News & Events 2022
Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 18:00-20:00, Campus EssenGuest Lecture by Gavin Jones (Stanford U, USA): The Short Story and Other Media
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
Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 14:-17:30, Campus EssenWorkshop: The Linguistic Landscapes of Tourism
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"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.
Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 4-8 p.m., Campus EssenGuest Lecture by Alex Blue V: "There's an Echo: Ghosts, Repetition, and Remix in Detroit Hip-Hop"
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.
Latest publicationDietmar Meinel: Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies (2022)
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.
February 4-5, 2022Ruhr PhD Forum 2022
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.
January 25, 2022Juliane Borosch at “Hipsters and Gentrifiers” Lecture Series
On January 25, Juliane Borosch will join the lecture series “Hipsters and Gentrifiers”, co-hosted by Maria Sulimma and Heike Steinhoff. Her talk is titled “Jazzing Up the (Post)Industrial City – Scripting Sustainable Futures?” Juliane’s talk with a focus on gentrifiers joins that of Lena Gotteswinter (Erlangen-Nuremberg) on “Female Hipster Performers in Twenty-First Century Popular Music.” In order to sign up please register via cityscripts@uni-due.de.