... leaving this planet behind (or not) with Dr. Jens Temmen (HHU Düsseldorf). Listen in on us Talking American Studies: the difference between the PhD and the PostDoc phase, on Mars colonization, climate change, and the havoc an error in translation can wreak.

Featuring

Dr. Jens Temmen https://www.anglistik2.hhu.de/en/anglistik-ii-american-studies/faculty/staff/dr-jens-temmen

Dr. Verena Adamik https://vadamik.wordpress.com/
Anja Söyunmez

Bibliography 

Atanasoski, Neda, and Kalindi Vora. “Why the Sex Robot Becomes the Killer Robot - Reproduction, Care, and the Limits of Refusal”. spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures. vol 6. 2020, pp. 1 - 16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13850 .

Davenport, Christian. The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos. Public Affairs. 2018.

Ganser, Alexandra. “Astrofuturism.” Critical Terms in Future Studies. Ed. Heike Paul.Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 35-43

Jameson, Fredric. The Seeds of Time. Columbia University Press, 1994.

Markley, Robert. Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. Duke UP, 2005.

Messeri, Lisa. Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds. Duke UP, 2016.

Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard UP, 2011.

Redfieldt, Peter. Space in the Tropics. From Convicts to Rockets in French Guyana. U of California P, 2000.

Rieder, John. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Wesleyan UP, 2012.

Temmen, Jens. “Writing Life on Mars: Posthuman Imaginaries of Extraterrestrial Colonization and the NASA Mars Rover Missions.” Forthcoming.

Vertesi, Jannet. Seeing like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images have Knowledge of Mars. The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

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In this episode, Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani , Prof. Dr. Martin Klepper, Emma Kimmell, and  Nisreen Habib,(Humboldt-Universität Berlin) reflect on university politics, racism, structural change and, of course, American Studies. The interview was inspired by a town hall meeting at the American Studies section of the Department of English and American Studies of the HU, organized by Daphne Beers, Julia Dutschke, Kristina Graaff, Nisren Habib, Thao Ho, Lia Kindinger, Martin Klepper, Sophie von Lentzke, and Alina Weiermüller. https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/department/sec/amstud/town-hall-meeting-june-24.pdf 

The episode is hosted by Dr. Verena Adamik and Anja Söyünmez.

Arghavan, Mahmoud, et al. Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? Transcript Verlag, 2019.

Bader-Ginsburg, Ruth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg

BLM https://blacklivesmatter.com/

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. https://ta-nehisicoates.com/

Davis, Angela Y. Angela Davis https://web.archive.org/web/20190331175938/https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/angela-davis-40

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

Department of English and American Studies HU Berlin  https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/

DuBois, W. E. B. https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/web-dubois

FridaysForFuture https://fridaysforfuture.org/

Klepper, Martin.  https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/department/staff-faculty/professors/klepper

Lorde, Audre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde

Matthiessen, F.O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._O._Matthiessen

Vuong, Ocean. https://www.oceanvuong.com/

Haschemi Yekani, Elahe.  https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/department/staff-faculty/professors/klepper

As promised, podcast recommendations on the topics discussed, curated by yours truly, Anja Söyunmez.

Lynching in America - https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/listen; Witness Black History; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01h9dl0/episodes/downloads; Pod Save the People - https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people/ ; Seeing White  https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/; The Breakdown https://open.spotify.com/show/3rInLkkAglRgLWZoa5cmlU

Music Intro/Outro

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 … all about conspiracy theories – Prof. Michael Butter (University Tübingen) talks about the history of conspiracy theories and their status today, about relating academic research to public audiences, and the importance of engaging with so-called unloved subjects. Last but not least - we're talking American Studies! Hosted by Verena Adamik & Anja Söyünmez (University of Potsdam)

Featuring

Prof. Dr. Michael Butter https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/neuphilologie/englisches-seminar/sections/american-studies/faculty-staff/prof-dr-michael-butter/

Dr. Verena Adamik https://vadamik.wordpress.com/

Bibliography 

Agamben, Giorgio. “Una domanda.” Quodlibet, April 13, 2020. https://www.quodlibet.it/giorgio-agamben-una-domanda

Birchall, Clare. Knowledge Goes Pop: from Conspiracy Theory to Gossip. Berg,2006.

