North American Studies Bonn

Goodbye X, Hello BlueSky! 👋 We will be closing this X account on November 30, 2024. Make sure to follow us on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/nas-bonn.bs… and Instagram instagram.com/nas.bonn/ to stay updated on news and events from our program!

Join us for the "Forum Beruf North American Studies" on Monday, 24 of June 2024. We welcome four of our alumni for a panel discussion during which our guests will talk about the course their professional path has taken after their MA degree in North American Studies.

We hope you had a great start to 2024 🥰Our Lecture Series is still going strong in the new year! Join us for tomorrow's lecture with Prof. Dr. Regina Schober (University of Düsseldorf) on "American Literature and Digital Selfhood: Algorithms, Affect, Attention" at 6:15 pm 😎

On 12 December, we will be welcoming Prof. Dr. Bryan Wagner from the University of California, Berkeley for an exciting talk on "Law and Performance from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement"! Don't miss out 🥳

We are more than excited about Dr. Mike Cowburn's (@cowburn86) lecture tomorrow on "Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries." Grab a friend and join us for yet another inspiring talk at the Rabinstr. 8, SR 6! 😌

The second round of our NAS Lecture Series is just around the corner: Join us on 7 November for an inspiring talk by Prof. Dr. Gesa Mackenthun (University of Rostock) on Agricultural Imperialism and US Literature - can't wait to learn more? Grab a friend and join us! 🤓

Do you want to learn more about diverse topics that are not addressed in your regular classes or you are simply curious to learn about other scholars' research projects? If you are in Bonn and nearby, join us this semester for our Lecture Series! 😌

It's time again 🥳New semester, new Lecture Series - we would like to warmly invite you to the first lecture of this semester, the Indigenous Peoples Day Lecture, with Dr. Liz Przybylski and Eekwol (Lindsay Knight) - Tuesday, 17 Oct 23. Don't forget to register! ☺️

Don't forget to drop by tomorrow for the Forum Beruf NAS; 4 alumni of our MA North American Studies will report on their experiences in various fields of work - grab a friend and join us! (There will also be a chance to engage in conversations with snacks and drinks afterward!)😌

In our final lecture of this semester's lecture series, we are looking forward to our guest Prof. Dr. Susanne Rohr (University of Hamburg), who will be talking about 'The Transnational Imaginary' in Katie Kitamura’s novel, Intimacies. Grab a friend and join us! ☺️

Join us for the "Forum Beruf North American Studies" on Thursday, 13 July 2023. We welcome four of our alumni for a panel discussion during which our guests will talk about the course their professional path has taken after their MA degree in North American Studies!

Join us tomorrow for a lecture with Prof. Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation, London) on the topic of "Humanities Research and the Crisis of Knowledge"!

Tomorrow is the day! - We will be welcoming Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton (author of Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth) for a reading & conversation at the Dekanatssaal (Rabinstraße 8, 4:00 pm) as part of our Lecture Series! We hope to see you there!😄

Don't forget to drop by tomorrow's lecture by Dr. Karin Esders (Bremen University)! She will be talking about "Aesthetics and Excess: Contemporary Feminist Art". Join us in Room A at the IAAK, Regina-Pacis-Weg 3! 😊

We are happy to announce that on 23 June, there will be a reading & conversation with Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton as part of our Lecture Series. She will read from her recent memoir, Black Chameleon, and later engage in a conversation about her work. Join us for this special event!

Save the date - on 20 June, we will be welcoming Dr. Karin Esders (Bremen University) with a lecture on "Aesthetics and Excess: Contemporary Feminist Art" as part of our ongoing Lecture Series!

Today is the day for yet another lecture from our Lecture Series! Join us later for a reading and conversation with Prof. Frederick Reiken (Emerson College & Hanse Institute for Advanced Study). Prof. Reiken will be reading from his novel Day for Night (2010)!

Ready for another lecture in this semester's lecture series? Come join us today at Dr. Ruth Mayer's (Universität Hannover)'s lecture on "The Original Flapper is a Copy: Modern Periodicals, Serial Circulation and the Modern Girl Multiplied"!

Join us tomorrow for another lecture in this semester's lecture series! We welcome Dr. Elfi Bettinger (Independent Scholar from Berlin) and are very much looking forward to discussing "The West as a Transcultural Genre"!

Listen to the recording of the Rundfunkchor Lounge, w/ poems by Emily Dickinson, music by Aaron Copland and Rudolf Escher & a conversation with Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke on the theme of Dickinson & "the art of being alone"! [Photo: Barbara Braun (c)] deutschlandfunkkultur.de/run…