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Special Lectures - American Studies Lectures (Gastvorträge)

American Studies Lectures (Gastvorträge)

Date

Speaker

Topic

January 19, 2012	Eva Boesenberg Humboldt University Berlin	Representations of Arranged Marriage in South Asian American Literature
January 12, 2012	Dennis Domer University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS	Down on the Farm: Art and Architecture in Rural America, 1880–1950
December 1, 2011	Katharina Gerund University of Erlangen-Nürnberg	“I Am Your Sister”: Audre Lorde and the Black Diaspora in Germany
November 17, 2011	William T. Hathaway University of Oldenburg	Radical Peace: People Refusing War
June 21, 2011	Barry Shank Ohio State University, Columbus	The Velvet Underground and the Critique of the Commodity
June 16, 2011	Shelley Fisher Fishkin Stanford University	"Originally of Missouri, Now of the Universe" : Mark Twain and the World
June 15, 2011	Eric J. Sandeen University of Wyoming	The Troubled Landscapes of the American West: Remembering Heart Mountain and Sand Creek
June 9, 2011	John David Smith University of North Carolina, Charlotte	"We must live through all time, or die by suicide" : The Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861
May 12, 2011	Gesa Mackenthun Universität Rostock	Mysterious Maps and Maya Cities: Inventing America's Ancient Past
December 16, 2010	Rüdiger Kunow Universität Potsdam	Contagious Others: Biomobility and the Shaping of Communities
November 25, 2010	Carmen Birkle Philipps-Universität Marburg	The Interfaces of Literature, Gender, and Medicine in 19th-Century America
November 11, 2010	Eric J. Sandeen University of Wyoming	Living Heart Mountain: The Legacy of Japanese American Internment in the Wyoming Landscape
November 4, 2010	Lisa Gill University of Maryland, College Park Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg	Intellectual, Rebel, and/or Icon: Commemoration and Construction of the Image(s) of Malcolm X, 1965-1999
October 28, 2010	Mita Banerjee Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz	Race and Gender in Hollywood Film: Rudolph Valentino's White Ambivalence in The Sheik
July 8, 2010	Heike Paul Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Transatlantic Cultural Mobility
June 24, 2010	Giulia Fabi University of Ferrara	Desegregating the Future: African American Speculative Fiction to the Harlem Renaissance
June 24, 2010	Cristina Giorcelli University of Rome	Plays of Black and White in Edith Wharton’s ‚A Bottle of Perrier‘
June 17, 2010	Werner Sollors Harvard University	‚Ich möcht’ so gern nach Hause gehn‘: Toxi and Other Tales of Children of the Occupation
June 10, 2010	Taylor Hagood Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida Fulbright Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Secrecy, Miscegenation, and the Politics of Pregnancy in Harlem Renaissance Women’s Drama
May 18, 2010	Steve Estes Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California Visiting Professor, Universität Erfurt	I Am a Man: Race, Manhood, and the American Civil Rights Movement
May 11, 2010	Lee Ann Potter National Archives, Washington, D.C. Fulbright Visiting Professor, Oslo, Norway	American Civil Religion in Theory and Practice
May 11, 2010	Mary Lee Ann Potter National Archives, Washington, D.C. Fulbright Visiting Professor, Oslo, Norway	The U.S. National Archives as National Site of Memory
May 6, 2010	David Saxe Pennsylvania State University, University Park Fulbright Professor an der Universität Regensburg	Staging American Pasts: Applications of Living History
April 29, 2010	Kerstin Schmidt Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München	Negative Space and the Making of Modern America: Concepts of Space in American Literature, Architecture, and Photography, 1870–1920
March 24, 2010	Barry Shank Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio	American Studies and Its Institutional Contexts in the U.S. and Germany
January 21, 2010	Paul Lauter Trinity College, Hartford, CT	The Market and the Cathedral: Immigration, Identity, and Conflict
January 14, 2010	Frank Kelleter Universität Göttingen	'It’s all there‘: Serial Aesthetics and Contemporary American Television
January 14, 2010	Kathleen Loock Universität Göttingen	From National Icon to Immigrant Hero: Constructing Columbus in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century United States
December 10, 2009	Sabine Sielke Universität Bonn	Re-cognizing (Cultural) Memory
December 7, 2009	Hans-Jürgen Grabbe Zentrum für USA-Studien der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg	„Wider den Filiopietismus oder Wege und Irrwege der deutschen Auswanderungsforschung“
