Visiting Scholars
Visiting Professors
Visiting Professors (since 1998)
Date | Scholar | Scholarship |
| July 2024 | Jan Hornát, Charles University | Leibniz ScienceCampus Visiting Fellow |
| June-July 2024 | Jeannette Jones, Nebraska-Lincoln | Leibniz ScienceCampus Visiting Professor |
| January-July 2024 | Christopher Sims, Duke University, NC | REAF Visiting Professor |
| June 2023 | Claudia Sadowski-Smith | REAF & Leibniz ScienceCampus Visiting Professor |
| Summer 2023 | Jeannette Eileen Jones, Nebraska-Lincoln | REAF & Leibniz ScienceCampus Visiting Professor |
| January 2023 | Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas, KS | Stay Funded by Universitätsstiftung Hans Vielberth |
| November 2022 | Jeffrey Olick, University of Virginia, VA | Speaker Invited by the Postgraduate Forum Team Regensburg 2022/2023 Stay Funded by Universitätsstifung Hans Vielberth |
| 2022/2023 | Jessica Adam, The Graduate Center CUNY, New York | Fulbright Scholar |
| July 2022 | Christopher Sims, Duke University, NC | REAF Visiting Professor |
| June/July 2022 | Nishani Frazier, University of Kansas, KS | Leibniz ScienceCampus Visiting Fellow |
| June 2022 | Ben Chappell, University of Kansas, KS | Leibniz ScienceCampus Visiting Fellow |
| Summer 2022 | Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University, AZ | Leibniz ScienceCampus Visiting Professor |
| Summer 2021 | Christiane Reves, Arizona State University's School of International Letters | REAF Visiting Professor |
| November 2019 | Frank Mehring, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL | REAF Fellow (funded by: ERASMUS) |
| June/July 2018 | David Savran, City University of New York, New York City, NY | REAF Fellow (funded by: Vielberth Foundation) |
| April-July 2018 | Ben Chappell, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | REAF Fellow and Fulbright Visiting Professor |
| July/August 2017 | Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE | REAF Fellow (funded by: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst) |
| April/May 2016 | Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State U, GA | REAF Fellow (funded by: Hans Vielberth University Foundation) |
| July/August 2015 | Ben Chappell, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | Guest Professor, "Internationalisierung der Hochschulen" (Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts) |
| July 2015 | Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | REAF Visiting Professor |
| 2014 | Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | Guest Professor, "Internationalisierung der Hochschulen" (Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts) |
| May 2014 | Esra Öztarhan, Ege University, Izmir | Erasmus Visiting Professor |
| 2014 | Jane Simonsen, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois | Fulbright Professor |
| 2013 | Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | Guest Professor, "Internationalisierung der Hochschulen" (Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts) |
| 2013 | Tomáš Pospíšil, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic | Partnership program bewteen University of Regensburg and Masaryk University |
| 2013 | Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware | Vielberth Fellow |
| 2012 | Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | Vielberth Fellow |
| 2012 | Barry Shank, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH | Fulbright Professor |
| 2010/11 | Lisa Gill, University of Maryland, College Park, MD | Fulbright Professor |
| 2010 | David W. Saxe, Pennsylvania State University, PA | Fulbright Professor |
| June 2009 | Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town, South Africa | Vielberth Fellow |
| 2008/9 | Michael Rozendal, University of San Francisco, CA | Fulbright Professor |
| November 2008 | Greg Cuthbertson, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria | Vielberth Fellow |
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| January 2008 | Wessel Le Roux, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria | Vielberth Fellow |
| 2007/8 | Mike Maher, University of Louisiana, LA | Fulbright Professor |
| June 2007 | Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY | Vielberth Fellow |
| June 2006 | Jay Kleinberg, Brunel University, Great Britain | Vielberth Fellow |
| 2005/6 | Eric H. Denton Burton Peretti | Fulbright Professor |
| June 2005 | Marita Sturken, New York University, NY | Vielberth Fellow |
| 2004/05 | Maureen Reed, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN | Fulbright Professor |
| 2002/03 | Mike Augspurger | Fulbright Professor |
| June 2002 | Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine, CA | Vielberth Fellow |
| May 2002 | Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis, CA | Vielberth Fellow |
| 2001/2 | Gerry Brenner University of Montana, Missoula, MN | Exchange Professor |
| May 2001 | Paul S. Boyer, University of Madison, WI | Vielberth Fellow |
| July 2000 | Michael Pierce, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX | Vielberth Fellow |
| June 1999 | Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside, CA | Vielberth Fellow |
| January 1999 | Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI | Vielberth Fellow |
| 1999/2000 | Nicolas Witschi, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR | Fulbright Professor |
Guest Lecturers
Guest Lectures
2024 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
| 3 July 2024 | Jeannette Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | "Microhistory & the U.S. in the World: The Case of Dr. B. F. Wilson, 1865 - 1920" |
| 20 June 2024 | Jacoba Zapf, Frauenforum Aichach-Friedberg | "Die vergessenen Frauen von Aichach: Die Geschichte der Frauen in der nationalsozialistischen Strafanstalt Aichach" |
| 7 February 2024 | Prof. Dr. Pia Wiegmink, Bonn University | "Transnational American Studies, German Immigrants, and the Afterlives of Slavery in Queensland" |
2023 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
| 14 June 2023 | Jon Pineda | Reading and Author Q&A: "Let's No One Get Hurt," hosted by the Interim Chair of American Studies Prof. Dr. Julia Faisst In Cooperation with DIMAS |
| 17 May 2023 | Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Brownbag Lunch Talk: "Recent Directions and Approaches in Transnational Area Studies" In Cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus |
| 10 May 2023 | Werner Sollors, Harvard University | "Goethe and Black America," hosted by the Interim Chair of American Studies and funded by the Regensburger Universitätsstiftung Hans Vielberth |
2022 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
| 13 July 2022 | Nishani Frazier, University of Kansas | Brownbag Masterclass: "Digital Humanities in the Modern World: Praxis, Ethics, Aesthetics" In Cooperation with CITAS and the Leibniz ScienceCampus |
| 11 July 2022 | Gabriele Schwab, University of California, Irvine | "Transspecies Selves," hosted by Claudia Sadowski-Smith In Cooperation with CITAS and the Leibniz ScienceCampus |
| 27 June 2022 | Nishani Frazier, University of Kansas | CITAS / Leibniz ScienceCampus Lecture Series: "The Sounds of Blackness: How Gentrification Silences and Displaces Belonging" |
| 13 June 2022 | Ben Chappell, University of Kansas | CITAS / Leibniz ScienceCampus Lecture Series: "What is the 'American Model'? Learning Management and Knowledge Ideologies in a 'Moment of Danger' for Universities" |
| 1 June 2022 | Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University | "Whiteness and Migration Studies" In Cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus |
