Making America: Gastvorträge an der Bamberger Amerikanistik 

The public lecture series "Making America" is an integral part of Bamberg’s American Studies program. Internationally renowned scholars, journalists, writers and filmmakers committed to critical and original thinking present their work on American literature, culture, history, politics, and the arts, engaging their audience in an open and dynamic debate.

For details and pictures, please click on the titles below. 

Gastvorträge im Sommersemester 2013

"The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish", Poetry Reading with Joshua Weiner, American Poet from Washington D.C., current recipient of the prestigious Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, Montag 03.06.2013, Beginn 19 Uhr, Collibri Buchhandlung (Austrasse 12)

"Mark Twain: The Man in White and His Autobiographies", Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer, Universität Graz, Donnerstag 06.06.2013, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, U5/00.24

Poetry Reading with Henry Beissel (Canada), Dienstag 11.06.2013, 16:15-17:45 Uhr, U5/00.24

"Postmodern Laughter" Prof. Dr. Randi Gunzenhäuser, TU Dortmund, Donnerstag 11.07.2013, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, U5/00.24

Gastvorträge im Wintersemester 2012/2013

"’The Land is Deep in Time’: Stories, Places, Immigrants and Indigeneity in Canada", Prof. Dr. Hartmut Lutz, Chair of American and Canadian Studies, Institute for English and American Studies, University of Greifswald, 21.01.2013

"American Election Night: Wahlparty mit Podiumsdiskussion, Präsentation, Election Quiz und Live Coverage", Diskussion mit Mike Pilewski (Spotlight), Nora Gomringer (Villa Concordia), Prof. Dr. Thomas Saalfeld (Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft), Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt (Amerikanistik), 26.11.2012

"Americanism, anti-Americanism and the 2012 Presidential Election", Brendon O'Connor, US Studies Centre, University of Sidney, 29.10.2012

Gastvorträge im Sommersemester 2012

"The Freakshow. Representations of Extraordinary Bodies in the 19th Century", Dr. Andrea Zittlau, Universität Rostock, 03.05.2012

"Coming Face to Face with the Past: A Personal History of Civil War Reenacting in the United States", Claire Scott, Dartmouth College, 14.05.2012

“From Sojourner Truth to Michelle Obama: Black Women's Role in the African American Freedom Struggle", PD Dr. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, LMU/ GHI Washington D.C., 19.06.2012

"Ecocriticism, Risk, and Climate Change Fiction", Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer, Universität Bayreuth, 20.06.2012

"Gendering the Civil War: Reimagination des Krieges in Hollywood", Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen, Universität Zürich, 26.06.2012

"The Languages of Expansion in America: Imperial Policies and the Antebellum Novel", Dr. Gabriella Vöő, University of Pécs, Hungary, 27.06.2012

"The Role of Race and Religion in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election", Prof. Dr. David Canon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 05.07.2012

"Underground Environments and the Texas Oil Gothic", Dr. Georgiana Banita, Universität Bamberg, 11.07.2012

Gastvorträge im Wintersemester 2011/2012

"'Leitkultur' oder 'Multikulturalismus'? Nationale Identität in den USA und Frankreich im Vergleich", Prof. Dr. Berndt Ostendorf, LMU München, 28.11.2011

"Edgar Allan Poe", Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck, Universität Freiburg, 15.12.2011

"America's Newest Voting Bloc: Who Are the 'New Evangelicals'? - and other remarks about the 2012 US presidential election", Prof. Dr. Marcia Pally, New York University, 10.01.2012

"Amerika, im Hinterhof erklärt - Der Comic-Strip Gasoline Alley von Frank King", Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17.01.2012

Gastvorträge im Sommersemester 2011

"Climate Refugees", Michael P. Nash, Award-Winning Filmmaker: Film und Diskussion mit dem Regisseur, 06.05.2011, Lichtspielkino Bamberg (Untere Königsstrasse 34)

"Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865-1900", Prof. Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 23.05.2011

"The Selling of Soul: African American Radio, Record Stores and Consumer Culture", Prof. Joshua C. Davis, University of North Carolina, 24.05.2011

"Staring at the Amish: An American Mirror" , Prof. M. Lynn Rose & Prof. Steven D. Reschly, Truman State University, 20.06.2011

"The Pennsylvania Germans: Over 300 Years of Secular Integration and Religious Separation", Prof. Leo Gruber, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 04.07.2011

"American Culture and Trauma Since 9/11", Dr. Alexander Dunst University of Nottingham/Berlin, 21.07.2011

Gastvorträge im Wintersemester 2010/2011

"Making America - Editing a New Literary History of America", Prof. Dr. Werner Sollors, Harvard University, 13.01.2011