Conference: Marco Polo and the European Image of Asia

Marco Polo’s narrative account of Asia in his Il Milione is one of the first and major sources to shape the European image of Asia for centuries to come. The Polo universe is vast, encompassing numerous vernacular and Latin versions of the account, which differ through their emphasis of specific aspects. This conference, commemorating the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death in 2024, explores some of the different descriptions, projections, and phantasies of Asia in the light of Marco Polo’s Il Milione and beyond.

November 14-16, 2024 | Palais Claudiana  | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mario Klarer

“There would seem to be nothing there to study”: Audible Pasts and Literary Soundscapes

Philipp Leonhardt’s lecture is part of the interdisciplinary lecture series “Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft” (Institut für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft).

November 19, 2024 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am | GEIWI-Turm, Innrain 52d, HS 4 | Philipp Leonhardt, MA

Symposium „Transatlantic Mountain Cinema“

The FWF research project “Delocating Mountains: Cinematic Landscapes and the Alpine Model” at the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck hosts a final symposium on November 4 and 5, 2024. Speakers from the US, Germany, and Austria will explore transatlantic exchanges in mountain film culture. This symposium is part of a focus week on cultural mountain studies at the University of Innsbruck and cooperates with the symposium “Heilige Berge – Berge und das Heilige” organized by Thomas Steppan (Department of Art History) and Monika Fink-Naumann (Department of Music). 

Detailed information: https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/mountainfilmstudies/news/tmc-program.pdf

November 4th and 5th, 2024 | Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Room 04K100 and Haus der Musik | Univ.-Prof. Christian Quendler

Application Lectures: Postdoctoral Associate ("Laufbahnstelle - QV")

You are cordially invited to attend the public lectures by the candidates for the position as Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of American Studies.

September 26 and 27, 2024 | "Kleiner Hörsaal" (Ágnes-Heller-Haus, 1. UG) 

Call for Applications - Study Abroad at Utah State University (USU)

Want to study abroad? Apply to study at Utah State University during the spring/summer semester 2025. Click on the links for detailed information about the application process and what it means to be an Aggie. 

Promotional Flyer | Application Period: May 15, 2024- July 15, 2024

Book Launch: Los Angeles and American Literature

Dr. Michael Docherty and Dr. Ben Robbins launch new books on twentieth-century American literature, both of which place Los Angeles at the heart of American cultural histories. In conversation with Sandra Tausel, the authors will discuss the intersecting themes of their books and LA’s unique position in global culture, followed by a Q&A. Poster

 June 26, 2024| Die Bäckerei - Kulturbackstube or via Zoom | 19:00-21:00 | Free entry

Workshop: Queer Narratives of Exile, Travel, and Mobility

This one-day workshop, which is organized by Benjamin Robbins (Department of American Studies, project leader of “Networked Narratives”), will focus on the representation of LGBTQ+ people and other marginalized groups in literary and filmic works concerned with exile, migration, and transnational movement. Presentations will be given by Heather K. Love (University of Pennsylvania), Ralph Poole (University of Salzburg), Benjamin Robbins (University of Innsbruck), Antonio Salmeri (University of Innsbruck), and Robyn Warhol (Ohio State University).

 June 06, 2024| Claudiana | 9:15- 17:00 | registration needed: amerikastudien@uibk.ac.at | free admission 

„Mexiko und die Erdölindustrie im US-amerikanischen Genrefilm: Ausbeutung – kulturelle Aneignung – prähistorische Monster“ 

Dr. Michael Fuchs (Innsbruck) wird zum Thema   Mexiko und die Erdölindustrie im US-amerikanischen Genrefilm: Ausbeutung – kulturelle Aneignung – prähistorische Monster sprechen. Nach dem Vortrag können sehr gerne auch Fragen gestellt werden. Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen!
Im Rahmen der ZIAS-Veranstaltungsreihe im Sommersemester 2024: Link zur Veranstaltungserie

June 06, 2024 | 19:15 Uhr | Hörsaal 6 | Dr. Michael Fuchs

StV Event for First Semester Students

Join the StV to start off your semester equipped with all the necessary information about your studies. Representatives of the Department of American Studies and the Department of English will also be there to answer your questions.

Mar. 6, 2024| HS 5 | 5:30 pm

Gender Research Day 2024

The Department of English and the Department of American Studies are organizing their first Gender Research Day and are inviting you to learn about and discuss various approaches to gender in cultural and literary studies, as well as linguistics.

Jan. 12, 2024| Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Room 14 | 9:30- 14:30 | No registration needed

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Forum Museum - Museum im Film: The Square (2017)

Film screening of  The Square (2017) by Ruben Östlund with an introduction by Christian Quendler at the Forum Museum in the Ferdinandeuum

Dec. 12, 2023| Ferdinandeum | 18:00 | No registration needed, entry free

Literary Quartet

Join the Department of English for their biannual Literary Quartet. This time members of the Department of English and the Department of American Studies will discuss Sarah Bernstein's The Study of Obedience, T.C. Boyle's Blue Sky, Richard Flanagan's The Living Sea of Walking Dreams, and Jesmyn Ward's Sing Unburied Sing.

