Gastvorträge

American Studies Lectures

Datum	Referenten	Thema
28. Juni 2024	David Hugill (Carleton University, Ottawa)	Settler Colonialism and the Production of Urban Space
28. Juni 2024	Andrew Torget (University of North Texas)	Texas and the Long Problem of Race in American History
28. Juni 2024	Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State University)	Critical Race Theory, the Welfare State, and Inequities in U.S. Migration”
11. Juni 2024	Paul S. Ciccantell (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)	“Energy Raw Materials, Energy Transitions, and Geopolitics”
31. Januar 2024	Sneha Sumanth (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)	“Working Towards ‘Counter-topographies’: Housing Commodification and Everyday Life in Two Cities (Ottawa, Canada and New York City, USA)”
2. Mai 2023	Sally Hadden (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)	„Slavery, the 1619 Project, and Packaging History as Commodity and Political Tool“
6. Dezember 2022	Andreas Etges (Amerika-Institut: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	‘We’ll never have another day like this one’ or the German Romance with John F. Kennedy
22. Juli 2022	Chris Sims (Duke University)	The Pretend Villages:Photographing America’s Post-9/11 Landscapes
14. Juli 2022	Scott Zukowski (Universität Graz)	Edgar Allan Poe, Globalization, and the Environmental Gothic
30. Mai 2022	Jessica Conrad (Clayton State University, Morrow, Georgia)	Change Is Not a Luxury:Writing for the Future in Butler’s Parable Series
12. Mai 2022	Jonas Anderson (Universität der Bundeswehr München)	You Can’t Erase History!: The Battle over the Confederacy’s Place in American Public Culture of Remembrance
18. Januar 2022	Tyler Bradway (SUNY Cortland)	The Difference Queer Character Makes
SoSe 2021	Cedric Essi (Osnabrück University)	It’s all in the Family: Kinship, Property, and Structural Racism after Trump [Im Rahmen der „Bavarian American Academy Student Conference: Structural Racism in the U.S.”]
SoSe 2021	Rosalind Hampton (University of Toronto)	Canadian Academia as Colonial Continua [Im Rahmen der „Bavarian American Academy Student Conference: Structural Racism in the U.S.”]
SoSe 2021	Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)	The Politics of Protection: Narratives of U.S. Rape Culture and the ‘Bathroom Debate’” [Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Intersectionality”]
SoSe 2021	Rebecca Brückmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)	Towards an Intersectional History of White Supremacy and the Black Freedom Struggle [Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Intersectionality”]
SoSe 2021	Kai Prins (University of Wisconsin-Madison)	The Gay-te Keepers at the Fourth Wall: Queering the Borders of the Drag Stage[Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Intersectionality”]
SoSe 2021	Chelsea Mikael Frazier (Cornell University)	Approaches to Centering Black Feminism in Eco-Thought
WiSe 2020-2021	Kai Prins (University of Wisconsin-Madison)	American Drag Kings
SoSe 2020	Elizabeth Parker (St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK)	Ecofeminism Meets EcoGothic: A Look at Classic Fairy Tales
11. Juli 2019	Susanne Hamscha (Fulbright Wien/Berlin)	Coming out Crip: Social Media and the (In)Visibility of Disability
Juni 2019	Sunil Kukreja (University of Puget Sound, USA)	Gastvortrag am Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Entwicklungs- und Kulturforschung
Juni 2019	David Loberg Code (Western Michigan University)	Gastvortrag an der Professur für Musikpädagogik, "Musik digitalisieren: Quantisierte Kultur (Digitizing Music: Quantized Culture)
06. Juni 2019	Prof. Dr. Mario Masvidal Saavedra (University Havana, Cuba)	Hemingway´s Impact on Cuba´s Culture and Cuba´s Impact on Hemingway´s Life and Work
03. Juni 2019	Lucia Soriano (Washington State University, USA)	Performing “Normality” in the Age of Spectacular Celebrity Motherhood and Social Media Beauty Influencers
03. Juni 2019	Nicholas Krebs (Washington State University, USA)	Voices, Visions, and Agents of U.S. Empire in Contemporary Hollywood Films from 1977 to the Present
13. November 2018	Prof. Dr. Mario Masvidal Saavedra (Professor of Semiotics and Communication Theory, University of Arts, Havana & Faculty of Arts and Belles Lettres, the Communication Faculty, and the Foreign Languages Faculty University of Havana Cuba)	Ernest Hemingway‘s Narrative on Cuba
23. Oktober 2018	Shira Leibowitz Schmidt (Independent Scholar, Author of Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science in Jewish Traditions)	The Seminary in Passau, 1946, for Young Jewish Women who Survived the Holocaust: A Paradigm Shift
29. Juni 2018	Esther Gray Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA	Secondary Literature Students in Role: Improvised Drama as a Laboratory for Discoveries about Historical Context, Culture and Power (gemeinsam mit Didaktik der Englischen Sprache)
