Conferences
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"Inauguration von Barack Obama. Public Viewing mit Podiumsdiskussion." 21. Januar 2013.
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"Wahlkulturen in Europa und Amerika."
REAF-Tagung in Kooperation mit der Bayerischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit mit Vorträgen von Prof. Dr. Jürgen W. Falter, Prof. Dr. Thomas Mergel, Henriette Rytz und Prof. Dr. Michael Hochgeschwender. (October 26, 2012 - October 27, 2012).
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Internationale Expertenkonferenz, Prof. Dr. Bierling (Internationale Pol.) und Prof. Dr. Meier-Walser (Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung), Internationale Expertenkonferenz, Prof. Dr. Bierling (Internationale Pol.) und Prof. Dr. Meier-Walser (Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung), Do 28. Juni 2012 10.00-18.00 und Fr 29. Juni 2012 10.00-12.00 in PT 3.0.79
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10. Kontaktstudium für Geschichts- und Sozialkundelehrer
an der Universität Regensburg (November 10, 2011)
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Living History with Fulbright Visiting Professor David Saxe
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International Conference "Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies"
(April 23-25, 2010) -
Preis der Dr. Katharina Sailer-Stiftung für Dr. Susanne Ehrenreich
(February 4, 2010)
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EAAS President Hans-Jürgen Grabbe Visits REAF (December 7, 2009)
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U.S. Consul General Conrad R. Tribble Visits REAF (November 30, 2009)
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100 Tage Obama-Präsidentschaft: Wie weit geht der Wandel? (April 28, 2009)
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Opening Conference Regensburg European American Forum (REAF)
(May 26, 2008) -
Annual Convention, German Association for American Studies 2008
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Roundtable Discussion "German-American Relations" (December 17, 2007)
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Preis der Dr. Katharina Sailer-Stiftung für Gerlinde Groitl (July 12, 2007)
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Teaching American Cultures at the Beginning of a New Century
(ALP Dillingen, November 10-12, 2006) -
BookPresentation: Stephan Bierling, Kleine Geschichte Kaliforniens
(November 7, 2006) -
British and American TV Series in the Classroom (May 19-20, 2006)
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Lecture Series: Zwischen den Welten - Tocquevilles Amerika (summer term 2005)
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British and American Short Plays in the Classroom (Conference October 15-16, 2004)
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Reception in Honor of International Visitors (June 26, 2003)
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Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures (May 11-14, 2000)
Guest Lectures
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| May 2, 2013 | Kathy-Ann Tan | Narratives of Unhoming, Displacement, and Relocation: The Africadian Community in Nova Scotia |
| February 7, 2013 | Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson | The Impact of American Occupation and the Black Civil Rights Movement on Race Relations and Social Protest in Germany. |
| January 31, 2013 | Sascha Pöhlmann | From Whitman to 9/11: Future-founding American Poetry. |
| January 17, 2013 | Frank Mehrin | Weary Blues: Neuroaesthetics and the Nexus of Visual Art and Music in Euro-American Contexts. |
| December 06, 2012 | Pia Wiegmink and Birgit Bauridl | Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies: Concepts, Projects, Perspectives |
|
November 22, 2012 |
Hubert Zapf | Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology |
|
November 14, 2012 |
Molly Selvin | 2012 U.S. Elections. Domestic Dynamics and Impact on Transatlantic Relations |
| November 15, 2011 | Charles Postel | The Tea Party Movement |
|
July 5, 2012 |
Ralph Bauer | New World of Secrets: Apocalyptic Materialism and European Discovery of America |
| June 26, 2012 | Gary Jacobson | A Tale of Two Wars: Public Opinion on the U.S. Military Interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq |
| June 14, 2012 | Maurice Kenny and Derek C. Maus | Native American Poetry Today |
| June 13, 2012 | Pireeni Sundaralingam | Transforming Narratives: A Writer's Perspective on Transnationality |
| June 5, 2012 | Stephan Bierling | Obama am Ende? Die USA vor den Präsidentschaftswahlen |
