Latest Geisteswissenschaften Podcast Episodes

Jens Temmen on Mars

Talking American Studies - May 22, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
... leaving this planet behind (or not) with Dr. Jens Temmen (HHU Düsseldorf). Listen in on us Talking American Studies: the difference between the PhD and the PostDoc phase, on Mars colonization, climate change, and the havoc an error in translation can wreak. Featuring Dr. Jens Temmen https:...

Debate, Democracy, Diversity: University Politics and American Studies; with E. Yekani, M. Klepper, E. Kimmell, N. Habib.

Talking American Studies - November 13, 2020 18:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode, Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani , Prof. Dr. Martin Klepper, Emma Kimmell, and  Nisreen Habib,(Humboldt-Universität Berlin) reflect on university politics, racism, structural change and, of course, American Studies. The interview was inspired by a town hall meeting at the America...

Debate, Democracy, Diversity: University Politics and American Studies; with E. Yekani, M. Klepper, E. Kimmel, N. Habib.

Talking American Studies - November 13, 2020 18:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode, Prof. Dr. Elahe Hashemi Yekani, Prof. Dr. Martin Klepper, Emma Kimmel, and  Nisreen Habib,(Humboldt-Universität Berlin) reflect on university politics, racism, structural change and, of course, American Studies. The interview was inspired by a town hall meeting at the American S...

Conspiracy Theories and being a 'Public' Academic with M. Butter

Talking American Studies - October 17, 2020 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
 … all about conspiracy theories – Prof. Michael Butter (University Tübingen) talks about the history of conspiracy theories and their status today, about relating academic research to public audiences, and the importance of engaging with so-called unloved subjects. Last but not least - we're ta...

White Supremacy (COPAS special issue) with S. Spatzek and C. Essi

Talking American Studies - March 20, 2020 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode we are talking White Supremacy in American Studies: Cedric Essi (https://www.lili.uni-osnabrueck.de/institut_fuer_anglistikamerikanistik/lehre/lehrende/mitarbeiterdetails.html) and Samira Spatzek (http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/lehrpersonal/spatzek.aspx) are discussing the newest ...

Black Canada with N. Sawallisch and R. Njeri

Talking American Studies - December 20, 2019 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Black Canada - Dr. Nele Sawallisch and Rahab Njeri are talking American Studies: about the long history of Black people in the 'great white north,' about slavery in Canada, about what happens once people reached the final destination of the underground railroad, and about oversights and erasure ...

African American Worldmaking in the Long Nineteenth Century

Talking American Studies - November 01, 2019 12:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
We’re talking American Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Postcolonial studies, subjectivity and agency, HBCUs, Monticello, Sally Hemings, Zora Neale Hurston, Dawn, --- and that’s just the beginning. Featuring Chet'la Sebree (Bucknell University), Erik Redling (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Witt...

Native North American Archives of the Future with K. Baudemann

Talking American Studies - May 25, 2019 20:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Talking American Studies with Kristina Baudemann from the Europa-Universität Flensburg about her and Prof. Birgit Däwes’ new project - Knowing Tomorrow 2.0: Twenty-first Century Native North American Archives of Futurity - about Indigenous Futurisms, Indigenous Studies, and so many great article...

Risk Fiction with S. Mayer and J. Cortiel

Talking American Studies - February 27, 2019 23:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The second episode of this podcast is inspired by the project “Contemporary American Risk Fiction” at the University of Bayreuth. The two professors behind it, Prof. Dr. Jeanne Cortiel and Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer, are talking about the underlying theories, the standing of risk as a category in li...

Digital Humanities with A. Dunst and D. Mischke

Talking American Studies - December 15, 2018 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Our very first episode features the two editors of the current special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies on Digital Humanities. They are talking about the challenges and advantages of DH, bring up some of their favorite projects that merge computational methods and North American Studies,...