Butter, Michael. Nichts ist, wie es scheint: Über Verschwörungstheorien. Suhrkamp, 2018. 

Butter, Michael. “Einfache Wahrheiten für eine komplizierte Welt.” Deutschlandfunk Nova Hörsaal, 2008.

Butter, Michael. Plots, Designs, and Schemes: American Conspiracy Theories from the Puritans to the Present. de Gruyter, 2014.

Butter, Michael; Knight, Peter. Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. Routledge, 2020. 

Butter, Michael. The Epitome of Evil: Hitler in American Fiction, 1939-2002. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Butter, Michael. The Nature of Conspiracy Theories. Polity, 2020.

Butter, Michael. “Warum gibt es gerade so viele Verschwörungstheorien?” Politikstunde. bpb, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVQAShC3L2c

Fenster, Mark. Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture. U of Minnesota P, 2008.

Fielding, Nigel. “Mediating the Message: Affinity and Hostility in Research on Sensitive Topics”, Researching Sensitive Topics. Sage, 1993.

Hofstadter, Richard. “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Harper's Magazine, 1964.

Knight, Peter. Conspiracy Culture: American Paranoia from the Kennedy Assassination to the X-Files. London: Routledge, 2001.

Lamberty, Pia. Fake Facts: Wie Verschwörungstheorien unser Denken bestimmen. Bastei, 2020. 

Thalmann, Katharina.The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory Since the 1950s. Routledge, 2019.

Turner, Patricia A. I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture. U of California P, 1994. 

Sanders-Mcdonagh, Erin. “Conducting ‘Dirty Research’ with Extreme Groups” Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, vol 9, no. 3, 2014.

Zeit Online – das Politikteil “Was tun, wenn der Nachbar fantasiert?” https://www.zeit.de/politik/2020-09/verschwoerungstheorien-michael-butter-corona-demos-politikpodcast

Music Intro/OutroTitle: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music https://starfrosch.com

In this episode we are talking White Supremacy in American Studies: Cedric Essi (https://www.lili.uni-osnabrueck.de/institut_fuer_anglistikamerikanistik/lehre/lehrende/mitarbeiterdetails.html) and Samira Spatzek (http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/lehrpersonal/spatzek.aspx) are discussing the newest issue of COPAS – Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, which features the work of early career scholars, this time on Whiteness and White Supremacy.

Works Cited and Recommended

The special issue White Supremacy in the USA, with articles by Axelle Germanaz, Cord-Heinrich Plinke, Nele Sawallisch, Rahab Njeri, Mariya Dimitrova Nikolova andTill Kadritzke is now available under www.copas.uni-regensburg.de 

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. 2012.

Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. 2016.

Applebaum, Barbara. “Critical Whiteness Studies.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. 2016.

Arghavan, Mahmoud, Nicole Hirschfelder, and Katharina Motyl. “Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany:  A Survey of the Issues at Stake.” Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany. Transcript, 2019, pp. 9-42.

Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. 2008. 

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. 2010.

Broeck, Sabine. White Amnesia – Black Memory? Women's Writing and History. 1999.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie. Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe. 2017.

De Lillo, Don. Zero K. 2016. 

Deloria, Philip J. Playing Indian.1998.

DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility. 2018.

Easy Rider. Dir. Dennis Hopper, 1969.

Haney-López, Ian. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. 1996.

Harris, Cheryl I. “Whiteness as Property.” Harvard Law Review, vol. 106, no. 8, 1993.

hooks, bell. “Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination.”1992. Displacing Whiteness. Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism. 1997.

Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White. 1995.

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property. White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. 2019.

Kuppan, Viji. “Crippin’ Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Color from Slavery to Trump.” The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicity Racial Violence. 2018.

McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie. Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy. 2018. 

Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. 1997.

Mitchell, David, and Sharon Snyder. “The Eugenic Atlantic: Race, Disability, and the Making of an International Eugenic Science, 1800-1945.” Disability and Society, vol. 18, no. 7, 2003.

Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.1992.

Paul, Heike. Kulturkontakt und Racial Presences: Afro-Amerikaner und die deutsche Amerika-Literatur, 1815-1914. 2005.

