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Visiting scholars

American Studies Lectures

Date Speaker Topic
11 June 2024 Paul S. Ciccantell (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)

“Energy Raw Materials, Energy Transitions, and Geopolitics”

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

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

6 December 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 July 2022 Chris Sims (Duke University) The Pretend Villages:Photographing America’s Post-9/11 Landscapes
14 July 2022 Scott Zukowski (Universität Graz) Edgar Allan Poe, Globalization, and the Environmental Gothic
30 May 2022 Jessica Conrad (Clayton State University, Morrow, Georgia) Change Is Not a Luxury:Writing for the Future in Butler’s Parable Series
12 May 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 January 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 July 2019 Susanne Hamscha
(Fulbright Wien/Berlin)
Coming out Crip: Social Media and the (In)Visibility of Disability
June 2019 Sunil Kukreja
(University of Puget Sound, USA)
Gastvortrag am Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Entwicklungs- und Kulturforschung
June 2019 David Loberg Code
(Western Michigan University)
Gastvortrag an der Professur für Musikpädagogik, "Musik digitalisieren: Quantisierte Kultur (Digitizing Music: Quantized Culture)
6 June 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
3 June 2019 Lucia Soriano
(Washington State University, USA)
Performing “Normality” in the Age of Spectacular Celebrity Motherhood and Social Media Beauty Influencers
3 June 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 October 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 June 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 June 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)
June 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
6 December 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
2 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 July 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
8 June 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)
7 June 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 May 2017

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

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

Volker Depkat
(Universität Passau)

William Henry Harrison und die politische Ikonographie einer Frontier-Präsidentschaft

9 May 2017 Prof. Dr. Denise Keele
(Western Michigan University, USA)
Environmental Politics in the Trump Administration

February 08, 2016

Birgit Hans
(University of North Dakota)
Enduring Voices: American Indian Women and Cultural Changes on the Northern Plains
June 22, 2016

Dean J. Kotlowski
(Salisbury University, Maryland)

Ratifying Greatness: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Film and Television
April 28, 2016

Eric Sandeen
(University of Wyoming, Laramie)

Unsettling Wyoming: Confronting Cultural Difference in the Cowboy State
July 7, 2015 Jane A. Juffer
(Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Precarious Subjects: Child Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border and the Question of Representation
June 25, 2015 Christopher Lukasik
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
The Image in the Text: Intermediality, Illustration, and 19th-Century American Literature
May 11, 2015 Richard C. King
(Washington State University, Pullman)
Semiotic Disobedience: Commodity Racism and the Arts of Resistance
May 6, 2015 Clifton Ross
(translator, filmmaker, and writer)
Until the Rulers Obey – Voices from Latin American Social Movements
November 20, 2014 Eva Federmayer
(Eötvos Loránd Universität, Budapest)
Nation, Gender, Race in Millennial Budapest’s Ragtime Culture
June 25, 2014 Erika Doss
(University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
Victim Memorials and Sites of Conscience: Commemorating Loss, Violence, and Catastrophe in Contemporary Public Art
June 17, 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
Nov. 6, 2013 Richard C. King
(Washington State University, Pullman; currently Visiting Scholar at the University of Passau)
Uncomfortable Icons: Uneasiness, Expectations, and American Indians
July 2, 2013 Richard Anderson-Connolly
(Chair of the Dep. of Sociology and Anthro-pology, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)
A Leftist Critique of Diversity & Multiculturalism
June 27, 2013 Henry Beissel
(Poet and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, Concordia University, Montreal)
Henry Beissel: A Poetry Reading
June 19, 2012 Julie Nelson Christoph
(University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)
Women Memoirs and the American Frontier
June 6, 2012 Sue Ellen Christian
(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)
The Problematic Relationship between Journalism and PR
May 25, 2012

Sherrie Tucker
(University of Kansas)

Torquing Back: Jitterbug Memory and National Nostalgia — Interviews with Dancers at the Hollywood Canteen (1942.1945)
May 23, 2012 Dan Namingha
(Hopi Artist; Santa Fe)
Bridging Worlds: Dan Namingha, Indian Artist
Nov. 16, 2011 William T. Hathaway
(political journalist and writer)
Radical Peace: People Refusing War
June 30, 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
June 28, 2011 Lisa Gill
(University of Maryland, College Park)
Visual Images of the Civil Rights Movement
June 7, 2011 John McCuistion
(Chair of the Art Department, University of Puget Sound Tacoma, Washington)
Contemporary Ceramic Art of the Pacific Northwest
Dec. 10, 2010 Ka Vang
(Dep. of Educational Leadership, Minnesota State University, Mankato)
Asian-American Hip-Hop: Gangs, Guns, and Salvation
July 16, 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

July 1, 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

June 30, 2010

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

Understanding American Politics – Love to Confuse and Confound Germans

June 29, 2010

David Smith
(University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)

The British View of the American Revolution

June 23, 2010

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

The Problems and Potentials of Education in an Indian Community College

May 5, 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

January 27, 2010

Kathryn Crockart
(Konsulin für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit am Generalkonsulat München)

Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung

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

June 22, 2009

Bill Haltom
(University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)

Criminalizing Corporations Through Lawsuits – The Politics of Responsibility in the US

May 14, 2009

Nicolas Witsch
(Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)

"I do not like newspaper notoriety": Gunfighter Memoirs and the Making of the American West

May 12, 2009

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

January 27, 2009

Kathryn Crockart
(Konsulin für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit am Generalkonsulat München)

USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära

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

December 6, 2007

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

Americans' Wavering Support for Environmentalism in Historical Context

June 26, 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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