American Visions: Gastvortr?ge an der Bamberger Amerikanistik
The public lecture series "American Visions" is an integral part of Bamberg’s American Studies program. Internationally renowned scholars, journalists, writers, and filmmakers committed to critical and original thinking present their work on American literature, culture, history, politics, and the arts, engaging their audience in an open and dynamic debate.
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Gastvortr?ge Sommersemester 2024
"Poe and Psychoanalysis: A Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Recurrent Motifs in the Literature of Edgar Allan Poe", Justyna Rusak, PhD, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, Donnerstag, 20. Juni 2024, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, U5/00.24 (An der Universit?t 5)
Gastvortr?ge Wintersemester 2023/2024
"Can America Be Trusted Again?", David Frum, Washington, D.C., Mittwoch, 25.10.2023, 18:15-19:45 Uhr, MG1/00.04 (Markusgeb?ude 1)
"Vielfalt in Bilderbüchern" Lesung zum Black History Month 2024, Dayan Kodua, Donnerstag, 01.02.2024, 20:00-21:30 Uhr, U2/00.25 (An der Universit?t 2)
Gastvortr?ge Sommersemester 2023
"'Gone with the Wind'/'Via vol Vento'/'Vom Winde Verweht': The Italian (and German) Publication History of an American Bestseller", Prof. Cinzia Scarpino, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italien), Montag, 22.05.2023, 10:15-11:45 Uhr, OK8/02.04
"'Accept a loving Caw": Dickinson’s Letters and Letter-Poems", Prof. Cristanne Miller, University of Buffalo, SUNY (New York), Mittwoch, 07.06.2023, 16:15-17:45, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
"Makeshift Images: Writing the American South", Prof. Jon Pineda, College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia), Montag, 12.06.2023, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, KR12/02.18
Gastvortr?ge Wintersemester 2022/2023
"Whitman Left to His Own Devices", Prof. Ed Folsom, University of Iowa, Donnerstag, 27.10.2022, 16:15-17:45, via Zoom
"'There's still a world': Salvaging Hope in Garbagetown", Mag. Markus Schwarz, Paris Lodron Universit?t Salzburg, Dienstag, 31.01.2023, 16:15-17:45 Uhr, U5/00.24
?Geister der Vergangenheit“. Lesung und Gespr?ch zwischen Prof. Tiffany N. Florvil (University of New Mexico, USA) und Autorin Patricia Eckermann zum Black History Month 2023, Freitag, 03.02.2023, 18:00-19:30, U5/01.17
Gastvortr?ge Sommersemester 2022
"The Native Amerindian Concept of Life-Environment (teko) According to Sacred Poetry Mbya-Guarani“, Prof. Adalberto Müller, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio De Janeiro), Dienstag, 14.06.2022, 16:15-17:45, U5/00.24
"Home Alone", Prof. Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law School, Freitag, 17.06.2022, 9:30-11:00, U7/01.05 (Keynote, Internationale Konferenz "Family Ecologies: Family as/at Home")
"Health and safety of children at home under Covid (in Italy)", Prof. Chiara Saraceno, Università di Torino und Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Samstag, 18.06.2022, 09:00-10:30 (Keynote, Internationale Konferenz "Family Ecologies: Family as/at Home")
"Knowledge and Discomfort: Reading Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif' as a White Person", Prof. Dr. Eva Boesenberg, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Montag, 20.06.2022, 18:15-19:45 Uhr, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
"Not a Monolith: Queerness, Race, & Asian Americanness", Prof. Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University, Donnerstag, 21.07.2022, 18:00-19:30 Uhr, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
Gastvortr?ge Wintersemester 2021/2022
"Anne Spencer's Garden Politics", Prof. Melissa F. Zeiger, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Montag, 10.01.2022, 18:15-19:45 Uhr, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
"Think Small: Minor Forms & the Making of Modernity", Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-K?rber, Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t Würzburg, Donnerstag, 20.01.2022, 10:15-11:45 Uhr, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
Poetry Reading, Dr. Laura Passin, 22.01.2022, 18:00-19:00, Online Lesung (via Zoom; Registrierung: american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de, organisiert in Zusammenarbeit mit JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher (Univerist?t zu K?ln)
"Negating the Human, Narrating a World Without Us", Mahlu Mertens, Ghent University, Dienstag, 25.01.2022, 12:15-13:45 Uhr, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
Gastvortr?ge Sommersemester 2021
"Ending Fossil Capitalism", Prof. Ashley Dawson, City University of New York/College of Staten Island, Montag, 26.04.2021, 16:15-17:45 Uhr, Online Vortrag (via Cisco WebEx) – dieser Vortrag findet in Zusammenarbeit mit der Università di Torino (Italien) statt.