Dec. 6, 2023 | Studia Buchhandlung (Innrain 52 f) | 7 pm 

Call for Applications - Study Abroad at Utah State University WiSe 2024/25

Want to study abroad? Apply to study at Utah State University during the fall/winter semester 2024/25. Click on the links for detailed information about the application process and what it means to be an Aggie. 

Application Period: Nov. 15, 2023 to Dec. 1, 2023 

"The Alps and the Horrors of the Anthropocene" by Michael Fuchs

This talk will situate two Austrian horror movies within the context of Anthropocene horrors: Blood Glacier (2013) and Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies (2015). Both films struggle with global warming’s effects on alpine regions, but in different ways. Lederhosen Zombies’ titular monsters emerge in response to trying to counter global warming’s expected effects on winter tourism. In the process, the always-hungry undead come to embody capitalism’s insatiable hunger, which ultimately destroys that which nourishes it. Blood Glacier, on the other hand, revolves around the idea that global warming will set free microorganisms that have lain dormant in permafrost for hundreds of thousands of years. While much of the film’s runtime focuses on how humans fight the monstrous hybrids that the prehistoric microorganisms create, a humanoid hybrid emerges as humankind’s hope for future existence (in altered form) on a human-altered planet.

November 9, 2023 | 15:00-16:30 pm| FSP-Tag: Imaginarien des Alpinen | Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Weiherburggasse 13, Innsbruck) 

"Haunted Media: Remediating Videogames in Horror Movies" by Michael Fuchs

From Friedrich Kittler to John Durham Peters and from Roland Barthes to Siegbert Solomon Prawer, scholars have frequently associated media with ghosts. Horror, Adam Daniel has remarked, “has historically infected both emerging forms and the technologies which deliver them, parasitically preying upon the fears that emerge from these developments.” Accordingly, it is not surprising that horror has engaged with digital media and technologies in various ways. This talk will focus on the depiction of videogames in horror movies such as Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare(1991), Stay Alive (2006), Livescream (2018), and Choose or Die (2022). All of these films grapple with various fears and anxieties connected to digital technologies (and videogames, in particular), but some of them also acknowledge the values of digital technologies for community-building and marginalized communities.

October 10, 2023 |12:00–1:30pm | HS5 | Lecture Series “Comparative Perspectives on New Media: Game Studies”

Welcome Event for First-Year BA Students in English and American Studies and the Teacher Training Program Subject English

The Departments of English and American Studies invite all first-year BA students to their joint welcome event. New students will have a chance to learn more about both departments, meet their instructors, and ask questions. No registration required.

October 10, 2023 |6 pm| HS 5 3/4 

Presentation: Innsbruck University Movie Database (IUMD)

The IUMD is a meta-search engine that enables a film search in all media collections of the Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture and the University Library Innsbruck (ULB) and covers almost the entire stock of films that can be checked out by teachers and students at the University of Innsbruck. IUMD searches the holdings of the following archives: Sonja Bahn Video Archive of the Department of American Studies, Media Collection of the Department of English Studies, Media Archive of the Department of Slavic Studies, ULB Innsbruck (including the film holdings of the Department of Romance Studies, the Innsbruck Newspaper Archive and the Faculty of Theology).
During the presentation, Christian Quendler (Department of American Studies) and Eva Binder (Department of Slavic Studies) will offer a brief insight into the history of these media archives and pay tribute to important pioneers of university AV collections. Afterwards, Raphael Unterweger, the developer of the metasearch engine, will introduce the IUMD.

May 25, 2023| HS 6 | 5:15 pm

Project Presentation: "Queer Exile Literature and the Island of Capri" by Ben Robbins

Ben Robbins (Department of American Studies) will offer an introduction to his research project on “Networked Narratives: Queer Exile Literature 1900-1969,” which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The event is organized by the university research centre Cultures in Contact (KiK). Robbins will particularly focus on Anglophone writers who relocated to Capri in the early decades of the twentieth century, a period when many queer men and women left Northern Europe and the United States due to the criminalization of homosexuality. The lecture will be followed by a discussion.

May 24, 2023| 3:15-4:45 pm | Room 40904, Geiwi-Turm (9th floor) and online 

Screeing of Brainwashed: Sex - Camera - Power and Audience Discussion

A special preview screening of Nina Menkes’ documentary Brainwashed (2022) will take place at Leokino in Innsbruck. Menkes’ documentary uses clips and scenes from around 200 films to illustrate how women have been objectified by the male gaze across cinema history from Vertigo to Lost in Translation. It features interviews with prominent women filmmakers, actors, and film theorists. The screening will be followed by an audience discussion with Katherine Dahlquist-Bauer (Comparative Literature) and Ben Robbins (Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck).

