Past Events

2024

Johannes Ehrmann liest: Söhne der Freiheit

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Book Presentations

Johannes Ehrmann liest: Söhne der Freiheit

“I’m a Luxury” – Embodied Consumption and Exhibiting Capital in Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Guest Lectures

“I’m a Luxury” – Embodied Consumption and Exhibiting Capital in Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

2023

Oceanizing American Perspectives: Pacific Currents

Thursday, November 16, 2023 - Saturday, November 18, 2023

Wittenberg Teacher Academy

Oceanizing American Perspectives: Pacific Currents

Organized by PD Dr. Julia Nitz and Laura-Isabella Heitz

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Guest Lectures

Across the Pacific: The United States and China in Historical Perspective

Prof. Meredith Oyen (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

The Birth of Southern Cooking: Food, Politics, and Mary Randolph

Friday, July 7, 2023

Guest Lectures

The Birth of Southern Cooking: Food, Politics, and Mary Randolph

Prof. Christopher Hendricks (Georgia Southern University)

The Rice Pie: Gender, Race, and Material Culture in the Old South

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Guest Lectures

The Rice Pie: Gender, Race, and Material Culture in the Old South

Prof. Christopher Hendricks (Georgia Southern University)

The Life and Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Coalescence of Ecology and Political Activism

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Muhlenberg Lectures

The Life and Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Coalescence of Ecology and Political Activism

Prof. Sandra Petrulionis (Pennsylvania State University)

Financializing Intelligence: Neural Nets, AI, and Economy

Monday, June 26, 2023

Guest Lectures

Financializing Intelligence: Neural Nets, AI, and Economy

Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern (Technische Universität Dresden)

Theater & Community: Poetics, Politics, Performances (CDE 2023)

Thursday, June 8, 2023 - Sunday, June 11, 2023

Conferences

Theater & Community: Poetics, Politics, Performances (CDE 2023)

organized by Dr. habil. Johanna Hartmann and Prof. Dr. Ilka Saal

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Guest Lectures

Race - The Theory

Prof. Geoffrey Harpham (Fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg)

“Barren, Silent, Godless”: The Apocalypse and the Human Condition in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Guest Lectures

“Barren, Silent, Godless”: The Apocalypse and the Human Condition in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Matthew Carter (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

2022

The Cactus League: Emily Nemens Reads from Her Novel

Friday, December 16, 2022

Book Presentations

The Cactus League: Emily Nemens Reads from Her Novel

Gods and Monsters: A Solastalgic Examination of Detroit's Ruins and Representation

Friday, November 25, 2022

Guest Lectures

Gods and Monsters: A Solastalgic Examination of Detroit's Ruins and Representation

Prof. Christopher Gullen (Westfield State University)

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2022

Thursday, November 24, 2022 - Saturday, November 26, 2022

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2022

Organised by PD Dr. Julia Nitz & Laura-Isabella Heitz

“The Postcolonial Turn in Cultural Studies” (online)

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Guest Lectures

“The Postcolonial Turn in Cultural Studies” (online)

Dr. Rimika Singhvi

Thursday, June 30, 2022 - Saturday, July 2, 2022

Conferences

Embodied Acts and American Photographs

Organized by Dr. Johanna Hartmann (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

TEMPORARY: Hilary Leichter Reads from Her Novel

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Book Presentations

TEMPORARY: Hilary Leichter Reads from Her Novel

Friday, June 17, 2022

Guest Lectures

"Blackness and the Changing Diaspora"

Michelle M. Wright (Emory University College)

Friday, June 17, 2022

Study Days & Summer Schools

Karibik Studientag

PD Dr. Julia Nitz & Prof. Dr. Natascha Ueckmann (MLU Halle Wittenberg)

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Muhlenberg Lectures

Muhlenberg Lecture 2022

Prof. Jonathan Culler (Cornell University)

Uncivil Wrongs: Black American Song Deals with Racism

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Guest Lectures

Uncivil Wrongs: Black American Song Deals with Racism

Prof. Steven Tracy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

A Chemical History of Film: Kodak and the Manhattan Project

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Guest Lectures

A Chemical History of Film: Kodak and the Manhattan Project

Prof. Alice Lovejoy (University of Minnesota)

2021

“The Postcolonial Turn in Cultural Studies”

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Guest Lectures

“The Postcolonial Turn in Cultural Studies”

