Past Events
2024
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Guest Lectures
THE GREAT ILLUSTRATORS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Book Presentations
Headshot - Rita Bullwinkel Reads From Her Debut Novel
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - Friday, June 21, 2024
Conferences
The Body in/of Don DeLillo's Plays
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Guest Lectures
“I’m a Luxury” – Embodied Consumption and Exhibiting Capital in Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth
2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023 - Saturday, November 18, 2023
Wittenberg Teacher Academy
Oceanizing American Perspectives: Pacific Currents
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Guest Lectures
Across the Pacific: The United States and China in Historical Perspective
Friday, July 7, 2023
Guest Lectures
The Birth of Southern Cooking: Food, Politics, and Mary Randolph
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Guest Lectures
The Rice Pie: Gender, Race, and Material Culture in the Old South
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Muhlenberg Lectures
The Life and Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Coalescence of Ecology and Political Activism
Monday, June 26, 2023
Guest Lectures
Financializing Intelligence: Neural Nets, AI, and Economy
Thursday, June 8, 2023 - Sunday, June 11, 2023
Conferences
Theater & Community: Poetics, Politics, Performances (CDE 2023)
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Guest Lectures
Race - The Theory
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Guest Lectures
“Barren, Silent, Godless”: The Apocalypse and the Human Condition in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
2022
Friday, November 25, 2022
Guest Lectures
Gods and Monsters: A Solastalgic Examination of Detroit's Ruins and Representation
Thursday, November 24, 2022 - Saturday, November 26, 2022
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2022
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Guest Lectures
“The Postcolonial Turn in Cultural Studies” (online)
Thursday, June 30, 2022 - Saturday, July 2, 2022
Conferences
Embodied Acts and American Photographs
Friday, June 17, 2022
Guest Lectures
"Blackness and the Changing Diaspora"
Friday, June 17, 2022
Study Days & Summer Schools
Karibik Studientag
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Muhlenberg Lectures
Muhlenberg Lecture 2022
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Guest Lectures
Uncivil Wrongs: Black American Song Deals with Racism
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Guest Lectures
A Chemical History of Film: Kodak and the Manhattan Project
2021
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Guest Lectures
“The Postcolonial Turn in Cultural Studies”
Thursday, November 25, 2021 - Saturday, November 27, 2021
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2021
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Guest Lectures
Of Temporality and Tamaulipan Thornscrub: Settler Colonialism and Speculative Fiction in a Trans-Border Ecological Habitat
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Guest Lectures
Methodological Considerations at the Intersection of Southern Studies and Indigenous Studies
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Guest Lectures
Protestant America?
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Muhlenberg Lectures
Muhlenberg Lecture 2021
Friday, January 15, 2021
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2021 (Part II)
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Guest Lectures
Wars of the Worlds: Radio, Fake News, and Resistance in 1938
2020
Friday, December 4, 2020
Guest Lectures
The Great American Melting Pot?: Assimilation and Ethnic Identity in the United States
Friday, November 27, 2020
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: American Studies Seminar 2020 (Part I)
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Guest Lectures
Policing the US-Mexico Border, Policing the Brown Body: The Mexican American Experience
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
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Guest Lectures
Looking Back Across the Atlantic: Europe and the U.S. Prison System
2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019 - Saturday, November 30, 2019
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL-Classroom 2019
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Muhlenberg Lectures
Muhlenberg Lecture 2019
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Guest Lectures
What Europe Can and Should Not Transfer From American Universities
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Guest Lectures
Historical Justice and Notions of Empire Since 1990
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Guest Lectures
Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
2018
Thursday, November 22, 2018 - Saturday, November 24, 2018
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL-Classroom 2018
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Conferences
Political Humor in Great Britain and the United States
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Guest Lectures
How to Kick Ass When Life Is a Bitch: The Story of Human Rights
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Courses
Ringvorlesung - „Karibik: Konfliktualität und Relation“
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Guest Lectures
Did the American Media "Create" Dreadlocks? A Reading
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Muhlenberg Lectures
The Coromantee War: Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave Revolt
Thursday, May 17, 2018 - Saturday, May 19, 2018
Conferences
Beyond Metrical Prosody: New Rhythms in US and German (Post-) Modern Poetry
2017
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Guest Lectures
Environmental Risk Narratives: Climate Change and the American Novel
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Guest Lectures
Gothic Literature: An American Phenomenon and Its Roots in English Literature
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Guest Lectures
"The Sight of Abject Poverty": Two Lectures on Jack London's Writings on the Life of the Poor
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Guest Lectures
Adventure and Anguish: Jack London, the Hobo Who Learned Socialism in Erie County, NY, Penitentiary
Thursday, November 23, 2017 - Saturday, November 25, 2017
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2017
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Guest Lectures
Inclusion in American Teacher Education
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Guest Lectures
Predators on Screen: Cinematic Monsters in the New Century
Monday, June 26, 2017
Guest Lectures
From Alternative to the Metropolitan: The Theatre of Robert Lepage
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Guest Lectures
After the NATO Meeting in Brussels: The Future of the Transatlantic Alliance
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Book Presentations
Grouse County Trilogy: Tom Drury Reads From His Work
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Guest Lectures
Impressions of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s By a Contemporary Observer
Friday, May 26, 2017 - Saturday, May 27, 2017
Conferences
Sound & Vision: Intermediality and American Music
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Muhlenberg Lectures
Reading for the Food: Art, Literature, and the Hungry Eye
2016
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Guest Lectures
Agency and Voice: The History and Impact of Postcolonial Studies and a Look into its Future
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
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Guest Lectures
The Role of the Media in the U.S. Presidential Elections 2016
Thursday, November 17, 2016 - Saturday, November 19, 2016
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2016
Monday, November 14, 2016
Guest Lectures
German Jews Beyond Germany: A Transnational History
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Guest Lectures
The Ordeal of Citizenship: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Mid-Century American Culture
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Guest Lectures
Postwar Germany: Charles Haldeman's Legacy
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Guest Lectures
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? A New York Pop Quiz
Monday, May 2, 2016
Guest Lectures
Louise Erdrich's The Round House and Sexual Violence Against Native American Women
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Guest Lectures
Narratives About the American South
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Guest Lectures
The Popular Poetry of the "Fireside Poets" and Their Changing Reputations
2015
Monday, December 21, 2015
Guest Lectures
History, Memory, and the Body in American and African American Culture and History
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Guest Lectures
Law after Lunch: Free Trade? Free Society? TTIP, German-American Relations, and the Politics of Agency
Thursday, November 26, 2015 - Saturday, November 28, 2015
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Muhlenberg Lectures
The Beauty of Common Things: Imogen Cunningham's Transnational Aesthetic
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Guest Lectures
Black Theater: A Window Into The 1960's Black American Experience
Friday, July 3, 2015
Book Presentations
Forbidden Fruit: A Poetry Reading by Lauren K. Alleyne
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - Saturday, June 27, 2015
Conferences
International Conference "Protestantism on Screen"
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Guest Lectures
Remapping the Lingua Franca of Jazz: Popular Sheet Music and the Soundtrack of Liberation in Euro-American Contexts
2014
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Book Presentations
The Paternity Test: Michael Lowenthal Reads From His Work
Thursday, November 27, 2014 - Saturday, November 29, 2014
Past Trainings
Current Issues of American Culture in the EFL Classroom: Annual ASC Meeting 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Guest Lectures
Trajectories of Change: The New Woman in Japan
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - Saturday, April 19, 2014
Conferences
International Conference "Traveling Traditions"
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Guest Lectures