2021 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
| 28 June 2021 | Christiane Reves, Arizona State University | CITAS Brownbag Session: "Innovation, Interconnection, Interdisciplinarity: Examples from ASU's School of International Letters and Cultures" |
| 22 June 2021 | Theodore Harris, Philadelphia-based collagist, poet, curator, and essayist on the intersection of art and politics | REAF Artist's Roundtable: "Theodore A. Harris: My Politics Inform the Form" |
| 15 June 2021 | Andrea Zittlau, University of Rostock | "The Fruits of Memory: Discussing Apple Chutney and an Overgrown Former Concentration Camp Site." |
2020 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
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2019 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
| 10 December 2019 | Thomas Muggenthaler, Bayerischer Rundfunk | Film Screening and Discussion: Todeszug in die Freiheit |
| 28 November 2019 | Frank Mehring, Radboud University | "Media, Memory, and Liberation: Marketing American Heroism in Transnational Contexts?" |
| 30 October 2019 | Joy Castro, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | "Writing Memoir, Writing Crime: Creative Vision as Sociopolitical Intervention" |
| 18 July 2019 | Alexander Vazansky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | "'I'll Bleed for Myself:' Black Power and Anti-Vietnam Activism in the U.S. Army in Germany." |
| 18 July 2019 | Jeannette E. Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Speaker at the REAF Research Afternoon |
| 1 July 2019 | Timo Müller, University of Konstanz | "European Whips: Hip Hop's Transatlantic Mobilities" |
| 23 May 2019 | Chris Sims, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University | "Photographing America's Post 9/11 Wars: From Guantánamo Bay to Mock Training Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan" |
| 30 January 2019 | Leonard Schmieding, Münster | Lecture in Political Engagement and Responsibility: "Populism and Public History: Current Challenges in a Transatlantic Perspective" |
| 24 January 2019 | Katharina Gerund, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg | "Army Wives and The Unit: Military Spouses in U.S.-American TV Series" |
| 15 January 2019 | General ret. Ben Hodges (ehem. Kommandant der US-Armee in Europa/USAEUR 2014-17) | "Transatlantic Relations Today" Inviting host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling |
2018 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
| 27 November 2018 | US-Consul General Meghan Gregonis | "Die US-Kongresswahlen und die Zukunft der transatlantischen Beziehungen" Inviting host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling |
| 26 November 2018 | Ulrike Strauss, Senior Manager, Outreach & Engagement, Munich Security Conference Foundation | REAF Career Lecture |
| 14 November 2018 | Jennifer Reimer, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz | "Perspectives and Politics of (Transnational) American Studies: A Conversation" |
| 4 July 2018 | David Savran, City University of New York | Sponsored by the Vielberth Foundation "Playwriting and the American Apocalypse" |
| 3 July 2018 | David Savran, City University of New York | Sponsored by the Vielberth Foundation "A Glass of Water" |
| 29 June 2018 | Ben Chappell, University of Kansas | REAF@10 Anniversary Conference Lecture: "Everything Can Be Counted, Nothing Can Be Known: Neoliberalism and Knowledge Production" |
| 29 June 2018 | Jennifer Reimer, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz | REAF@10 Anniversary Conference Lecture: "Ni Una Más: Life, Death, and Gender on the U.S.-Mexico Border" |
| 29 June 2018 | Leopold Lippert, Universität Wien | REAF@10 Anniversary Conference Lecture: "Revolutionary America, Portugal, and the Politics of Transatlantic Freedom: Thomas Digges' Adventures of Alonso (1775)" |
| 29 June 2018 | Heike Paul, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | REAF@10 Anniversary Conference Lecture: "A Different Kind of Transnationalism?: Fictions of a 'White Atlantic'" |
| 28 June 2018 | David Savran, City University of New York | REAF@10 Anniversary Conference Lecture: "The Haunted Houses of American Theater" Sponsored by the Vielberth Foundation
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| 28 June 2018 | Jennifer Reimer, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz | REAF Roundtable: "Academic Freedom? The Politics and Practice of Transnational American Studies in Turkey and around the Globe" |
2017 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
| 7 December 2017 | Allison Stagg, JFK Institute Berlin | "James Akin and "A Philosophic Cock": Caricature Prints in America, 1800-1820" |
| 5 December 2017 | Jörg Skriebeleit, Director Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial | REAF UR@50 Anniversary Lecture: "Taten und Orte—Tatorte: Flossenbürg, München, Fürstenfeldbruck" |
| 27 July 2017 | Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE | "A Proud Yankee in the Sultan's Court: White American Manhood, Race, and U.S. Power in the Indian Ocean" |
| 20 July 2017 | David Savran, CUNY, New York City, NY | "The Globalization of the Broadway Musical" |
| 17 May 2017 | Susanne Ehrenreich-Blažeković, Linde AG | REAF Career Lecture |
| 11 May 2017 | John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California | REAF UR@50 Anniversary Lecture and Commentary: "'O Carib Isle' or 'Scattered Moluccas'? Édouard Glissant's Pacific Relation" |
| 11 May 2017 | Alfred Hornung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | Response to John Carlos Rowe's Lecture |
| 7 February 2017 | Birgit Hans, University of North Dakota | Roundtable: "Native American Studies--Projects, Politics, Perspectives" |
| 2 February 2017 | Ilka Saal, University of Erfurt/York University Toronto | "Collusions of Fact and Fiction: A Historiopoetic Approach to American Slavery in the Works of Suzan Lori Parks and Kara Walker" |
| 17 January 2017 | Reinhard Meier-Walser, Akademie Politik und Zeitgeschehen, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung | "Die USA im Spannungsfeld zwischen Riad und Teheran" Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling |
| 10 January 2017 | Saskia Hieber, Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing | "Die USA und der Aufstieg Chinas" Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling With the friendly Support of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung |
2016 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
| 13 December 2016 | Theo Waigel, Bundesfinanzminister a.D. (former Federal Minister of Finance) | "Die USA - Ein Eckpfeiler deutscher Außenpolitik. Eine persönliche Bilanz" Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling |
| 7 December 2016 | George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara | Roundtable: "American Studies Today: Projects, Politics, Perspectives" Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Timo Müller |
| 6 December 2016 | George Lipsitz & Barbara Tomlinson, University of California, Santa Barbara | "American Studies as Accompaniment: Why We Can't Wait" Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Timo Müller |
| 6 December 2016 | Dietmar Ossenberg, Ex-ZDF-Korrespondent Kairo | "Krisenherd Mittlerer Osten" Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling |
