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Gastvorträge

American Studies Lectures

Datum Referenten Thema
11. Juni 2024 Paul S. Ciccantell (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)

“Energy Raw Materials, Energy Transitions, and Geopolitics”

31. Januar 2024 Sneha Sumanth (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

“Working Towards ‘Counter-topographies’: Housing Commodification and Everyday Life in Two Cities (Ottawa, Canada and New York City, USA)”

28. Juni 2023 Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State University) Critical Race Theory, the Welfare State, and Inequities in U.S. Migration”
28. Juni 2023 Andrew Torget (University of North Texas) Texas and the Long Problem of Race in American History
28. Juni 2023 David Hugill (Carleton University, Ottawa) Settler Colonialism and the Production of Urban Space
2. Mai 2023 Sally Hadden (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)

„Slavery, the 1619 Project, and Packaging History as Commodity and Political Tool“

6. Dezember 2022 Andreas Etges (Amerika-Institut: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ‘We’ll never have another day like this one’ or the German Romance with John F. Kennedy
22. Juli 2022 Chris Sims (Duke University) The Pretend Villages:Photographing America’s Post-9/11 Landscapes
14. Juli 2022 Scott Zukowski (Universität Graz) Edgar Allan Poe, Globalization, and the Environmental Gothic
30. Mai 2022 Jessica Conrad (Clayton State University, Morrow, Georgia) Change Is Not a Luxury:Writing for the Future in Butler’s Parable Series
12. Mai 2022 Jonas Anderson (Universität der Bundeswehr München) You Can’t Erase History!: The Battle over the Confederacy’s Place in American Public Culture of Remembrance
18. Januar 2022 Tyler Bradway (SUNY Cortland) The Difference Queer Character Makes
SoSe 2021 Cedric Essi
(Osnabrück University)
It’s all in the Family: Kinship, Property, and Structural Racism after Trump
[Im Rahmen der „Bavarian American Academy Student Conference: Structural Racism in the U.S.”]
SoSe 2021 Rosalind Hampton
(University of Toronto)
Canadian Academia as Colonial Continua
[Im Rahmen der „Bavarian American Academy Student Conference: Structural Racism in the U.S.”]
SoSe 2021 Alisa Kessel
(University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)

The Politics of Protection: Narratives of U.S. Rape Culture and the ‘Bathroom Debate’”
[Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Intersectionality”]

SoSe 2021 Rebecca Brückmann
(Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Towards an Intersectional History of White Supremacy and the Black Freedom Struggle [Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Intersectionality”]
SoSe 2021 Kai Prins
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Gay-te Keepers at the Fourth Wall: Queering the Borders of the Drag Stage [Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Intersectionality”]
SoSe 2021 Chelsea Mikael Frazier
(Cornell University)
Approaches to Centering Black Feminism in Eco-Thought
WiSe 2020-2021

Kai Prins
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

American Drag Kings

SoSe 2020

Elizabeth Parker
(St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK)

Ecofeminism Meets EcoGothic: A Look at Classic Fairy Tales
11. Juli 2019 Susanne Hamscha
(Fulbright Wien/Berlin)
Coming out Crip: Social Media and the (In)Visibility of Disability
Juni 2019 Sunil Kukreja
(University of Puget Sound, USA)
Gastvortrag am Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Entwicklungs- und Kulturforschung
Juni 2019 David Loberg Code
(Western Michigan University)
Gastvortrag an der Professur für Musikpädagogik, "Musik digitalisieren: Quantisierte Kultur (Digitizing Music: Quantized Culture)
06. Juni 2019

Prof. Dr. Mario Masvidal Saavedra
(University Havana, Cuba)

Hemingway´s Impact on Cuba´s Culture and Cuba´s Impact on Hemingway´s Life and Work
03. Juni 2019 Lucia Soriano
(Washington State University, USA)
Performing “Normality” in the Age of Spectacular Celebrity Motherhood and Social Media Beauty Influencers
03. Juni 2019 Nicholas Krebs
(Washington State University, USA)
Voices, Visions, and Agents of U.S. Empire in Contemporary Hollywood Films from 1977 to the Present
13. November 2018

Prof. Dr. Mario Masvidal Saavedra
(Professor of Semiotics and Communication Theory, University of Arts, Havana & Faculty of Arts and Belles Lettres, the Communication Faculty, and the Foreign Languages Faculty University of Havana Cuba)

Ernest Hemingway‘s Narrative on Cuba
23. Oktober 2018

Shira Leibowitz Schmidt
(Independent Scholar, Author of Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science in Jewish Traditions)

