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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. Andrea Zittlau (Universität Rostock): "The Freakshow. Representations of Extraordinary Bodies in the 19th Century"
3.05.2012, 16:15 Uhr, U2/01.33
With the rise of the Disability Studies, extraordinary bodies were brought back to the academic stage where a special interest grew around the popular entertainment of the freakshow. Particularly en vogue in the late nineteenth century, the freakshow presented bodies that did not meet the category of the normal as parts of grotesque or fantastic narratives. Presented by Phineas Taylor Barnum or examined by Rudolf Virchow the performers met curious audiences everywhere and their bodies became important articulations of self, nation, science and eventually symbols of their time.
Andrea Zittlau works currently as a research assistant and lecturer at the department of North American Studies at the University of Rostock, Germany. She also coordinates the Graduate School “Cultural Encounters and Discourses of Scholarship” at the University of Rostock. She has recently finished her PhD thesis about the representation of cultures inside museums (“Packaging Culture. How Ethnographic Museums Challenge Their Past, Present, and Future”). Her latest project deals with disfigurement and emotion in American fiction of the 19th century.
