1 July 2026, by JH

In the summer term 2026, there will be guest lectures in the framework of seminars and colloquia in American Studies. All welcome!

27.4.2026: Katrin Horn (Greifswald), "From Letters to Data(base). Transforming Queer Knowledge" (within the framework of the doctoral/ research colloquium, 6 - 8 pm, Phil A 10008)

30.4.2026: Roger Sabin (Univ. of the Arts London), "The Politics of Keywords in Comics Studies" (within the Comics-Historien-Seminar, Phil A 10008 and via Zoom (if you are not a regular participant of this course, please e-mail Prof. Christina Meyer and let her know how you would like to attend the guest lecture, either in person or via zoom; the log-in zoom link will then be sent to you) 

18.5.2026: Günter Leypoldt (Heidelberg), "Literary Value from a Socio-Institutional Perspective" (within the framework of the doctoral/ research colloquium, 6 - 8 pm, Phil A 10008)

21.5.2026: Diego Labra (Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales), “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: The Rise and Fall of the Comic Industry in Argentina” (within the Comics-Historien-Seminar, Phil A 10008 and via Zoom (if you are not a regular participant of this course, please e-mail Prof. Christina Meyer and let her know how you would like to attend the guest lecture, either in person or via zoom; the log-in zoom link will then be sent to you) 

4.6.2026: Shannon Gibney (cross-listed with Creative Writing), renowned US-author and journalist from Minneapolis will present her new children’s book We Miss You, George Floyd, 4 - 6 pm, room C 11013.

9.6.2026: Elizabeth Rosner, “On writing, reading, and translating poetry”. Rosner will discuss her new collection of poems Jenseits dieses Waldes/ Beyond this Forest (in Prof. Böger's poetry seminar, 10:00-12:00 c.t., Phil A 9005).

18.6.2026: Sabrina Mittermeier (Universität Kassel), „Serial Television“ (in the Seminar Serial Storytelling; Phil A 10008, 12-2 pm)

22.6.2026: Lauren Stone (Boulder), "The Queer Novel" (Phil C, 2-4 pm)

29.6.2026: Stephan Karschay (Jena), Looking for Scandal in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (within the framework of the doctoral/ research colloquium, (Phil A 10008, 6-8 pm))

2.7.2026: Kathleen Loock (Leibniz Universität Hannover), "Neverending Stories: Second-Order Seriality and the Cultural Work of Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises" (in the seminar Serial Storytelling; Phil A 10008, 12-2 pm)

Please note the change in date: 2.7.2026: Alexander Starre (Berlin), Beyond the "Systematic Body of Knowledge": Notes on W.E.B. Du Bois's Unpublished First Novel (A 10008, 2-4 pm)

6.7.2026: Ulla Haselstein (Berlin), "Forms of Narrative Dis/Continuation" (2-4 pm, Phil C)

9.7.2026: Trevor Sikorski (Berlin), “Nathaniel Mackey & the 40-Year Serial Poem” (in the seminar Serial Storytelling; Phil A 10008, 12-2 pm)

13.07.2026: Elif Batuman (New York), Reading, (Phil C, 6 - 8 pm)