November 26, 2009	David Holloway University of Derby, England	A New Public Culture? Culture and Citizenship in the Bush-Era United States
July 9, 2009	Klaus Benesch University of Munich	'Where I Have Lived, and What I Lived For?': Thorau's Platial Iconicity
June 24, 2009	Ardis Eschenberg-Bad Moccasin Nebraska Indian Community College, NE	Language Documentation and Language Revitalization - Experience of the Omaha (Sioux) Tribe
June 23, 2009	Michael Rozendal University of San Francisco, CA	Transforming American Images, Sustaining American Myths
June 9, 2009	Christopher Saunders University of Cape Town, South Africa	The U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
June 8, 2009	Christopher Saunders University of Cape Town, South Africa	The U.S. and South Africa: Historical Links and Connections
May 28, 2009	Nicolas Witschi Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo	'I do not like newspaper notoriety': Gunfighter Memoirs and the Making of the American West
May 26, 2009	David D. Hall Harvard University, Cambridge, MA	Practices of Writing: The Social and Material History of Texts in Colonial New England
May 19, 2009	Liam Kennedy University College Dublin, Ireland	The New Photojournalism: Documenting US Foreign Policy after the Vietnam War
April 30, 2009	Paul Spickard University of California at Santa Barbara, CA	Beyond Ellis Island: How Not to Think about US Immigration History
February 3, 2009	Petra Eckhard Department of American Studies, Universität Graz	The Gotham Puzzle: Detecting the Postmodern in Paul Auster's City of Glass (Graphic Novel)
November 20, 2008	Greg Cuthbertson University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria	Reding U.S. History and American Studies from South Africa
November 19, 2008	Greg Cuthbertson University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria	From Celebration to Crisis: South Africa's Democracy since 1944
July 7, 2008	Hassan Melehy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	The Francophone Limits of English: Jack Kerouac's Nomadic Quebec-ness
June 30, 2008	Tamiko Thiel New Media Artist	From Beyond Manzanar to ReConstructing the Wall: Transnational Virtual Reality Installations
May 27, 2008	Ronald E. Doel Oregon State University	Postwar Geographies. The U.S. Military's Role in Shaping the Environmental Sciences after the Civil War and World War II
May 26, 2008	Stephan Bierling University of Regensburg	Obama, Clinton oder McCain? Anmerkungen zum US-Vorwahlkampf
May 26, 2008	Michael Maher University of Regensburg / University of Louisiana, Louisiana	Whatever happened to the American Environmentalist Movement
May 26, 2008	Gerlinde Groitl University of Regensburg	Religion and Politics in the U.S. since 1980s
May 26, 2008	James Gilbert College Park, University of Maryland	Awash in a Culture of Faith
May 26, 2008	Volker Depkat University of Regesburg	The Cultural Turn in German and US-American Historiography
May 26, 2008	Alfred Hornung Johannes Guttenberg-University, Mainz	Transnational American Studies
February 1, 2008	Wessel Le Roux University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria	Memory Studies and Constitutional Law
January 23, 2008	Wessel Le Roux University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria	South Africa - A Nation in Transition
January 22, 2008	Michael Maher University of Louisiana, Louisiana	The American Environmental Movement in Historical Context
December 19, 2007	Nicole Ishikawa University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas	American Dreams or Dreaming of America: Germans and the U.S. Green Card Lottery
July 5, 2007	David Sumner Linfield College, Mcminnville, Oregon	"'That Could Happen': American Nature Writing, the Nature Fakers, and a Rhetoric of Assent"
June 20, 2007	Eric Sandeen University of Wyoming, Wyoming	Projecting American Culture Abroad during the Cold War
June 20, 2007	Eric Sandeen University of Wyoming, Wyoming	Randolph Bourne and the Origins of Transnationalism
June 19, 2007	Eric Sandeen University of Wyoming, Wyoming	New York - America's First Global City
June 6, 2007	Hasia R. Diner New York University, New York	Fitting Memorials: Postwar American Jews Confront the Catastrophe
Mai 23, 2007	James Gilbert University of Maryland	Mrs. Wilkins Dances: Enacting Race at the St. Louis World's Fair 1904
May 3, 2007	Hans Bak Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands	Approaching Canadian Literature in a North American Context
February 5, 2007	Eric Nelson Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Munich	Topical Issues in American-European Relations