| May 24, 2012 | Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Torquing Back: Jitterbug Memory and National Nostalgia: Interviews with Dancers at the Hollywood Canteen (1942-1945) |
| May 24, 2012 | Tami Albin, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Framing Your Oral History Project |
| May 22, 2012 | Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence |
Beyond the Brass Ceiling: Dolly Jones Trumpet Modernity in Oscar Micheaux's Swing! (1938) |
| May 22, 2012 | Dan Namingha, Santa Fe, New Mexico | Dan Namingha's Art: Metaphors of Culture and Space |
| May 21, 2012 | Tami Albin, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Documenting the Life under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer People in Kansas |
|
May 3, 2012 |
Barry Shank, Ohio State University, Columbus; Fulbright-Professor Universität Regensburg |
New Approaches to the Cultural Analysis of Popular Music |
| January 19, 2012 | Eva Boesenberg, Humboldt University Berlin |
Representations of Arranged Marriage in South Asian American Literature |
| January 12, 2012 | Dennis Domer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS |
Down on the Farm: Art and Architecture in Rural America, 1880–1950 |
| December 1, 2011 | Katharina Gerund, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg |
“I Am Your Sister”: Audre Lorde and the Black Diaspora in Germany |
| November 17, 2011 | William T. Hathaway, University of Oldenburg |
Radical Peace: People Refusing War |
| June 21, 2011 | Barry Shank, Ohio State University, Columbus |
The Velvet Underground and the Critique of the Commodity |
| June 16, 2011 | Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University |
"Originally of Missouri, Now of the Universe" : Mark Twain and the World |
| June 15, 2011 |
Eric J. Sandeen, |
The Troubled Landscapes of the American West: Remembering Heart Mountain and Sand Creek |
| June 9, 2011 | John David Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte |
"We must live through all time, or die by suicide" : The Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861 |
| May 12, 2011 | Gesa Mackenthun, Universität Rostock |
Mysterious Maps and Maya Cities: Inventing America's Ancient Past |
| December 16, 2010 | Rüdiger Kunow, Universität Potsdam |
Contagious Others: Biomobility and the Shaping of Communities |
| November 25, 2010 | Carmen Birkle, Philipps-Universität Marburg |
The Interfaces of Literature, Gender, and Medicine in 19th-Century America |
| November 11, 2010 | Eric J. Sandeen, University of Wyoming |
Living Heart Mountain: The Legacy of Japanese American Internment in the Wyoming Landscape |
| November 4, 2010 |
Lisa Gill, |
Intellectual, Rebel, and/or Icon: Commemoration and Construction of the Image(s) of Malcolm X, 1965-1999 |
| October 28, 2010 | Mita Banerjee, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz |
Race and Gender in Hollywood Film: Rudolph Valentino's White Ambivalence in The Sheik |
| July 8, 2010 |
Heike Paul, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
Transatlantic Cultural Mobility |
| June 24, 2010 |
Giulia Fabi, University of Ferrara |
Desegregating the Future: African American Speculative Fiction to the Harlem Renaissance |
| June 24, 2010 |
Cristina Giorcelli, University of Rome |
Plays of Black and White in Edith Wharton’s "A Bottle of Perrier‘ |
| June 17, 2010 |
Werner Sollors, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
"Ich möcht’ so gern nach Hause gehn‘. Toxi and Other Tales of Children of the Occupation |
| June 10, 2010 |
Taylor Hagood, |
Secrecy, Miscegenation, and the Politics of Pregnancy in Harlem Renaissance Women’s Drama |
| May 18, 2010 |
Steve Estes, |
I Am a Man: Race, Manhood, and the American Civil Rights Movement |
| May 11, 2010 |
Lee Ann Potter, National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Oslo, Norway |
American Civil Religion in Theory and Practice |
| May 11, 2010 |
Lee Ann Potter, National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Oslo, Norway |
The U.S. National Archives as National Site of Memory |
| May 6, 2010 |
David Saxe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Fulbright Professor an der Universität Regensburg |
Staging American Pasts: Applications of Living History |
| April 29, 2010 |
Kerstin Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Negative Space and the Making of Modern America: Concepts of Space in American Literature, Architecture, and Photography, 1870–1920 |
| March 24, 2010 |
Barry Shank, Ohio State University, Columbus |
American Studies and Its Institutional Contexts in the U.S. and Germany |
| January 21, 2010 | Paul Lauter, Trinity College, Hartford, CT |
The Market and the Cathedral: Immigration, Identity, and Conflict |
| January 14, 2010 |