May 24, 2023 |8 pm| Leokino

Literary Quartet

This semester's Literary Quartet organized by the Department of English will take place on May 24. Anja Hartl (Dept. of English), Christoph Singer (Dept. of English), Ulla Ratheiser (Dept. of English), and Sandra Tausel (Dept. of American Studies) will discuss  four novels: Natasha Brown, Assembly; Jonathan Coe, Bourneville; Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt; and Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

May 24, 2023| Studiabuchhandlung (Innrain 52) | 7 pm | Free admission

Guest Lecture: "Filmfestival im Waldhüttl" by Matthias Windischer & Susanne Meier

This guest lecture is part of Prof. Quendler's class "Film Culture and Film Education" (610022).

May 11 | SR 40130 (Geiwi-Turm, 1st floor) | 12- 1:30 pm 

ZIAS-Lecture Series - Inside Mountains: Material Extractions & Mythical Exploits in the Americas

April 20, 6 pm, HS 2 | April 27, 6 pm, HS 2 | May 11, 6 pm, HS 2 | May 22, 10:15 am, 50109/3 SR | June 5, 6 pm, HS 2

From Nixon to Trump: Changes in US Media Coverage - A Two-Part Event

Part 1: Guest Lecture by Dr. Ardoin; April 19, 2023, HS 7, 6 pm

Part 2: Screening of The Post; May 10, 2023, Leokino, 6:15 pm

Welcome Event for First-Year BA Students in English and American Studies

The Departments of English and American Studies invite all first-year BA students to their joint welcome event. New students will have a chance to learn more about both departments, meet their instructors, and ask questions. No registration required.

Mar. 16, 2023| HS 5 3/4 | 6 pm

Welcome Event for First Semester MA Students at the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture

Feb. 14, 2023| via Zoom (no registration necessary) | 2:00-2:30 pm | 

Guest Lecture: Sandra Tausel on "Freedom in the Homeland of the Free? Reading Narratives of Japanese American Incarceration

In der Ring-Vorlesung "Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft"

24. Jänner 2023 | GeiWi-Turm, HS 4 | 10:15-11:45  

Welcome to Visiting Professor Dr. Phillip J. Ardoin

The Department of American Studies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Phillip J. Ardoin (Appalachian State University) as a visiting professor during the spring/summer semester 2023.

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Vortragsreihe:
Gaming & Wissenschaft: Disziplinäre Zugänge zu den Game Studies

Seminarraum 40935, GeiWi-Turm | jeweils mittwochs 

 Creative Writing Competition for Students:
Interplay - Flash Fiction 

 Submission deadline: Dec. 18, 2022

ZIAS-Veranstaltungreihe im WiSe 22/23: Rural Americas

Termine von Oktober bis Dezember |GeiWi-Turm, HS 4 und 6 | Beginn jeweils 19 Uhr

Guest Lecture: Cornelia Klecker, Adam Ochonicky (Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh), and Sascha Pöhlmann on "Flyover Fictions: A New View on Literature, Film, and Politics"

Nov. 8, 2022 |GeiWi-Turm, HS 4| 7- 8:30 pm

Guest Lecture: johannes Vith on "Eine wahre Geschichte des Mondes"

In der Ringvorlesung des Forschungsschwerpunkts "Kulturelle Begegnungen - kulturelle Konflikte:" In Alternativen denken. Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Frage "Was wäre (geschehen), wenn...?

10. Oktober 2022 | GeiWi-Turm, HS 5 | 13:45-15:15

Welcome Event for First-Year Students

The Departments of English and American Studies invite all first-year students to their joint welcome event. New students will have a chance to learn more about both departments, meet their instructors, and ask questions. No registration required.

Oct. 5, 2022 | 6:15 pm | Lecture Hall 3 (Geiwi-Turm, Innrain 52)

Corona verstehen. Understanding Corona.

Leokino |  Saal 2 | Beginn: 20:00 Uhr

3rd International Mountain Film Studies Workshop - Global Circuits of Mountain Cinema

Department of American Studies | June 27th, 2022 

The Future of Roe v. Wade - Virtual Panel Discussion

Monday, June 13, 2022 | 6 pm | Zoom

co-organized by the Department of American Studies and the Student Council for English and American Studies

International Conference: Flyover Fictions

Claudiana | May 27 to 28, 2022

New Publication: Special Issue of Orbit on Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar

Edited by Sascha Pöhlmann

Online Lecture Series - Spring/Summer 2022

Via Zoom | Tuesdays, 6-7 pm (once from 5-6 pm)

Lecture Series: Gaming & Science: Disciplinary Approaches to Game Studies 

Department for German Studies | Room 40935, Geiwi-Turm | Wednesdays, 5:15- 6:45 pm

Visiting Professors - Spring Semester 2022

Prof. Maria San Filippo

Prof. Adam Ganz (Writer in Residence)

Prof. Terri Tomsky

Writer in Residence Kick-Off Event with Prof. Adam Ganz

May 17, 2022 | Stadtbibliothek Innsbruck | 7 pm

AYA Spring Colloquium and Writing Workshop

University of Innsbruck | May 6 to 7, 2022 

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Carl Bode Award for the Outstanding Article 2021 for Dr. Cornelia Klecker

The Department of American Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Cornelia Klecker has been awarded the Carl Bode Award for the Outstanding Article 2021 by the Popular Culture Association for her article in the Journal of American Culture entitled "Trump as the 'Kardashian of Politics?’ Daniel J. Boorstin’s ‘Pseudo-Event” and the Rise of Donald Trump”. On behalf of our department we extend heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Klecker!