January 17, 2007	Volker Depkat University of Regensburg	George Washington und die Erfindung der Amerikanischen Präsidentschaft
December 12, 2006	Walter B. Slocombe	The Direction of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy After the Congressional Elections
November 9, 2006	Miles Orvell Temple University, Pennsylvania	Relative Truths: The Literary and Visual Culture of the Thirties
October 25, 2006	Martin Wagner Bayerischer Rundfunk	God's own country: Amerika, der liebe Gott und die Welt
July 11, 2006	Annette Trefzer The University of Mississippi, Mississippi	Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction
June 27, 2006	Joerge Huerta University of California, San Diego Carlos Morton, University of California, Santa Barbara Josefina Lopez	Chicana/o Drama and Theater
June 22, 2006	Jay Kleinberg Brunel University, Great Britain	Working Mothers in the Land of Unlimited Opportunity
June 21, 2006	Jay Kleinberg Brunel University, Great Britain	From 'the American Family' to 'American' Families
June 13, 2006	Matthew M. Rooney Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Munich	US-Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations Today
May 23, 2006	Jay Neugeboren University of Massachusetts Amherst	News from the New American Diaspora
May 2, 2006	Julia L. Foulkes The New School, New York	The Other West Side Story: Urbanization and the Arts meet at Lincoln Center
January 31, 2006	Viet Nguyen University of Southern California, CA	Model Minorities or Bad Subjects: Contemporary Asian American Dilemmas
October 20, 2005	Leonard Chang introduced by Eric H. Denton, currently Fulbright Professor at Regensburg	The Fruit 'N Food (1996) and Fade to Clear (2004)
July 13, 2005	Winfried Herget Universität Mainz	Villains for Pleasure: The Paradox of Nineteenth-Century (American) Melodrama
July 6, 2005	Marinus R. R. Ossewaarde Twente	Tocqueville's New Liberalism
July 5, 2005	Jan D. Kucharzewski Universität Düsseldorf	Gertrude Stein and Quantum Physics
June 30, 2005	Marita Sturken University of Southern California, CA	Cultural Memory and the Kitschification of Grief: Oklahoma City, Sept. 11, and Compulsive Reenactment in American Culture
June 29, 2005	Sandro Chignola Padua	Tocquevilles Reisen: Amerika und zurück
June 15, 2005	Urs Marti Zürich	Demokratie und Korruption bei Tocqueville und Rousseau
June 8, 2005	Oliver Hidalgo Regensburg	Das trügerische Vorbild der Vereinigten Staaten - Tocqueville und die Religion
June 7, 2005	Matthew M. Rooney Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Munich	US-Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations Today
June 1, 2005	Kai Nonnenmacher Regensburg	Eliten und Ästhetik bei Tocqueville. Von der literarischen Politik zur politischen Literatur
May 31, 2005	Robert J. Lieber Georgetown University, Washington D.C.	U. S. Middle East Policy
May 25, 2005	Norbert Campagna Luxemburg	Von der Tugend in Tocquevilles Amerika
May 24, 2005	Patrick Walsh Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN currently Fulbright Professor at Passau	American Bohemianism in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
May 18, 2005	Karlfriedrich Herb Regensburg	Es war einmal in Amerika - Tocqueville über die Zukunft der Demokratie
May 3, 2005	Burton Peretti Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT currently Fulbright Professor at Regensburg	Regulating the New York Nightclub
January 20, 2005	Christopher Mulvey University College Winchester, England	At the Fault Line of Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Three Races of the United States
January 19, 2005	Maureen Reed Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN currently Fulbright Professor at Regensburg	A Woman's Place: Multiculturism, Feminism, and Tradition in the Autobiography of Pablita Velarde
December 15, 2004	Ansgar Reiss Universität der Bundeswehr, München	Exil und ethnische Grenze: Gustav Struve in den USA
November 29, 2004	Mike L. Liebler Wayne State University, Detroit, MN	'And the Beat goes on...': The American Beat Poets
November 24, 2004	Berndt Ostendorf Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	'Wake up Little Suzie': Kalter Krieg, Konsum und Kultur im Amerika der fünfziger Jahre
November 16, 2004	Kaper Maase Universität Tübingen	Wird Elvis Presley Deutscher? Jugendkultur und Amerikanisierung in den fünfziger Jahren
May 26, 2004	Steven Rowan University of Missouri at St. Louis, MO	Baron von Reizenstein's 'Die Geheimnisse von New Orleans' ('The Mysteries of New Orleans')
May 19, 2004	Mike L. Liebler Wayne State University, Detroit, MN	Labor and Art: Detroit and Chicago in the Great Depression
