Anna Marta Marini (JFKI Humboldt Foundation Fellow): “Ethnoracial Borderscapes, Latinx Assimilationism, and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments in US Cinema”
29 April - Frankel Lecture - (Großer Hörsaal, Arnimallee 22)
Brook Thomas (University of California, Irvine) : “Birthright Citizenship, Ltd.: The Controversy over Trump's Executive Order 14610”
6 May
Renae Watchman (McMaster University/Mercator Fellow, Universität Potsdam): “Re-storying Indigenous Identity Claims in Literary and Creative Arts”
13 May
Günter Leypoldt (Universität Heidelberg): “Literature and Networks: A Socio-Institutional Perspective on Literary History”
20 May
Simon Strick (Independent Scholar): “On Fascistization, or American Culture as Bad Object”
3 June
Mark Rifkin (University at Buffalo): “Indigenous Erotics, Leaky Bodies, and Grounded Relations: Queer Native Placemaking in Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed”
10 June
Christa Dierksheide (University of Virginia) & Nicholas Guyatt (Cambridge University): “Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery”
11 June - special event (at 6pm, R340)
Jennifer Fleissner (University of Chicago): “The Recalcitrant Self: From Collectivity to Interdependence”
17 June
Maria Sulimma (Universität Freiburg): “Trivial Pursuits: Narrative, Leisure, and the Gentrifying City”
24 June
Shane Denson (Stanford University): “Art & Artifice, or: What AI Means for Aesthetics”
1 July
Stefanie Schäfer (Universität Mannheim): “Fact & Fiction, Fashion & Feminism: Towards a Critical Study of the First Lady”
8 July
Hunter Hargraves (California State University, Fullerton): “Democracy Dies in the Edit: American Tribalism and Late-Stage Reality Television”
15 July
Nicole Waller (Universität Potsdam): “Posthumanism, Indigenous Studies, and Black Studies on Turtle Island: Conversations and Incommensurabilities”
