Guest Lectures: American Studies
Date | Speaker | Topic |
| June 21, 2023 | Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa) | "From Cold War Modernism to Diasporic Diplomacy: Langston Hughes as Cold War Diplomat" |
| June 14, 2023 | Jon Pineda (Queens University of Charlotte, College of William & Mary) | Reading Let's No One Get Hurt |
| May 10, 2023 | Werner Sollors (Harvard University, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Regensburg) | "Goethe and Black America" |
| Jun. 22, 2022 | Jessica Conrad (Clayton State University/University of Graz) | "Change Is Not a Luxury: Writing for the Future in Butler's Parable Series" |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Wibke Schniedermann (Ghent University) | "Kings of the Road? Homelessness in Popular Music" |
| Jun. 14, 2021 | Betsy Leimbigler (Freie Universität Berlin/Bard College Berlin) | "Political Institutions and Public Policy: American Health Care Reform and Current Issues" |
| Nov. 23, 2020 | Thomas Stelzl (Universität Passau) | "American Democracy: A Transatlantic Perspective After the Election" |
| Nov. 18, 2020 | Lauren LaFauci (Universität Linköping, Schweden) | "Digging Roots: America's Past and Present Environmentalisms" |
| Jan. 16, 2020 | Ilka Saal (Universität Erfurt) | "Slavery in Contemporary Visual Arts: The Case of Kara Walker" |
| Dec. 18, 2018 | Heike Schwarz (Universität Augsburg) | "'A Psychoterratic Condition' Climate Change, Mental Health and Cultural Studies" |
| June 5, 2018 | Diederik Oostdijk (Vrije Universität Amsterdam) | Drawing Yourself Out of It & Drawing Yourself Into It. Trauma in Jewish-American Comics |
| May 15, 2018 | Martin Procházka (Karls-Universität Prag) | Monuments or Trash? Ghost Towns in American History and Culture |
| Jan. 18, 2018 | Alexa Weik von Mossner, (Universität Klagenfurt) | American Environments at the Movies: Embodiment, Emotion, and Perception |
| July 7, 2017 | Ana Sobral, Universität Zürich | 'Harder than Harlem and Compton Intertwined': Transnational Appropriations of American Rap |
| June 27, 2017 | Christof Decker, LMU München | Transnational Film Cultures: Concepts and Case Studies |
| Dec. 6, 2016 | George Lipsitz & Barbara Tomlinson, University of California, Santa Barbara | American Studies as Accompainment: Why We Can't Wait In cooperation with REAF |
| Nov. 24, 2016 | Klaus Benesch, LMU München | The Language of Gesture: Melville's Imaging of Blackness and the Modernity of Billy Budd |
| June, 23 2016 | Hubert Zapf, Universität Augsburg | Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts In cooperation with REAF |
| June, 9 2016 | Uwe Lübken, LMU München | How Natural are Natural Disasters? A History of Flooding on the Ohio River. |
| Apr. 28, 2016 | Miles Orvell, Temple University | The Biopolitics of Junk |
Guest Lectures: American Studies and Regensburg European American Forum
Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Dec. 10, 2015 | Johanna Heil, Universität Marburg | Exit Stage Left: Martha Graham’s Abstract American Expressionism and the Perils of European Fascism |
| Nov. 19, 2015 | Margit Peterfy, Universität Heidelberg | Parody, Adaptation, and Material Culture in the Canonization (and De-Canonization) of American Popular Poetry |
| July 16, 2015 | Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska | America’s ‘First Foreign Policy’: U.S. Empire, Race, and the Berlin Conference 1884/85 |
| July 1, 2015 | Manfred Berg, Universität Heidelberg | How Do We Write the History of Lynching in America? Some Reflections |
| June 18, 2015 | Christopher J. Lukasik, Purdue University | The Image in the Text: Intermediality, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| June 11, 2015 | Werner Sollors, Harvard University | Denazification: Questions about the Questionnaire (Keynote for the International Conference "1945-2015: German-American Encounters in Bavaria.") |
| May 21, 2015 | Greg Robinson, U of Québec | Historical Reflections on the Same Sex Marriage Debate |
| January 13, 2015 | Karsten Fitz, Universität Passau | Public Photography and Private Lives: American Presidents and the Visual Aesthetics of Privacy |
| July 10, 2014 | Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas, Lawrence | American Seeker Religiosity: An Examination of Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice, Black Radicalism and Black Emancipatory Faith, Revisited |
| June 26, 2014 | Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame, Indiana | The Transnational Dimensions and Dynamics of Commemorating 9/11 |
| May 13/14, 2014 | Esra Öztarhan, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey | Diaspora and Home in Ethnic American Literature and Food in Ethnic American Literature |
| May 12, 2014 | Elena Bryan, Senior Trade Representative, U.S. Mission to the European Union | The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): American Perspectives |
| May 8, 2014 | George Ellenbogen, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts | Two lives in/with words: - On Life Writing and Memoir - Evelyn Shakir, Teaching Arabs, Writing Self (2013) and George Ellenbogen, A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighbourhood (2013) |
| April 10, 2014 | Jane E. Simonsen, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois | 'Make Me So and Show Me': Power and Indigenous Presence in Portraits of Black Hawk, 1832-1930 |
| January 9, 2014 | Alexandra Ganser, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg | Piracy and Legitimacy in James Fenimore Cooper's Red Rover |
| December 5, 2013 | Susann Köhler, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg | A State of Paradoxial Sleep: Post-Industrial Landscapes and the Narrative of Loss in 'The Ruins of Detroit' |
| November 7, 2013 | Richard King, Washington State University, Pullman | Observations on an Embattled Icon: The Construction and Contestation of the Washington R*dskins |
October 31, 2013 | William Mulligan, jr., Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky | Race and Religion in the U.S.-Mexican War: Beyond the San Patricios |