"How to Reconcile Disability with Transcendentalist Optimism?: Louisa May Alcott’s Lessons from her Father", Prof. Monika Elbert, Montclair State University, Donnerstag, 27.05.2021, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
"Can Historians Change Their Minds about What They Have Already Written?", Prof. Michelle Nickerson (Loyola University, USA/Heidelberg Center for American Studies), Montag, 21.06.2021, 12:15-13:45 Uhr, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
Gastvortr?ge Wintersemester 2020/2021
American Election Night 2020: "Transatlantische Perspektiven auf die US-Pr?sidentschaftswahl"
Vortr?ge von Prof. Michelle Nickerson (eng.) und Dr. Georgiana Banita (deut.), Diskussionsrunden mit ehemaligen Gastprofessoren Prof. Myron Beasley, Prof. Lynn Rose und Prof. Jon Smith (eng.) sowie Prof. Thomas Saalfeld (Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft), Dr. Viola Huang (Amerikanistik) und Nora Gomringer (Villa Concordia) (deut.). Au?erdem Gedichtlesung von Dr. Laura Passin und Election Night Quiz mit Dr. Nicole Konopka.
Dienstag, 3.11.2020, Online-Veranstaltung (via Zoom)
"With Modernity against Modernity: American Romanticism", PD Dr. Sascha P?hlmann, Universit?t Konstanz, Donnerstag, 03.12.2020, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
"If She Can See It, She Can Be It: Women, Science, and Screens", Dr. Amy C. Chambers, Manchester Metropolitan University, Mittwoch, 16.12.2020, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
"Fiction after Postmodernism – New Realism, Contagion, and the Dystopian Imagination in Margaret Atwood’s Work", PD Dr. Karin H?pker, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Montag, 08.02.2021, Online Vortrag (via Zoom)
Gastvortr?ge Sommersemester 2019
"The (Im-)Possible Families of Henry Bibb: Black Families between Slavery and Freedom", Dr. Nele Sawallisch, Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies/Johannes Gutenberg Universit?t Mainz, Freitag, 03.05.2019
"Agency and Gendered Spaces in Uranium City, Canada: A Visual Journey into Environmental Trauma", Prof. Robert Boschman, Mount Royal University Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Mittwoch, 08.05.2019
"From Reconstruction to Charlottesville 2017: Legacies of the Civil War in the US South", Dr. Lucie Genay, Université de Limoges, Frankreich, Mittwoch, 05.06.2019
"Ubiquitous Radioactivity: Environmental Justice and the Nuclear Weapons Industry in the US Southwest", Dr. Lucie Genay, Université de Limoges, Frankreich, Donnerstag, 06.06.2019
"Rethinking How We Teach Literary Theory", Prof. Barry Laga, Colorado Mesa University, Mittwoch, 03.07.2019
"'When you're small, you gotta fix what you can': Overconsumption and Ecojustice in Beasts of the Southern Wild", Prof. Dr. Miriam Strube, Universit?t Paderborn, Dienstag, 09.07.2019
"'Playing in the Dark': Whiteness in Videogames", Prof. Dr. Randi Gunzenh?user, Technische Universit?t Dortmund, Mittwoch, 17.07.2019
"Anocriticism as Resistance: Narratives of Age/ing Against the Grain", Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer, Karl-Franzens-Universit?t Graz, Donnerstag, 25.07.2019
Gastvortr?ge Wintersemester 2018/2019
"Heroines of the Flood: What Afrofuturist science can teach us about environmental injustice, disability politics, and sustainable leadership", Prof. Elizabeth A. Wheeler, University of Oregon/Eberhard Karls Universit?t Tübingen, Donnerstag, 29.11.2018
"Southern Modernisms", Prof. Dr. Jon Smith, Simon Frazer University, Canada, Freitag, 07.12.2018
"America's Sweetheart Charms European Royals: Annie Oakley, Gun Culture, and Western Myths", PD Dr. Stefanie Sch?fer, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Dienstag, 08.01.2019
"'Essenz entsteht durch Quetschen': Emily Dickinsons Lyrik – Vortrag und Lesung", Gunhild Kübler (Zürich), Dienstag, 22.01.2019
Gastvortr?ge Sommersemester 2018
