Guest Lectures
Guest Lectures in SoSe 2024
Guest Lecture: Jessica J. Lee, “Border Crossings in the More-Than-Human World”
On July 17, 2024, author and environmental historian Jessica J. Lee visited the Amerikahaus for a guest lecture on border-crossing and writing in the More-Than-Human World. In her talk, she reflected on the genre of nature writing and how it is increasingly influenced and shaped by migrant voices, giving shape to a process of witnessing that can help us to further understand the Anthropocene.
This talk considered the role of contemporary nature writing in tackling the complexity of bearing witness to and understanding the Anthropocene. How can hybrid literary forms- fusing prose, poetry, image, and more - help us make sense of a world of hybrid beings? And how does telling our own migration stories help us to form kinship on the page with species often derided for very similar movements? Drawing on topics explored in her work in Dispersals (2024), and on the works of writers including Nina Mingya Powles, Kerri ni Docharteigh, and Kyo Maclear, Lee asks how we might tell stories in which belonging, identity, and ecological precarity are entwined, extending beyond the human frame towards plants and other beings.
The lecture was part of the BAA Seminar “Questions of Ecology,” which brought together students from the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Munich, and Augsburg. The BAA-Seminar was organized by Isabel Kalous (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Nicole Schneider (LMU Munich) und Ina Batzke (University of Augsburg).
https://www.amerikahaus.de/ausstellungen-und-veranstaltungen/2024-07-17-jessica-j-lee
04.07.2024
"Cities by the Sea: Comparing Urbanization on the Pacific Rim, Qingdao and Los Angeles" (Prof. Dr. Shen Hou, Peking University)
17.07.2024
"Border Crossings in the More-Than-Human World" (Jessica J. Lee)
12.07.2024
"Science Communication Benefits and Pitfalls for Emerging Scholars (Prof. Fabio Parasecoli, NY University)"
20-21.06.2024
The Body in/of Don DeLillo’s Plays (Dr. habil. Johanna Hartmann, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle)
27.06.2024
“Messianic Time Again: Abolition and Liberalism in Crisis" (Matt Sandler, Columbia University)
03.06.2024
"The way social media affects history and our understanding of the past" (Jason Steinhauer)
16.05.2024
"China-U.S. relations in the Indo-Pacific security architecture" (Dr. Saskia Hieber, Politische Akademie Tutzing)
Guest Lectures in WiSe 23/24
07.02.2024
"Culture" oder Kultur? Anmerkungen zu Adorno in/und Amerika" (Abschiedsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch)
08.02.2024
"Are we in a crisis of the humanities?" (Public Conversation with various guests, host: Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch)
30.01.2024
"Radical Provocations: Scum, Feminism, and Reading Publics" (Breanne Fahs, Arizona State University)
30.01.2024
"Analyzing the United States Involvement in Afghanistan"
24.01.2024
"Taugen Piraten zur Utopie?" (Ilija Trojanow)
10.01.2024
"Are Today's Protest Movements Writing Manifestos?" (Martin Puchner, Harvard University)
28.11.2023
"Concrete Ecology: Brutalist Architecture with Felix Guattari" (Hanjo Berressem, Cologne/Colorado Springs)
Guest Lectures in SoSe 2023
20.07.2023
“Silent Planet: The Impacts of Nuclear War-Planning” (Prof. Dr. Bernd Greiner, Universität Hamburg)
13.07.2023
“Hurricanes in New Orleans: Environmental Knowledge between War, Crisis, and Political Change: Implications for the Present?” (Prof. Dr. Eleonora Rohland, Universität Bielefeld)
06.07.2023
“Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia” (Prof. Dr. Gregg Mitman (LMU München)
04.07.2023
The Anti-American as Americanizer: Revisiting the Anti-American Century in Germany" (Prof. Dr. Phillip Gassert, Universität Mannheim)
29.06.2023
“Unseasonal Design: Montreal’s Underground City as Urban Environment, 1960 to the Present” (Prof. Dr. Dorothee Brantz, TU Berlin)
22.06.2023
"ILL-LIGHT: The Georgia Landscape in Lyric and Lens" (Andrew Zawacki)
20.06.2023
"Militarized Visualities and Urban History" (Noemi Quagliati and Talitta Reitz, AI/LMU University)
15.06.2023
"“Mom says, all soldiers come back different…” Veterans and Homecoming in Hollywood Films since World War II" (Dr. Andreas Etges, LMU University)
01.06.2023
"Cold War Crises" (Daniel Dumas MA and Alex Schenke MA, AI/LMU University)
25.05.2023
"Race, Disaster and Displacement in Vanport, Oregon" (Prof. Dr. Uwe Lübken, LMU University)
11.05.2023
"Chernobyl Children in the United States: Traveling with a Nuclear Disaster as Luggage" (Prof. Dr. Melanie Arndt, Freiburg University)
04.05.2023
"The Ammunition King Fritz Mandl: How an Emigrant of Jewish Origin was Turned into a Nazi by the United States in World War II" (Prof. Dr. Ursula Prutsch, AI/LMU University)
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)