| 29 November 2016 | Margarete Klein, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin | "Russland - Abkehr vom Westen, Wende nach Osten" Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling With the friendly support of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung |
| 29 November 2016 | Sebastian Herrmann, Leipzig University | "Post-Fact Elections? Reality, Postmodernism, and the US Presidency" |
| 8 November 2016 | U.S. Consul General Jennifer Gavito | "Akademische Wahlparty" Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling |
| 5 July 2016 | Gary Jacobson, University of California, San Diego | And the next president is... Reflections on the US election campaign 2015/16 Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling |
| 29 June 2016 | Leopold Lippert, Universität Salzburg | The Neoliberal Charms of America Abroad, or: Playing Indian in Austria In cooperation with the DFG Research Network "Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies" |
| 23 June 2016 | Hubert Zapf, Universität Augsburg | Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Timo Müller |
| 16 June 2016 | John David Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte | You turned us loose to the sky....to the wrath of our infuriated masters: Emancipation and Reconstruction Reconsidered Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat With the friendly support of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA). |
| 4 May 2016 | Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State University REAF Fellow | Bartleby, the Slacktivist; Citizen-Saboteurs; and Other 'Occupations' With the friendly support of: Hans Vielberth University Foundation |
| 3 May 2016 | Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State University REAF Fellow | Research Roundtable: Projects in Transnational American Studies With the friendly support of: Hans Vielberth University Foundation |
| 30 April 2016 | Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State University REAF Fellow | Symposium: Panel: American Studies Transnational: Perspectives, Politics, Responsibilities With the friendly support of: Hans Vielberth University Foundation |
| 30 April 2016 | Alfred Hornung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | Transnational Journeys of Life: En Route to Refuge |
| 29 April 2016 | Anne Koenen, Universität Leipzig | Wings and Roots: Migrating Academics |
| 4 February 2016 | Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University | Toward a History of American Toughness Inviting host: Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat. With the friendly support of the UR Chair of American Studies. |
| 1 February 2016 | Birgit Däwes, Europa-Universität Flensburg | Flickers of Vision: Notes on the Culture of Surveillance Inviting host: Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel, (Director REAF). With the friendly support of the UR Chair of American Studies. |
| 26 January 2016 | U.S. Consul General Jennifer Gavito Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat, Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling and PD Dr. Ingrid Gessner. | Decision 2016: The US Presidential Elections 2016 Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling, International Politics and Transatlantic Relations |
| 13 January 2016 | Katharina Gerund, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Political Solidarity and Black Women's Sisterhood(s) Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (Director REAF). With the friendly support of the UR Chair of American Studies. |
2015 | Speaker | Lecture Details |
| 8 December 2015 | Bundesfinanzminister a.D. Peer Steinbrück MdB | "Krisenzeiten: Deutschland und Europa in einer unsicheren Welt" Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bierling, International Politics and Transatlantic Relations |
| 19 November 2015 | Margit Peterfy, University of Heidelberg | Parody, Adaptation, and Material Culture in the Canonization (and De-Canonization) of American Popular Poetry Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (Director REAF). With the friendly support of the UR Chair of American Studies. |
| 16 July 2015 | Jeannette Eileen Jones, U of Nebraska | America's 'First Foreign Policy': U.S. Empire, Race, and the Berlin Conference 1884/85 Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (Director REAF). With the friendly support of the UR Chair of American Studies. |
| 1 July 2015 | Manfred Berg, University of Heidelberg | How Do We Write the History of Lynching in America? Some Reflections Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat |
| 18 June 2015 | Christopher Lukasik, Purdue University | The Image in the Text: Intermediality, Illustration, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature Inviting Host: PD Dr. Ingrid Gessner. With the friendly support of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA). |
| 21 May 2015 | Greg Robinson, U of Québec | Historical Reflections on the Same Sex Marriage Debate Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (Director REAF). With the friendly support of the UR Chair of American Studies. |
| 13 Jan. 2015 | Karsten Fitz, | Public Photography and Private Lives: American Presidents and the Visual Aesthetics of Privacy Inviting Host: Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (Director REAF). With the friendly support of the UR Chair of American Studies. |
2014 | Speaker | Topic |
| 10 July 2014 | Randal Maurice Jelks, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | American Seeker Religiosity: An Examination of Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice, Black Radicalism and Black Emancipatory Faith, Revisited |
| 26 June | Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame, Indiana | The Transnational Dimensions and Dynamics of Commemorating 9/11 |
| 13/14 May 2014 | Esra Öztarhan, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey | Diaspora and Home in Ethnic American Literature and Food in Ethnic American Literature |
| 12 May 2014 | Elena Bryan, Senior Trade Representative, U.S. Misson to the European Union | The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): American Perspectives |
| 8 May 2014 | George Ellenbogen, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts | Two lives in/with words: - On Life Writing and Memoir - Evelyn Shakir, Teaching Arabs, Writing Self (2013) and George Ellenbogen, A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighbourhood (2013) |
| 10 April 2014 | Jane E. Simonsen, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois | 'Make Me So and Show Me': Power and Indigenous Presence in Portraits of Black Hawk, 1832-1930 |
| 9 Jan. 2014 | Alexandra Ganser, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg | Piracy and Legitimacy in James Fenimore Cooper's Red Rover |
2013 | Speaker | Topic |
| 5 Dec. 2013 | Susann Köhler, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg | A State of Paradoxial Sleep: Post-Industrial Landscapes and the Narrative of Loss in 'The Ruins of Detroit' |
| 7 Nov. 2013 | Richard King, Washington State University, Pullman | Observations on an Embattled Icon: The Construction and Contestation of the Washington R*dskins |
| 31 Oct. 2013 | William Mulligan, jr., Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky | Race and Religion in the U.S.-Mexican War: Beyond the San Patricios |
| 18 July 2013 | Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Sampling and the Theatrical (Re-)Production of Nikki S. Lee’s "The Hip-Hop Project" |
| 18 July 2013 | Ben Chappell, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Mexican American Lowriders: The Spatial Politics of Material Aesthetics |
