Upcoming Events
| SoSe 2022 | 2022, May 24, 2 p.m. (Building 106/ Room S24): Guest Lecture by Dr. Linda Heß (U of Augsburg): “Queer Aging: The (In)Visibility of Older Queer Women in Suzette Mayr's The Widows,” organized as part of the seminar "Queer In/Visibility in American literature," taught by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher. This lecture will take place in a room with limited seating. If you want to join the talk and subsequent discussion, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de. |
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*CANCELLED* 2022, June 2, 7.30 p.m. (Zoom): “Invisible Man at 70: Keywords for Teaching Ellison’s Classic Today,” Doing/Teaching American Studies: Teach-In #3, organized by PD Dr. Stefanie Schäfer (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg/ U of Vienna). | |
| 2022, June 20, 4 p.m. (Zoom): Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Colleen Glenney Boggs (Dartmouth College): “Emily Dickinson and War Poetry,” organized as part of the seminar “The Poetry of Emily Dickinson,” taught by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher. This lecture is part of a hybrid course. There is limited seating in the room, but you can attend the lecture via Zoom. If you want to join the talk and subsequent discussion, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de. |
2022, July 5, 2 p.m. (Building 106/ Room S24): Guest lecture by Dr. Katrin Horn (U of Bayreuth): “From Pulp to Carol: In/Visible Histories and Queer Nostalgia,” organized as part of the seminar "Queer In/Visibility in American literature," taught by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher. This lecture will take place in a room with limited seating. If you want to join the talk and subsequent discussion, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de. |
Past Conferences
| SoSe 2021 | 2021, Sept. 23-25 (Zoom): Conference "Speculative Fiction and Ethics," annual conference of the German Association for the Study of the Fantastic (GFF), organized by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher (U of Cologne), Mareike Spychala (U of Bamberg), Sara Tewelde-Negassi (U of Cologne), Lorena Bickert (U of Bamberg) Special Events:
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Past Workshops
| WS 2021/ 2022 | 2022, Jan. 29 & Feb. 12, 2022, 4 - 8 p.m. (Zoom): Creative Writing Workshop with American Poet Laura Passin, organized in collaboration with Mareike Spychala (U of Bamberg) In order to take part in this workshop, please send your application to american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de by Dec. 17, 2021. There are 5 spots per University. You can find more information on the workshop and the application process here. |
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2022, Feb. 3, 7.30 p.m. - 9.15 p.m. (Zoom): “Teach-In 2: Re-reading bell hooks - Being with bell,” organized by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nele Sawallisch (University of Trier). For registration please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de. | |
2021, Dec. 6, 5.30 - 7.30 p.m. (Zoom): Workshop "Ecomedia Writing: Local Practices, Transnational Conversations," organized by Verena Wurth (U of Cologne) and Dr. Stephen Rust (U of Oregon) This workshop is not open to the general public. If you are a graduate student or researcher at the U of Cologne and would like to take part in the workshop, please contact Verena Wurth. | |
| WS 2020/ 2021 | 2021, Mar. 16-17: Workshop "Critical Environmental Education and American Popular Culture," co-organized by Prof. Dr. Betsy Wheeler (University of Oregon) supported by the Bayerische Forschungsallianz (BayFor) |
2021, Feb. 4: Teach-In: "The 1776-Report and its Afterlives: Critical Reponses from American Studies," co-organized with Dr. Stefanie Schäfer (University of Vienna). Click here for a critical bibliography to the 1776-Report. |
Past Guest Lectures
| WS 2021/ 2022 | 2022, Jan. 22, 6 - 7 p.m. (Zoom): Poetry Reading with American Poet Laura Passin, organized in collaboration with Mareike Spychala (U of Bamberg) |
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2022, Jan. 18, noon - 1.30 p.m. (Zoom): Guest Lecture by Maxi Albrecht (JFKI, HU Berlin): “‘Rise Up’: Class Conflict and Neoliberal Speculative Survival in The Walking Dead,” organized as part of the seminar "Masses, Classes, and the State in American Culture," taught by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher. This lecture is part of a course. If you want to join the talk and subsequent class discussion on neoliberalism and survival in contemporary speculative TV, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de. | |
*Cancelled* 2021, Nov. 16, 6 p.m. (Zoom): Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Ed Folsom (U of Iowa): "Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas," organized as part of the seminar "Masses, Classes, and the State in American Culture," taught by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher. This lecture is part of a course. If you want to join the talk and subsequent class discussion on Whitman's views on and hopes for American democracy, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de. | |
2021, Nov. 5, 4 p.m. (Zoom): Info Event on the Department's Exchange Program with the University of Rochester, organized by Dr. Björn Sonnenberg-Schrank. This event is organized by the team of Prof. Dr. Hanjo Berressem. For more information, please contact ascologne@gmail.com. | |
| SoSe 2021 | 2021, Jul. 7: Gastvortrag "Schwarzer Feminismus, Rassismus und Intersektionalität," von Dr. Natasha A. Kelly, organisiert von Verena Wurth mit Unterstützung des Amerikahaus NRW e.V. Köln |
2021, Jul. 6: Guest Lecture "Refugee-Terrorist-Revolutionary: American War as Antiwar Literature," by Dr. Kelly Polasek (Wayne State University, USA) | |
2021, Jun. 8: Auerbach Lecture "Heaven’s Allotment: Contradictions of Class, Race, and Gender in the Melodramas of Douglas Sirk and Todd Haynes," by Prof. Dr. Sandy Flitterman-Lewis (Rutgers University, USA) | |
| WS 2020/ 2021 | 2021, Jan. 11: Guest Lecture "Self and Things: A Posthumanist Reading of Sylvia Plath's Poetry," by Dr. Mahshid Mayar (University of Bielefeld) |
2020, Dec. 21: Guest Lecture on Muriel Rukeyser and Poetry Reading by Dr. Laura Passin (Colorado, USA) | |
2020, Dec. 14: Guest Lecture "The Garden Poetry of Anne Spencer" by Prof. Dr. Melissa Zeiger (Dartmouth College, USA) | |
2020, Nov. 23: Guest Lecture "Emily Dickinson's Garden Ecology of Crisis" by Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt (University of Bamberg) |