The second presentation of this panel will situate two Austrian horror movies within the context of Anthropocene horrors: Blood Glacier (2013) and Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies (2015). Both films struggle with global warming’s effects on alpine regions, but in different ways. Lederhosen Zombies’ titular monsters emerge in response to trying to counter global warming’s expected effects on winter tourism. In the process, the always-hungry undead come to embody capitalism’s insatiable hunger, which ultimately destroys that which nourishes it. Blood Glacier, on the other hand, revolves around the idea that global warming will set free microorganisms that have lain dormant in permafrost for hundreds of thousands of years. While much of the film’s runtime focuses on how humans fight the monstrous hybrids that the prehistoric microorganisms create, a humanoid hybrid emerges as humankind’s hope for future existence (in altered form) on a human-altered planet.
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Current Events 2023
"The Alps and the Horrors of the Anthropocene" von Michael Fuchs
November 9, 2023| Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Weiherburggasse 13, Innsbruck) | 15:00-16:30 pm
Past Events 2023
Presentation: Innsbruck University Movie Database (IUMD)
The IUMD is a meta-search engine that enables a film search in all media collections of the Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture and the University Library Innsbruck (ULB) and covers almost the entire stock of films that can be checked out by teachers and students at the University of Innsbruck. IUMD searches the holdings of the following archives: Sonja Bahn Video Archive of the Department of American Studies, Media Collection of the Department of English Studies, Media Archive of the Department of Slavic Studies, ULB Innsbruck (including the film holdings of the Department of Romance Studies, the Innsbruck Newspaper Archive and the Faculty of Theology).
During the presentation, Christian Quendler (Department of American Studies) and Eva Binder (Department of Slavic Studies) will offer a brief insight into the history of these media archives and pay tribute to important pioneers of university AV collections. Afterwards, Raphael Unterweger, the developer of the metasearch engine, will introduce the IUMD.
May 25, 2023| HS 6 | 5:15 pm
Literary Quartet
This semester's Literary Quartet organized by the Department of English will take place on May 24. Anja Hartl (Dept. of English), Christoph Singer (Dept. of English), Ulla Ratheiser (Dept. of English), and Sandra Tausel (Dept. of American Studies) will discuss four novels: Natasha Brown, Assembly; Jonathan Coe, Bourneville; Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt; and Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love
May 24, 2023| Studiabuchhandlung (Innrain 52) | 7 pm | Free admission
Guest Lecture: "Filmfestival im Waldhüttl" by Matthias Windischer & Susanne Meier
This guest lecture is part of Prof. Quendler's class "Film Culture and Film Education" (610022).
May 11 | SR 40130 (Geiwi-Turm, 1st floor) | 12- 1:30 pm
ZIAS-Lecture Series - Inside Mountains: Material Extractions & Mythical Exploits in the Americas
April 20, 6 pm, HS 2 | April 27, 6 pm, HS 2 | May 11, 6 pm, HS 2 | May 22, 10:15 am, 50109/3 SR | June 5, 6 pm, HS 2
From Nixon to Trump: Changes in US Media Coverage - A Two-Part Event
Part 1: Guest Lecture by Dr. Ardoin; April 19, 2023, HS 7, 6 pm
Part 2: Screening of The Post; May 10, 2023, Leokino, 6:15 pm
Welcome Event for First-Year BA Students in English and American Studies
The Departments of English and American Studies invite all first-year BA students to their joint welcome event. New students will have a chance to learn more about both departments, meet their instructors, and ask questions. No registration required.
Mar. 16, 2023| HS 5 3/4 | 6 pm
Welcome Event for First Semester MA Students at the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
Feb. 14, 2023| via Zoom (no registration necessary) | 2:00 pm |
Guest Lecture: Sandra Tausel on "Freedom in the Homeland of the Free? Reading Narratives of Japanese American Incarceration
In the Interdisciplinary Lecture Series: "Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft"
Jan. 24, 2023 | GeiWi-Turm, HS 4 | 10:15-11:45 am
Vortragsreihe: Gaming & Wissenschaft: Disziplinäre Zugänge zu den Game Studies
Seminarraum 40935, GeiWi-Turm | jeweils mittwochs
Welcome to Visiting Professor Dr. Phillip J. Ardoin
The Department of American Studies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Phillip J. Ardoin (Appalachian State University) as a visiting professor during the spring/summer semester 2023.