| 4 July 2013 | Tom Pospisil, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic | "And all the pieces matter“: HBO’s The Wire and the Complexities of Representation |
| 27 June 2013 | Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Kerouac and Authenticity |
| 26 June 2013 | Anke Ortlepp, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Home in the Skies: American Air Travel Culture in the Twentieth Century |
| 19 June 2013 | Henry Beissel, Concordia University, Montreal | Celebrating Canada: A Poet Discovers a New Homeland. |
| 18 June 2013 | Mike Dowling and Stephan Bierling, Universität Regensburg | Die USA: Supermacht auf dem Abstieg? |
| 11 June 2013 | Carla Peterson, University of Maryland, College Park | From Street to World: African-American, Family, Social Geography, and Cosmopolitan Thinking in the Nineteenth-Century Urban North |
| 16 May 2013 | John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California | "Moby-Dick" and Globalization |
| 16 May 2013 | Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware | Chinese American Women in History and Culture |
| 15 May 2013 | Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware | The Roundups and Resistance of Chinese Americans |
| 2 May 2013 | Kathy-Ann Tan, University of Tübingen | Narratives of Unhoming, Displacement, and Relocation: The Africadian Community in Nova Scotia |
| 7 Feb. 2013 | Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. | The Impact of American Occupation and the Black Civil Rights Movement on Race Relations and Social Protest in Germany |
| 31 Jan. 2013 | Sascha Pöhlmann, LMU München | From Whitman to 9/11: Future-founding American Poetry |
| 17 Jan. 2013 | Frank Mehring, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands | Weary Blues: Neuroaesthetics and the Nexus of Visual Art and Music in Euro-American Contexts |
2012 | Speaker | Topic |
| 6 Dec. 2012 | Pia Wiegmink, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, and Birgit Bauridl, University of Regensburg | Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies: Concepts, Projects, Perspectives |
| 22 Nov. 2012 | Hubert Zapf, University of Augsburg | Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology |
| 15 Nov. 2012 | Charles Postel, San Francisco State University | The Tea Party Movement |
| 14 Nov. 2012 | Molly Selvin, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles | 2012 U.S. Elections. Domestic Dynamics and Impact on Transatlantic Relations |
| 5 July 2012 | Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park | A New World of Secrets: Apocalyptic Materialism and the European Discovery of America |
| 26 June 2012 | Gary Jacobson, University of California, San Diego | A Tale of Two Wars: Public Opinion on the U.S. Military Interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq |
| 16 June 2012 | Pireeni Sudaralingam, San Francisco | Transforming Narratives: A Writer's Perspective on Transnationality |
| 14 June 2012 | Maurice Kenny and Derek C. Maus | Native American Poetry Today |
| 5 June 2012 | Stephan Bierling | Obama am Ende? Die USA vor den Präsidentschaftswahlen |
| 24 May 2012 | Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Torquing Back: Jitterbug Memory and National Nostalgia: Interviews with Dancers and the Hollywood Canteen (1942-1945) |
| 24 May 2012 | Tami Albin, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Framing Your Oral History Project |
| 22 May 2012 | Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence | Beyond the Brass Ceiling: Dolly Jones Trumpet Modernity in Oscar Micheaux's Swing! (1938) |
| 22 May 2012 | Dan Namingha, Santa Fe, New Mexico | Dan Namingha's Art: Metaphors of Culture and Space |
| 21 May 2012 | Tami Albin,University of Kansas, Lawrence | Documenting the Life under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer People in Kansas |
| 16 May 2012 | Ulrich Adelt, University of Wyoming, Laramie | Just play the Blues. African Americans, Afro Germans, white Germans and the Politics of Primitivism |
| 3 May 2012 | Barry Shank, Ohio State University, Columbus; Fulbright-Professor Universität Regensburg | New Approaches to the Cultural Analysis of Popular Music |
| 19 Jan. 2012 | Eva Boesenberg, Humboldt University Berlin | Representations of Arranged Marriage in South Asian American Literature |
| 12 Jan. 2012 | Dennis Domer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS | Down on the Farm: Art and Architecture in Rural America, 1880–1950 |
2011 | Speaker | Topic |
| 1 Dec. 2011 | Katharina Gerund, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | “I Am Your Sister”: Audre Lorde and the Black Diaspora in Germany |
| 17 Nov. 2011 | William T. Hathaway, University of Oldenburg | Radical Peace: People Refusing War |
| 21 June 2011 | Barry Shank, Ohio State University, Columbus | The Velvet Underground and the Critique of the Commodity |
| 16 June 2011 | Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University | "Originally of Missouri, Now of the Universe" : Mark Twain and the World |
| 15 June 2011 | Eric J. Sandeen, | The Troubled Landscapes of the American West: Remembering Heart Mountain and Sand Creek |
| 9 June 2011 | John David Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte | "We must live through all time, or die by suicide" : The Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861 |
| 12 May 2011 | Gesa Mackenthun, Universität Rostock | Mysterious Maps and Maya Cities: Inventing America's Ancient Past |
2010 | Speaker | Topic |
| 16 Dec. 2010 | Rüdiger Kunow, Universität Potsdam | Contagious Others: Biomobility and the Shaping of Communities |
| 25 Nov. 2010 | Carmen Birkle, Philipps-Universität Marburg | The Interfaces of Literature, Gender, and Medicine in 19th-Century America |
| 11 Nov. 2010 | Eric J. Sandeen, University of Wyoming | Living Heart Mountain: The Legacy of Japanese American Internment in the Wyoming Landscape |
| 4 Nov. 2010 | Lisa Gill, University of Maryland, College Park Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg | Intellectual, Rebel, and/or Icon: Commemoration and Construction of the Image(s) of Malcolm X, 1965-1999 |
| 28 Oct. 2010 | Mita Banerjee, Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz | Race and Gender in Hollywood Film: Rudolph Valentino's White Ambivalence in The Sheik |
| 8 July 2010 | Heike Paul , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Transatlantic Cultural Mobility |
| 24 June 2010 | Giulia Fabi, University of Ferrara | Desegregating the Future: African American Speculative Fiction to the Harlem Renaissance |
| 24 June 2010 | Cristina Giorcelli, University of Rome | Plays of Black and White in Edith Wharton’s "A Bottle of Perrier" |
| 17 June 2010 | Werner Sollors, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | "Ich möcht’ so gern nach Hause gehn": Toxi and Other Tales of Children of the Occupation |
| 10 June 2010 | Taylor Hagood, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton; FL; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Secrecy, Miscegenation, and the Politics of Pregnancy in Harlem Renaissance Women’s Drama |
| 18 May 2010 | Steve Estes, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA; Visiting Professor, Universität Erfurt | I Am a Man: Race, Manhood, and the American Civil Rights Movement |
| 11 May 2010 | Lee Ann Potter, National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Oslo, Norway | American Civil Religion in Theory and Practice |
