Events

The North American Studies Program is a vibrant place of research and scholarly exchange in the academic community. We regularly host national and international experts who present their current research in our lecture series as well as during the conferences and symposia that we organize. Together with our cooperation partners, we frequently organize events for the public at large. And we keep in close touch with our alumni to forge ties between present and former students.

Indigenous Peoples' Day
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
From 2025 onward, the Columbus Day Lecture - a tradition of the North American Studies Program since its beginning in the early 1990's - will come to an end, ...
November 5th and the Fate of American Optimism
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Dr. Nyerges lecture places the contest of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a broader historical dialectic of hope and fear, the primary affects animating US ...
Debating the Possible Outcome of the US Election
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Ever since US president Joe Biden passed on the torch and vice president Kamala Harris moved to the center stage of the electoral race, the dynamics of the ...
Election Night Special
Bundeskanzlerplatz 2E | ...
09:00 PM
Join us for our Election Night Special – watch CNN, listen to live music, share the excitement at the bpb:medienzentrum!
The Future of Transatlantic Relations
Bonner Universitätsforum,...
12:15 PM - 01:45 PM
In Europe, we have followed the 2024 US presidential and congressional elections with both interest and concern. The transatlantic partnership faces enormous ...
Debating the Outcome of the US-American Presidential Election '24
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Though certainly painful and hard to digest for many voters, commentators, and observers, the outcome of the 2024 US-American presidential election was not an ...
Nostalgia and Constructions of National Identities
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
In his talk, Alexei Kazakov proposes a new framework for understanding how national identity has taken shape since the late twentieth century. Grounding his ...
Social Photography and the Politics of Visibility
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Concentrating on the US-American tradition of social photography, Simon Schleusener’s lecture interrogates attempts to visualize dimensions of inequality that ...
The Intersection of Cultural and Personal Memory
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Engaging a collection of postcards from art museums, Dr. Mendelsohn discusses this mode of communication as a repo-sitory of personal and cultural memory: how ...
Water Corpses in US-American Visual Culture
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Join us for a lecture with Sarah Becker from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on “Water Corpses in US-American Visual Culture”!
Outdoor Swimming and the Immediacy of Water
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Join us for a lecture with Dr. Imke Lichterfeld from the IAAK, University of Bonn on "‘My consciousness flowing’: Outdoor Swimming and the Immediacy of Water ...
Martin Luther King Day Lecture
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Join us for our Martin Luther King Day Lecture with Dr. Nadja Klopprogge from the University of Tübingen on "Intimate Constellations as Sites of ...
Anti-Pornography Discourses Across Ideologies
Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 ...
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Join us for a lecture with Madita Oeming, an independent writer, on "America’s War on Porn: Anti-Pornography Discourses Across Ideologies"!

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