | Betsy Leimbigler (Freie Universit?t Berlin/Bard College Berlin) | "Political Institutions and Public Policy: American Health Care Reform and Current Issues"? |
| Nov. 23, 2020 | Thomas Stelzl (Universit?t Passau) | "American Democracy: A Transatlantic Perspective After the Election"? |
| Nov. 18, 2020 | Lauren LaFauci (Universit?t Link?ping, Schweden) | "Digging Roots: America's Past and Present Environmentalisms" ? |
| Jan. 16, 2020 | Ilka Saal (Universit?t Erfurt) | "Slavery in Contemporary Visual Arts: The Case of Kara Walker" |
| Dec. 18, 2018 | Heike Schwarz (Universit?t Augsburg) | ?"'A?Psychoterratic Condition' Climate Change, Mental Health and Cultural Studies" |
| June 5, 2018 | Diederik Oostdijk (Vrije Universit?t Amsterdam) | Drawing Yourself Out of It & Drawing Yourself Into It.?Trauma in Jewish-American Comics |
| May 15, 2018 | Martin Procházka (Karls-Universit?t Prag) | Monuments or Trash??Ghost Towns in American History and Culture |
| Jan. 18, 2018 | Alexa Weik von Mossner, (Universit?t Klagenfurt) | American Environments at the Movies:?Embodiment, Emotion, and Perception |
| July 7, 2017 | Ana Sobral, Universit?t Zürich | 'Harder than Harlem and Compton Intertwined':?Transnational Appropriations of American Rap |
| June 27, 2017 | Christof Decker, LMU München | Transnational Film Cultures:? |
| Dec. 6, 2016 | George Lipsitz & Barbara Tomlinson, University of California, Santa Barbara | American Studies as Accompainment:?Why We Can't Wait |
| Nov. 24, 2016 | Klaus Benesch, | The Language of Gesture:?Melville's Imaging of Blackness and the Modernity of Billy Budd |
| June, 23 | Hubert Zapf, Universit?t Augsburg | Literature as Cultural Ecology:?Sustainable Texts ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? In cooperation with REAF |
| June, 9 2016 | Uwe Lübken, | How Natural are Natural Disasters? A History of Flooding on the Ohio River. |
| Apr. 28, 2016 | Miles Orvell, Temple University | The Biopolitics of Junk |
Guest Lectures: | ||
| Dec. 10, 2015 | Johanna Heil, Universit?t Marburg | Exit Stage Left: Martha Graham’s Abstract American Expres?sionism and the Perils of European Fascism --> |
| Nov. 19, 2015 | Margit Peterfy, Universit?t Heidelberg | Parody, Adaptation, and Material Culture in the Canonization (and De-Canonization) of American Popular Poetry --> |
| July 16, 2015 | Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska | America’s ‘First Foreign Policy’: U.S. Empire, Race, and the Berlin Conference 1884/85--> |
| July 1, 2015 | Manfred Berg, Universit?t Heidelberg | How Do We Write the History of Lynching in America? Some Reflections |