| 11 May 2010 | Mary Lee Ann Potter, National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Oslo, Norway | The U.S. National Archives as National Site of Memory |
| 6 May 2010 | David Saxe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Fulbright Professor an der Universität Regensburg | Staging American Pasts: Applications of Living History |
| 29 April 2010 | Kerstin Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Negative Space and the Making of Modern America: Concepts of Space in American Literature, Architecture, and Photography, 1870–1920 |
| 24 March 2010 | Barry Shank, Ohio State University, Columbus | American Studies and Its Institutional Contexts in the U.S. and Germany |
| 21 Jan. 2010 | Paul Lauter, Trinity College, Hartford, CT | The Market and the Cathedral: Immigration, Identity, and Conflict |
| 14 Jan. 2010 | Frank Kelleter, Universität Göttingen | "It’s all there": Serial Aesthetics and Contemporary American Television |
| 14 Jan. 2010 | Kathleen Loock, Universität Göttingen | From National Icon to Immigrant Hero: Constructing Columbus in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century United States |
2009 | Speaker | Topic |
| 10 Dec. 2009 | Sabine Sielke, Universität Bonn | Re-cognizing (Cultural) Memory |
| 7 Dec. 2009 | Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Zentrum für USA-Studien der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg | Wider den Filiopietismus oder Wege und Irrwege der deutschen Auswanderungsforschung |
| 26 Nov. 2009 | David Holloway, University of Derby, England | A New Public Culture? Culture and Citizenship in the Bush-Era United States |
| 9 July 2009 | Klaus Benesch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | "Where I Have Lived, and What I Lived For?" Thoreau's Platial Iconicity |
| 24 June 2009 | Ardis Eschenberg-Bad, Moccasin Nebraska Indian Community College, NE | Language Documentation and Language Revitalization Experience of the Omaha (Sioux) Tribe |
| 23 June 2009 | Michael Rozendal, University of San Francisco, CA | Transforming American Images, Sustaining American Myths |
| 9 June 2009 | Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town, South Africa | The U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle |
| 8 June 2009 | Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town, South Africa | The U.S. and South Africa: Historical Links and Connections |
| 28 May 2009 | Nicolas Witschi, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo | "I do not like newspaper notoriety": Gunfighter Memoirs and the Making of the American West |
| 26 May | David D. Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | Practices of Writing: The Social and Material History of Texts in Colonial New England |
| 19 May 2009 | Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin, Ireland | The New Photojournalism: Documenting US Foreign Policy after the Vietnam War |
| 30 April 2009 | Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA | Beyond Ellis Island: How Not to Think about US Immigration History |
| 3 Feb. 2009 | Petra Eckhard, Universität Graz | The Gotham Puzzle: Detecting the Postmodern in Paul Auster's City of Glass (Graphic Novel) |
2008 | Speaker | Topic |
| 20 Nov. 2008 | Greg Cuthbertson, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria | Reading U.S. History and American Studies from South Africa |
| 19 Nov. 2008 | Greg Cuthbertson, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria | From Celebration to Crisis: South Africa's Democracy since 1944 |
| 7 July 2008 | Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | The Francophone Limits of English: Jack Kerouac's Nomadic Quebec-ness |
| 30 June 2008 | Tamiko Thiel, New Media Artist | From Beyond Manzanar to ReConstructing the Wall: Transnational Virtual Reality Installations |
| 27 May 2008 | Ronald E. Doel, Oregon State University, Corvallis | Postwar Geographies. The U.S. Military's Role in Shaping the Environmental Sciences after the Civil War and World War II |
| 26 May 2008 | Stephan Bierling, University of Regensburg | Obama, Clinton oder McCain? Anmerkungen zum US-Vorwahlkampf |
| 26 May 2008 | Michael Maher, University of Louisiana; Fulbright-Professor Universität Regensburg | Whatever happened to the American Environmentalist Movement |
| 26 May 2008 | Gerlinde Groitl, Universät Regensburg | Religion and Politics in the U.S. since 1980s |
| 26 May 2008 | James Gilbert, University of Maryland, College Park | Awash in a Culture of Faith |
| 26 May 2008 | Volker Depkat, Universität Regensburg | The Cultural Turn in German and US-American Historiography |
| 26 May 2008 | Alfred Hornung, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz | Transnational American Studies |
pre-REAF Guest Lecturers | ||
| February 1, 2008 | Wessel Le Roux, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria | Memory Studies and Constitutional Law |
| January 23, 2008 | Wessel Le Roux, University of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria | South Africa - A Nation in Transition |
| January 22, 2008 | Michael Maher, University of Louisiana | The American Environmental Movement in Historical Context |
| December 19, 2007 | Nicole Ishikawa, University of Kansas, Lawrence | American Dreams or Dreaming of America: Germans and the U.S. Green Card Lottery |
| July 5, 2007 | David Sumner, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon | "That Could Happen": American Nature Writing, the Nature Fakers, and a Rhetoric of Assent |
| June 20, 2007 | Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming | Projecting American Culture Abroad during the Cold War |
| June 20, 2007 | Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming | Randolph Bourne and the Origins of Transnationalism |
| June 19, 2007 | Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming | New York - America's First Global City |
| June 6, 2007 | Hasia R. Diner, New York University, New York | Fitting Memorials: Postwar American Jews Confront the Catastrophe |
| Mai 23, 2007 | James Gilbert, University of Maryland | Mrs. Wilkins Dances: Enacting Race at the St. Louis World's Fair 1904 |
| May 3, 2007 | Hans Bak, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands | Approaching Canadian Literature in a North American Context |
| February 5, 2007 | Eric Nelson, Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Munich | Topical Issues in American-European Relations |
| January 17, 2007 | Volker Depkat, Universität Regensburg | George Washington und die Erfindung der Amerikanischen Präsidentschaft |
| December 12, 2006 | Walter B. Slocombe | The Direction of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy After the Congressional Elections |
| November 9, 2006 | Miles Orvell, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Relative Truths: The Literary and Visual Culture of the Thirties |
| October 25, 2006 | Martin Wagner, Bayerischer Rundfunk | God's Own Country: Amerika, der liebe Gott und die Welt |
| July 11, 2006 | Annette Trefzer, The University of Mississippi | Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction |
| June 27, 2006 | Joerge Huerta, Carlos Morton, University of California, Santa Barbara; Josefina Lopez | Chicana/o Drama and Theater |
| June 22, 2006 | Jay Kleinberg, Brunel University, Great Britain | Working Mothers in the Land of Unlimited Opportunity |
| June 21, 2006 | Jay Kleinberg, Brunel University, Great Britain | From 'the American Family' to 'American' Families |
| June 13, 2006 | Matthew M. Rooney, Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Munich | US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations Today |
