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Organized by Prof. Dr. Timo Müller and Dr. Moritz Ingwersen

Lecture by Dr. Michael Collins, King's College, London, Dec 17, 2020

Supported by a grant from the University of Konstanz International Office. Online graduate seminar on the aesthetics, poetics, and politics of oil in American culture (WS 2020/21), organized by Moritz Ingwersen.

23.-25. September 2020

Co-organized by Moritz Ingwersen and Sina Steglich (German Historical Institute London), this workshop for early-career scholars examines the rise of scientific conceptions of time and temporality in the nineteenth century as central to interdisciplinary dialogues between the humanities and the natural sciences in the context of the Anthropocene. Keynote speakers come from the fields of media theory, literary studies, and history.

Recent events in the United States have spotlighted the persistence of deeply engrained structures of systemic racism on all levels of society—not only in North America but also in the United Kingdom, Germany, and other European countries.

February 14-15, 2020. Bischofsvilla

The conference examines how traditional modalities of literary poetry are extended and transformed in new poetic practices such as poetry slams, rap music, YouTube poetry, and avant-garde rhyme. Organized by the American Studies team at Konstanz, the conference discusses case studies from the United States to map the shifting relationships among aesthetics, materiality, and cultural politics that emerge from these new poetries.

November 15, 2019, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Room H 304

(in the context of the DFG-network workshop "Americana: Ästhetik, Authentizität und Performance in der US-amerikanischen populären Musik.")

organized by PD Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann, American Studies.

July 3, 2019, 3:15-4:45 PM, Room H 307

organized by Prof. Dr. Timo Müller, American Studies

June 11, 2019, 1:30-3:00 PM, Room A 701

(in the context of the lecture "British Literature and Culture I" by Prof. Dr. Christina Wald)

Guest lecture by the renowned Shakespeare scholar Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse, USA)