Dr. Rimika Singhvi

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2021

Thursday, November 25, 2021 - Saturday, November 27, 2021

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2021

Organized by PD Dr. Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Marie Schönherr (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), and Laura-Isabella Heitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Guest Lectures

Of Temporality and Tamaulipan Thornscrub: Settler Colonialism and Speculative Fiction in a Trans-Border Ecological Habitat

John Morán González (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

Methodological Considerations at the Intersection of Southern Studies and Indigenous Studies

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Guest Lectures

Methodological Considerations at the Intersection of Southern Studies and Indigenous Studies

Dr. Gina Caison

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Guest Lectures

Protestant America?

Dr. Anja-Maria Bassimir (Obama Institute, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Muhlenberg Lectures

Muhlenberg Lecture 2021

Prof. Hazel Carby (Yale University)

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2021 (Part II)

Friday, January 15, 2021

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2021 (Part II)

Organized by PD Dr. Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) & Marie Schönherr (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

Wars of the Worlds: Radio, Fake News, and Resistance in 1938

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Guest Lectures

Wars of the Worlds: Radio, Fake News, and Resistance in 1938

Minou Arjomand (UT Austin / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)

2020

The Great American Melting Pot?: Assimilation and Ethnic Identity in the United States

Friday, December 4, 2020

Guest Lectures

The Great American Melting Pot?: Assimilation and Ethnic Identity in the United States

Dr. Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson (Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven)

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2020 (Part I)

Friday, November 27, 2020

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2020 (Part I)

Organized by PD Dr. Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) & Marie Schönherr (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

Policing the US-Mexico Border, Policing the Brown Body: The Mexican American Experience

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Guest Lectures

Policing the US-Mexico Border, Policing the Brown Body: The Mexican American Experience

Jason Sae-Saue (Southern Methodist University)

What Poets Do With History: Derek Walcott's "Omeros" and the Battle of the Saint(e)s

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Guest Lectures

What Poets Do With History: Derek Walcott's "Omeros" and the Battle of the Saint(e)s

Prof. Dr. Thomas Austenfeld

Looking Back Across the Atlantic: Europe and the U.S. Prison System

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Guest Lectures

Looking Back Across the Atlantic: Europe and the U.S. Prison System

Nigel Hatton (University of California, Merced)

2019

Thursday, November 28, 2019 - Saturday, November 30, 2019

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL-Classroom 2019

Organized by PD Dr. Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) and Marie Schönherr (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina

Monday, November 11, 2019

Film Screening

Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina

Friday, October 25, 2019

Conferences

Regional Colloquium 2019

Organized by Team Halle

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Book Presentations

Josh Weil Reads From His Works

Josh Weil

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Muhlenberg Lectures

Muhlenberg Lecture 2019

Prof. Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University)

What Europe Can and Should Not Transfer From American Universities

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Guest Lectures

What Europe Can and Should Not Transfer From American Universities

Prof. Charles McClelland (Univ. of New Mexico, NM/Univ. of Texas, Galveston, TX)

Historical Justice and Notions of Empire Since 1990

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Guest Lectures

Historical Justice and Notions of Empire Since 1990

PD Dr. Axel Jansen (Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute Washington)

Friday, March 15, 2019

Past Trainings

Aspects of American Culture 2019

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Guest Lectures

Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Prof. Dr. Hubert Zapf (Universität Augsburg)

2018

Thursday, November 22, 2018 - Saturday, November 24, 2018

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL-Classroom 2018

Organized by Dr. Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

Political Humor in Great Britain and the United States

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Conferences

Political Humor in Great Britain and the United States

Organized by Prof. Dr. Holger Kersten

How to Kick Ass When Life Is a Bitch: The Story of Human Rights

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Guest Lectures

How to Kick Ass When Life Is a Bitch: The Story of Human Rights

Prof. Asha Varadharajan (Queen's University)

Ringvorlesung - „Karibik: Konfliktualität und Relation“

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Courses

Ringvorlesung - „Karibik: Konfliktualität und Relation“

Prof. Dr. Ralph Ludwig & Prof. Dr. Erik Redling

Did the American Media "Create" Dreadlocks? A Reading

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Guest Lectures

Did the American Media "Create" Dreadlocks? A Reading

Prof. Bertram Ashe

The Coromantee War: Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave Revolt

