Visiting scholars
American Studies Lectures
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2024 | David Hugill (Carleton University, Ottawa) | Settler Colonialism and the Production of Urban Space |
| 28 June 2024 | Andrew Torget (University of North Texas) | Texas and the Long Problem of Race in American History |
| 28 June 2024 | Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State University) | Critical Race Theory, the Welfare State, and Inequities in U.S. Migration” |
| 11 June 2024 | Paul S. Ciccantell (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo) | “Energy Raw Materials, Energy Transitions, and Geopolitics” |
| 31 January 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 May 2023 | Sally Hadden (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo) | „Slavery, the 1619 Project, and Packaging History as Commodity and Political Tool“ |
| 6 December 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 July 2022 | Chris Sims (Duke University) | The Pretend Villages:Photographing America’s Post-9/11 Landscapes |
| 14 July 2022 | Scott Zukowski (Universität Graz) | Edgar Allan Poe, Globalization, and the Environmental Gothic |
| 30 May 2022 | Jessica Conrad (Clayton State University, Morrow, Georgia) | Change Is Not a Luxury:Writing for the Future in Butler’s Parable Series |
| 12 May 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 January 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’” |
| 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 | American Drag Kings |
| SoSe 2020 | Elizabeth Parker | Ecofeminism Meets EcoGothic: A Look at Classic Fairy Tales |
| 11 July 2019 | Susanne Hamscha (Fulbright Wien/Berlin) | Coming out Crip: Social Media and the (In)Visibility of Disability |
| June 2019 | Sunil Kukreja (University of Puget Sound, USA) | Gastvortrag am Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Entwicklungs- und Kulturforschung |
| June 2019 | David Loberg Code (Western Michigan University) | Gastvortrag an der Professur für Musikpädagogik, "Musik digitalisieren: Quantisierte Kultur (Digitizing Music: Quantized Culture) |
| 6 June 2019 | Prof. Dr. Mario Masvidal Saavedra | Hemingway´s Impact on Cuba´s Culture and Cuba´s Impact on Hemingway´s Life and Work |
| 3 June 2019 | Lucia Soriano (Washington State University, USA) | Performing “Normality” in the Age of Spectacular Celebrity Motherhood and Social Media Beauty Influencers |
| 3 June 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 | Ernest Hemingway‘s Narrative on Cuba |
| 23 October 2018 | Shira Leibowitz Schmidt | The Seminary in Passau, 1946, for Young Jewish Women who Survived the Holocaust: A Paradigm Shift |
| 29 June 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 June 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) |
| June 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 |
| 6 December 2017 | Prof. Dr. Allison Stagg | James Akin and “A Philosophic Cock”: Caricature Prints in America, 1800-1820 |
| 2 November 2017 | Prof. Dean J. Kotlowski | Without Horror--or War: The US Office of War Information's AMERICAN SCENE Series during World War II |
| 18 July 2017 | Jeannette Jones | More than a 'Mission Field': Black American Travels in Nineteenth-Century Africa |
| 8 June 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) |
| 7 June 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 May 2017 | Jessica Conrad | Boycott: Literary Interventions in the Marketplace, 1820-1880 |
| 15 May 2017 | Volker Depkat | William Henry Harrison und die politische Ikonographie einer Frontier-Präsidentschaft |
| 9 May 2017 | Prof. Dr. Denise Keele (Western Michigan University, USA) | Environmental Politics in the Trump Administration |
February 08, 2016 | Birgit Hans (University of North Dakota) | Enduring Voices: American Indian Women and Cultural Changes on the Northern Plains |
| June 22, 2016 | Dean J. Kotlowski | Ratifying Greatness: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Film and Television |
| April 28, 2016 | Eric Sandeen | Unsettling Wyoming: Confronting Cultural Difference in the Cowboy State |
| July 7, 2015 | Jane A. Juffer (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY) | Precarious Subjects: Child Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border and the Question of Representation |
| June 25, 2015 | Christopher Lukasik Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana | The Image in the Text: Intermediality, Illustration, and 19th-Century American Literature |
| May 11, 2015 | Richard C. King (Washington State University, Pullman) | Semiotic Disobedience: Commodity Racism and the Arts of Resistance |
| May 6, 2015 | Clifton Ross (translator, filmmaker, and writer) | Until the Rulers Obey – Voices from Latin American Social Movements |
| November 20, 2014 | Eva Federmayer (Eötvos Loránd Universität, Budapest) | Nation, Gender, Race in Millennial Budapest’s Ragtime Culture |