| May 23, 2006 | Jay Neugeboren, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | News from the New American Diaspora |
| May 2, 2006 | Julia L. Foulkes, The New School, NY | The Other West Side Story: Urbanization and the Arts Meet at Lincoln Center |
| January 31, 2006 | Viet Nguyen, University of Southern California | Model Minorities or Bad Subjects: Contemporary Asian American Dilemmas |
| October 20, 2005 | Leonard Chang, introduced by Eric H. Denton, currently Fulbright Professor at Universität Regensburg | The Fruit 'N Food (1996) and Fade to Clear (2004) |
| July 13, 2005 | Winfried Herget, Johannes-Gutenberg- Universität Mainz | Villains for Pleasure: The Paradox of Nineteenth-Century (American) Melodrama |
| July 6, 2005 | Marinus R. R. Ossewaarde Twente | Tocqueville's New Liberalism |
| July 5, 2005 | Jan D. Kucharzewski, Universität Düsseldorf | Gertrude Stein and Quantum Physics |
| June 30, 2005 | Marita Sturken, University of Southern California | Cultural Memory and the Kitschification of Grief: Oklahoma City, Sept. 11, and Compulsive Reenactment in American Culture |
| June 29, 2005 | Sandro Chignola, Padua | Tocquevilles Reisen: Amerika und zurück |
| June 15, 2005 | Urs Marti, Zürich | Demokratie und Korruption bei Tocqueville und Rousseau |
| June 8, 2005 | Oliver Hidalgo, Regensburg | Das trügerische Vorbild der Vereinigten Staaten - Tocqueville und die Religion |
| June 7, 2005 | Matthew M. Rooney Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Munich | US-Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations Today |
| June 1, 2005 | Kai Nonnenmacher, Regensburg | Eliten und Ästhetik bei Tocqueville: Von der literarischen Politik zur politischen Literatur |
| May 31, 2005 | Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University, Washington D.C | U. S. Middle East Policy |
| May 25, 2005 | Norbert Campagna, Luxemburg | Von der Tugend in Tocquevilles Amerika |
| May 24, 2005 | Patrick Walsh, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN; Fulbright-Professor at Universität Passau | American Bohemianism in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California |
| May 18, 2005 | Karlfriedrich Herb, Regensburg | Es war einmal in Amerika - Tocqueville über die Zukunft der Demokratie |
| May 3, 2005 | Burton Peretti, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT; Fulbright-Professor at Regensburg | Regulating the New York Nightclub |
| January 20, 2005 | Christopher Mulvey, University College Winchester, England | At the Fault Line of Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Three Races of the United States |
| January 19, 2005 | Maureen Reed, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN; Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg | A Woman's Place: Multiculturism, Feminism, and Tradition in the Autobiography of Pablita Velarde |
| December 15, 2004 | Ansgar Reiss, Universität der Bundeswehr, München | Exil und ethnische Grenze: Gustav Struve in den USA |
| November 29, 2004 | Mike L. Liebler, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI | "And the Beat goes on...": The American Beat Poets |
| November 24, 2004 | Berndt Ostendorf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | "Wake up Little Suzie": Kalter Krieg, Konsum und Kultur im Amerika der fünfziger Jahre |
| November 16, 2004 | Kaper Maase, Universität Tübingen | Wird Elvis Presley Deutscher? Jugendkultur und Amerikanisierung in den fünfziger Jahren |
| May 26, 2004 | Steven Rowan, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO | Baron von Reizenstein's "Die Geheimnisse von New Orleans" ('The Mysteries of New Orleans') |
| May 19, 2004 | Mike L. Liebler, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI | Labor and Art: Detroit and Chicago in the Great Depression |
| November 5, 2003 | Renée M. Sentilles, Cash Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH | Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity |
| June 27, 2003 | Tomas Pospisil, Mazaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic | Spies, Bombers, Liberators & Others: The Changing Images of Americans in Czech Films |
| June 26, 2003 | Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine | REAL Nostalgia: America as a Body in the Box |
| June 23, 2003 | Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine | Bordering Memory: Las Vegas, New Mexico: 1200 - 2000 |
| Jan 21, 2003 | Manfred Stinnes, United States Embassy, Berlin | Die USA, Europa und die Gefahren des neuen Terrorismus |
| Jan 14, 2003 | Georg Kamphausen, Universität Bayreuth | Warum gibt es in den Vereinigten Staaten keinen Sozialismus? Die USA im Urteil Max Webers und Werner Sombarts |
| Dec 17, 2002 | Thomas Gocht, Universität Regensburg | Presidential Elections 2000 - Cartoons in German Newspapers and Magazines |
| Dec 3, 2002 | Karl Ortseifen, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | A Noble River, but not so Fine as the Hudson: American Views of the Rhine and Germany in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
| Nov 26, 2002 | Mike Augspurger, Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg | Profits, Production, & ... Self-Identity?: Business as an American Cultural Site |
| Nov 12, 2002 | Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Universität Wien | Reluctant Recognition(s): American Perspectives on Germany entre les Deux Guerres |
| July 2, 2002 | Francisco A. Lomelí, University of California, Santa Barbara | Tropicalization of Latino Culture |
| June 5, 2002 | Juan Bruce-Novoa, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA | Turning Failure into Success, or Creating a Sympathetic Reader: Cabeza de Vaca's Shipwrecked |
| May 28, 2002 | Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis | The Divided Ground: Making Borders and Empires in the Indian Country of Revolutionary America |
| May 27, 2002 | Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis | Thomas Jefferson's Pacific: The Science of Empire-Building |
| May 14, 2002 | Matthew Roudané, Georgia State University, Atlanta | Major Trends in Recent American Drama: Sam Shepard's Theater as Case Study |
| May 7, 2002 | Agymah Kamau | Flickering Shadows (1996) and Pictures of a Dying Man (1999) |
| Dec 11, 2001 | John Burt, Brandeis University, MA | New' Literature from the South |
| Dec 4, 2001 | Gerry Brenner, University of Montana, Missoula; Fulbright-Professor at Universität Regensburg | Hemingway's Fiction: A Legacy for All Kinds, All Climes, All Times |
| Dec 4, 2001 | Tomas Pospisil, Mazaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic | The Old Plantation and After: The Formation and Evolution of the African American Image |
| July 19, 2001 | Ihab Hassan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Queries for Postcolonial Studies: A Transcultural Perspective |
| July 10, 2001 | Kerstin Schmidt, Universität Bayreuth | Postmodern/Drama: Theorizing the Contemporary American Stage |
| July 5, 2001 | Lew Erenberg, Loyola University of Chicago, USA; Fulbright-Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Swing Left - Music and the Popular Front |
| July 3, 2001 | Anne Koenen, University of Leipzig | 'The Farmer's Bible' - Sears Mail-Order Catalogues and Modernization in the Rural U.S. (1880-1930) |
| June 27, 2001 | Udo Hebel, University of Regensburg | Salutary Lessons of Americanism: Aufstieg und Fall des New England Forefathers' Day als Bestimmungsort nationaler amerikanischer Erinnerungskultur |
