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Events Summer 2024

  • Apr. 8, 2024, 10:30 a.m. (Hybrid event: Building 103/Room 0.012 and via Zoom): NAS Info Session & Welcome
    To register for the event, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de.

  •  May 15, 4pm, June 3, 4pm: Kathy Acker Reading Room Tour, organized by Melisa Köroglu.

  • June 6, 2024, 2-3:30 p.m. (SSC Gebäude, S4 Sprachlabor): Guest Lecture: "Fat Activism and Fat Life Writing," Judith Schreier (Scholar and Activist). Organized by Verena Wurth as part of the PSMP: "Food and Body Politics in American Literature and Culture." More info here.
    To register for the event, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de. 

  • June. 17, 2024, noon-1:30 p.m. (Hauptgebäude/Room XIb): Guest Lecture: The Precariousness of Freedom: Slave Resistance as Experience, Process, and Representation, Prof. Dr. Charmaine Nelson (U of Massachusetts). Organized by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher as part of the MS "Identities: African and African American Literature," taught by Dr. Habil. Johanna Pitetti-Heil. More info here.
    To register for the event, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de. 

  •  June 25, 2024, 2 - 3.30 p.m. (Building 106/S12): Guest Lecture: “'We going to hold on to you': James Baldwin, Jesmyn Ward, and the Potentialities of (Radical) Care," Dr. Alexandra Hartmann (U of Paderborn): Organized by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher as part of the HS: "Black Masculinity and Kinship in African American Literature and Culture."
    To register for the event, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de. 

  • June. 26, 2024, noon-1:30 p.m. (Aula 2, main building): Guest Lecture: "The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity," Prof. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University). Organized by Dr. Habil. Johanna Pitetti-Heil.
    To register for the event, please contact american-studies[at]uni-koeln.de.