26.01.2022, 12:15-14:00

Gossip has been defined as "informational black market" (Kapferer 9) as well as "a discourse that negates and conflates the dialectics of inside and outside in its movement between the private and the public realms" (Bastin…

Prof. Dr. Alexa Weik von Mossner (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)

December 10, 2021, 14:00-16:00 c.t. CET

It has become a critical commonplace that climate change narratives in literature, film, and other media present dystopian 'gloom and doom'…

December 6, 2021, 17 – 19 st CET & December 13, 2021 17- 19 st CET

American Studies Würzburg is happy to announce winter term workshops with a focus on film, visual culture, and transatlantic dialogue within the framework of the "WueGlobal –…

December 3, 2021, 2-4 pm c.t. (CET), online via Zoom. University College Cork (UCC), Ireland & Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Germany.

Program

Incentive Talk: 2-3 pm c.t. (CET)

Discussion: 3-4 pm c.t. (CET)

The environmental…

How do communities and individuals remember? How and why do they forget? What modes of collective memory help us to engage productively with the past? Which practices, in contrast, tend to mythologize and oversimplify history?

This exhibition…

Hello and welcome to our American Studies Coffee Hour!

We, the American Studies student assistants, have set up this "course" to offer (mainly first and second semester) students a platform to ask their questions and connect with each other as COVID…