Conferences

Annual Students Conferences at Humboldt - Organizer

The Annual Students Conferences series sets out to support and foster the students' interest in academic exchange and discussions. It provides students of all levels (undergraduate, graduate and doctoral) with a space for the discussion of academic topics in the absence of the usual hierarchy often found in university seminars.

The topics will be related to the curricula of the American Studies Program while also incorporating different ideas and approaches, topics which are less often featured, topics which combine contemporary culture with academic interests. The conferences are thus supposed to both enrich the regular curriculum and offer a truly academic forum for exchanging ideas.

The conferences are organized by students of American Studies, the addressees are students from Humboldt-Universität as well as from other universities.

The Conferences

The Cosmopolitan Subaltern. Marginalized Literature and Culture in a Globalizing World
8th Annual Students Conference
American Studies Program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 4-7, 2008.
With Allison Davis-White Eyes, Eva Boesenberg, Manuela Mangold, Daniela Simon.

Utopian Thoughts. Trans-Atlantic Fictions of Science and Politics
7th Annual Students Conference
American Studies Program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, April 26-28, 2007.
With Manuela Mangold, Daniela Simon.

Native Cultures in the 21st Century. USA, Canada, Mexico
6th Annual Students Conference
American Studies Program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 3-6, 2006.
With Manuela Mangold.

Picturing America. Domestic and Global Aspects of US Media Culture
5th Annual Students Conference
American Studies Program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 19-21, 2005.
With Antje Dallmann.

Poietic Spaces. Communicating Landscapes of Imagination
4th Annual Students Conference
American Studies Program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 6-8, 2004.
With Anna Katharina Otzen.

Multiple Cultures - Multiple Perspectives. Questions of Identity and Urbanity in a Transnational Context
3rd Annual Students Conference
American Studies Program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 15-17, 2003.
With Simon Strick, Claudia Schwarz.

Haunted Dreams. Nightmares in American Culture
2nd Annual Students Conference
American Studies Program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 23-25, 2002.
With Chris Flor.

Licence to Thrill. Reading James Bond as a Cultural Phenomenon
1st Annual Students Conference
American Studies Program at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 10-12, 2001.
With Anja Kootz.

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