Frank Kelleter, Universität Göttingen |
"It’s all there‘":Serial Aesthetics and Contemporary American Television |
| January 14, 2010 |
Kathleen Loock, Universität Göttingen |
From National Icon to Immigrant Hero: Constructing Columbus in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century United States |
| December 10, 2009 |
Sabine Sielke, Universität Bonn |
Re-cognizing (Cultural) Memory |
| December 7, 2009 | Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Zentrum für USA-Studien der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
Wider den Filiopietismus oder Wege und Irrwege der deutschen Auswanderungsforschung |
| November 26, 2009 |
David Holloway, University of Derby, England |
A New Public Culture? Culture and Citizenship in the Bush-Era United States |
| July 9, 2009 |
Klaus Benesch, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München |
'Where I Have Lived, and What I Lived For?': Thoreau's Platial Iconicity |
| June 24, 2009 |
Ardis Eschenberg-Bad Moccasin, Nebraska Indian Community College, NE |
Language Documentation and Language Revitalization - Experience of the Omaha (Sioux) Tribe |
| June 23, 2009 |
Michael Rozendal, University of San Francisco, CA |
Transforming American Images, Sustaining American Myths |
| June 9, 2009 |
Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
The U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle |
| June 8, 2009 |
Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
The U.S. and South Africa: Historical Links and Connections |
| May 28, 2009 |
Nicolas Witschi, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo |
'"I do not like newspaper notoriety': Gunfighter Memoirs and the Making of the American West |
|
May 26, |
David D. Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
Practices of Writing: The Social and Material History of Texts in Colonial New England |
| May 19, 2009 |
Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin, Ireland |
The New Photojournalism: Documenting US Foreign Policy after the Vietnam War |
| April 30, 2009 |
Paul Spickard University of California, Santa Barbara, CA |
Beyond Ellis Island: How Not to Think about US Immigration History |
| February 3, 2009 |
Petra Eckhard, Universität Graz |
The Gotham Puzzle: Detecting the Postmodern in Paul Auster's City of Glass (Graphic Novel) |
| November 20, 2008 |
Greg Cuthbertson, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria |
Reading U.S. History and American Studies from South Africa |
| November 19, 2008 |
Greg Cuthbertson, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria |
From Celebration to Crisis: South Africa's Democracy since 1944 |
| July 7, 2008 |
Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
The Francophone Limits of English: Jack Kerouac's Nomadic Quebec-ness |
| June 30, 2008 |
Tamiko Thiel, New Media Artist |
From Beyond Manzanar to ReConstructing the Wall: Transnational Virtual Reality Installations |
| May 27, 2008 |
Ronald E. Doel, Oregon State University, Corvallis |
Postwar Geographies. The U.S. Military's Role in Shaping the Environmental Sciences after the Civil War and World War II |
| May 26, 2008 |
Stephan Bierling, Universität Regensburg |
Obama, Clinton oder McCain? Anmerkungen zum US-Vorwahlkampf |
| May 26, 2008 |
Michael Maher, University of Louisina, Fulbright-Professor Universität Regensburg |
Whatever happened to the American Environmentalist Movement |
| May 26, 2008 |
Gerlinde Groitl, Universität Regensburg |
Religion and Politics in the U.S. since 1980s |
| May 26, 2008 |
James Gilbert, University of Maryland, College Park |
Awash in a Culture of Faith |
| May 26, 2008 |
Volker Depkat, Universität Regensburg |
The Cultural Turn in German and US-American Historiography |
| May 26, 2008 |
Alfred Hornung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Transnational American Studies |
| February 1, 2008 |
Wessel Le Roux, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria |
Memory Studies and Constitutional Law |
| January 23, 2008 |
Wessel Le Roux, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria |
South Africa - A Nation in Transition |
| January 22, 2008 |
Michael Maher, University of Louisiana |
The American Environmental Movement in Historical Context |
| December 19, 2007 |
Nicole Ishikawa, University of Kansas, Lawrence |
American Dreams or Dreaming of America: Germans and the U.S. Green Card Lottery |
| July 5, 2007 |
David Sumner, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon |
"'That Could Happen': American Nature Writing, the Nature Fakers, and a Rhetoric of Assent |
| June 20, 2007 |
Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming |
Projecting American Culture Abroad during the Cold War |
| June 20, 2007 |
Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming |
Randolph Bourne and the Origins of Transnationalism |
| June 19, 2007 |
Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming |
New York - America's First Global City |
| June 6, 2007 |
Hasia R. Diner, New York University, New York |
Fitting Memorials: Postwar American Jews Confront the Catastrophe |
| Mai 23, 2007 |
James Gilbert, University of Maryland |
Mrs. Wilkins Dances: Enacting Race at the St. Louis World's Fair 1904 |
| May 3, 2007 |
Hans Bak, Radboud University Nijmegen,The Netherlands |
Approaching Canadian Literature in a North American Context |
| February 5, 2007 |
Eric Nelson, Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Munich |
Topical Issues in American-European Relations |
| January 17, 2007 |
Volker Depkat, Universität Regensburg |
George Washington und die Erfindung der Amerikanischen Präsidentschaft |
| December 12, 2006 |
Walter B. Slocombe | The Direction of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy After the Congressional Elections |
| November 9, 2006 |
Miles Orvell, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Relative Truths: The Literary and Visual Culture of the Thirties |
| October 25, 2006 |
Martin Wagner, Bayerischer Rundfunk |
God's Own Country: Amerika, der liebe Gott und die Welt |
| July 11, 2006 |
Annette Trefzer, The University of Mississippi |
Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction |
| June 27, 2006 |
Joerge Huerta, Josefina Lopez |
Chicana/o Drama and Theater |
| June 22, 2006 |
Jay Kleinberg, Brunel University, Great Britain |
Working Mothers in the Land of Unlimited Opportunity |
| June 21, 2006 |
Jay Kleinberg, Brunel University, Great Britain |
From 'the American Family' to 'American' Families |
| June 13, 2006 |
Matthew M. Rooney, Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Munich |
US -Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations Today |
| May 23, 2006 |
Jay Neugeboren, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
News from the New American Diaspora |
| May 2, 2006 |
Julia L. Foulkes, The New School, New York |
The Other West Side Story: Urbanization and the Arts Meet at Lincoln Center |
| January 31, 2006 |
Viet Nguyen, University of Southern California |
Model Minorities or Bad Subjects: Contemporary Asian American Dilemmas |
| October 20, 2005 |
Leonard Chang, introduced by Eric H. Denton, currently Fulbright Professor at Universität Regensburg |
The Fruit 'N Food (1996) and Fade to Clear (2004) |
| July 13, 2005 |
Winfried Herget, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Villains for Pleasure: The Paradox of Nineteenth-Century (American) Melodrama |
| July 6, 2005 |
Marinus R. R. Ossewaarde, Twente |
Tocqueville's New Liberalism |
| July 5, 2005 |
Jan D. Kucharzewski, Universität Düsseldorf |
Gertrude Stein and Quantum Physics |
| June 30, 2005 |
Marita Sturken, University of Southern California, CA |
Cultural Memory and the Kitschification of Grief: Oklahoma City, Sept. 11, and Compulsive Reenactment in American Culture |
| June 29, 2005 |
Sandro Chignola Padua |
Tocquevilles Reisen: Amerika und zurück |
| June 15, 2005 |
Urs Marti, Zürich |
Demokratie und Korruption bei Tocqueville und Rousseau |
| June 8, 2005 |
Oliver Hidalgo, Regensburg |
Das trügerische Vorbild der Vereinigten Staaten - Tocqueville und die Religion |
| June 7, 2005 |
Matthew M. Rooney, Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Munich |
US-Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations Today |
| June 1, 2005 |
Kai Nonnenmacher, Regensburg |
Eliten und Ästhetik bei Tocqueville: Von der literarischen Politik zur politischen Literatur |
| May 31, 2005 |
Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C |
U. S. Middle East Policy |
| May 25, 2005 |
Norbert Campagna, Luxemburg |
Von der Tugend in Tocquevilles Amerika |
| May 24, 2005 |
Patrick Walsh, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN; Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg |
American Bohemianism in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California |
| May 18, 2005 |
Karlfriedrich Herb, Regensburg |
Es war einmal in Amerika - Tocqueville über die Zukunft der Demokratie |
| May 3, 2005 |
Burton Peretti, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT; Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg |
Regulating the New York Nightclub |
| January 20, 2005 |
Christopher Mulvey, University College Winchester, England |
At the Fault Line of Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Three Races of the United States |
| January 19, 2005 |
Maureen Reed, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN; currently Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg |
