Lecture series
Current Issues in North American and Cultural Studies
Winter Semester 2022|2023
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | 6:00 c.t.-8:00 pm | IAAK, 1.004 (Room A)
Indigenous Peoples' Day Lecture
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Lutz | University of Greifswald
From ‘Indianthusiasm’ to Indigenous Studies: Personal Reflections after 50 Years
Thursday, October 20, 2022 | 6:00 c.t.-8:00 pm | IAAK, 1.004 (Room A)
Cities, Books, Confusions: A Reading and Discussion with Joshua Clover
Monday, October 24, 2022 | 4:00 c.t. pm | Main Building, Lecture Hall IX
Antrittsvorlesung/Inaugural Lecture
Prof. Dr. Sabine N. Meyer | University of Bonn
From Black | Indigenous to Black Indigenous: North American Imaginaries of Past, Present, and Future
Podcasting as an Intimate Medium
The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and Its Transatlantic Influence
The Influence of Confucius on American Politics and Culture
Dr. Natalie Rauscher | University of Heidelberg
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture
Desegregating the American Family: Interracial Kinship since Loving v. Virginia
Summer Semester 2022
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Tuesday, 26 April, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm c.t.| Room A, IAAK
Dr. Jan Kucharzewski | Universität Mannheim
Once More into the Fray: Hunters, Sailors, and Liminal Masculinities
Tuesday, 3 May, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm c.t. | via Zoom
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Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer | Freie Universität Berlin
Going Underground: Female Stunt Reporters in the Progressive Era
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm c.t. | Room A, IAAK
Prof. Paul Armstrong | Brown University
The Neuroscience of Literary Time-Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance
Monday, 16 May, 2022 | 8:00 pm | Atelierbühne Beul
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A collaboration of the Theater2Go, Wien, and the North American Studies Program
Neil LaBute's monologue WRECKS starring Peter Wälter | Director: Pippa Galli
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm c.t. | Room A, IAAK
Dr. hab. Anna Pochmara | University of Warsaw
Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel
Thursday, May 19, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm | Lecture Hall 17, IAAK
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Reading: Diane Glancy
Thursday, June 2, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm c.t. | via Zoom
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Prof. Paul Spickard | University of California, Santa Barbara
Shape Shifters: People Changing Race
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm c.t. | Room A, IAAK
PD Dr. Birte Christ | Universität Gießen
Black Film, White Faces: Hollywood's Take on the Death Penalty, 1951-1968
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm c.t. | Room A, IAAK
Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein | Freie Universität Berlin
The End of Adventure: On Robert Coover's Huck Out West (2017)
Tuesday, June 28, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm c.t. | Room A, IAAK
Prof. Richard Williams | University of Edinburgh
Los Angeles, ‘Autopia’, and the 1960s: Reyner Banham Revisited
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 | 6:00-8:00 pm c.t. | Room A, IAAK
Prof. Dr. Frank Kelleter | Freie Universität Berlin
Media Rhetoric, White Liberalism, and the American Revolution
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