28. Juni 2018	Esther Gray Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA	Nurturing Emergent Writers and Coaching Them in Elementary School: Meeting Proficiency Concerns in Michigan (gemeinsam mit Didaktik der Englischen Sprache)
Juni 2018	Alisa Kessel University of Puget Sound	“American Political Thought and Trump” and “American Rape Culture and the Cruel Optimism of Sexual Consent”
10. April 2018	Prof. Eric Sandeen University of Wyoming, USA	The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial in Boston and the Cultural Commemoration of the American Civil War
06. Dezember 2017	Prof. Dr. Allison Stagg (Terra Visiting Professor, John-F.-Kennedy Institute Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Culture)	James Akin and “A Philosophic Cock”: Caricature Prints in America, 1800-1820
02. November 2017	Prof. Dean J. Kotlowski (Professor for History, Salisbury University, Maryland)	Without Horror--or War: The US Office of War Information's AMERICAN SCENE Series during World War II
18. Juli 2017	Jeannette Jones (Associate Professor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Department of History, Institute for Ethnic Studies)	More than a 'Mission Field': Black American Travels in Nineteenth-Century Africa
08. Juni 2017	Robert Leneway (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA)	Education 3.0: Leveraging Communication Technologies to Educate Tomorrows’ Workers (zus. mit Prof. Thomas Knieper als Teil des Faculty Exchange Programms)
07. Juni 2017	Prof. Dr. Nila Wiese (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, USA)	Gender Differences in Negotiating the Pressures of Life Cycle and Career Stages: Their Effect on Talent Management and Organizational Performance 2017 (zus. mit Prof. Jan Hendrik Schumann als Teil des Faculty Exchange Programms)
16. Mai 2017	Jessica Conrad (PhD Candidate, University of Delaware, Department of English)	Boycott: Literary Interventions in the Marketplace, 1820-1880
15. Mai 2017	Volker Depkat (Universität Passau)	William Henry Harrison und die politische Ikonographie einer Frontier-Präsidentschaft
09. Mai 2017	Prof. Dr. Denise Keele (Western Michigan University, USA)	Environmental Politics in the Trump Administration
08. Februar 2017	Birgit Hans (University of North Dakota)	Enduring Voices: American Indian Women and Cultural Changes on the Northern Plains
30. November 2016	Prof. Dr. Peter Freese (University of Paderborn, American Studies, Emeritus)	The American Dream: New Approaches to an Old Topic
19. Oktober 2016	Franklin Sage (University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA)	Autoethnography: Indigenous Knowledge System Interwoven into Higher Education Experiences
4. Juli 2016	Anthony Squiers, PhD. (postdoc in American Studies)	The politics of the Sacred In America
22. Juni 2016	Dean J. Kotlowski (Salisbury University, Maryland)	Ratifying Greatness: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Film and Television
18. Juni 2016	Josephine Nummi Texas A&M, Department of Sociology	Twitter & Ferguson: online struggle for offline justice
7. Juni 2016	Prof. Michael Johnson Jr. (Washington State University Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies)	Citizenship, Belonging and Xenophobia in 2016: Politicizing and Policing Borders
28. April 2016	Eric Sandeen (University of Wyoming, Laramie)	Unsettling Wyoming: Confronting Cultural Difference in the Cowboy State
7. Juli 2015	Jane A. Juffer (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)	Precarious Subjects: Child Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border and the Question of Representation
25. Juni 2015	Christopher Lukasik Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana	The Image in the Text: Intermediality, Illustration, and 19^th-Century American Literature
11. Mai 2015	Richard C. King (Washington State University, Pullman)	Semiotic Disobedience: Commodity Racism and the Arts of Resistance
6.Mai 2015	Clifton Ross (translator, filmmaker, and writer)	Until the Rulers Obey – Voices from Latin American Social Movements
20. November 2014	Eva Federmayer (Eötvos Loránd Universität, Budapest)	Nation, Gender, Race in Millennial Budapest’s Ragtime Culture
25. Juni 2014	Erika Doss (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)	Victim Memorials and Sites of Conscience: Commemorating Loss, Violence, and Catastrophe in Contemporary Public Art
17. Juni 2014	John Woodward (Dean of the School of Education, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)	The Politics of the Common Core State Standards: How the Left and the Right Have Joined Sides to Undermine US Educational Reform
6. November 2013	Richard C. King (Washington State University, Pullman; currently Visiting Scholar at the University of Passau)	Uncomfortable Icons: Uneasiness, Expectations, and American Indians
2. Juli 2013	Richard Anderson-Connolly (Chair of the Dep. of Sociology and Anthro-pology, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)	A Leftist Critique of Diversity & Multiculturalism