A Woman's Place: Multiculturism, Feminism, and Tradition in the Autobiography of Pablita Velarde |
| December 15, 2004 |
Ansgar Reiss, Universität der Bundeswehr, München |
Exil und ethnische Grenze: Gustav Struve in den USA |
| November 29, 2004 |
Mike L. Liebler, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI |
'"And the Beat goes on...': The American Beat Poets |
| November 24, 2004 |
Berndt Ostendorf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
'Wake up Little Suzie': Kalter Krieg, Konsum und Kultur im Amerika der fünfziger Jahre |
| November 16, 2004 |
Kaper Maase, Universität Tübingen |
Wird Elvis Presley Deutscher? Jugendkultur und Amerikanisierung in den fünfziger Jahren |
| May 26, 2004 |
Steven Rowan, University of Missouri at St. Louis, MO |
Baron von Reizenstein's 'Die Geheimnisse von New Orleans' ('The Mysteries of New Orleans') |
| May 19, 2004 |
Mike L. Liebler, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI |
Labor and Art: Detroit and Chicago in the Great Depression |
| November 5, 2003 |
Renée M. Sentilles, Cash Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH |
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity |
| June 27, 2003 |
Tomas Pospisil, Mazaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic |
Spies, Bombers, Liberators & Others: The Changing Images of Americans in Czech Films |
| June 26, 2003 |
Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine |
REAL Nostalgia: America as a Body in the Box |
| June 23, 2003 |
Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine |
Bordering Memory: Las Vegas, New Mexico: 1200 - 2000 |
| Jan 21, 2003 |
Manfred Stinnes, United States Embassy, Berlin |
Die USA, Europa und die Gefahren des neuen Terrorismus |
| Jan 14, 2003 |
Georg Kamphausen, Universität Bayreuth |
Warum gibt es in den Vereinigten Staaten keinen Sozialismus? Die USA im Urteil Max Webers und Werner Sombarts |
| Dec 17, 2002 |
Thomas Gocht, Universität Regensburg |
Presidential Elections 2000 - Cartoons in German Newspapers and Magazines |
| Dec 3, 2002 |
Karl Ortseifen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
A Noble River, but not so Fine as the Hudson: American Views of the Rhine and Germany in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
| Nov 26, 2002 |
Mike Augspurger, Fulbright Professor at Universität Regensburg |
Profits, Production, & ... Self-Identity?: Business as an American Cultural Site |
| Nov 12, 2002 |
Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Universität Wien |
Reluctant Recognition(s): American Perspectives on Germany entre les Deux Guerres |
| July 2, 2002 |
Francisco A. Lomelí, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA |
Tropicalization of Latino Culture |
| June 5, 2002 |
Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine |
Turning Failure into Success, or Creating a Sympathetic Reader: Cabeza de Vaca's Shipwrecked |
| May 28, 2002 |
Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis |
The Divided Ground: Making Borders and Empires in the Indian Country of Revolutionary America |
| May 27, 2002 |
Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis |
Thomas Jefferson's Pacific: The Science of Empire-Building |
| May 14, 2002 |
Matthew Roudané, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA |
Major Trends in Recent American Drama: Sam Shepard's Theater as Case Study |
| May 7, 2002 |
Agymah Kamau, | Flickering Shadows (1996) and Pictures of a Dying Man (1999) |
| Dec 11, 2001 |
John Burt, Brandeis University |
New' Literature from the South |
| Dec 4, 2001 |
Gerry Brenner, University of Montana, Missoula; Fulbright Professor at Universität Regensburg |
Hemingway's Fiction: A Legacy for All Kinds, All Climes, All Times |
| Dec 4, 2001 |
Tomas Pospisil, Mazaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic |
The Old Plantation and After: The Formation and Evolution of the African American Image |
| July 19, 2001 | Ihab Hassan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
Queries for Postcolonial Studies: A Transcultural Perspective |
| July 10, 2001 | Kerstin Schmidt, Universität Bayreuth |
Postmodern/Drama: Theorizing the Contemporary American Stage |
| July 5, 2001 | Lew Erenberg, Loyola University of Chicago, USA Fulbright Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Swing Left - Music and the Popular Front |
| July 3, 2001 | Anne Koenen, University of Leipzig |
'The Farmer's Bible' - Sears Mail-Order Catalogues and Modernization in the Rural U.S. (1880-1930) |
| June 27, 2001 | Udo Hebel, University of Regensburg |
Salutary Lessons of Americanism: Aufstieg und Fall des New England Forefathers´ Day als Bestimmungsort nationaler amerikanischer Erinnerungskultur |