Black Canada - Dr. Nele Sawallisch and Rahab Njeri are talking American Studies: about the long history of Black people in the 'great white north,' about slavery in Canada, about what happens once people reached the final destination of the underground railroad, and about oversights and erasure in archives and academia.

http://www.irtg-diversity.com/index.php?page=people&person=rahab_njeri&id=201
http://www.obama-institute.com/sawallisch-2/


"There is a well-rehearsed, confident American master narrative; there is that series of regional and national novella accounts that, with appropriate diffidence, diffusion, and non-assertion, make up a great Canadian narrative, on that often seems to attain its most solid credentials as a counter narrative to the American one." (Healy 6)

"Northrop Frye once noted that all societies, in the process of developing an identity, draw a magic circle of mythological language around themselves, giving them an account of who they want to be - distinctive, particular, often touched by divine approbation" (Healy 6)

Clarke, George Elliott. Africadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue. 2001.

Cooper, Afua. Breaking Chains.1984.

Davis, Angela Y. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. 2008.

Frye, Northrop. The Bush Garden. Ananasi, 1971.

Healy, J.J. "From Adam to Multi-Ethnic Cowboy: The New History, Politics, and Geography of North America in a Canadian - American Context" Context North America. Canadian/U.S. Literary Relations. ed. Camillie R. la Bossiére. 1994.

Hill, Lawrence. The Book of Negroes. Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority, Library, 2017.

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Holt, 1970.

Nelson, Charmaine A. Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance. 2018.

Rhodes, Jane. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: the Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century. 1999.

Sawallisch, Nele. Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century. Transcript, 2019.

Siemerling, Winfried. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past. 2015.

Smallwood, Thomas. A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood, (Coloured Man:) Giving an 

Account of His Birth--The Period He Was Held in Slavery--His Release--and Removal to Canada, etc. Together With an Account of the Underground Railroad. Written by Himself. Toronto: James Stephens, 1851. Documenting the American South. 2001. Online.

Trudel, Marcel, et al. Canadas Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of Bondage. Véhicule, 2013.

Walcott, Rinaldo. Black like Who?: Writing Black Canada. 2018.

Winks, Robin W. The Blacks in Canada: A History. 2008.

Music Intro/Outro

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We’re talking American Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Postcolonial studies, subjectivity and agency, HBCUs, Monticello, Sally Hemings, Zora Neale Hurston, Dawn, --- and that’s just the beginning. Featuring Chet'la Sebree (Bucknell University), Erik Redling (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Michael Drexler (Bucknell University), Nele Sawallisch (Obama Institute, University of Mainz), Nicole Waller (University of Potsdam) and Niya Bates (International Center for Jefferson Studies). Hosted by Yasmin Künze & Verena Adamik (University of Potsdam). 

Homepage Symposium

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iaa-amlc/workshops-conferences/symposium-african-american-worldmaking-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/

Works Cited

Drexler, Michael. The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr. 2014.

Drexler, Michael. The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States. 2016.

Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking. 2013.

Redling, Erik. Translating Jazz into Poetry: From Mimesis to Metaphor. 2017.

Redling, Erik. “Speaking of Dialect”: Translating Charles W. Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales Into Postmodern Systems of Signification. 2006.

Risser, James. Heidegger toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s. 1999.

Sawallisch, Nele. Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid Nineteenth Century. Transcript, 2019.

Sebree, Chet’la. Mistress. New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2019.

Siemerling, Winfried. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past. 2015.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, et al. Imperative Zur Neuerfindung Des Planeten = Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet. 2013.

Ward, Samuel Ringgold. Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England. London: John Snow, 1855. Documenting the American South. 2001. Web. 25 Aug. 2012.

Warren, Richard. Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of Rev. Richard Warren, (A Fugitive Slave). Written By Himself. Hamilton: Christian Advocate, 1856. Internet Archive. Edmonton. Web. 4 March 2013. 

Music Intro/Outro

Title: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music from https://starfrosch.com

Talking American Studies with Kristina Baudemann from the Europa-Universität Flensburg about her and Prof. Birgit Däwes’ new project - Knowing Tomorrow 2.0: Twenty-first Century Native North American Archives of Futurity - about Indigenous Futurisms, Indigenous Studies, and so many great articles and artworks.

www.uni-flensburg.de/nativefutures 

http://abtec.org/

Barnaby, Jeff, director. File Under Miscellaneous. Prospector Films/John Christou, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi3B2V_e8fY .

