aspeers, the first and currently only MA-level peer-reviewed journal for American studies in Europe, calls for papers by M.A. students of American studies or related fields. The submission deadline is October 15, 2017. In its 11th edition, the journal will again feature a general section and a topical focus. More details on each sections’ respective call for papers are listed in the following: […]
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An der Professur für Literatur Nordamerikas ist ab 1.10.2017 die Stelle einer studentischen Hilfskraft (vorauss. ca. 7 Stunden/Woche) zu vergeben. Gesucht wird ein*e Studierende*r der Anglistik/Amerikanistik bzw. des Fachs Englisch mit Studienschwerpunkten im Themenbereich der Professur. Voraussetzungen: kompetenter Umgang mit gängiger Bürosoftware, Kenntnisse in den Bereichen Literaturrecherche und Bibliografieerstellung, Interesse am Fach. Formlose Bewerbungen bitte […]
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Wie gespalten sind die USA? Amerikanische Protestbewegungen und ihre Darstellung in Literatur und Fernsehen Die USA seien seit dem vergangenen Wahlkampf ein zerrissenes Land, so wird in deutschen Medien immer wieder berichtet. Dieses Bild eines gespaltenen Amerikas wird seit dem […]
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TU Dresden’s new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) “Invectivity: Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement” also includes a project in American Studies: The Chair for North American Literature is involved in the CRC with a project titled “Toward the Poetics and Politics of Disparagement in US-American Popular Culture”. In its first phase, the project will focus on invective […]
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On Thursday, June 1, 2017, Michael Luick-Thrams, the director of both the US organization TRACES and its German branch Spuren e.V., is going to talk about the work and projects of this organization. The talk is hosted by HATIKVA e.V. Dresden. TRACES/Spuren e.V. is a non-profit educational organization created to collect, preserve, and present the diverse stories of people from […]
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As part of the ISAP exchange program between the TU Dresden the New School for Social Research, New York City, the chair of political theory and history of political thought at the TU Dresden is hosting a talk by Prof. Dr. Finchelstein, titled “The Democratic World and the Resurgence of Populism”. Prof. Dr. Finchelstein has widely […]
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On May 2, 2017, 7 p.m., at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig, American writer Tom Drury (US) is reading from his trilogy Grouse County. The reading will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Crister Garett, from the Institute of American Studies, University of Leipzig. Admission will be free. Tom Drury has published several novels […]
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In its fourth workshop-session on May 19-20, 2017, the interdisciplinary group “weiter sehen” will be focusing on the first episode of Westworld – a series that, although having been produced only in 2016, has already sparked lively debates and gained widespread attention. In looking at and discussing HBO’s most recent remake of the 1973 film of […]
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Donald J. Trump has been the 45th President of the United States for more than 100 days now and the past three months were everything but uneventful: from the so-called ‘Muslim-ban’ or the cancellation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to a more recent attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare), the […]
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As part of the weekly American Studies Research Colloquium, Maria Sulimma (FU Berlin) will present her work-in-progress on gender in contemporary television culture. Maria Sulimma is part of the interdisciplinary Popular Seriality Reasearch Unit (PSRU), which investigates the aesthetics as well as practices of and in popular seriality. For further information on Sulimma’s research project “Serial […]
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