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Muhlenberg Lectures

The Coromantee War: Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave Revolt

Prof. Vincent Brown (Harvard)

Beyond Metrical Prosody: New Rhythms in US and German (Post-) Modern Poetry

Thursday, May 17, 2018 - Saturday, May 19, 2018

Conferences

Beyond Metrical Prosody: New Rhythms in US and German (Post-) Modern Poetry

Organized by PD Dr. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek and Prof. Dr. Erik Redling

Friday, March 16, 2018 - Saturday, March 17, 2018

Past Trainings

Aspects of American Culture 2018

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Book Presentations

BANG: Daniel Peña Reads From His Work

Daniel Peña

2017

Environmental Risk Narratives: Climate Change and the American Novel

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Guest Lectures

Environmental Risk Narratives: Climate Change and the American Novel

Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer

Gothic Literature: An American Phenomenon and Its Roots in English Literature

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Guest Lectures

Gothic Literature: An American Phenomenon and Its Roots in English Literature

Prof. James L. Thorson

"The Sight of Abject Poverty": Two Lectures on Jack London's Writings on the Life of the Poor

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Guest Lectures

"The Sight of Abject Poverty": Two Lectures on Jack London's Writings on the Life of the Poor

Prof. Dr. Noël Mauberret and Prof. Jeanne C. Reesman, Ph.D.

Adventure and Anguish: Jack London, the Hobo Who Learned Socialism in Erie County, NY, Penitentiary

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Guest Lectures

Adventure and Anguish: Jack London, the Hobo Who Learned Socialism in Erie County, NY, Penitentiary

Prof. Jeanne C. Reesman, Ph.D.

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2017

Thursday, November 23, 2017 - Saturday, November 25, 2017

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2017

Organized by Dr. Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Guest Lectures

Inclusion in American Teacher Education

Dr. Richard Snyder, Ed.D. (Wartburg College, Iowa)

Predators on Screen: Cinematic Monsters in the New Century

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Guest Lectures

Predators on Screen: Cinematic Monsters in the New Century

Gillian Harkins (University of Washington)

From Alternative to the Metropolitan: The Theatre of Robert Lepage

Monday, June 26, 2017

Guest Lectures

From Alternative to the Metropolitan: The Theatre of Robert Lepage

Prof. Dr. Katalin Kürtösi (Universität Szeged)

After the NATO Meeting in Brussels: The Future of the Transatlantic Alliance

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Guest Lectures

After the NATO Meeting in Brussels: The Future of the Transatlantic Alliance

Prof. Dr. Matthew Rhodes (George C. Marshall Center)

Grouse County Trilogy: Tom Drury Reads From His Work

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Book Presentations

Grouse County Trilogy: Tom Drury Reads From His Work

Tom Drury

Impressions of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s By a Contemporary Observer

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Guest Lectures

Impressions of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s By a Contemporary Observer

Gregory R. Zieren (Austin Peay State University)

Sound & Vision: Intermediality and American Music

Friday, May 26, 2017 - Saturday, May 27, 2017

Conferences

Sound & Vision: Intermediality and American Music

Organized by Frank Mehring (Nijmegen) and Erik Redling (Halle-Wittenberg)

Reading for the Food: Art, Literature, and the Hungry Eye

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Muhlenberg Lectures

Reading for the Food: Art, Literature, and the Hungry Eye

Leonard Barkan (Princeton)

Friday, March 24, 2017 - Saturday, March 25, 2017

Past Trainings

Aspects of American Culture 2017

2016

Agency and Voice: The History and Impact of Postcolonial Studies and a Look into its Future

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Guest Lectures

Agency and Voice: The History and Impact of Postcolonial Studies and a Look into its Future

Prof. Asha Varadharajan (Queen's University)

Year of the Woman or More of the Same? The Status of Women in American Politics after Election 2016

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Guest Lectures

Year of the Woman or More of the Same? The Status of Women in American Politics after Election 2016

Dr. Kelly Dittmar (Rutgers University)

The Role of the Media in the U.S. Presidential Elections 2016

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Guest Lectures

The Role of the Media in the U.S. Presidential Elections 2016

Prof. William James Willis (Azusa Pacific University)

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2016

Thursday, November 17, 2016 - Saturday, November 19, 2016

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2016

Organized by Dr. Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

German Jews Beyond Germany: A Transnational History

Monday, November 14, 2016

Guest Lectures

German Jews Beyond Germany: A Transnational History

Prof. Tobias Brinkmann (Pennsylvania State University)