Deloria, Philip J. Playing Indian, 2007.

Derrida, Jacques. Archive Fever, 1995, 1996.

Dillon, Grace L., editor. Walking the Clouds, 2012.

Dimaline, Cherie. The Marrow Thieves, 2017.

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge, 1969, 1972.

Goulet, Danis, director. Wakening. 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbmi2ff3MBk .

Guzmán, Alicia Inez. “Indigenous Futurisms.” InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, 2015, https://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/indigenous-​futurisms/ .

Hearne, Joanna. “Native to the Device: Thoughts on Digital Indigenous Studies.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 1, 2017, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/659888 .

Hopkinson, Nalo. Midnight Robber, 2000.

imagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival. 2167. 2017, www.imaginenative.org​/​2167 .

Keene, Adrienne. “Wakanda Forever: Using Indigenous Futurisms to Survive the Present.” Native Appropriations, 24 Feb. 2018, https://nativeappropriations.com​/​2018/​02/​wakanda-​forever-​using-​indigenous-​futurisms-​to-​survive-​the-​present.html .

Larson, Sidner J. Captured in the Middle, 2000.

Lutz, Hartmut, et al., editors. Indianthusiasm, 2019.

Nanobah Becker. The 6th World. Futurestates, ITVS, www.youtube.com​/​watch​?​v=​7f4Jm0y_iLk .

Roanhorse, Rebecca. “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™.” APEX Magazine. Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, no. 99, 2017, www.apex-magazine.com​/​welcome-​to-​your-​authentic-​indian-​experience/ ​.

Roanhorse, Rebecca. “Postcards from the Apocalypse.” Uncanny. A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 20, 2018, https://uncannymagazine.com​/​article/​postcards-​from-​the-​apocalypse/ .

Roanhorse, Rebecca. Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™. Read by LeVar Burton, 2018, www.levarburtonpodcast.com .

Todd, Lauretta. “Aboriginal Narratives in Cyberspace,” Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments, edited by Mary Ann Moser and Douglas MacLeod, 1996.

Waititi, Taika, director. Thor. 2017.

Yuxweluptun, Lawrence Paul. “Inherent Rights, Vision Rights,” Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments, edited by Mary Ann Moser and Douglas MacLeod, 1996.

The second episode of this podcast is inspired by the project “Contemporary American Risk Fiction” at the University of Bayreuth. The two professors behind it, Prof. Dr. Jeanne Cortiel and Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer, are talking about the underlying theories, the standing of risk as a category in literary studies, and their inspirations for the project.
Listen in, and let me know what you think!
 
Featuring

Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer http://www.americanstudies.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Mayer_Sylvia/index.php

Prof. Dr. Jeanne Cortiel http://www.amerikanistik.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Cortiel_Dr_Jeanne/index.php

Verena Adamik https://vadamik.wordpress.com/

Projects and Papers mentioned

 http://www.amerikanistik.uni-bayreuth.de/de/DFG_project/index.html

Arnoldi, Jacob. Risk: An Introduction. Key Concepts. 2009.

Beck, Ulrich. Weltrisikogesellschaft. 2007. (amongst others)

Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. 2011.

Douglas, Mary, and Aaron Wildavsky. Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers. 1983.

Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable. 2016.

Giddens, Anthony. Consequences of Modernity.1990.

Heise, Ursula. Sense of Place, Sense of Planet. The Environmental Imagination of the Global. 2008. 

Höpker, Karin. “Frederick Douglass’s ’The Heroic Slave’ – Risk, Fiction, and Insurance in Antebellum America.” Amerikastudien 60.4 (2016).

Lupton, Deborah. Risk. 1999.

Mohun, Arwen P. Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society. 2013.

Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence. 2011.

Rosen, Elizabeth. Apocalyptic Transformation: Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination. 2008.

Slovic, Paul. The Perception of Risk. 2000. (among others)

Slovic, Scott. Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility. 2008. (among others)

Sontag, Susan. “The Imagination of Disaster.” Commentary, Oct. 1965. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-imagination-of-disaster/

Wallace, Molly. Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty. 2016. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ku01.r2_6;view=1up;seq=1

Music Intro/Outro

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