| June 18, 2001 | Richard Fox, University of Southern California, Los Angeles/American Antiquarian Society, Worcestor, MA | Secular Devotion to Jesus in 19th-Century America |
| June 12, 2001 | Gary Jacobson, University of California, San Diego; Vielberth-Fellow Universität Regensburg | Consequences of the 2000 US Elections |
| May 31, 2001 | Stefan Herbrechter, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds | Derrida, Autobiographie und Europa: Dekonstruktion und Postkolonialismus |
| May 29, 2001 | Paul S. Boyer, University of Madison, Wisconsin | Writing and Teaching The Enduring Vision |
| May 29, 2001 | Paul S. Boyer, University of Madison, Wisconsin | Awaiting Armageddon: Bible Prophecy Belief in Recent American Culture |
| May 28, 2001 | Paul S. Boyer, University of Madison, Wisconsin | Rural Nostalgia and Urban Anxieties in Turn-of-the-Century American Music Hall Songs |
| May 17, 2001 | John C. Rowe, University of California, Irvine | Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literary Culture and Transnationality |
| May 7, 2001 | Joanne Braxton, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Fulbright Professor Universität Regensburg | Mediations of the Self: Performance, Play, and the Sacred Text |
| Jan 1,2001 | Ken Moss, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. | Armed Intervention in US Foreign Policy: When Is It Legitimate? |
| Dec 20, 2000 | Edwina Campbell, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. | The Impact of the US Elections on Transatlantic Relations |
| Dec 6, 2000 | Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland | Revising One’s Self: Constructing Phillis Wheatley’s Anglophone-African Identity |
| July 20, 2000 | Michael Pierce, Tarleton State University, TX | Sometimes the Magic Works, Sometimes It Doesn't: Indians in the Movies |
| July 19, 2000 | Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley | Simulations of Native Americans in Portraiture, Photography, and Literature |
| July 17, 2000 | Double Feature: The American West: Nicolas Witschi, Fulbright-Professor Universität Regensburg, and Michael Pierce, Tarleton State University, TX | Of Jumping Frogs and Motherless Children: Mark Twain and Humor from the Gold Rush West Native American Ecology |
| July 11, 2000 | Kimberley Blaeser University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Gordon Henry, Jr., Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Council | Contemporary Native American Writers Read From Their Works |
| June 21, 2000 | Werner Sollors, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: Crossing Linguistic Boundaries in American Culture |
| June 6, 2000 | Martin Brückner, University of Delaware, Newark | The Surveyed Self: Geodetic Discourse and Colonial Identity in 18th Century British America |
| Feb 15, 2000 | Nicolas Witschi, University of Oregon, Eugene; Fulbright-Professor Universität Regensburg | Forgetting the Gold Rush: John Muir Re-Writes Nature in the Mountains of California |
| Dec 8, 1999 | Winfried Herget, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz | Misadventure into Myth: Paul Green's The Lost Colony |
| Nov 26, 1999 | Sue McLeod, Washington State University | Writing Programs and Writing across the Curriculum |
| June 23, 1999 | Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside | Problems of Politics and Aesthetics in American Literature: The Example of Huck Finn |
| June 23, 1999 | Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside | Refiguring American Studies as Literary/Cultural Studies |
| June 22, 1999 | Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside | Irrepressible Puritans: Early American Literature and the Canon Wars |
| June 17, 1999 | John Smith, North Carolina State University, Raleigh | Public History and the New American Studies |
| June 16, 1999 | Reiner Smolinski, Georgia State University, Atlanta | Der Millennialismus Neuenglands als Wegbereiter der amerikanischen Revolution |
| Jan 20, 1999 | Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, Providence | Will the True Indian Please Stand Up: Issues of Identity and Authenticity in Diasporic Indian Fiction |
| Jan 20, 1999 | Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, Providence | I too am America: Patterns of Compromise and Empowerment in Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. DuBois |
| Jan 19, 1999 | Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College, Providence | The Harlem Renaissance: A Retrospective View |
| July 22, 1998 | Wolfgang Mieder, University of Vermont | "A House Divided": From Biblical Proverb to Abraham Lincoln and on to Willy Brandt |
| June 16, 1998 | Shirley Samuels, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | Women and Walls |
Roundtables and Masterclasses
Our Roundtables and Masterclasses offer both themed and open opportunities to experience and discuss both visiting scholars' and on-site attendees' perspectives on and approaches to transnational American Studies and Critical Area Studies. The formats fuse short presentations and scholarly discussions. Specific Grad Student Roundtables provide MA and PhD students with the opportunity to discuss their own research with visiting scholars.
Graduate Student Roundtables and Masterclasses
| May 11, 2023 | Event of the Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Julia Faisst, Interim Chair)Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Werner Sollors (Harvard University, honorary doctorate UR) Roundtable discussion for MA and PhD students, funded by the Regensburger Universitätsstiftung Hans Vielberth Venue: noon in SG 2.14 |
| November 9, 2022 | REAF, Leibniz ScienceCampus, CITAS & Promotionskolleg PUR MasterclassProf. Dr. Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia) Masterclass "Collective Memory between Ethics, Regret and Manipulation" Venue: 2-6 p.m. in SG 2.14 |
| July 13, 2022 | REAF, CITAS & Leibniz ScienceCampus Brownbag MasterclassProf. Dr. Nishani Frazier (University of Kansas) "Digital Humanities in the Modern World: Praxis, Ethics, Aesthetics" Venue: 12-2 p.m. in S.G. 2.14 |
| June 15, 2022 | REAF & Leibniz ScienceCampus RoundtableProf. Dr. Ben Chappel (University of Kansas) Venue: 12-2 p.m. in V.G. 3.58 |
| November 27, 2019 | REAF RoundtableProf. Dr. Frank Mehring (Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL) Research Roundtable for Masters and PhD students Prof. Mehring is a REAF Fellow sponsored by ERASMUS Venue: 2pm-4pm in PT 3.2.73 |
| October 20, 2019 | REAF Creative Writing WorkshopProf. Dr. Joy Castro (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) "Writing Memoir, Writing Crime: Creative Vision as Sociopolitical Intervention" Venue: 4-6pm in ZH6 |
| November 14, 2018 | REAF RoundtableDr. Jennifer Reimer (Lise-Meitner Fellow at the University of Graz) "Perspectives and Politics of (Transnational) American Studies" Venue: 2-4pm in ZH 5 |
| June 28, 2017 | REAF RoundtableDr. Jennifer Reimer (Lise Meitner Fellow at the University of Graz) "Academic Freedom? The Politics and Practice of Transnational American Studies in Turkey and around the Globe" Venue: 3-4 pm PT 2.0.4 |
Area Studies Networking and Discussion Events
REAF is convinced that academia thrives through contact and cooperation. For that reason, we organize a variety of networking and discussion events to foster dialog and exchange. Our Discussion and Networking Series - People, Projects, Perspectives: Critical Area Studies and Beyond - invites students, early career researchers, and senior scholars to participate in conversation formats that complement our line-up of guest lectures and conferences.
