Lecture series
Current Issues in North American and Cultural Studies
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
Winter Semester 2021|2022
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
PD Dr. Karin Hoepker | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Shipwreck, Risk, and the Novel: Poe's Poetics of the Improbable
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Devin Zuber | Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Sermons in Stones: John Muir, Swedenborg, and Environmental Imagination
Tuesday, November 23, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Dr. Mahshid Mayar | Bielefeld University
"Do they you?": Erasure in Solmaz Sharif's "Dear Salim" Poems
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Dr. Josef Braml | Secretary General of the Trilateral Commission's German Group
Geo-Economics Rivalry between the US and China – Impact on Europe
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Heinze | Technische Universität Braunschweig
How to Tell a Migration Story, or: The Politics of Authenticity
Monday, January 17, 2022 | 6:00-7:30 pm | MLK Day Lecture
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rebecca Brückmann | Ruhr-University Bochum
Where Did We Go from There? Roots, Ruptures, and Reiterations in the Black Freedom Struggle
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Julia Leyda | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Black Anthroposcreens: Queen Sugar and Black Panther
Summer Semester 2021
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Dr. Philipp Adorf | Universität Bonn
Trumpism Ascendant: The State of the Republican Party and Its Consequences for American Democracy
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Joseph Laycock | Texas State University
Re-thinking Church and State with The Satanic Temple
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Ellen Hinsey | Universität Göttingen
Prof. Andrew Majeske | City University of New York
The Attack on the Capitol: A Provisional Report and Risks for US Democracy
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Laura Bieger | University of Groningen
Authorizing Native Son: A Relational Approach to Engaged Literature
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Dr. Sarah Beringer | German Historical Institute Washington
U.S. Climate and Renewable Energy Politics under Biden: A New Path Forward?
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Moritz Schularick | Universität Bonn
The Racial Wealth Gap, 1865–2019
Tuesday, July 13, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Susanne Rohr | Universität Hamburg
Intricate Matters: The ‘Holocaust Comedy’ in the US and Germany
Winter Semester 2020|2021
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie | CASSIS, Universität Bonn
The US Foreign Policy Agenda of the Next Four Years
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Russell J. A. Kilbourn, Ph.D. | Wilfrid Laurier University
Posthuman Memory in North American Cinema
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke | North American Studies Program
Wednesday, 2 December 2020 | 12:00-2:00 pm
Debating the Results of the Presidential Election 2020
with students and alumni of the North American Studies Program (live event if possible, limited participation)
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Dr. A. Elisabeth Reichel | Universität Osnabrück
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 | 6:00-7:30 pm
PD Dr. Jan Logemann | Universität Göttingen
European Emigres and the Making of American Consumer Capitalism, 1930s to 1960s
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Dr. Holger Janusch | North American Studies Program
Communicative Power America: The End and Beginning of American Exceptionalism
Monday, January 18, 2021 | 5:00-8:00 pm
Martin Luther King Day Panel Discussion
How Black Lives Matter – in the United States and in Germany: Systemic Racism, Modes of Solidarity, and Historical Differences – with invited experts
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 | 6:00-7:30 pm
Dr. Katharina Fackler | North American Studies Program
Oceanic Intimacies: Whaling Wives, Life Writing, and Colonial Ecologies in the Pacific, 1845-51
"The White House Embattled? The U.S. Election 2020"
Lecture Series in cooperation with the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) and AmerikaHaus e.V. NRW - Summer Semester 2020
PROGRAM
Tuesday | 28 April 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Dr. Philipp Adorf | Institut für Politische Wissenschaft und Soziologie | Universität Bonn
“Comeback or Continuation? The Relevance of Race in the Trump Era”
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Tuesday | 5 May 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Hon.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Görlach | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
“Empathie gegen Ressentiment: Der Kampf um das Weiße Haus”
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Tuesday | 12 May 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Dr. Ying Huang & Dr. Hendrik W. Ohnesorge | Center for Global Studies | Universität Bonn
"Neuer Kalter Krieg? Trump und die amerikanisch-chinesischen Beziehungen"
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Tuesday | 26 May 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Andrea Rotter, M.A. | Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung
“U.S. Foreign Policy and the Presidential Race”
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Tuesday | 9 June 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
PD Dr. Simone Knewitz | North American Studies Program
“‘I'm the President, and You're Fake News’: Populism and the 2020 Election”
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Tuesday | 16 June 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Dr. Gerlinde Groitl | Universität Regensburg
“Disruptor-in-Chief or New Normal? The Trump Presidency and the Erosion of the Transatlantic Alliance”
Tuesday | 23 June 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Prof. em. Dr. Andreas Falke | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
“Trump und die Demokraten zu Wirtschaft und Handel”
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Thursday | 25 June 2020 | 4:00-6:00 pm
Candice Kerestan, M.A. | Democrats Abroad
“Americans Abroad - the Key to a Democratic Victory in 2020?”
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CANCELLED
Thursday | 25 June 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie | CASSIS | Universität Bonn
“The Foreign Policy Agenda of the Next President”
Tuesday | 30 June 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Ralph C. Freund | Republicans Overseas Germany
“Entering the Battleground: A Republican Perspective on the Election Year 2020”
Tuesday | 7 July 2020 | 6:00-8:00 pm
Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke | North American Studies Program
“Engendering the Race: How Gender Matters in the 2020 Presidential Election”
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