| July 18, 2013 | Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Sampling and the Theatrical (Re-)Production of Nikki S. Lee’s "The Hip-Hop Project" |
| July 18, 2013 | Ben Chappell, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Mexican American Lowriders: The Spatial Politics of Material Aesthetics |
| July 4, 2013 | Tom Pospisil, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic | "And all the pieces matter“: HBO’s The Wire and the Complexities of Representation |
| June 27, 2013 | Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Kerouac and Authenticity |
| June 26, 2013 | Anke Ortlepp, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Home in the Skies: American Air Travel Culture in the Twentieth Century |
| June 19, 2013 | Henry Beissel, Concordia University, Montreal | Celebrating Canada: A Poet Discovers a New Homeland. |
| June 11, 2013 | Carla Peterson, University of Maryland, College Park | From Street to World: African-American, Family, Social Geography, and Cosmopolitan Thinking in the Nineteenth-Century Urban North |
| May 16, 2013 | John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California | "Moby-Dick" and Globalization |
| May 16, 2013 | Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware | Chinese American Women in History and Culture |
| May 15, 2013 | Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware | The Roundups and Resistance of Chinese Americans |
| May 2, 2013 | Kathy-Ann Tan, University of Tübingen | Narratives of Unhoming, Displacement, and Relocation: The Africadian Community in Nova Scotia |
| February 7, 2013 | Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. | The Impact of American Occupation and the Black Civil Rights Movement on Race Relations and Social Protest in Germany |
| January 31, 2013 | Sascha Pöhlmann, LMU München | From Whitman to 9/11: Future-founding American Poetry |
| January 17, 2013 | Frank Mehring, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands | Weary Blues: Neuroaesthetics and the Nexus of Visual Art and Music in Euro-American Contexts |
| December 6, 2012 | Pia Wiegmink, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, and Birgit Bauridl, University of Regensburg | Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies: Concepts, Projects, Perspectives |
| November 22, 2012 | Hubert Zapf, University of Augsburg | Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology |
| July 5, 2012 | Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park | A New World of Secrets: Apocalyptic Materialism and the European Discovery of America |
| June 16, 2012 | Pireeni Sudaralingam, San Francisco | Transforming Narratives: A Writer's Perspective on Transnationality |
| June 14, 2012 | Maurice Kenny and Derek C. Maus | Native American Poetry Today |
| May 24, 2012 | Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Torquing Back: Jitterbug Memory and National Nostalgia: Interviews with Dancers and 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 16, 2012 | Ulrich Adelt, University of Wyoming, Laramie | Just play the Blues. African Americans, Afro Germans, white Germans and the Politics of Primitivism |
| May 3, 2012 | Barry Shank, Ohio State University, Columbus; Fulbright-Professor University of 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, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität 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, University of Wyoming | 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, University of Maryland, College Park Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg | 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, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton; FL; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Secrecy, Miscegenation, and the Politics of Pregnancy in Harlem Renaissance Women’s Drama |
| May 18, 2010 | Steve Estes, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA; Visiting Professor, Universität Erfurt | 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 | Mary 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 at University of 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-Maximilians-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, 2009 | 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, University of Regensburg | Obama, Clinton oder McCain? Anmerkungen zum US-Vorwahlkampf |
| May 26, 2008 | Michael Maher, University of Louisiana; Fulbright-Professor Universität Regensburg | Whatever happened to the American Environmentalist Movement |
| May 26, 2008 | Gerlinde Groitl, University of 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, University of 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, University of California, San Diego; Carlos Morton, University of California, Santa Barbara; 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, NY | 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 University of 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 | 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 Passau | 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 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; Fulbright-Professor at University of 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, 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, University of 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 | Tropicalization of Latino Culture |
| June 5, 2002 | Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA | 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 | 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, MA | New' Literature from the South |
| Dec 4, 2001 | Gerry Brenner, University of Montana, Missoula; Fulbright-Professor at University of 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 Prophecy 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 University of 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, TX | 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 University of Regensburg, and Michael Pierce, Tarleton State University, TX | 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 University of 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 | 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 |