Guest lecture by Dr. Mareike Spychala (University of Bamberg) 

Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 4 p.m., Building 105, Hall C

This lecture is organized as part of the lecture "American Speculative Fiction," taught by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher. 

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Guest lecture by Stefan Benz (University of Bonn) 

Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 4 p.m., Building 103, S 82

This lecture is organized as part of the seminar "Sound, Silence, and Noise in US Literature and Culture," taught by Dr. Mahshid Mayar. 

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Guest lecture by Andrew Erickson (University of Potsdam) 

Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 2 p.m., Building 105, Hall C

This lecture is organized as part of the lecture "American Speculative Fiction," taught by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher. 

In his talk, Andrew Erickson will discuss the alternative historical and future imaginaries of Colson Whitehead and Ta-Nehisi Coates, placing them in a longer tradition Black American and Afrofuturist Speculation.

Andrew Erickson is an independent scholar affiliated with the University of Potsdam, whose recent publications focus on anti-intellectualism and contested histories and on the critical Black posthumanism of American disaster fiction. He is the co-editor of Transnational Literatures and Literary Transfer in the 20th and 21st Centuries, due to appear in Autumn 2023, and currently works on a Ph.D. project that understands postapocalyptic speculative fiction by Black American makers through the lens of resistance and resurgence in the afterlives of American enslavement and settler colonialism. Research interests include postcolonial studies, transnational/ transoceanic literatures, Knowledge Transfer, science communication, science and speculative fiction (esp. Afrofuturism), critical posthumanisms, and digital humanities.