Gastvorträge

Sommersemester 2023

• 20. Juni, 2023, Prof. Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (Penn State): "The Political Reform of Louise May Alcott"
  

Wintersemester 2022/23

• 8. Februar 2023, Peter W. Walker und Melissa Morris (Wyoming/Leiden): "The Power of Suffering: Loyalism, the Church of England, and the American Revolution" and "Cultivating Colonies: Tobacco and the Origins of Empires, 1580-1740"
  

Wintessemester 2022/23

• 22. November, 2022, PD Dr. Christina Meyer: "Star Journalists: Newspaperwomen in the late Nineteenth Century"
  

Sommersemester 2019

• 15.05.2019, Prof. Andrew Urban (Rutgers University), “Modernism in the American Home: Envisioning Domesticity without Servants”
• 18.06.2019, Dr. Solvejg Nitzke (TU Dresden) “An Unrepresentable Other? Modelling Climate through Story-Telling"
• 01.07.2019, Dr. Pia Wiegmink (Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Mainz) "Travelling Beyond the Slave Narrative: The Transnational Autobiographies of Nancy Prince and Eliza Potter"

Sommersemester 2018

• 04.05.2018
  Prof. Dr. Alexa von Mossner (University of Klagenfurt)
  "Affective Ecology and a Transmedial Poetics of Risk Narratives"

Wintersemester 2016/17

• 13.12.2016
  Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat (Universität Regensburg)
  "Interpreting the American Revolution: Frames, Narratives, and Trajectories"

Sommersemester 2016

• 04.07.2016
  Prof. Dr. Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
  "Language, Territory, Nation: American Literature in the 21st Century"

Wintersemester 2015/16

• 07.12.2015
  Prof. Dr. Libby Robin (Australian National University, Canberra)
  "Beyond Seasons: Learning to Live Well with Variability and Uncertainty - Climate Change in/and Australia"

Sommersemester 2015

• 04.05.2015
  Prof. Hannes Bergthaller, Taiwan
  "Immunity and/or Ecology? Roberto Esposito's Challenge to the Environmental Humanities"
• 30.04.2015
  Prof. Dr. Gesa Machenthun, Universität Rostock
  "Science? Or Just Mythology? Contestations between Western and Indigenous Knowledge about America's Ancient Past"

Wintersemester 2014/15

• 14.01.2015
  Dr. Julia Renel, Universität Regensburg
  "Le parler acadien de l'Isle Madame Cardre sociolinguistique et spécificités morphosytaxiques"
• 13.01.2015
  Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat, Universität Regensburg
  "Die visuelle Erfindung der amerikanischen Präsidentschaft, 1789 - 1861"
• 04.12.2014
  Prof. Dr. John Smith, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
  "What is Southern Studies?"

Wintersemester 2013/14

• 29.01.2014
  Dr. Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan
  "No More Eternal than the Hills of the Poets: The Modern Semantics of Nature and the Shifting Grounds of Moral Authority on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring"

Sommersemester 2013

• 11.07.2013
  Prof. Dr. Christa Buschendorf, Universität Frankfurt
  "Bourdieu's Concept of Symbolic Violence as a Tool of Literary Interpretation"
• 05.06.2013
  Prof. Dr. Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, Seattle
  "Imagining the Environment and Environmental Degradation"
• 17.06.2013
  Dr. Michael Kindellan, Stipendiat der A.-v.-Humboldt Stiftung, Universität Bayreuth
  "Ezra Pound and Modernist Poetry"
• 17.04.-17.07.2013
  Ringvorlesung: Diasporen
  Programm

Wintersemester 2012/13

• 21.11.2012
  Prof. Dr. Phil McNaghten, Durham University
  "Living the Global Social Experiment: An Analysis of Public Discourse on Geoengineering"
• 07.11.2012 - 30.01.2013
  Ringvorlesung: World at Risk
  Programm

Sommersemester 2012

• 21.06.2012
  Prof. Dr. Bertrand Westphal, University of Limoges
  "Literature and Geography"
• 16.05.2012
  Student Town Hall Meeting mit U.S. Generalkonsul Conrad R. Tribble
  Kommentar Medienmitteilung

'Wintersemester 2011/12

• 18.01.2012
  Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordmann, TU Darmstadt
  "Born from Shame"
• 14.12.2011
  Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck, Universität Freiburg
  "Edgar Allan Poe"
• 02.12.2011
  Prof. Dr. Hal Crimmel, Weber State University, Utah
  "Ecocriticism and Place-based Learning"
• 23.11.2011
  Prof. Dr. Glenn Shuck, William College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
  "The Sacred Origins of the Modern U.S.A."

Sommersemester 2011

• 20.07.2011
  Prof. Dr. Gesa Mackenthun, Universität Rostock
  "Heterotopien des Kulturkontakts und die Politics of Theory"
• 06.07.2011
  Prof. Dr. Miriam Strube, Universität Paderborn
  "Make it new? Interrelations between Pragmatis Philosophy and Modernist Culture"
• 05.07.2011
  Prof. Dr. Lisa Gill, University of Maryland, College Park
  A Construction of the Hip-Hop Aesthetic/Genre: Origins, Development, and Connections
• 01.06.2011
  Prof. Dr. Rebecca Potter, University of Dayton, Texas
  The Property of Fiction: Willa Cather's My Antonia and O Pioneers!