USA: Auslaufmodell Demokratie oder Leuchtturm des Westens? 

Klaus Prömpers, Dr. Cornelia Klecker, and Dr. David Willumsenwill discuss the Biden White House and the future of U.S. democracy during this event hosted by Haus der Begegnung Diözese Innsbruck and co-hosted by the Departments of American Studies and Political Science at the University of Innsbruck. The online panel is part of the lecture series „Auskünfte – Herkünfte – Zukünfte. Online-Lectures zu brennenden Zeitfragen“ and will take place on

December 14, 2021 via Zoom(https://zoom.us/j/92100643446) at 6:30 pm.

Reading Mountains 2021: Wilderness and Womanhood 

This event is co-organised by the University of Innsbruck’s Canadian Studies Centre and the Center for Inter-American Studies and will take place via Zoom.

International Conference: Mountains & Cinema

Online Guest Lectures: Winter Term 2021/22  

Wednesdays, 7 P.M., Zoom

Virtual Roundtable: "The First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: An American Recovery?"

Fulbright Scholarship Opportunity 

Four-Month Fulbright-Scholarship starting either October 1, 2020 or March 1, 2021 offered at the Department of American Studies.

Virtual Roundtable: "The End of an Era? Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the American Presidency" 

Tuesday, January, 26, 2021 P.M., Zoom

Event Series: "US Presidential Election 2020"   

Regelung für Vorlesungs- und Leselistenprüfungen im SoSe 2020    

Fulbright Scholarship Opportunity 

Four-Month Fulbright-Scholarship starting either  October 1, 2020 or March 1, 2021 offered at the Department of American Studies.

CANCELED: International Symposium: The American Short Story: Old and New, October 15-17, 2020

CANCELED: International Symposium "Un-Faced", May 4-5, 2020

Alpine Amerikas

Zentrum für Interamerikanische Studien (ZIAS): VORTRAGSREIHE im WiSe 2019/2020

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Kevin Schilbrack (Gastprofessor) SoSe 2019 

SE 610014 American Literature and Culture II: Imagination in American Philosophy and Religion

AAAS Konferenz 2019 

46th International Conference of the AAAS

Dissertationsstellen - Ausschreibungen

Bewerbungen bis 13. Juni 2019

Varieties of Patriotism: Americans Debate Their Country's Role in the World

A presentation by and discussion with Prof. Dr. Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, University of Iowa, USA
Mittwoch, 09. Jänner 2019, 17.00 Uhr
Claudiana. Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3, 6020 Innsbruck

Arno Heller liest Hermann Melville

Mittwoch, 30. Jänner 2019, 19.00 Uhr
Buchgespräch und Lesung: Moderation - Gudrun Grabher

K. Staudmyer Jr., MFA, Assistant Professor

Gastprofessor, Quinnipiac University
Lehrveranstaltung im WS 18/19:  
610.019 American Film, Media and Culture I: Ernest Hemingway: Fact and Fiction   

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Theater Workshop presents: ONE HAUNTED NIGHT 

Date: 12 December, 2018 Time: 4pm Place: 3rd Floor, Coffee Room 40332, Humanities Building

Vorarlberger Wissenschaftspreis 2018 

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun M. Grabher wurde am 12. November 2018 mit dem Vorarlberger Wissenschaftspreis ausgezeichnet . Wir gratulieren!

Lecturer summer semester 2018

Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2018) - NEU 

Informationsveranstaltung am 13. Juni 2018, 17.00-19.00 Uhr, HS 2

Play Around to Lose Yourself: David OReilly's Everything 

7.6.2018, 10:15 Uhr - PD Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann  

THE TIES THAT BIND  - Film Screening

Su Friedrich's , Outcast Films, 55 minutes, B&W, USA, 1984,
Monday 23 April 2018  

Radiopreis der Erwachsenenbildung (Sparte "Kultur") 2018

Mag.a Roberta Hofer wurde am 23. Januar der renommierte Radiopreis der Erwachsenenbildung verliehen.