"Is #MeToo sexy? Or: What Does it Mean for Women to Act Politically?", Dr. Claire Scott, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dienstag, 05.06.2018
"A Sense of Social Justice? Photography and the Cold War Struggle against Poverty", Dr. Katharina Fackler, Karl-Franzens-Universit?t Graz, Dienstag, 10.07.2018
Gastvortr?ge im Wintersemester 2017/2018
"Edgework: German and American Feminism, Gender, and Race", Prof. Dr. Jeanne Cortiel, Universit?t Bayreuth, Dienstag, 21.11.2017
"Engel in Amerika - Shop Talk mit dem Dramaturgen", Remsi Al Khalisi, ETA Hofmann Theater, Bamberg, Freitag, 24.11.2017
"From Devilish Dancing and Wicked Waltzing to American Modern Dance", Dr. Johanna Heil, Universit?t Marburg, Donnerstag, 11.01.2018
Gastvortr?ge im Sommersemester 2017
"Writing the Southwest", Prof. Dr. David King Dunaway, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Donnerstag, 04.05.2017
"The 'iness' of 'not numerable whom': The Poetry & Paintings of E. E. Cummings", Dr. Vakrilen Kilyovski, University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, Donnerstag, 18.05.2017
"Negro Universities Press and the Archives of Abolitionism", Prof. Dr. Martha Schoolman, Florida International University, Miami, Mittwoch, 31.05.2017
"Emily Dickinson's Civil War", Prof. Dr. Colleen Glenney Boggs, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Donnerstag, 01.06.2017
"The Allure of Diasporic Homecoming: Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father and Ika Hügel-Marshall's Daheim Unterwegs", Cedric Essi, M.A., Universit?t Bremen, Montag, 10.07.2017
Gastvortr?ge im Wintersemester 2016/2017
"American Election Night 2016: Wahlparty mit Podiumsdiskussion, Pr?sentation, Election Quiz und Live Coverage", Diskussion mit Paul Henri-Campbell (deutsch-amerikanischer Schriftsteller), Prof. Dr. Thomas Saalfeld (Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft), Dr. Corina Schulze (Politikwissenschaft), Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt (Amerikanistik), Dienstag, 08.11.2016
"Ghosts and Their Hosts: Spectrality in American Romantic Literature", Dr. Sladja Bla?an, Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t Würzburg, Mittwoch, 16.11.2016
"The Art of Plantation Management: Race, Risk, and Swamp Ecologies in Charles Sealsfield's Immigrant Nature Writing", Dr. Kellen Bolt, Northwestern University Evanston/Illinois, Donnerstag, 08.12.2016
"Nasty Women. Feminist Poetry in the Era of Trump: Poetry Reading & Discussion", Dr. Laura Passin, Portland/USA, Mittwoch, 14.12.2016
"The Cinema of Insanity: Madness and Normality in the Culture of the 1960s", Dr. Simon Schleusener, Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t Würzburg, Mittwoch, 25.01.2017
Gastvortr?ge im Sommersemester 2016
"Contested Canons? Toni Morrison and the Nobel Prize in Germany", Dr. Katharina Gerund, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen, Freitag, 10.06.2016
"The Homoerotics and Monstrous Otherness of Teen Wolf", Dr. Michael Johnson Jr., Washington State University, Mittwoch, 15.06.2016 (Ausgefallen wegen Krankheit)
"Why America doesn't know what to do with its own government: Trump, Sanders, and frankly, everyone else", Prof. Dr. Marcia Pally, New York University/Humboldt University, Mittwoch, 06.06.2016
Gastvortr?ge im Wintersemester 2015/2016
"The Poem as Meeting Place: Why You Shouldn't Be Scared of Poetry", Dr. Laura Passin, Northwestern University Evanston/Illinois, Donnerstag, 05.11.2015
Author Reading & Discussion: "Writing the Female Body: Poetry and More with Laura Passin", Dr. Laura Passin, Northwestern University Evanston/Illinois, Samstag, 07.11.2015
"Ein Sommer am See – Gespr?ch mit der Autorin über das Entstehen der Graphic Novel", Mariko Tamaki, Toronto, Montag, 23.11.2015
"Flüchtige Seelen – Lesung und Gespr?ch mit der Autorin", Madeleine Thien, Montreal, Dienstag, 24.11.2015, Hübscher Buch & Medienhaus Bamberg (Grüner Markt 16)