The Seminary in Passau, 1946, for Young Jewish Women who Survived the Holocaust: A Paradigm Shift
29. Juni 2018 Esther Gray
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA
Secondary Literature Students in Role: Improvised Drama as a Laboratory for Discoveries about Historical Context, Culture and Power
(gemeinsam mit Didaktik der Englischen Sprache)
28. Juni 2018 Esther Gray
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA
Nurturing Emergent Writers and Coaching Them in Elementary School: Meeting Proficiency Concerns in Michigan
(gemeinsam mit Didaktik der Englischen Sprache)
Juni 2018 Alisa Kessel
University of Puget Sound
“American Political Thought and Trump” and “American Rape Culture and the Cruel Optimism of Sexual Consent”
10. April 2018 Prof. Eric Sandeen
University of Wyoming, USA
The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial in Boston and the Cultural Commemoration of the American Civil War
06. Dezember 2017

Prof. Dr. Allison Stagg
(Terra Visiting Professor, John-F.-Kennedy Institute Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Culture)

James Akin and “A Philosophic Cock”: Caricature Prints in America, 1800-1820
02. November 2017

Prof. Dean J. Kotlowski
(Professor for History, Salisbury University, Maryland)

Without Horroror War: The US Office of War Information's AMERICAN SCENE Series during World War II
18. Juli 2017

Jeannette Jones
(Associate Professor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Department of History, Institute for Ethnic Studies)

More than a 'Mission Field': Black American Travels in Nineteenth-Century Africa
08. Juni 2017 Robert Leneway
(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA)
Education 3.0: Leveraging Communication Technologies to Educate Tomorrows’ Workers
(zus. mit Prof. Thomas Knieper als Teil des Faculty Exchange Programms)
07. Juni 2017 Prof. Dr. Nila Wiese
(University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, USA)
Gender Differences in Negotiating the Pressures of Life Cycle and Career Stages: Their Effect on Talent Management and Organizational Performance
2017
(zus. mit Prof. Jan Hendrik Schumann als Teil des Faculty Exchange Programms)
16. Mai 2017

Jessica Conrad
(PhD Candidate, University of Delaware, Department of English)

Boycott: Literary Interventions in the Marketplace, 1820-1880
15. Mai 2017

Volker Depkat
(Universität Passau)

William Henry Harrison und die politische Ikonographie einer Frontier-Präsidentschaft

09. Mai 2017 Prof. Dr. Denise Keele
(Western Michigan University, USA)
Environmental Politics in the Trump Administration
08. Februar 2017 Birgit Hans
(University of North Dakota)
Enduring Voices: American Indian Women and Cultural Changes on the Northern Plains
30. November 2016

Prof. Dr. Peter Freese
(University of Paderborn, American Studies, Emeritus)

The American Dream: New Approaches to an Old Topic

19. Oktober 2016

Franklin Sage
(University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA)

Autoethnography: Indigenous Knowledge System Interwoven into Higher Education Experiences
4. Juli 2016 Anthony Squiers, PhD.
(postdoc in American Studies)

The politics of the Sacred In America

22. Juni 2016

Dean J. Kotlowski
(Salisbury University, Maryland)

Ratifying Greatness: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Film and Television
18. Juni 2016

Josephine Nummi
Texas A&M, Department of Sociology

Twitter & Ferguson: online struggle for offline justice

7. Juni 2016

Prof. Michael Johnson Jr.
(Washington State University
Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies)

Citizenship, Belonging and Xenophobia in 2016: Politicizing and Policing Borders
28. April 2016

Eric Sandeen
(University of Wyoming, Laramie)

Unsettling Wyoming: Confronting Cultural Difference in the Cowboy State
7. Juli 2015 Jane A. Juffer
(Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Precarious Subjects: Child Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border and the Question of Representation
25. Juni 2015

Christopher Lukasik
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

The Image in the Text: Intermediality, Illustration, and 19th-Century American Literature
11. Mai 2015

Richard C. King
(Washington State University, Pullman)

Semiotic Disobedience: Commodity Racism and the Arts of Resistance
6. Mai 2015

Clifton Ross
(translator, filmmaker, and writer)

Until the Rulers Obey – Voices from Latin American Social Movements
20. November 2014

Eva Federmayer
(Eötvos Loránd Universität, Budapest)

Nation, Gender, Race in Millennial Budapest’s Ragtime Culture

25. Juni 2014 Erika Doss
(University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
Victim Memorials and Sites of Conscience: Commemorating Loss, Violence, and Catastrophe in Contemporary Public Art
17. Juni 2014 John Woodward

(Dean of the School of Education, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)