November 5, 2003	Renée M. Sentilles Cash Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH	Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity
June 27, 2003	Tomas Pospisil Mazaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic	Spies, Bombers, Liberators & Others: The Changing Images of Americans in Czech Films
June 26, 2003	Juan Bruce-Novoa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA	REAL Nostalgia: America as a Body in the Box
June 23, 2003	Juan Bruce-Novoa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA	Bordering Memory: Las Vegas, New Mexico: 1200 - 2000
Jan 21, 2003	Manfred Stinnes United States Embassy, Berlin	Die USA, Europa und die Gefahren des neuen Terrorismus
Jan 14, 2003	Georg Kamphausen Universität Bayreuth	Warum gibt es in den Vereinigten Staaten keinen Sozialismus? Die USA im Urteil Max Webers und Werner Sombarts
Dec 17, 2002	Thomas Gocht Universität Regensburg	Presidential Elections 2000 - Cartoons in German Newspapers and Magazines
Dec 3, 2002	Karl Ortseifen Universität Mainz	A Noble River, but not so Fine as the Hudson: American Views of the Rhine and Germany in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Nov 26, 2002	Mike Augspurger currently Fulbright Professor at Regensburg	Profits, Production, & ... Self-Identity?: Business as an American Cultural Site
Nov 12, 2002	Waldemar Zacharasiewicz Universität Wien	Reluctant Recognition(s): American Perspectives on Germany entre les Deux Guerres
July 2, 2002	Francisco A. Lomelí University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA	Tropicalization of Latino Culture
June 5, 2002	Juan Bruce-Novoa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA	Turning Failure into Success, or Creating a Sympathetic Reader: Cabeza de Vaca's Shipwrecked
May 28, 2002	Alan Taylor University of California, Davis	The Divided Ground: Making Borders and Empires in the Indian Country of Revolutionary America
May 27, 2002	Alan Taylor University of California, Davis	Thomas Jefferson's Pacific: The Science of Empire-Building
May 14, 2002	Matthew Roudané Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA	Major Trends in Recent American Drama: Sam Shepard's Theater as Case Study
May 7, 2002	Agymah Kamau	Flickering Shadows (1996) and Pictures of a Dying Man (1999)
Dec 11, 2001	John Burt Brandeis University	New' Literature from the South
Dec 4, 2001	Gerry Brenner University of Montana, Missoula currently Fulbright Professor at Regensburg	Hemingway's Fiction: A legacy for all kinds, all Climes, all Times
Dec 4, 2001	Tomas Pospisil Mazaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic	The Old Plantation and After: The Formation and Evolution of the African American Image
July 19, 2001	Ihab Hassan University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA	Queries for Postcolonial Studies: A Transcultural Perspective
July 10, 2001	Kerstin Schmidt Universität Bayreuth	Postmodern/Drama: Theorizing the Contemporary American Stage
July 5, 2001	Lew Erenberg Loyola University of Chicago, USA currently Fulbright Professor at LMU, Munich	Swing Left - Music and the Popular Front
July 3, 2001	Anne Koenen University of Leipzig	'The Farmer's Bible' - Sears Mail-Order Catalogues and Modernization in the Rural U.S. (1880-1930)
June 27, 2001	Udo Hebel University of Regensburg	Salutary Lessons of Americanism: Aufstieg und Fall des New England Forefathers´ Day als Bestimmungsort nationaler amerikanischer Erinnerungskultur
June 18, 2001	Richard Fox University of Southern California, Los Angeles (z.Zt. American Antiquarian Society, Worcestor, MA	Secular Devotion to Jesus in 19th-Century America
June 12, 2001	Gary Jacobson University of California, San Diego and Vielberth-Fellow 2001	Consequences of the 2000 US-Elections
May 31, 2001	Stefan Herbrechter Trinity ans All Saints College, Leeds	Derrida, Autobiographie und Europa: Dekonstruktion und Postkolonialismus
May 29, 2001	Paul S. Boyer University of Madison, Wisconsin	Writing and Teaching The Enduring Vision
May 29, 2001	Paul S. Boyer University of Madison, Wisconsin	Awaiting Armageddon: Bible Prophesy Belief in Recent American Culture
May 28, 2001	Paul S. Boyer University of Madison, Wisconsin	Rural Nostalgia and Urban Anxieties in Turn-of-the-Century American Music Hall Songs
May 17, 2001	John C. Rowe University of California, Irvine	Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literary Culture and Transnationality
May 7, 2001	Joanne Braxton, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA currently Fulbright Professor at Regensburg	Mediations of the Self: Performance, Play, and the Sacred Text
Jan 1,2001	Ken Moss National Defense University, Washington, D.C.	Armed Intervention in US Foreign Policy: When is it Legitimate?