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Peeling Labels based on Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Department of American Studies & The Theater Workshop
Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2017, 16.00 Uhr, Coffeeroom, 3. Stock, Geiwi-Turm

The Crowdsourced Archive: Mobile Media, Appalachian Photography, and the Local(ized) Frame

Professor Mark Nunes
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, U.S.A.
Dienstag, 21. November 2017, 18.00 Uhr, HS 7, Geiwi-Turm, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck

Mountain / Film / Studies Workshop

Maximilian Büttner, Silke Martin, Christian Quendler, Anna Sofia Rossholm und Daniel Winkler
Freitag, 23. Juni 2017, Seminarraum 4DG14, Geiwi-Turm 11. Stock

"Religious Affordances"

Professor Kevin Schilbrack, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA
Eine Veranstaltung des Instituts für Amerikastudien gemeinsam mit dem Insitut für Philosophie, dem American Corner Innsbruck und dem Zentrum für Interamerikanische Studien!
Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen!
Dienstag, 23. Mai 2017, 18.00 Uhr, HS7 - Vortrag

"Irregular, not Irreverent: Religion and Theology in Moby-Dick and The Scarlet Letter"

Damien B. Schlarb, johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
Eine Veranstaltung des Instituts für Amerikastudien gemeinsam mit dem American Corner Innsbruck und dem Zentrum für Interamerikanische Studien!
Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen!
Dienstag, 9. Mai 2017, 17.15 Uhr, HS7 - Vortrag

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A Performance of the Theater Workshop!

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen!
Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2016, 16.00 Uhr, Coffee Room

Poetry Reading

Im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung PS American Literature:
Reading (and Writing) Poetry With a Poet's Eye (Lehrveranstaltungsleiterin: Ashley Nissler)
findet ein Lesung der selbstverfassten Gedichte der Studierenden statt.
Sonntag, 4. Dezember 2016, um 15.00 Uhr
Einlass: 14.45 Uhr
Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen!

43rd International Conference of the AAAS (Austrian Association of American Studies)

Conference Report
November 11-13, 2016, Innsbruck, Austria

The First Clinton - Trump Debate: Out of a Frying-pan into the Fire

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Kienpointner, Universität Innsbruck
Eine Veranstaltung des Instituts für Amerikastudien gemeinsam mit dem
American Corner Innsbruck
Montag, 14. November 2016, 10.15 Uhr, HS7 - Vortrag

FWF-Projekt "ESCAPE"

Konferenzen 2014 und 2016, siehe Homepage:
www.uibk.ac.at/projects/escape/

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"happy, hell ... and cheap - A Coffeeroom in Paris"

Theateraufführung im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung Theater Workshop WS 15/16
(Lehrveranstaltungsleiterin: Michaela Adrigan, Assistentin: Manuela Adrigan)
Mittwoch 16. Dezember 2015, 17.00 Uhr, Coffeeroom (Geiwi-Turm, 3. Stock)

The Analysis of Fictional Dialogue in Film and Television Series:
Between Narratology and Pragmatics

International Workshop
Eine Veranstaltung des Instituts für Amerikastudien gemeinsam mit dem Institut für Anglistik, Universität Innsbruck
Donnerstag, 26. November und Freitag 27. November 2015
Claudiana, Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 3, 6020 Innsbruck (Altstadt)
Bericht

The Vienna Paradox: A View from America

Prof. Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, CA, U.S.A.
Eine Veranstaltung des Instituts für Amerikastudien gemeinsam mit dem American Corner Innsbruck und der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde für Tirol und Vorarlberg
Montag, 6. Juli 2015, 19.00 Uhr
Ort: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde für Tirol und Vorarlberg, Sillgasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck

The Free Slave. Morality, Neostoicism and Publishing Strategy in Emanuel d'Anranda's Algiers and its's Slavery, 1640-1682

Lisa Kattenberg
Eine Veranstaltung des Instituts für Amerikastudien gemeinsam mit dem
Forschungsschwerpunkt Kulturen in Kontakt
Montag, 8. Juni 2015, 10.15 Uhr, HS 3, Geiwi-Turm

The Architectural Turn in Contemporary Literature 

Prof. David Spurr, University of Geneva
Eine Veranstaltung des Instituts für Amerikastudien gemeinsam mit dem American Corner Innsbruck
Montag, 18. Mai 2015, 10.15 Uhr, HS 3, Geiwi-Turm

CINERAMA and Digital Film Restoration

David Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch
Eine Veranstaltung des Instituts für Amerikastudien gemeinsam mit dem Otto Preminger Institut und dem American Corner Innsbruck
Donnerstag, 23. April 2015, 12.00 Uhr, HS 4, Geiwi-Turm

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FINAL STOP: DESIRE

Theateraufführung im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung Theater Workshop WS 14/15 (Lehrveranstaltungsleiterin: Michaela Adrigan, Assistentin: Manuela Adrigan)
Montag, 15. Dezember 2014, 17.00 Uhr, Coffeeroom Geiwi-Turm
Video

Muslim Discovery of America

Khalid Bekkaoui, LFUI Guestprofessor, Mohammed Ben Abdallah University, Fez, Morocco
Montag, 3. November 2014, 10.15 Uhr, HS 3, Geiwi-Turm

Queering Aztlán: Key Terms and Current Trends in Chicana/o Literature and Art

Marion Christina Rohrleitner, The University of Texas at El Paso, U. S. A.
Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 10.15 Uhr, HS 3, Geiwi-Turm
PowerPoint zum Vortrag

