Guest Lectures
Guest Lectures in WiSe 22/23
October, 14 - December, 29: "The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: A Stage Reading of Historical Documents", student project, exhibition and stage reading, Dr. Andreas Etges and Alexandra Schenke (Amerika-Institut, München)
October, 28, Prof. Mary Anne Trasciatti (Hofstra Universität, New York): "Why We Remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire", Online lecture.
November, 3: Filmmaker Michael Kalb: „Die letzten Zeitzeugen“.
November, 9-11: "Civil Sentimentalism in the Americas". International Workshop with Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg & Bavarian American Academy) and Ursula Prutsch (LMU München)
November, 15: "Places of Assimilation: Canada’s Residential Schools."Guest lecture with Ken Letander, former Statement Collections Officer with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
December, 8, Prof. Dr. Fabio Parasecoli (New York University): "Gastroactivism: Food, Identity, Politics"
January, 11, Katharina Fackler (Bonn University): “Social Documentary Photography and the Contours of Liberalism in the 1960s.”
January, 17, "Compensation over Reconciliation: Land Claim Processes and Canada’s Search for 'Certainty.'" Guest lecture with Allister Morrison, Senior Policy Advisor at Indigenous Services Canada
January, 18, Giorgia Tommasi (LMU München) : “Class, Race, and Power in Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age.”
February, 1, Katharina Motyl (University of Mannheim): “What Counts as Surviving? Negotiations of Indigenous Dispossession and Poverty in Morgan Talty's Night of the Living
Rez.”
February 8, "The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: A Stage Reading of Historical Documents", szenische Lesung, with Dr. Andreas Etges and Alexandra Schenke (Amerika-Institut, München)
Guest lectures in Sose 2022
May, 2, 6pm, „Der ‚neue‘ Autoritarismus in Brasilien“, with Ricardo Regatieri (Universidade Federal de Bahia, Brasilien)
May 11, 6pm, “Mentoring Program of the Alumni Associacion”, Info and Q&A with Raffaella della Santi (Alumni Association)
May 23, 2pm (zoom): “Documentary Comics” (exact title tba), with Johannes Schmied (University of Flensburg)
May 30, 12 am, "Magic GM Beans: soybean, history, and development of first GM varieties in the Americas", with Claiton Marcio da Silva (Federal University of the Southern Frontier (UFFS)
May 31 – June 1 (LMU Senatssaal and zoom) "LMU Latin America Forum“, in cooperation with the LMU Latin America Network, which the AI is part of.
June 13, 12 am, “title tba” with Michele Troy (University of Hartford)
June 14, 2 pm (Amerikahaus Munich), “Another Marshall Plan? Myths and Truths 75 Years Later”, with David Ellwood (Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies Europe)
June 20, 6pm, "Between 'letrados' and 'social engineers': lawyers and legal education in Inter-American development cooperation, 1945-1969" with Andrés Jiménez Angel (Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, and LMU München)
June 21, 7 pm, Amerikahaus Munich, “The Reparation of Reconciliation. The Evolution of Financial Compensation to Indigenous Peoples in Canada as a Result of Colonialism” with Jean-Pierre Morin (History Department at Carleton University)
July 20-22, Amerikahaus Munich, Workshop and Symposium on “New Orleans”, directed by Bryan Wagner from the LMU-Berkeley cooperation
July 5-6, John Lowe (University of Georgia), (Details tba)
