July 4 Event 2025 – Lecture, Exhibition, Get-together, Food and Drinks 🗓
Fourth of July Event at the Obama Institute July 4, 2025, 2-6 p.m., P5 & Foyer P2-P5 (Philosophicum) 2-4 p.m. I Keynote Lecture I P5 Speculative Plantations: Reimagining Past, Present, and Futures through Gothic HorrorAmy King, PhDTuskeegee University, AL, USA...
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July 3 – Guest Lecture “‘You can go dig him out of his grave’: Anishinaabe Resistance to Racialization in the 1910s” 🗓
Jill Doerfler(University of Minnesota, Duluth) “You can go dig him out of his grave”: Anishinaabe Resistance to Racialization in the 1910s July 3, 2025, 18:15-19:45, P 15, Philosophicum Professor Jill Doerfler will detail the various ways in which White Earth...
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July 1 – Guest Lecture “From Geeks to Tech Titans: Apple and the Making of Silicon Chic” 🗓
Susan Ingram & Markus Reisenleitner(York University, Toronto, Canada) From Geeks to Tech Titans: Apple and the Making of Silicon Chic July 1, 2025, 09:40-11:10, Campus Germersheim, N.106 (Stufenhörsaal) AbstractEver since Annie Leibovitz’s photos of coders playing...
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June 24 – Info Session: New American Studies M.A. Curriculum 🗓
Join us for an info session about the new American Studies M.A. curriculum! Starting in the winter semester of 2025/26, the American Studies M.A. program at JGU will launch a newly accredited curriculum. The updated program offers greater flexibility:You can now...
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June 25 – Guest Lecture “Periodicals as Foundations of Black American Culture” 🗓
Scott Zukowski(Universität Graz) Periodicals as Foundations of Black American Culture June 25, 2025, 10:15-11:45, P 2, Philosophicum (Jakob-Welder-Weg 18) Since they first appeared in the early nineteenth century, periodicals published by and for Black Americans...
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June 25 – Guest Lecture “Water Poetics in Aotearoa New Zealand” 🗓
Workshop Series with Lectures: Transpacific Literary Perspectives Water Poetics in Aotearoa New Zealand June 25, 2025 | 16:15-18:00 | P 102 (Philosophicum) Marine Berthiot (University of Lorraine) This lecture is part of the workshop series "Transpacific Literary...
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June 18 – Guest Lecture “Jazzed Up for the Party: The Great Gatsby at 100” 🗓
Nicole J. Camastra(The O’Neal School, Southern Pines, NC, USA) Jazzed Up for the Party: The Great Gatsby at 100 June 18, 2025, 10:15-11:45, P 2, Philosophicum (Jakob-Welder-Weg 18) The mythology surrounding F. Scott Fitzgerald tends to eclipse his fierce devotion to...
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June 17 – Guest Lecture “Hemingway’s Mexican Immigrants, the ‘Sugar Beet Racket,’ and ‘The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio'” 🗓
Nicole J. Camastra(The O’Neal School, Southern Pines, NC, USA) Hemingway’s Mexican Immigrants, the “Sugar Beet Racket,” and “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio” June 17, 2025, 18:15-19:45, P 109a, Philosophicum (Jakob-Welder-Weg 18) Ernest Hemingway avoided...
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June 16 – Guest Lecture “Transpacific Literary Perspectives: Oceanic Genealogies, Storied Places, and Indigenous Epistemologies” 🗓
Workshop Series with Lectures: Transpacific Literary Perspectives Transpacific Literary Perspectives: Oceanic Genealogies, Storied Places, and Indigenous Epistemologies June 16, 2025 | 16:15-18:00 | P 4 (Philosophicum) Kirsten Møllegaard (University of Hawai’i at...
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June 11 – Guest Lecture “Bringing Literature to the Mat: Talanoa as Decolonial Framework for Literary Analytical Praxis” 🗓
Workshop Series with Lectures: Transpacific Literary Perspectives Bringing Literature to the Mat: Talanoa as Decolonial Framework for Literary Analytical Praxis June 11, 2025 | 16:15-18:00 | P 102 (Philosophicum) Ajani Burrell (Northern Marianas College) This lecture...
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May 27 – Guest Lecture “Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence, the US-Centered Global Order, and Transnational American Studies” 🗓
Yuan Shu(Texas Tech University, TX, USA) Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence, the US-Centered Global Order, and Transnational American Studies May 27, 2025, 16:15-17:45, 00.212, Philosophicum II (Jakob-Welder-Weg 20) In this presentation I seek to investigate Cold...
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May 27 – Guest Lecture “Westward Movement and Transpacific American Literature” 🗓
Yuan Shu(Texas Tech University, TX, USA) Westward Movement and Transpacific American Literature May 27, 2025, 10:15-11:45, room 01-618, kl. Bib., Philosophicum II (Jakob-Welder-Weg 20) Presentation in the seminar “Chinese American Relations” – Session open to...
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