Guest Lectures

see also: W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures

Professor Keya Ganguly, Dept. of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Multicultural Ethics and the Spirit of Late Capitalism
10. Dezember 1997

Prof. Dr. Anne Koenen, Institut für Amerikanistik, Universität Leipzig
Risse im naturalistischen Weltbild: Moral, Stadterfahrung und Weiblichkeit in Theodore Dreisers Sister Carrie
23. Januar 1997

Prof. Dr. Christine Noll Brinckmann, Institut für Filmwissenschaft Universität Zürich
John Fords Kriegsdokumentarfilm "The Battle of Midway" (1942): Zwischen Fiktionalisierung und Propaganda
27. November 1996

Prof. David Nye, Center for American Studies Odense University, Denmark
De-realizing the Grand Canyon
6. Juni 1996

Prof. Joan Scott, Princeton University
"Rereading the History of Feminism"
1. Juni 1996

Prof. Harvard Sitkoff, Department of History University of New Hampshire
Multiculturalism and American Historiography
15. Mai 1996

Prof. Dr. Martin Christadler, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main
Heavenly Cities in the West: Crosses, Cathedrals, Monuments and the Ruins of Time. Allegorizing American Landscape in the 19th Century
18. Januar 1996

Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
Life Writing from the Colonial Period to the Early Republic
7. Dezember 1995

Prof. Richard Burt, University of Massachussetts, Amherst
"Getting off the Subject: Tabloid Theory, Academic Celebrity, and the Institution of Criticism"
23. November 1995

Prof. Robert Reid-Pharr, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Queer Cartography: Race, Violence and the Ideology of Ambivalence
5. Juli 1995

Prof. Robert Reid-Pharr, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Speaking through Anti-Semitism: The Nation of Islam and the Poetics of Black Counter-Modernity
28. Juni, 1995

Prof. Dr. Gisela Ecker, Universität-Gesamthochschule Paderborn
"No one would have guessed her race": Der Körper als Zeichen in Texten jüdisch-amerikanischer Autorinnen
22. Juni 1995

Prof. Dr. Peter Freese, Amerikanistik der Universität Paderborn
"Innocents Abroad" versus "Coca Cola Conquistadores" or Contradictory Images of America
30. November 1994

Prof. Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ralph Ellison, "Huckleberry Finn," and American Nationality
17.November 1994

Dr. Catrin Gersdorf, Institut für Amerikanistik der Universität Leipzig
Kathy Ackers "Don Quixote": Plagiat oder Intertext?
15. November 1994

Prof. Jeffrey M. Peck, Georgetown University Washington, D.C.
The Case of the Absent Foreskin: Making German Jewish Difference a Potential Identity for German Cultural Studies
11. Juli 1994

Prof. Dr. Michael Geyer, University of Chicago
"Positionality" and "Temporality" oder "So wie man sich bettet, so liegt man": Zur Praxis des amerikanischen und deutschen Multikulturalismus
4. Juli 1994

Prof. Dr. Hans Michael Sommer, Europa-Repräsentant der Austin Sheinkopf, Ltd, USA
America: Populism, Progressivism and World War I
1. Juli 1994

Dr. Sabine Bröck, Institut für England- und Amerikstudien Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
White Women, Race Matters
20. Juni 1994

Anne Halley, Amherst, Massachussetts
Poetry Reading
15. Juni 1994

Dr. Sabine Sielke, John F. Kennedy-Institut Freie Universität Berlin
Modernist Poetry and Poetics
9. Juni 1994

Prof. Dr. Jules Chametzky, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nationalisms/Multiculturalism - American Studies/American Nationalism
30. Mai 1994

Prof. Dr. Manning Marable, Institute for Research in African-American Studies Columbia University, New York
Theory of Multicultural Democracy
16. Mai 1994

Prof. Dr. Anne Koenen, Institut für Amerikanistik Universität Leipzig
The Fantastic in Recent American Women's Writing
16. Februar 1994

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University
As She Lay Dying: On Toni Morrison's "Jazz"
31. Januar 1994