Dec 20, 2000	Edwina Campbell National Defense University, Washington, D.C.	The Impact of the US Elections on Transatlantic Relations
Dec 6, 2000	Vincent Carretta University of Maryland	Revising One’s Self: Constructing Phillis Wheatley’s Anglophone-African Identity
July 20, 2000	Michael Pierce Tarleton State University, Texas	Sometimes the Magic Works, Sometimes it Doesn't: Indians in the Movies
July 19, 2000	Gerald Vizenor University of California, Berkeley	Simulations of Native Americans in Portraiture, Photography, and Literature
July 17, 2000	Double Feature: The American West Nicolas Witschi Fulbright-Professor Univ. Regensburg & Michael Pierce, Tarleton State University, Texas	Of Jumping Frogs and Motherless Children: Mark Twain and Humor from the Gold Rush West Native American Ecology
July 11, 2000	Kimberley Blaeser University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee & Gordon Henry, Jr. Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Council	Contemporary Native American Writers Read From Their Works
June 21, 2000	Werner Sollors Harvard	The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: Crossing Linguistic Boundaries in American Culture
June 6, 2000	Martin Brückner U of Delaware, Newark	The Surveyed Self: Geodetic Discourse and Colonial Identity in 18^th Century British America
Feb 20, 2000	Michael Cunningham	The Hours
Feb 15, 2000	Nicolas Witschi University of Oregon, Eugene & Fulbright Professor in Regensburg	Forgetting the Gold Rush: John Muir Re-Writes Nature in the Mountains of California
Dec 8, 1999	Winfried Herget Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz	Misadventure into Myth: Paul Green's The Lost Colony
Nov 26, 1999	Sue McLeod Washington State University	Writing Programs and Writing across the Curriculum
June 23, 1999	Emory Elliott University of California, Riverside	Problems of Politics and Aesthetics in American Literature: The Example of Huck Finn
June 23, 1999	Emory Elliott University of California, Riverside	Refiguring American Studies as Literary/Cultural Studies
June 22, 1999	Emory Elliott University of California, Riverside	Irrepressible Puritans: Early American Literature and the Canon Wars
June 17, 1999	John Smith North Carolina State University, Raleigh	Public History and the New American Studies
June 16, 1999	Reiner Smolinski Georgia State University, Atlanta	Der Millennialismus Neuenglands als Wegbereiter der amerikanischen Revolution
Jan 20, 1999	Amritjit Singh Rhode Island College, Providence, RI	Will the True Indian Please Stand Up: Issues of Identity and Authenticity in Diasporic Indian Fiction
Jan 20, 1999	Amritjit Singh Rhode Island College, Providence, RI	I too am America: Patterns of Compromise and Empowerment in Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. DuBois
Jan 19, 1999	Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI	The Harlem Renaissance: A Retrospective View
July 22, 1998	Wolfgang Mieder University of Vermont	"A House Divided": From Biblical Proverb to Abraham Lincoln and on to Willy Brandt
June 16, 1998	Shirley Samuels Cornell University	Women and Walls