Veranstaltungen und Termine

Workshop: Current Research in American Studies

8:30-09:00
Welcome and Introduction

09:00-10:00
Hanna Masslich, "Narrating Water/Water’s Narrativity: Representations of (Rising) Water in Contemporary Fiction"

10:15-12:15
Bethany Webster-Parmentier, "Motherhood and Mothering in Twenty-First Century Indigenous Horror"
Laura Jungblut, "We Are Still Here: Sámi Literature in the 21st Century"
Nicole Poppenhagen, "Continents, Islands, Oceans: Conceptualizing Transpacific Relationalities"

13:30-15:30
Johannes Schmid, "(True) Crime and Life Narrative in the Early Republic"
Marie Hartkopf, "Echoes of the Future: Unveiling the Temporal Nature of Artificial Intelligence in Westworld and Black Mirror"
Jana Rosebrock, "'Maybe America has never been great': Remembering an alternative past in Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad (2021)"

15:30 Conclusion