Making America: Gastvorträge an der Bamberger Amerikanistik 

This lecture series is an integral part of Bamberg’s American Studies program. Internationally renowned scholars as well as journalists, writers and filmmakers committed to critical, original thinking present their work on American literature, culture, history, politics, and the arts, engaging students, faculty and the general public in an open and dynamic debate.

Gastvorträge im Sommersemester 2012

• "The Freakshow. Representations of Extraordinary Bodies in the 19th Century", Dr. Andrea Zittlau, Universität Rostock, 03.05.2012, 16.15–17.45, U2/133

• "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, 12.15-13.45, U2/133

• “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, 16.15-17.45, U5/024

• "Ecocriticism, Risk, and Climate Change Fiction," Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer, Universität Bayreuth, 20.06.2012, 16.15-17.45, MS12/009

• "Gendering the Civil War: Reimagination des Krieges in Hollywood," Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen, Universität Zürich, 26.06.2012, 16.15-17.45, U7/105

• " The Languages of Expansion in America: Imperial Policies and the Antebellum Novel," Gabriella Vöő, University of Pécs, Hungary, 27.06.2012, 12.15-13.45, U9/111

• "The Role of Race and Religion in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election," Prof. Dr. David Canon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5.07.2012, 14.15-15.45, U5/024

• "Underground Environments and the Texas Oil Gothic," Dr. Georgiana Banita, Universität Bamberg,11.07.2012, 16.15-17.45, MS12/009

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, 12.15-13.45 Uhr, U2/025
  
  
• "Edgar Allan Poe," Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck, Universität Freiburg, 15.12.2011, 14.15 - 15.45 Uhr, U5/024
  
  
• "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, 16.15-17.45 Uhr, U5/024
  
  
• "Amerika, im Hinterhof erklärt - Der Comic-Strip Gasoline Alley von Frank King," Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17.01.2012, 14.15-15.45 Uhr

Gastvorträge im Sommersemester 2011

• "Climate Refugees," Michael P. Nash, Award-Winning Filmmaker: Film und Diskussion mit dem Regisseur, 6.5.2011

• "Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865-1900," Prof. Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 23.5.2011

• “ The Selling of Soul: African American Radio, Record Stores and Consumer Culture, ” Prof. Joshua C. Davis, University of North Carolina, 24.5.2011

• "Staring at the Amish: An American Mirror," Prof. M. Lynn Rose & Prof. Steven D. Reschly, Truman State University, 20.6.2011

• "The Pennsylvania Germans: Over 300 Years of Secular Integration and Religious Separation," Prof. Leo Gruber, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 4.7.2011

• "American Culture and Trauma Since 9/11," Dr. Alexander Dunst University of Nottingham/Berlin, 21.7.2011

Gastvorträge im Wintersemester 2010/2011

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