"Edgar Allan Poe from City to City: Richmond, Philadelphia, New York, Paris, Petersburg, Chicago
A talk about Poe's work and its afterlife, from the perspective of "World Literature"

Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh, U. S. A.
Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2014, 18.00 Uhr, HS 7, Geiwi-Turm

"Europäische Sklavenberichte aus dem Mittelmeerraum (16.-19. Jahrhundert)"

Dr. Salvatore Bono
Mittwoch, 21. May 2014, 19.00 Uhr, Dolmetschanlage, Geiwi-Turm, 1. Stock

The Image of the Barbary Corsairs in European Scholarly Literature from 1600 to 1800

Magnus Ressel, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main
Montag, 24. März 2014, 10.15 Uhr, Seminarraum 40130, Geiwi-Turm

Modern(s) Walking: Thoreau, Freud, Heidegger

Klaus Benesch, Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität München
Montag, 27. Jänner 2014, 17.15 Uhr, HS 4, Geiwi-Turm

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The American in Chains: Enslavement and the Specter of North Africa in Early U.S. Barbary Narratives

Stefan Brandt, Institut für Amerikastudien, Universität Graz
Montag, 25. November 2013, 10.15 Uhr, Seminarraum 40130, Geiwi-Turm

"Lost Girls and Celluloid Souls"

Christian Quendler, Institut für Amerikastudien, Universität Innsbruck
Einladung zum öffentlichen Vortrag Habilitationskommission Dr. Christian Quendler
Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2013, 15.00 Uhr, HS 6, Geiwi-Turm

Vortrag: "The New Television Series: Replacing the Novel in the 21st Century?”

Mario Klarer, Institut für Amerikastudien, Universität Innsbruck
Buchpräsentation: Literaturgeschichte der USA, München: C.H. Beck, 2013
Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2013, 17.00 Uhr, Türingsaal, Claudiana, Altstadt

Cognitive Metaphor and Poetic Form

Donald C. Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, Heath, MA, U.S.A.
Dienstag, 30. April 2013, 8.30 Uhr, HS 2, Geiwi-Turm

Momentary Stays, Exploding Forces:
A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Poetics of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost

Margaret H. Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, Heath, MA, U.S.A.
Dienstag, 30. April 2013, 17.15 Uhr, HS 7, Geiwi-Turm

Reassessing Early American Poetry

Oliver Scheiding, johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Dienstag, 7. Mai 2013, 17.15 Uhr, HS 7, Geiwi-Turm

"How to Read 5.000 Books a Year: Reflections of a Daily Book Reviewer"

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, American journalist, critic, novelist, and teacher of writing and journalism
Eine Veranstaltung des American Corner Innsbruck
Montag, 18. März 2013, 18.00 Uhr, Saal University of New Orleans, 1. Stock, Hauptgebäude Universität Innsbruck, Christoph-Probst-Platz

OBAMA Inauguration Party

Montag, 21. Jänner 2013, 17.00 Uhr, Thüringsaal, Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 3, Innsbruck (Altstadt) 
Eine Veranstaltung des American Corner Innsbruck

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"Beyond Cheap Thrills: The 'Pop-Out' Debate in 3D Cinema Today"

Barbara Klinger, Indiana University in Bloomington, U.S.A.
Montag, 12. Oktober 2012, 17.30 Uhr, Claudiasaal, Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 3, Innsbruck (Altstadt)
Eine Veranstaltung des American Corner Innsbruck

AAAS (Austrian Association for American Studies) Konferenz, Universität Zürich, 9.–10. November 2012

"The Art of Black Power: African American Politics and the Women of Black Arts Movement"

 Nikki Brown, University of New Orleans
Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2012, 19.00 Uhr, Saal University of New Orleans, Hauptgebäude
Eine Veranstaltung des American Corner Innsbruck

"Behind The Lines: An Editorial Cartoonist's Take on America's Political War with Itself"

Chan Lowe, Award-winning American cartoonist
Montag, 1. Oktober 2012, 17.15 Uhr Claudiasaal, Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 3
Eine Veranstaltung des American Corner Innsbruck 

The Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building: Design and Structure

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alex Hahn, University of Notre Dame
Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2012, 19.00 Uhr, Claudiasaal, Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3, 2. Stock
Eine Veranstaltung des American Corner Innsbruck

Arabisch-Islamische Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters und ihr Einfluss auf Europa

Montag, 18. Juni 2012, 10.15 Uhr, HS 4 (Geiwi-Turm)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Prochàzka (Institut für Orientalistik, Universität Wien)

"Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard: Allegories of Media and Departments"

Antrittsvorlesung von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mario Klarer
Dienstag, 22. Mai 2012, 19.00 Uhr, Archäologisches Museum, Hauptgebäude, 3. Stock

"Named Airs" -- The American Sonnet From Stevens to Bidart

Dr. Meg Tyler, Associate Professor of Humanities, Boston University,
derzeit Fulbright Visiting Professor an der Universität Innsbruck
Montag, 14. Mai 2012, 8.30 Uhr, HS 7 (Geiwi-Turm)
Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit dem American Corner Innsbruck und ZIAS

