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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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Prof. Leo Gruber (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania): "The Pennsylvania Germans: Over 300 Years of Secular Integration and Religious Separation"
04.07.2011, 12:15 Uhr, K25/00.16
Often called the “Pennsylvania Dutch” because of a corruption of the word “Deitsch,” the Pennsylvania Germans are a mixture of settlers who came to America from southwestern Germany’s Palatinate, Alsace, and German speaking Switzerland.
The Pennsylvania Dutch are a particularly fascinating group of immigrants because they both developed their own culture and dialect as unmistakably German, and adapted to the new world. Over the course of the twentieth century, with its secularization, industrial development and two world wars, most Pennsylvania Dutch become part of mainstream American culture. That is why today, when people think about the Pennsylvania Dutch, they almost always think about the Amish and Mennonites, the two religious groups who have rejected change and modernity in favor of a simple, rural existence. But while it is true that the Amish and the Mennonites have preserved the linguistic heritage of the Pennsylvania German dialect, many other Pennsylvanians with a German background continue to practice folk traditions of their ancestors and strive to ensure that the historical significance of the Pennsylvania Dutch is not lost. This lecture will focus on various cultural aspects of the Pennsylvania Germans such as food, hex signs, powwowing, the Swiss barn, Belsnickel, the Pennsylvania German dialect, the Conestoga wagon, the Kentucky Rifle and much more–and show how the Pennsylvania Germans have found their place simultaneously inside and outside of contemporary U.S. American Culture.
Leo Gruber ist Dozent für deutsche Sprache und Kultur an der Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Er ist der Autor der Monographie Morphologische Aspekte der Jugendsprache Deutscher aus Russland in Bayreuth (2001); seine Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen die deutsche Jugendsprache, Slang und Redewendungen, sowie die Kultur und Sprache der „Pennsylvania Dutch“.
Vortrag in englischer Sprache, Diskussion auf Englisch und Deutsch.
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Akademischen Auslandsamt und freundlicher Unterstützung des Welcome Centers der Universität Bamberg