American Studies Week 2024

Welcome to our American Studies Week 2024.

You can find an overview of our program below!

All students, doctoral students, and faculty are welcome!

Organized by: Prof. Dr. Birgit Däwes

Event

A Celebration of our North American Partnerships
Wednesday, November 06, 18:00 - on Webex. Join here!

As students at Europa-Universität Flensburg’s English department, you have the chance to spend a semester studying at one of our partner universities in the U.S. and Canada. We have several partnerships in North America, some of them quite recent, some long-established, which offer you exciting opportunities for a semester abroad, especially in the fifth semester of your B.A. If you are currently thinking about a semester abroad in the U.S. or Canada, then this digital event, which is part of the American Studies Week at the department, is your chance to hear directly from our partner institutions there, get a short introduction to their campus and to student life on this campus and get an idea of what it would be like to study there for one semester. The event will be especially useful to you if you are currently a third or first semester B.A. student.

Guest Lecture

A Guest Lecture on and Discussion of the 2024 US Presidential Election
Thursday, November 07, 16:00, TAL 007 and on Webex
Professor Jay Wendland, Associate Professor of Political Science
Daemen University, Amherst, USA

Workshop

Current Research in American Studies
Friday, November 08, 09:00-16:00 - OSL 248

09:00-09:45	Loerdy Wesely (Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg): "Ruins: An Artistic Approach to the Forgotten, the Remembered, and the Imagined"
10:00-11:45	Johannes Babbe, "Writing the Early Republic Con Man: The Criminal Autobiographies of Henry Tufts (1748-1831) and Stephen Burroughs (1765-1840)" Jana Rosebrock, "Black American Memory on Screen: Lovecraft Country (2020) and Underground Railroad (2021)"
13:00-14:45	Nicole Poppenhagen, "Entangled Continents: Transpacific Intimacies in Chinese American Family Narratives" Bethany Webster-Parmentier, "The Horror of Medicalized Birth in The Only Good Indians"
15:00-15:45	Marie Hartkopf, "The Negative Impact of AI Infrastructure Projects on the Regional and National Power Grid. The Role of Data Center Construction in the Case of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project"