Filmpräsentation The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Dienstag, 8. Mai 2012, 19.30 Uhr, Leokino 
Kinovi(sie)on

Lesung von Valerie Sayers im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung FrauenWeltLiteratur

Montag, 23. Jänner 2012, 18.00 Uhr
Claudiasaal (Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 3, 6020 Innsbruck)

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"AMERICAN STUDIES AND/AS/VS MEDIA STUDIES"

5th Annual Austria's Young Americanists Workshop
December 9-11, 2011
Call for Papers

Writing Color, Reading Change? Reflections on Colorism in African American Magazines

MMag. Simone Puff (Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt)
Montag, 12. Dezember 2011, 8.30 Uhr, HS 7

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"Framing Babies: Anrold Gesell's Infant Behavior Films"

Professor Scott Curtis, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Montag, 15. November 2010, 18.15 Uhr, Raum 4U102, GeiWi-Turm, Untergeschoß
American Corner Innsbruck

AAAS Konferenz (Austrian Association for American Studies): "The Visual Culture of Modernism"

Freitag, 12. November - Sonntag, 14. November 2010

Master of Science in Medical Writing - Find a New Profession in Medical Writing and Publishing

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Michael Nogler, MAS, M.Sc.
Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010, 19.00 Uhr
Seminarraum 50105/2 (Bruno-Sander-Haus, 1. Stock)
American Corner Innsbruck

"Auf dem Weg zu den Vereinigten Staaten von Europa? Soziologische Überlegungen zu Gesellschaft und Verfassung der EU"

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Max Haller, Universität Graz
Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2010, 19.00 Uhr
Seminarraum 50105/2 (Bruno-Sander-Haus, 1. Stock)
American Corner Innsbruck

"Transcendentalism as a Religious and Philosophical Movement"

Prof. James Campbell, Department of Philosophy, University of Toledo, U.S.A.
Montag, 31. Mai 2010, 9.00 Uhr
HS 7, Geiwi-Turm, Ergeschoss

"Consumption and Communion in a Changing South: Food and Feasting in the Fiction of Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty and Writers of the Next Generations" 

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz:
Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2010, 19.00 Uhr
Seminarraum 50109/3 (Bruno-Sander-Haus, 1. Stock)
American Corner Innsbruck

New Western Films 

Mag. Robert Spindler
Mittwoch, 14. April 2010, 19.00 Uhr
Seminarraum 50105/2 (Bruno-Sander-Haus, 1. Stock)
American Corner Innsbruck

Buchpräsentation: "Der Amerikanische Nordwesten"

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arno Heller
Mittwoch, 21. April 2010, 19.00 Uhr
Seminarraum 50105/2 (Bruno-Sander-Haus, 1. Stock)
American Corner Innsbruck

Some Moral Dimensions of Scientific Research

Prof. Cornelius Delaney, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Mittwoch, 20. Jänner 2010, 19.30 Uhr
HS 3, SOWI, Universitätsstr. 15, EG Ost
American Corner Innsbruck

Taking Stock - One Year of the Obama Administration

Prof. David M. Rowe
Donnerstag, 21. Jänner 2010, 17.00-18.00 Uhr
Videokonferenz: Studio A (Geiwi, 2. Stock, Abteilung Neue Medien und Lerntechnologien)
American Corner Innsbruck

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Nuclear Expansion, Global Security, and the current State of International Law

Brad Varley, J.D., M.A., Legal Councellor
Mittwoch, 18. November 2009, 17.15 Uhr,
Raum 50105/2 (Bruno-Sander-Haus, 1. Stock)
American Corner Innsbruck

Measured Sovereigns: A Political / Legal History of Indigenous Peoples in the United States

David Wilkins, Professor of American Indian Studies, Political Science,
Law and American Studies at the University of Minnesota
Freitag, 13. November 2009, 17.30 Uhr
Saal University of New Orleans (Hauptgebäude, 1. Stock)
Sponsored by the U.S. Embassy
In cooperation with the the Austro-American Society Tirol and University of New Orleans Center Austria
American Corner Innsbruck

Legal Narratives. European Perspectives on U.S. Law in Cultural Context

Buchpräsentation:
Gudrun M. Grabher, Anna Gamper (Eds.)
Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009, 17.00 Uhr s.t.
Dekanat der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
(Universitätshauptgebäude, Parterre, Innrain 52)

Guantánamo and the Difficulties with Change

Floo Weißmann
Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009, 18.00 Uhr
Raum 50101/1 (Bruno Sander Haus, 1. Stock)
American Corner Innsbruck

(Early) 4th of July Party

American Corner Innsbruck
open house party with buffet and drinks
Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2009, 18.00 Uhr, American Corner Innsbruck

Exploring the Alps by Bike:
Riding the Famous, the Common, and the Forgotten Roads in and Around Innsbruck

Speakers: Ashley R. Norris and Jered Gruber
University of New Orleans in cooperation with the University of New Orleans Center Austria
Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2009, 19.00 Uhr, 50101/1