"Der L?wensucher – Lesung und Gespr?ch mit dem Autor", Kenneth Bonert, Toronto, Samstag, 28.11.2015, Hübscher Buch & Medienhaus Bamberg (Grüner Markt 16)
"Der Geschmack der Sehnsucht – Lesung und Gespr?ch mit der Autorin", Kim Thúy, Quebec, Dienstag, 01.12.2015
"Milblogs and the Tradition of Pop Culture in the US Military", Dr. Frank Usbeck, TU Dresden/Universit?t Leipzig, Donnerstag, 03.12.2015
"Queer Performance in Transnational Spaces: Lady Gaga's Monster Ball", Dr. Katrin Horn, Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t Würzburg, Donnerstag, 28.01.2016
Gastvortr?ge im Sommersemester 2015
"How Deep is Oil? Energy Regimes and American Culture", Prof. Dr. Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung Hsing University/Universit?t Würzburg, Donnerstag, 07.05.2015
"Germany's Amerika-H?user: Architecture in the Battle for Hearts and Minds", Dr. Johanna Blokker, Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg, Dienstag, 02.06.2015
"Melville's Descent into the Maelstrom", Dr. Tom Whalen, State Academy for Art and Design, Stuttgart, Dienstag, 23.06.2015
"The Politics of Well-being: Countering Discrimination in Contemporary Disability Memoirs", Tanja Reiffenrath, M.A., Universit?t Paderborn, Mittwoch, 24.06.2015
Gastvortr?ge im Wintersemester 2014/2015
"The End of Night? Searching for Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light", Dr. Paul Bogard, James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia, 13.11.2014
"Modernism, Totalitarianism, and Ezra Pound", Prof. Dr. Andrew S. Gross, Universit?t Erlangen-Nürnberg, 18.11.2014
"The Straw That Broke; Or, Science Fiction and Ontology in the Age of Post-Humanism", Dr. Tom Whalen, New Orleans/Stuttgart, 25.11.2014
"Hund-Werden, Mensch-Werden. Kanidenhybriden in der Gegenwartskunst", Dr. Jessica Ullrich, Universit?t Erlangen/Kunstpalais Erlangen, 16.12.2014
"The Myths That Made America", Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, Universit?t Erlangen-Nürnberg, 08.01.2015
Gastvortr?ge im Sommersemester 2014
"'Intersections: One Household/Two Stories. Remembering an Arab and a Jewish Past', Canadian-Born Poet George Ellenbogen Reads From a Memoir”, In Kooperation mit dem Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft und der Professur für Arabistik, 05.05.2014
"'Red, White and Blue' oder 'Black, Brown and Beige'.Zum Verh?ltnis zwischen Jazz und Politik in den USA des 20sten Jahrhunderts", Dr. Wolfram Knauer, Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, 06.05.2014
"Picturing Black Hawk: 'Indian' Portraits and Cultural Exchange", Dr. Jane Simonsen, Augustana College, Illinois/Universit?t Regensburg, In Kooperation mit der Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft, 24.06.2014
"Useful or Useless: Ruminations on Labeling Something Postmodern", Prof. Dr. Barry Laga, Colorado Mesa University/Universit?t Leipzig, 03.07.2014
Gastvortr?ge im Wintersemester 2013/2014
"'And So the Password Is --?': Vladimir Nabokov and the Ethics of Rereading", Prof. Dr. Tom Whalen, Universit?t Bamberg, 29.10.2013
"Cold War, Warm Gun: Violence and Domesticity in High Noon (1952)", Prof. Dr. Steven D. Reschly and Prof. Dr. Lynn Rose, Truman State University, Missouri, 26.11.2013
"Iago's Motives: Psychosexuality in the Destruction of Othello", Prof. Dr. Jonathan Crewe, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 09.12.2013
"'Less Than Perfect': Negotiating Breast Cancer in the Contemporary Popular Romance", Prof. Dr. Melissa Zeiger, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 11.12.2013
"New Stories about Old Age: Queer Aging in North American Fiction", Linda He? M.A., Universit?t Münster, 30.01.2014
Gastvortr?ge im Sommersemester 2013
"The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish", Poetry Reading with Joshua Weiner, American Poet from Washington D.C., 03.06.2013
"Mark Twain: The Man in White and His Autobiographies", Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer, Universit?t Graz, 06.06.2013