| June 25, 2014 | Erika Doss (University of Notre Dame, Indiana) | Victim Memorials and Sites of Conscience: Commemorating Loss, Violence, and Catastrophe in Contemporary Public Art |
| June 17, 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 |
| Nov. 6, 2013 | Richard C. King (Washington State University, Pullman; currently Visiting Scholar at the University of Passau) | Uncomfortable Icons: Uneasiness, Expectations, and American Indians |
| July 2, 2013 | Richard Anderson-Connolly (Chair of the Dep. of Sociology and Anthro-pology, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma) | A Leftist Critique of Diversity & Multiculturalism |
| June 27, 2013 | Henry Beissel (Poet and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, Concordia University, Montreal) | Henry Beissel: A Poetry Reading |
| June 19, 2012 | Julie Nelson Christoph (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma) | Women Memoirs and the American Frontier |
| June 6, 2012 | Sue Ellen Christian (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo) | The Problematic Relationship between Journalism and PR |
| May 25, 2012 | Sherrie Tucker | Torquing Back: Jitterbug Memory and National Nostalgia — Interviews with Dancers at the Hollywood Canteen (1942.1945) |
| May 23, 2012 | Dan Namingha (Hopi Artist; Santa Fe) | Bridging Worlds: Dan Namingha, Indian Artist |
| Nov. 16, 2011 | William T. Hathaway (political journalist and writer) | Radical Peace: People Refusing War |
| June 30, 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 |
| June 28, 2011 | Lisa Gill (University of Maryland, College Park) | Visual Images of the Civil Rights Movement |
| June 7, 2011 | John McCuistion (Chair of the Art Department, University of Puget Sound Tacoma, Washington) | Contemporary Ceramic Art of the Pacific Northwest |
| Dec. 10, 2010 | Ka Vang (Dep. of Educational Leadership, Minnesota State University, Mankato) | Asian-American Hip-Hop: Gangs, Guns, and Salvation |
| July 16, 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 |
July 1, 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 |
June 30, 2010 | David Warren Saxe (Professor of Education, College of Education, Pennsylvania State University) | Understanding American Politics – Love to Confuse and Confound Germans |
June 29, 2010 | David Smith (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma) | The British View of the American Revolution |
June 23, 2010 | Adris Eschenberg (Academic Dean and Educator, Nebraska Indian Community College) | The Problems and Potentials of Education in an Indian Community College |
May 5, 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 |
January 27, 2010 | Kathryn Crockart (Konsulin für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit am Generalkonsulat München) | Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung |
| January 27, 2010 | Alexander Kain (Stellv. Cehfredakteur der Passauer Neuen Presse) | Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung |
| January 27, 2010 | Karsten Fitz (Universität Passau) | Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung |
| January 27, 2010 | Volker Depkat (Universität Regensburg) | Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung |
| January 27, 2010 | Andreas Falke (Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen) | Ein Jahr Obama – zwischen Hoffnung und Enttäuschung |
June 22, 2009 | Bill Haltom | Criminalizing Corporations Through Lawsuits – The Politics of Responsibility in the US |
May 14, 2009 | Nicolas Witsch | "I do not like newspaper notoriety": Gunfighter Memoirs and the Making of the American West |
May 12, 2009 | Jessica Osenbruegge (American Indian Genocide Museum, Houston/Texas) | Indian Country Today: Current Native American Legal and Political Issues |
| April 28, 2009 | Michael Rozendal (Fulbright Visiting Professor an der Universität Passau) | Thirties Poetry, 21st Century – Politics: From Langston Hughes to Kerry and Obama |
January 27, 2009 | Kathryn Crockart (Konsulin für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit am Generalkonsulat München) | USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära |
| January 27, 2009 | Hans Schregelmann (Chefredakteur der Passauer Neuen Presse) | USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära |
| January 27, 2009 | Karsten Fitz (Universität Passauer) | USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära |
| January 27, 2009 | Werner Gamerith (Universität Passau) | USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära |
| January 27, 2009 | Winand Gellner (Universität Passau) | USA und Europa in der Obama-Ära |
December 6, 2007 | Mike Maher (University of Louisiana, Fulbright Visiting Professor an der Universität Regensburg) | Americans' Wavering Support for Environmentalism in Historical Context |
June 26, 2007 | Hassan Melehy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC) | Wherever That River Goes: From "Easy Rider" to "Der Amerikanische Freund" |
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