A Primer on Islamic Banking and Finance

Prof. Mohammad Kabir Hassan, University of New Orleans
in cooperation with WuV, Austro-American Society and University of New Orleans Center Austria
Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2009, HS3, SOWI, EG Ost

Blending Media: Defining Film in the Modernist Period

9. - 10. Juni 2009
SYMPOSIUM

140 by Marsha Norman and Left to Right by Steven Dietz

Theater Performance
The Coffee Room Amateur Players (CRAP) from the American Studies Department
Donnerstag, 7. Mai und Freitag 8. Mai 2009, Bierstindl, 20.00 Uhr
i-Point Bericht

Rich Americans Who Never Lived

Dr. Claudia Schwarz , Universität Innsbruck:
Mittwoch, 25. März 2009, 18.30 Uhr, Raum 50101/1 (Bruno Sander Haus)
American Corner Innsbruck

Inauguration Day: 44th President of the United States of America: Barack Obama

Dienstag, 20. Jänner 2009, 17.30 Uhr,
American Corner Innsbruck, Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3
(Claudiana, 1. Stock)
American Corner Innsbruck

U.S. Hate Crimes and Lynch Law

Mag. Karin Walpurga Köll, Universität Innsbruck:
Mittwoch, 21. Jänner 2009, 19.00 Uhr, Raum 50109 (Bruno Sander Haus)
American Corner Innsbruck

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'As We Found Them' and 'As They Are Now': The Freedchild and the Future after Slavery

Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2008, 17.00 Uhr, University of New Orleans Saal (Hauptgebäude)
Prof. Mary N. Mitchell, University of New Orleans
Invitation | American Corner Innsbruck

Law's Labor's Lost? The Ambiguous Image of Marshals and Sheriffs in American History and Popular Culture

Mittwoch, 26. November 2008, 18.00 Uhr, Raum 50109 (Bruno Sander Haus)
Mag. Andreas Leisner, Universität Innsbruck:
Invitation | American Corner Innsbruck

Post-Election Breakfast

Wednesday, 5 November 2008
American Corner Innsbruck

NEW ORLEANS AND THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA: MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Montag, 27. Oktober 2008, 17.00 Uhr, Aula (Hauptgebäude)
Professor Denise Reed, Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of New Orleans:
American Corner Innsbruck

Öffentliche Vorträge im Berufungsverfahren Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft

Donnerstag, 12. Juni und Freitag 13. Juni 2008
Programm

Winning the White House: The Election and the Campaign of History

Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2008, 18.30 Uhr, Senatssitzungssaal
Robert Schmuhl, Ph.D. (Dept. of American Studies and Journalism, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA):
American Corner Innsbruck | Bericht

Media Malaise: American Journalism Confronts Historic Change

Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008, 17.30 Uhr, HS G (Hauptgebäude, 2. Stock)
Im Rahmen des Freundschaftsvertrages mit der University of Notre Dame:
Robert Schmuhl, Ph.D. (Dept. of American Studies and Journalism, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA):
Einladung

Political Liberalism: Welfare, Medicine, and Law

Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2008, 19.00 Uhr, HS 1
Cornelius Delaney, Ph.D. (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA):
American Corner Innsbruck | Bericht

Inventing Feminism: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Rights Activism

Dienstag, 27. Mai 2008, 17.30 Uhr, HS G (Hauptgebäude, 2. Stock)
Im Rahmen des Freundschaftsvertrages mit der University of Notre Dame:
Eileen Hunt Botting, Ph.D. (Director of Gender Studies, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA):
Einladung | iPoint Bericht

Woman at a Threshold, Beckoning by John Guare

15 and 16 May 2008, 19:30 hrs, Coffeeroom (3rd floor, 40332)
put on by The Theater Workshop of the American Studies Department in cooperation with the American Corner Innsbruck
Directed by: Linda Quehenberger-Dobbs
Einladung | Preview | iPoint Bericht

Die Entwicklung der ordentlichen Gerichtsbarkeit - Aktuelle Herausforderungen für den Obersten Gerichtshof

Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, 17.00 Uhr, Claudiasaal, Altstadt, Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3
Hon. Prof. Dr. Irmgard Griss, LL.M.
Präsidentin des Obersten Gerichtshofes
Einladung | iPoint Bericht | American Corner Innsbruck

Witnessing Aids in 1980s America: The Doctor's Perspectives

Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008, 19.00 Uhr, Bruno-Sander-Haus, Raum 50101
Mag. Lucia Blasl, Universität Innsbruck:
Bericht | American Corner Innsbruck

Die Formen der Schrift im Film

Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008, 13.15 Uhr, Josef-Möller-Haus, Hörsaal 1
Alexander Böhnke

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Criminal Profiling: Looking Behind the Mask of America's Most Cruel Serial Killers
Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007, 19.00 Uhr, Bruno-Sander-Haus, Raum 50105
Christine Nagel
Bericht | American Corner Innsbruck