"Seasons of Blood: Humanity at the Crossroads. A Canadian Poet’s Perspective", Poetry Reading with Henry Beissel, Ottawa and Concordia University, Montreal, 11.06.2013
"Deviant Behavior: Reading and Writing Critical Fiction", Dr. Tom Whalen, Universit?t Bamberg, 08.07.2013
"Postmodern Laughter", Prof. Dr. Randi Gunzenh?user, TU Dortmund, 11.07.2013
Gastvortr?ge im Wintersemester 2012/2013
"'The Land is Deep in Time': Stories, Places, Immigrants and Indigeneity in Canada", Prof. Dr. Hartmut Lutz, University of Greifswald, 21.01.2013
"American Election Night 2012: Wahlparty mit Podiumsdiskussion, Pr?sentation, Election Quiz und Live Coverage", Diskussion mit Mike Pilewski (Spotlight), Nora Gomringer (Villa Concordia), Prof. Dr. Thomas Saalfeld (Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft), Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt (Amerikanistik), 26.11.2012
"Americanism, anti-Americanism and the 2012 Presidential Election", Brendon O'Connor, University of Sidney, 29.10.2012
Gastvortr?ge im Sommersemester 2012
"The Freakshow. Representations of Extraordinary Bodies in the 19th Century", Dr. Andrea Zittlau, Universit?t Rostock, 03.05.2012
"Coming Face to Face with the Past: A Personal History of Civil War Reenacting in the United States", Claire Scott, Dartmouth College, 14.05.2012
"From Sojourner Truth to Michelle Obama: Black Women's Role in the African American Freedom Struggle", PD Dr. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, LMU/ GHI Washington D.C., 19.06.2012
"Ecocriticism, Risk, and Climate Change Fiction", Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer, Universit?t Bayreuth, 20.06.2012
"Gendering the Civil War: Reimagination des Krieges in Hollywood", Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen, Universit?t Zürich, 26.06.2012
"The Languages of Expansion in America: Imperial Policies and the Antebellum Novel", Dr. Gabriella V??, University of Pécs, Hungary, 27.06.2012
"The Role of Race and Religion in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election", Prof. Dr. David Canon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 05.07.2012
"Underground Environments and the Texas Oil Gothic", Dr. Georgiana Banita, Universit?t Bamberg, 11.07.2012
Gastvortr?ge im Wintersemester 2011/2012
"'Leitkultur' oder 'Multikulturalismus'? Nationale Identit?t in den USA und Frankreich im Vergleich", Prof. Dr. Berndt Ostendorf, LMU München, 28.11.2011
"Edgar Allan Poe", Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck, Universit?t Freiburg, 15.12.2011
"America's Newest Voting Bloc: Who Are the 'New Evangelicals'? - and other remarks about the 2012 US presidential election", Prof. Dr. Marcia Pally, New York University, 10.01.2012
"Amerika, im Hinterhof erkl?rt - Der Comic-Strip Gasoline Alley von Frank King", Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17.01.2012
Gastvortr?ge im Sommersemester 2011
"Climate Refugees", Michael P. Nash, USA: Film und Diskussion mit dem Regisseur, 06.05.2011, Lichtspielkino Bamberg (Untere K?nigsstrasse 34)
"Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865-1900", Prof. Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 23.05.2011
"The Selling of Soul: African American Radio, Record Stores and Consumer Culture", Prof. Joshua C. Davis, University of North Carolina, 24.05.2011
"Staring at the Amish: An American Mirror", Prof. M. Lynn Rose & Prof. Steven D. Reschly, Truman State University, 20.06.2011
"The Pennsylvania Germans: Over 300 Years of Secular Integration and Religious Separation", Prof. Leo Gruber, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 04.07.2011
"American Culture and Trauma Since 9/11", Dr. Alexander Dunst University of Nottingham/Berlin, 21.07.2011
Gastvortr?ge im Wintersemester 2010/2011
"Making America - Editing a New Literary History of America", Prof. Dr. Werner Sollors, Harvard University, 13.01.2011