HAVE A LITTLE FAITH IN AMERICA!

Let’s celebrate July 4 with food and amusing, thoughtful, and moving stories about faith in America — literally! The special event „Faith in America“ featuring members of North American Studies @ UDE will be held at 6:30 p.m., following the ESG’s regular „Schicht im Schacht“ prayer meeting at 6:00 p.m. Our presenters will take us on a whirlwind journey through America’s fascinating yet entangled relationship with faith.

Joining us for the occasion will be:
Florian Freitag: „Catholicism’s Worst Advocate Ever: Louis Armand, Baron de Lahontan“
Elena Furlanetto & Melih Kökcü: „The Unique Tree: The Sufi Roots of American Romanticism“
Zohra Hassan-Pieper: „Ms. Marvel: Soaring High or Flying Low? An Examination of America’s First Muslim Female Superhero“
Ana Elisa Gomez Laris: „‚Mourning, how are you?‘: Celebrating the Dead in Absentia“

The American Studies program of the Department of Anglophone Studies welcomes writer, performer, and activist to Essen for a reading from her brand-new memoir Black Chameleon (Henry Holt & Co., 2023). The event is free and open to the public (no registration needed).

Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton is an internationally-known writer, director, performer, critic and the first Black Poet Laureate of Houston, TX. Her recent memoir, Black Chameleon with Henry Holt & Co. (2023), examines womanhood through mythology. Currently, she is a Resident Artist with the American Lyric Theater, Rice University, and the Houston Museum of African American Culture.

Hosted by Dr. Alexander Starre, North American Studies

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | 18:00 h | Room R11 T04 C60 | Campus Essen

American Studies Talk by Paula M.L. Moya on Multifocal Narratives, hosted by Laura Bieger RUB and Barbara Buchenau UDE

Paula M. L. Moya is the Faculty Director of Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Professor of English, and by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures as well as Burton J. and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University

June 5, 2023, at 6 pm
University of Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, 44801 Bochum, English Department, Room GB6/137
 

Interview mit Andrea Mühlberger für die Sendung "kulturWelt" (Bayern 2)

Prof. Florian Freitag: Minute 09:24 bis 17:07

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The Verband Deutsch-Amerikanischer Clubs (VDAC) is the biggest private US-German exchange program and is looking for candidates. You’ll get the financial support needed, as well as the opportunity to be part of a tight-knit, transatlantic networks of friends and scholars.

Your grades are not the deciding point!
We are looking for leaders, social role models, and German ambassadors. We care about the person and your story.

Interested?

You can contact our local chairperson: Dr. Katharina von Elbwart

Take your chance and study abroad in an Undergrad/Bachelor or Graduate/Master program at US Universities.

Deadline for application

July 1st, 2023

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Find more information

following the link below or feel free to contact the VDAC with any questions.

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​Understanding Tourism and Leisure Spaces

This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies. It identifies and discusses relevant economic, social, and cultural as well as medial, historical, and geographical aspects of theme parks worldwide, from the big international theme park chains to smaller, regional, family-operated parks. The book also describes the theories and methods that have been used to study theme parks in various academic disciplines and reviews the major contexts in which theme parks have been studied. By providing the necessary backgrounds, theories, and methods to analyze and understand theme parks both as a business field and as a socio-cultural phenomenon, this book will be a great resource to students, academics from all disciplines interested in theme parks, and professionals and policy-makers in the leisure and entertainment as well as the urban planning sector.

The American Studies program of the Department of Anglophone Studies is proud to announce a guest lecture by Prof. Gavin Jones (Stanford University) on Wednesday, 15 June 2022.

His talk is titled “The Short Story and Other Media” and explores the place and role of the short story within various media. Gavin Jones is the Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University. His publications include American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 (2007) and Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History (2014). We are going to host the lecture in person and provide a digital alternative.

Wednesday, 15 June 2022
6 to 8 p.m.
Room R11 T04 C60
Universitätsstr. 12, 45141 Essen

If you are interested in joining digitally, please register by sending a short e-mail to dietmar.meinel@uni-ude.de

• "Touristy Linguistic Landscape (LL) alongside the Garden Route National Park in Eastern Cape, South Africa"
  Dr Michael M. Kretzer, Ruhr University Bochum & University of the Western Cape

• "Touring warscapes"
  Prof. Dr. Maida Kosatica, University of Duisburg-Essen

• "The Commodification of Tetun in the LL of Dili, Timor-Leste"
  Dr. Melody Ann Ross, University of Duisburg-Essen

• "Metatouristic Linguistic Landscape: The Case of Greece in Europa-Park" Prof. Dr. Florian Freitag, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Prof. Dr. Martina Schrader-Kniffki, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Wednesday 15 June 2022
Glaspavillon R12 S00 H12, Campus Essen
14:00–17:30

All faculty, students and those interested in Linguistic Landscapes of Tourism are welcome to join us for this interdisciplinary workshop. Find full program and abstracts here.

On Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 4 to 6 pm, Alex Blue V will give the lecture "There's an Echo: Ghosts, Repetition, and Remix in Detroit Hip-Hop" on the campus Essen. Alex is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow in African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the intersections of race, sound, and space. The lecture will take place in R11 T03 C63.

While video games have blossomed into the foremost expression of contemporary popular culture over the past decades, their critical study occupies a fringe position in American Studies. In its engagement with video games, this book contributes to their study but with a thematic focus on a particularly important subject matter in American Studies: spatiality. The volume explores the production, representation, and experience of places in video games from the perspective of American Studies. Contributions critically interrogate the use of spatial myths ("wilderness," "frontier," or "city upon a hill"), explore games as digital borderlands and contact zones, and offer novel approaches to geographical literacy. Eventually, Playing the Field II brings the rich theoretical repertoire of the study of space in American Studies into conversation with questions about the production, representation, and experience of space in video games.

Friday, February 4, and Saturday, February 5, 2022, via Zoom

The doctoral colloquium Ruhr PhD Forum in American Studies offers PhD candidates in American Studies at any stage of the PhD process a forum to present their dissertation projects. The University Alliance Ruhr (UAR) offers a supportive network of international researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, and the University of Duisburg-Essen. Presentations will be discussed by peers, American Studies professors of the three universities, and this year's senior experts Christa Buschendorf (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Klaus Benesch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), two established scholars from the field we invited to join us. Commentators will provide advice and ideas on contents, theoretical foundations, as well as methodology.