27. Juni 2013	Henry Beissel (Poet and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, Concordia University, Montreal)	Henry Beissel: A Poetry Reading
19. Juni 2012	Julie Nelson Christoph (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)	Women Memoirs and the American Frontier
6. Juni 2012	Sue Ellen Christian (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)	The Problematic Relationship between Journalism and PR
25. Mai 2012	Sherrie Tucker (University of Kansas)	Torquing Back: Jitterbug Memory and National Nostalgia – Interviews with Dancers at the Hollywood Canteen (1942.1945)
23. Mai 2012	Dan Namingha (Hopi Artist; Santa Fe)	Bridging Worlds: Dan Namingha, Indian Artist
16. November 2011	William T. Hathaway (political journalist and writer)	Radical Peace: People Refusing War
30. Juni 2011	Eric J. Sandeen (Director of American Studies, University of Wyoming at Laramie)	The Continuing Story of Japanese American Relocation: Placing Heart Mountain Barracks in the Contemporary Wyoming Landscape
28. Juni 2011	Lisa Gill (University of Maryland, College Park)	Visual Images of the Civil Rights Movement
7. Juni 2011	John McCuistion (Chair of the Art Department, University of Puget Sound Tacoma, Washington)	Contemporary Ceramic Art of the Pacific Northwest
10. Dezember 2010	Ka Vang (Dep. of Educational Leadership, Minnesota State University, Mankato)	Asian-American Hip-Hop: Gangs, Guns, and Salvation
16. Juli 2010	Faith Nibbs (Dep. of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas)	The Hmong of Texas: Small Minority Groups in the Dallas Ft. Worth New Immigrant Gateway
1. Juli 2010	Sandra Borden (Dep. of Communication and co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in society, Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo)	The Common Good as Foundation for Social Ethics in Journalism
30. Juni 2010	David Warren Saxe (Professor of Education, College of Education, Pennsylvania State University)	Understanding American Politics – Love to Confuse and Confound Germans
29. Juni 2010	David Smith (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)	The British View of the American Revolution
23. Juni 2010	Adris Eschenberg (Academic Dean and Educator, Nebraska Indian Community College)	The Problems and Potentials of Education in an Indian Community College
5. Mai 2010	Lee Ann Potter (Director of Education and Volunteer Programs, U.S. National Archives in Washington D.C.)	The U.S. National Archives as National Site of Memory
27. Januar 2010	Kathryn Crockart (Konsulin für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit am Generalkonsulat München)	Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung
27. Januar 2010	Alexander Kain (Stellv. Cehfredakteur der Passauer Neuen Presse)	Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung
27. Januar 2010	Karsten Fitz (Universität Passau)	Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung
27. Januar 2010	Volker Depkat (Universität Regensburg)	Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung
27. Januar 2010	Andreas Falke (Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen)	Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung
22. Juni 2009	Bill Haltom (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma)	Criminalizing Corporations Through Lawsuits – The Politics of Responsibility in the US
14. Mai 2009	Nicolas Witsch (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)	"I do not like newspaper notoriety": Gunfighter Memoirs and the Making of the American West
12. Mai 2009	Jessica Osenbruegge (American Indian Genocide Museum, Houston/Texas)	Indian Country Today: Current Native American Legal and Political Issues
28. April 2009	Michael Rozendal (Fulbright Visiting Professor an der Universität Passau)	Thirties Poetry, 21^st Century – Politics: From Langston Hughes to Kerry and Obama
27. Januar 2009	Kathryn Crockart (Konsulin für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit am Generalkonsulat München)	USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära
27. Januar 2009	Hans Schregelmann (Chefredakteur der Passauer Neuen Presse)	USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära
27. Januar 2009	Karsten Fitz (Universität Passau)	USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära
27. Januar 2009	Werner Gamerith (Universität Passau)	USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära
27. Januar 2009	Winand Gellner (Universität Passau)	USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära
6. Dezember 2007	Mike Maher (University of Louisiana, Fulbright Visiting Professor an der Universität Regensburg)	Americans’ Wavering Support for Environmentalism in Historical Context
26. Juni 2007	Hassan Melehy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC)	Wherever That River Goes: From “"Easy Rider" to "Der Amerikanische Freund"

Professur für Amerikanistik/Cultural and Media Studies