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Whitman Week in Chicago, June 24-29, 2013
Students are invited to apply for the 6th Whitman Week in Chicago - a complete credit-bearing seminar on one of America's most innovative and influential poets, taught by international specialists.
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American Guest Professor in Bamberg
In April 2013, American scholar and writer Tom Whalen will join our institute as international guest professor. He will teach 4 seminars (PS/ HS) on American literature and culture that are open to all students in our BA, MA and Lehramt programs.
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One Week in Paris: American Modernism in the French Capital
During a 5-day exursion, students explored the many connections between American Literature and Modernist Art in Paris during the 'Roaring Twenties.'
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Exploring Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau
Schloss Neuschwanstein and Canada - for the participants of the seminar “Germans in Canadian Literature and Culture” this connection became perfectly clear when they went on a field trip to Southern Bavaria to explore two castles of ‘mad’ king Ludwig II.
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Antrittsvorlesung Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt
Am 22.10.2012 hielt Christine Gerhardt, Inhaberin der Professur für Amerikanistik, ihre Antrittsvorlesung an der Universität Bamberg. Zum Vortrag "Disequilibrium Poetics: Migration und Ökologie in der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur" und zum anschließenden Empfang erschienen zahlreiche Studierende und Kolleg/innen.
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Bibliothekstutorien im SoSe 2013
Informationen zu Inhalten, Terminen und Anmeldemodalitäten der verpflichtenden Bibliothekstutorien zu den "Introductions to English and American Literature" sowie zu den Seminaren im Aufbaumodul
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Erste Staatsprüfung (mündlich) an öffentlichen Schulen
Informationen für Studierende, die ihre erste Staatsprüfung ablegen wollen.
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Dr. M. Lynn Rose and Dr. Steven D. Reschly (Truman State University, Missouri): "Staring at the Amish: An American Mirror"
20.06.2011, 18:15 Uhr, MS12/00.09
Who are the Amish? Contemporary media portrayals of the Amish reveal shifting North American ideals and anxieties: the Amish are represented as the ultimate remnants of American adherence to Pioneer simplicity, old-time Christian chastity, and naïve religious doctrine. They embody the Good Old Days. This lecture links popular portrayals of the Amish to the early 20th century side-show carnival, which situated the limits of normalcy by exhibiting corporal and social abnormality.
Aspects of purported Amish lifestyle have made their way into popular culture via ‘reality’ television shows such as “Amish in the City,” “The Simple Life,” and “The World’s Squarest Teenagers.” In all cases, the perception of Amish society is distorted and packaged as a didactic commodity for mainstream Americans, and the resulting relationship lends itself to Freak Studies: Amish communities are put on-stage (both figuratively and literally) for shock value or to be morally uplifting, just as the daily life of so-called exotic tribes was exhibited at the State Fair. Using the Disability Studies concept of freakery and critical analyses of staring, the lecture discusses intersections of myths and reality in the way that Amish communities are packaged for American consumption.
Lynn Rose ist Professorin für Geschichte an der Truman State University, Missouri, und hat sich besonders auf dem Gebiet der Cultural Studies und Disability Studies profiliert. Sie ist Autorin von The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece (2003) und mitwirkende Autorin der Encyclopedia of Disability (2006).
Steven Reschly ist ebenfalls Historiker an der Truman State University, und ist spezialisiert auf die Geschichte und Kultur der Amish. Er ist Autor von The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840-1910 (2000) und Mitherausgeber von Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History (2002).
Vortrag in englischer Sprache, Diskussion auf Englisch und Deutsch.