For its seventh workshop-conference on November 2-3, 2018, the network ‘Weiter Sehen’ at the TU Dresden focuses on the series The Handmaid’s Tale (2017 -), based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name. As with the previous workshop-conferences, the group of researchers from cultural, literary, and social studies will approach the series from an interdisciplinary […]
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PD Dr. Carsten Junker, the institute’s new Deputy Head of North American Literature, and Dr. René Dietrich (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz) will co-chair a panel at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), which is taking place on November 8-11, at Atlanta, Georgia. Titled “Contradictory Counter-Discourses: Continuing Complicities and Emerging Solidarities“, their […]
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The online peer-reviewed journal Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS), which is dedicated to publishing the work of early career researchers in American Studies in Germany and beyond, turns twenty in 2019. For its anniversary thematic issue, COPAS calls for papers that investigate the United States and America Studies under the auspices of the concept […]
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A new volume on the series Westworld (HBO, 2016-) has been recently published. Edited by Prof. Brigitte Georgi-Findlay and Prof. Katja Kanzler, the volume is titled “Mensch, Maschine, Maschinenmenschen: Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Serie Westworld” and approaches the first season of the series Westworld from a trans-/ and interdisciplinary perspective. The different contributions range, for […]
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aspeers, the first and currently only MA-level peer-reviewed journal for American studies in Europe, published its new Call for Papers, which is open to European graduate students of American studies or related fields. As in the previous years, this years’ issue of aspeers (2019) will feature a general section as well as a topical one for academic contributions on the […]
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Im Rahmen des Sonderforschungsbereiches 1285 “Invektivität. Konstellationen und Dynamiken der Herabsetzung” veranstalten die Teilprojekte der Amerikanistik (Teilprojekt L) und der Soziologie (Teilprojekt R) am Freitag, den 20. Juli 2018, einen ganztägigen Workshop, welcher sich dem Begriff der Invektivität aus dem Blickwinkel kultureller Differenz annähern möchte. Im Rahmen dieses interdisziplinären Workshops sollen diverse Texte und Materialien aus […]
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Disability From the Inside Out Am 5. Juni 2018 besuchte Kenny Fries vom Goddard College, Vermont die TU Dresden. Im Rahmen der von Gesine Wegner organisierten Vortragsreihe “Disability From the Inside Out: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Behinderung” hielt der amerikanische Schriftsteller und Fulbright Scholar einen Gastvortrag zum Thema „The History of My Shoes and the Evolution […]
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As part of the lecture series “Disability From The Inside Out: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Behinderung,” American memoirist and poet Kenny Fries is giving a talk on “The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory: Adaptation, Disability, and Difference.” Kenny Fries is the author of three memoirs and several collections of poems, including Body, […]
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The US author and current Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the Institute of American Studies Leipzig, Rajesh Parameswaran, reads from his short story collection “I am an Executioner: Love Stories”. Rajesh Parameswaran was born in Chennai, India and moved to the United States as an infant. His works have appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, and Zoetrope: All-Story […]
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The 6th American Studies Leipzig Grad Conference is less than a week away – on April 28/29, contributions from emerging scholars in the field of American Studies investigate diverse representations and conceptions of dissent: – Literature as (a Form of) Dissent – Challenging the Limits of Legal Resistance – Representations of National Identity in Acts […]
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