The Politics of the Common Core State Standards: How the Left and the Right Have Joined Sides to Undermine US Educational Reform
6. November 2013 Richard C. King
(Washington State University, Pullman; currently Visiting Scholar at the University of Passau)
Uncomfortable Icons: Uneasiness, Expectations, and American Indians
2. Juli 2013 Richard Anderson-Connolly
(Chair of the Dep. of Sociology and Anthro-pology, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)
A Leftist Critique of Diversity & Multiculturalism
27. Juni 2013 Henry Beissel
(Poet and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, Concordia University, Montreal)
Henry Beissel: A Poetry Reading
19. Juni 2012 Julie Nelson Christoph
(University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)
Women Memoirs and the American Frontier
6. Juni 2012 Sue Ellen Christian
(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)
The Problematic Relationship between Journalism and PR
25. Mai 2012

Sherrie Tucker
(University of Kansas)

Torquing Back: Jitterbug Memory and National Nostalgia ­­– Interviews with Dancers at the Hollywood Canteen (1942.1945)
23. Mai 2012 Dan Namingha
(Hopi Artist; Santa Fe)
Bridging Worlds: Dan Namingha, Indian Artist
16. November 2011 William T. Hathaway
(political journalist and writer)
Radical Peace: People Refusing War
30. Juni 2011 Eric J. Sandeen
(Director of American Studies, University of Wyoming at Laramie)
The Continuing Story of Japanese American Relocation: Placing Heart Mountain Barracks in the Contemporary Wyoming Landscape
28. Juni 2011 Lisa Gill
(University of Maryland, College Park)
Visual Images of the Civil Rights Movement
7. Juni 2011 John McCuistion
(Chair of the Art Department, University of Puget Sound Tacoma, Washington)
Contemporary Ceramic Art of the Pacific Northwest
10. Dezember 2010 Ka Vang
(Dep. of Educational Leadership, Minnesota State University, Mankato)
Asian-American Hip-Hop: Gangs, Guns, and Salvation
16. Juli 2010 Faith Nibbs
(Dep. of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas)
The Hmong of Texas: Small Minority Groups in the Dallas Ft. Worth New Immigrant Gateway

1. Juli 2010

Sandra Borden
(Dep. of Communication and co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in society, Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo)
The Common Good as Foundation for Social Ethics in Journalism

30. Juni 2010

David Warren Saxe
(Professor of Education, College of Education, Pennsylvania State University)

Understanding American Politics – Love to Confuse and Confound Germans

29. Juni 2010

David Smith
(University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)

The British View of the American Revolution

23. Juni 2010

Adris Eschenberg
(Academic Dean and Educator, Nebraska Indian Community College)

The Problems and Potentials of Education in an Indian Community College

5. Mai 2010

Lee Ann Potter
(Director of Education and Volunteer Programs, U.S. National Archives in Washington D.C.)

The U.S. National Archives as National Site of Memory

27. Januar 2010

Kathryn Crockart
(Konsulin für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit am Generalkonsulat München)

Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung

27. Januar 2010 Alexander Kain
(Stellv. Cehfredakteur der Passauer Neuen Presse)
Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung
27. Januar 2010 Karsten Fitz
(Universität Passau)
Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung
27. Januar 2010 Volker Depkat
(Universität Regensburg)
Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung
27. Januar 2010 Andreas Falke
(Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen)
Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung

22. Juni 2009

Bill Haltom
(University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)
Criminalizing Corporations Through Lawsuits – The Politics of Responsibility in the US

14. Mai 2009

Nicolas Witsch
(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)
"I do not like newspaper notoriety": Gunfighter Memoirs and the Making of the American West

12. Mai 2009

Jessica Osenbruegge
(American Indian Genocide Museum, Houston/Texas)
Indian Country Today: Current Native American Legal and Political Issues
28. April 2009 Michael Rozendal
(Fulbright Visiting Professor an der Universität Passau)
Thirties Poetry, 21st Century – Politics: From Langston Hughes to Kerry and Obama

27. Januar 2009

Kathryn Crockart
(Konsulin für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit am Generalkonsulat München)

USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära

27. Januar 2009 Hans Schregelmann
(Chefredakteur der Passauer Neuen Presse)
USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära
27. Januar 2009 Karsten Fitz
(Universität Passau)
USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära
27. Januar 2009 Werner Gamerith
(Universität Passau)
USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära
27. Januar 2009 Winand Gellner
(Universität Passau)
USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära

6. Dezember 2007

Mike Maher
(University of Louisiana, Fulbright Visiting Professor an der Universität Regensburg)

Americans’ Wavering Support for Environmentalism in Historical Context

26. Juni 2007

Hassan Melehy
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC)
Wherever That River Goes: From “"Easy Rider" to "Der Amerikanische Freund"
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