About
DFG Research Network (wissenschaftliches Netzwerk DFG # BA 3567/4-1) "Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies" 2014-2018 (36 months + extension)
This network explores the potential of an integration of Performance Studies approaches into the field of (transnational) American Studies. It investigates how, which, and with what outcome issues that, in the wake of the transnational turn, have become central to the American Studies agenda can be addressed more adequately by the study of ‘cultural performances.’ Based on the idea of culture as a corporeal, communal, and dynamic event rather than a stable textual product, the individual projects arranged in three culturally and spatially specific clusters--the city, the nation, the globe—position the local particularities of cultural performance vis-à-vis the dynamics of global mobility. Firstly, they examine the role and impact of ‘cultural performances’ as particular acts of cultural expression (like daily rituals, festive occasions, or theatrical events) in transnational contact zones—sites in which cultures meet, grapple with each other, and inevitably negotiate questions of socio-political agency, representation, and power. Secondly, they develop and evaluate ‘cultural performance’ as a methodological approach for the study of transnational processes. In sum, the network scrutinizes the benefits and limitations of a deeper and more reflective integration of a Performance Studies approach into American Studies. By bringing together scholars of Performance and American Studies from the US, Europe, and Asia, it constitutes an exemplary site of transnational collaboration and establishes a dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.
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Project Directors
| Dr. Birgit M. Bauridl Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik / American Studies Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Regensburg 93040 Regensburg E-Mail: birgit.bauridl@ur.de | Dr. Pia Wiegmink Department of English and Linguistics American Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2 (room 04-455) 55128 Mainz E-Mail: wiegmink@uni-mainz.de |
Network Staff
Katharina Sherman, B.A. (Regensburg European American Forum UR)
Contact
Network Directors
Dr. Birgit M. Bauridl & Dr. Pia Wiegmink
culturalperformancenetwork@gmail.com
Network Administration / Mittelverwaltung
American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg / Germany
E-Mail: american.studies@ur.de
Phone: +49 941 943-3477
Fax: +59 941 943-3590
Katharina Esther Sherman - 30.01.2020 10:09 
