Perspectives on American Literature and Culture 2025
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien
Mittwoch, 18 Uhr (c.t.) in Raum 201
16. April
Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University): "Algorithms, Uncertainty, and the Ambiguities of Play in Richard Powers's Playground"
30. April
Dustin Breitenwischer (Universität Hamburg): "'You just take a look at him once in a while": Ralph Ellison's Frederick Douglass"
7. Mai
Birte Christ (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen): "Why Helmut Read Hemingway: American Authors and the Post-War (Re-)Construction of a Broad German Reading Public"
14. Mai
Heike Paul (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): "From Lost Colony to Lost Cause: American Beginnings Revisited"
21. Mai
Sianne Ngai (The University of Chicago): "lnhabiting Error: From "Last Christmas to "Senior's Last Hour.""
28. Mai
Andrew Hartman (lllinois State University): "Karl Marx in America"
4. Juni
Werner Sollors (Harvard University): "Approaches to American Literature in Cosmopolitan and Ethic Contexts"
Katja Sarkowsky (Univeristy of Augsburg): "Writing Rivers: Water, Relationality, and Political Critique"
25. Juni
Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Frozen Subjectivity: Vulnerability and Aesthetics at the End ofthe World"
2. Juli
Christa Buschendort (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): "Artists and lntellectuals in Times of Repression: A Symposium on 'Art and Morals' at Smith College in 1953"
9. Juli
Julia Faisst (TU Dortmund Univesity): "Disappearing Children: Border Narratives of Underage Migration"
16. Juli
Katharina Gerund (University of Zürich): "The Waiting Wives of the Forever Wars: Military Spouses in Post-9/11 US Culture"