| June 18, 2001 |
Richard Fox, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, American Antiquarian Society, Worcestor, MA |
Secular Devotion to Jesus in 19th-Century America |
| June 12, 2001 |
Gary Jacobson, University of California, San Diego;Vielberth-Fellow Universität Regensburg |
Consequences of the 2000 US Elections |
| May 31, 2001 |
Stefan Herbrechter, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds |
Derrida, Autobiographie und Europa: Dekonstruktion und Postkolonialismus |
| May 29, 2001 |
Paul S. Boyer, University of Madison, Wisconsin |
Writing and Teaching The Enduring Vision |
| May 29, 2001 |
Paul S. Boyer, University of Madison, Wisconsin |
Awaiting Armageddon: Bible Prophesy Belief in Recent American Culture |
| May 28, 2001 |
Paul S. Boyer University of Madison, Wisconsin |
Rural Nostalgia and Urban Anxieties in Turn-of-the-Century American Music Hall Songs |
| May 17, 2001 | John C. Rowe, University of California, Irvine |
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literary Culture and Transnationality |
| May 7, 2001 | Joanne Braxton, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Fulbright Professor at Universität Regensburg |
Mediations of the Self: Performance, Play, and the Sacred Text |
| Jan 1,2001 | Ken Moss, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. |
Armed Intervention in US Foreign Policy: When Is It Legitimate? |
| Dec 20, 2000 | Edwina Campbell, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. |
The Impact of the US Elections on Transatlantic Relations |
| Dec 6, 2000 | Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland |
Revising One’s Self: Constructing Phillis Wheatley’s Anglophone-African Identity |
| July 20, 2000 | Michael Pierce, Tarleton State University, Texas |
Sometimes the Magic Works, Sometimes it Doesn't: Indians in the Movies |
| July 19, 2000 | Gerald Vizenor University of California, Berkeley |
Simulations of Native Americans in Portraiture, Photography, and Literature |
| July 17, 2000 | Double Feature: The American West:: Nicolas Witschi Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg and Michael Pierce, Tarleton State University, Texas |
Of Jumping Frogs and Motherless Children: Mark Twain and Humor from the Gold Rush West Native American Ecology |
| July 11, 2000 | Kimberley Blaeser, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Gordon Henry, Jr., Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Council |
Contemporary Native American Writers Read From Their Works |
| June 21, 2000 | Werner Sollors, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: Crossing Linguistic Boundaries in American Culture |
| June 6, 2000 | Martin Brückner, University of Delaware, Newark |
The Surveyed Self: Geodetic Discourse and Colonial Identity in 18th Century British America |
| Feb 15, 2000 | Nicolas Witschi, University of Oregon, Eugene; Fulbright Professor at Universität Regensburg |
Forgetting the Gold Rush: John Muir Re-Writes Nature in the Mountains of California |
| Dec 8, 1999 | Winfried Herget, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz |
Misadventure into Myth: Paul Green's The Lost Colony |
| Nov 26, 1999 | Sue McLeod, Washington State University |
Writing Programs and Writing across the Curriculum |
| June 23, 1999 | Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside |
Problems of Politics and Aesthetics in American Literature: The Example of Huck Finn |
| June 23, 1999 | Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside |
Refiguring American Studies as Literary/Cultural Studies |
| June 22, 1999 | Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside |
Irrepressible Puritans: Early American Literature and the Canon Wars |
| June 17, 1999 | John Smith North Carolina State University, Raleigh |
Public History and the New American Studies |
| June 16, 1999 | Reiner Smolinski, Georgia State University, Atlanta |
Der Millennialismus Neuenglands als Wegbereiter der amerikanischen Revolution |
| Jan 20, 1999 | Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI |
Will the True Indian Please Stand Up: Issues of Identity and Authenticity in Diasporic Indian Fiction |
| Jan 20, 1999 | Amritjit Singh Rhode Island College, Providence |
I too am America: Patterns of Compromise and Empowerment in Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. DuBois |
| Jan 19, 1999 | Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, Providence |
The Harlem Renaissance: A Retrospective View |
| July 22, 1998 | Wolfgang Mieder, University of Vermont |
"A House Divided": From Biblical Proverb to Abraham Lincoln and on to Willy Brandt |
| June 16, 1998 | Shirley Samuels, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
Women and Walls |