Guest Lectures

Summer Semester 2023

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

Winter Semester 2022/23

• Feb, 8, 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"

Winter Semester 2022/23

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

Summer Semester 2019

• May 15, 2019, Prof. Andrew Urban (Rutgers University), “Modernism in the American Home: Envisioning Domesticity without Servants”
• June, 18 2019, Dr. Solvejg Nitzke (TU Dresden) “An Unrepresentable Other? Modelling Climate through Story-Telling"
• July 1, 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"

Summer Semester 2018

• May 04, 2018, Prof. Dr. Alexa von Mossner (University of Klagenfurt): "Affective Ecology and a Transmedial Poetics of Risk Narratives"

Winter Semester 2016/17

• December 13, 2016, Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat (University of Regensburg): "Interpreting the American Revolution: Frames, Narratives, and Trajectories"

Summer Semester 2016

• July 04, 2016, Prof. Dr. Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro): "Language, Territory, Nation: American Literature in the 21st Century"

Winter Semester 2015/16

• December 07, 2015, Prof. Dr. Libby Robin (Australian National University, Canberra): "Beyond Seasons: Learning to Live Well with Variability and Uncertainty - Climate Change in/and Australia"

Summer Semester 2015

• May 04, 2015, Prof. Hannes Bergthaller (Taiwan): "Immunity and/or Ecology? Roberto Esposito's Challenge to the Environmental Humanities"
• April 30, 2015, Prof. Dr. Gesa Machenthun (U Rostock): "Science? Or Just Mythology? Contestations between Western and Indigenous Knowledge about America's Ancient Past"

Winter Semester 2014/15

• January 14, 2015, Dr. Julia Renel (U Regensburg): "Le parler acadien de l'Isle Madame Cardre sociolinguistique et spécificités morphosytaxiques"
• January 13, 2015,  Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat (U Regensburg): "Die visuelle Erfindung der amerikanischen Präsidentschaft, 1789 - 1861"
• December 04, 2014
  Prof. Dr. John Smith, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
  "What is Southern Studies?"

Winter Semester 2013/14

• January 29, 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"

Summer Semester 2013

• July 11, 2013
  Prof. Dr. Christa Buschendorf, University of Frankfurt
  "Bourdieu's Concept of Symbolic Violence as a Tool of Literary Interpretation"
• June 05, 2013
  Prof. Dr. Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, Seattle
  "Imagining the Environment and Environmental Degradation"
• June 17, 2013
  Dr. Michael Kindellan, Stipendiat der A.-v.-Humboldt Stiftung, Universität Bayreuth
  "Ezra Pound and Modernist Poetry"
• April 17, 2013 - July 17, 2013
  Lecture Series: Diasporas
  Programm

Winter Semester 2012/13

• November 21, 2012
  Prof. Dr. Phil McNaghten, Durham University
  "Living the Global Social Experiment: An Analysis of Public Discourse on Geoengineering"
• November 07, 2012 - January 30, 2013
  Lecture Series: World at Risk
  Programm

Summer Semester 2012

• June 21, 2012
  Prof. Dr. Bertrand Westphal, University of Limoges
  "Literature and Geography"
• May 16, 2012
  Student Town Hall Meeting mit U.S. Generalkonsul Conrad R. Tribble
  Kommentar Medienmitteilung

Winter Semester 2011/12

• January 18, 2012
  Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordmann, TU Darmstadt
  "Born from Shame"
• December 14, 2011
  Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck, University of Freiburg
  "Edgar Allan Poe"
• December 02, 2011
  Prof. Dr. Hal Crimmel, Weber State University, Utah
  "Ecocriticism and Place-based Learning"
• November 23, 2011
  Prof. Dr. Glenn Shuck, William College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
  "The Sacred Origins of the Modern U.S.A."

Summer Semester 2011

• July 20, 2011
  Prof. Dr. Gesa Mackenthun, University of Rostock
  "Heterotopien des Kulturkontakts und die Politics of Theory"
• July 06, 2011
  Prof. Dr. Miriam Strube, University of Paderborn
  "Make it new? Interrelations between Pragmatis Philosophy and Modernist Culture"
• July 05, 2011
  Prof. Dr. Lisa Gill, University of Maryland, College Park
  A Construction of the Hip-Hop Aesthetic/Genre: Origins, Development, and Connections
• June 01, 2011
  Prof. Dr. Rebecca Potter, University of Dayton, Texas
  The Property of Fiction: Willa Cather's My Antonia and O Pioneers!