Meet & Greets
| 29 June, 2023 | REAF & Leibniz ScienceCampus Partner EventProf. Dr. Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State University) Venue: noon in SG 2.14 |
| May 10, 2023 | Event of the Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Julia Faisst, Interim Chair)Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Werner Sollors (Harvard University, honorary doctorate UR) Meet and Greet funded by the Regensburger Universitätsstiftung Hans Vielberth Venue: 6 p.m. in SG 2.14 |
| May 3, 2023 | REAF, Leibniz ScienceCampus & seeFFieldProf. Dr. Jeannette Eileen Jones (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Prof. Dr. Daniela Koleva (University of Sofia) Dr. Katarina Damčević (University of Tartu) Dr. Hikmet Karčić (University of Sarajevo) Venue: 2 p.m. in SG 2.14 |
| November 22, 2022 | REAF and Leibniz ScienceCampusProf. Dr. Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka, Croatia) Venue: 6 p.m. in SG 2.14 |
| July 20, 2022 | REAF & CITASChristopher Sims (Duke University) Venue: 6-8 p.m. in S.G. 2.14 |
| June 29, 2022 | REAF, CITAS & Leibniz ScienceCampus RegensburgProf. Dr. Ben Chappell (Univerity of Kansas) and Nishani Frazier (University of Kansas) Venue: 6-8 p.m. in S.G. 2.14 |
Coffee with REAF
Coffee with REAF was started in May 2020 as a student-led informal event to keep up conversations during the uncertain times of the Covid-19 pandemic.
| January 18, 2023 | Coffee with REAF, the University of Kansas, and the Leibniz ScienceCampus with special guests from the University of Kansas Prof. Dr. Nishani Frazier and Prof. Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks |
| February 10, 2021 | with special guest Dr. Nathalie Aghoro from the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt |
| January 15, 2021 | with special guests from the field of Area Studies at UR: Prof. Dr. Anne Brüske (Professor for Spatial Dimensions of Cultural Processes), Prof. Dr. Anna Steigemann (Professor for Sociological Dimensions of Space), Prof. Dr. Andreas Sudmann (Professor for Spaces of Virtual Communication |
| May 7, 2020 | First Coffee with REAF with the doctoral candidates of the Leibniz Science Campus Europe and American in the modern world |
Political Engagement, Responsibility, and Memory for the 21st Century
Political Engagement, Responsibility, and Memory Event Series
From relevant research into responsible practice - this is the focus of our Political Engagement, Responsibility, and Memory Event Series. Focusing on memory cultures and practices - and beyond - this series joins the realms of scholars' and practitioners' perspectives and highlights the socio-political responsibilities of academia in research, teaching, and public practice.
Date | Event | |
| 20 June 2024 | Jacoba Zapf: "Die vergessenen Frauen von Aichach: Die Geschichte der Frauen in der nationalsozialistischen Strafanstalt Aichach"In the context of the Speaker Series "Intersectionality and Area Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" with the Leibniz ScienceCampus, REAF had the pleasure of welcoming Jacoba Zapf from the Frauenforum Aichach-Friedberg! On June 20, 2024, she gave a thought-provoking talk, titled "Die vergessenen Frauen von Aichach: Die Geschichte der Frauen in der nationalsozialistischen Strafanstalt Aichach," in which she provided insight into the reappraisal of the history of the women imprisoned in Aichach prison during the Nazi Regime, the challenges it entailed, and the process of choosing and creating a monument in remembrance of them.
You can read more about the talk here | |
| 4 July 2023 | Jonas Empen and Alexander Carstiuc Reading from Annette Wieviorka's 1945: Als die Amerikaner die Lager entdecktenOn July 4, 2023 REAF and the Leibniz ScienceCampus: Europe and America in the Modern World had the honor of hosting this reading by historians and co-translators Jonas Empen and Alexander Carstiuc. Together, they read from their translation of Annette Wieviorka's 1945: Als die Amerikaner die Lager entdeckten. Dennis Forster (Flossenbürg Memorial), UR alumnus and practitioner, moderated this event which included a discussion between the panelists and audience members. Part of this discussion and panel were PhD candidates Carina Ehrnsperger (Romance Studies), Tamara Heger (American Studies, REAF), and Jon-Wyatt Matlack (American Studies, Leibniz ScienceCampus). | |
| 26 October 2021 | International Symposium: "Remembrance and Generation Z: The Cooperation between the University of Regensburg and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum."Collab.: Arizona State Univ./Leibniz ScienceCampus Regensburg/Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial. Flossenbürg and Tempe, AZ, 26 Oct. 2021. Org.: Volker Benkert (ASU), Birgit Hebel-Bauridl (UR), Christiane Reves (ASU). Speakers: Dr. Christiane Reves (ASU), Dr. Birgit Hebel-Bauridl (UR), Prof. Dr. Jörg Skriebeleit (Flossenbürg Memorial), Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (President UR); Rye Bittl and Katya Davis (graduate students UR); Tamara Heger and Carina Ehrnsperger (PhD Candidates UR); Dennis Forster and Johannes Lauer (Flossenbürg Memorial); Dr. Andrea Zittlau (Rostock U) For more information, please click here | |
| 8 December 2020 | Outreach Symposium: "Your (His)tory Matters: Das Project 'ReMember' der KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg"Collab.: Regensburg European American Forum / Regensburg Leibniz ScienceCampus / KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg. Virtual Screening & Panel Discussion, 8 Dec. 2020. Org. Dennis Forster, Birgit Hebel-Bauridl. Speakers: Aziz Hosseini, Larisa-Maria Lucaci, Paulo Jorge Alexandre Epalanga, Bilind Ezden Shamo (Participants Project ReMember); Ahmad Mansour (MIND Prevention); Prof. Dr. Jörg Skriebeleit, Dennis Forster, Burak Yilmaz (Flossenbürg Memorial); Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (President UR); Hermann Josef Eckl (Campus Asyl e.V.); Efthalia Prokopiou, Vita Zelenska (Doctoral Candidates LSC); Prof. Dr. Meike Munser-Kiefer (UR Center for Education and Migration); Dr. Birgit Hebel-Bauridl, Prof. Dr. Anna Steigemann (UR) | |
| 30 January 2019 | "Populism and Public History: Current Challenges in a Transatlantic Perspective"Dr. Leonard Schmieding, independent scholar, Münster Read more here | |
| 10 December 2019 | Film Screening „Todeszug in die Freiheit"a documentary by Andrea Mocellin and Thomas Muggenthaler in Cooperation with the IOS with Thomas Muggenthaler, Journalist and Co-Producer |
REAF Career
REAF Career
REAF Career addresses American Studies students in the BA and MA programs. It establishes connecting points between academia and career opportunities outside of university. UR American Studies alumni whose careers have taken them to a variety of places talk about their career choices and strategies after graduating and answer questions.
Date | Speaker |
| 17 May 2017 | Dr. Susanne Ehrenreich-Blažeković (Linde AG) --> |
| 28 November 2018 | Ulrike Strauss (Senior Manager, Outreach & Engagement, Munich Security Conference Foundation) |
Transnational Perspectives on the Pandemic
“Transnational Perspectives on the Pandemic” is a video project by the Regensburg European American Forum (REAF) in cooperation with the Center for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS). You can find it on GRIPS.
| 8 June 2020 | Frank Mehring (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) |
| 17 June 2020 | Tomáš Pospíšil (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) |
| 7 July 2020 | Ben Chappell (The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA) |
| 12 July 2020 | Hila Zahavi and Ido Rosenblum (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) |
| 18 July 2020 | Randal Maurice Jelks (The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA) |
| 21 July 2020 | Hsinya Huang (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan) |
| 21 July 2020 | Cedric Essi (Osnabrück University, Germany) |
| 17 Dec 2020 | Dennis Forster (KZ Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg, Germany) |
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