The Ordeal of Citizenship: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Mid-Century American Culture

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Guest Lectures

The Ordeal of Citizenship: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Mid-Century American Culture

Prof. Michael Grimwood

Postwar Germany: Charles Haldeman's Legacy

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Guest Lectures

Postwar Germany: Charles Haldeman's Legacy

Richard & Janice Haldeman

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? A New York Pop Quiz

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Guest Lectures

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? A New York Pop Quiz

Prof. Dr. Stefan Brandt

Louise Erdrich's The Round House and Sexual Violence Against Native American Women

Monday, May 2, 2016

Guest Lectures

Louise Erdrich's The Round House and Sexual Violence Against Native American Women

Prof. Louise K. Barnett

Friday, April 29, 2016

Conferences

Regional Colloquium 2016

Organized by Team Halle

Friday, March 18, 2016 - Saturday, March 19, 2016

Past Trainings

Aspects of American Culture 2016

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Guest Lectures

Postcards From The End

Linh Dinh

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Guest Lectures

Narratives About the American South

Prof. Dr. Winfried Fluck

The Popular Poetry of the "Fireside Poets" and Their Changing Reputations

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Guest Lectures

The Popular Poetry of the "Fireside Poets" and Their Changing Reputations

PD Dr. Margit Peterfy

2015

History, Memory, and the Body in American and African American Culture and History

Monday, December 21, 2015

Guest Lectures

History, Memory, and the Body in American and African American Culture and History

Arlene R. Keizer

Law after Lunch: Free Trade? Free Society? TTIP, German-American Relations, and the Politics of Agency

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Guest Lectures

Law after Lunch: Free Trade? Free Society? TTIP, German-American Relations, and the Politics of Agency

Prof. Dr. Crister S. Garrett

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2015

Thursday, November 26, 2015 - Saturday, November 28, 2015

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2015

Organized by Dr. Julia Nitz

The Beauty of Common Things: Imogen Cunningham's Transnational Aesthetic

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Muhlenberg Lectures

The Beauty of Common Things: Imogen Cunningham's Transnational Aesthetic

John Stauffer (Harvard)

Black Theater: A Window Into The 1960's Black American Experience

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Guest Lectures

Black Theater: A Window Into The 1960's Black American Experience

Lecia J. Brooks

Forbidden Fruit: A Poetry Reading by Lauren K. Alleyne

Friday, July 3, 2015

Book Presentations

Forbidden Fruit: A Poetry Reading by Lauren K. Alleyne

Lauren K. Alleyne

International Conference "Protestantism on Screen"

Thursday, June 25, 2015 - Saturday, June 27, 2015

Conferences

International Conference "Protestantism on Screen"

Organized by Gastón Espinosa, Erik Redling, Jason Stevens

Friday, March 20, 2015 - Saturday, March 21, 2015

Past Trainings

Aspects of American Culture 2015

Remapping the Lingua Franca of Jazz: Popular Sheet Music and the Soundtrack of Liberation in Euro-American Contexts

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Guest Lectures

Remapping the Lingua Franca of Jazz: Popular Sheet Music and the Soundtrack of Liberation in Euro-American Contexts

Frank Mehring

2014

The Paternity Test: Michael Lowenthal Reads From His Work

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Book Presentations

The Paternity Test: Michael Lowenthal Reads From His Work

Michael Lowenthal

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2014

Thursday, November 27, 2014 - Saturday, November 29, 2014

Past Trainings

Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2014

Organized by Dr. Julia Nitz

Trajectories of Change: The New Woman in Japan

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Guest Lectures

Trajectories of Change: The New Woman in Japan

Carrie Khou, M.A. University of Mannheim

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Guest Lectures

American Indians and World War I

Roger L. Nichols

International Conference "Traveling Traditions"

Thursday, April 17, 2014 - Saturday, April 19, 2014

Conferences

International Conference "Traveling Traditions"

Organized by Erik Redling

Friday, March 7, 2014 - Saturday, March 8, 2014

Past Trainings

Aspects of American Culture 2014

Finding Ourselves: The Humanities as a Discipline

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Guest Lectures

Finding Ourselves: The Humanities as a Discipline

Prof. Geoffrey Harpham