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Election Event Series: "Making Sense of the US-American Presidency – Four Years Later"

The Department of American Studies invites students, scholars, and guests to join our election event series and continue to gain a more thorough understanding of the American presidency and the 2024 presidential elections. Five (online) guest speakers from Appalachian State University, California State University, Chico, Emerson College, Emory University, and the University of Notre Dame will provide us with expert opinions and analyses, while the film screenings at the Leokino will allow us to discuss US-American politics and its cinematic depictions. During our election night viewing party on Nov. 5, 2024, we will follow the election in real time and test our presidential knowledge in a topical Pub Quiz co-organized by our student representatives.

For more information (dates, times and locations), please visit the event series website. | All events are open to the public.

Conference: Marco Polo and the European Image of Asia

Marco Polo’s narrative account of Asia in his Il Milione is one of the first and major sources to shape the European image of Asia for centuries to come. The Polo universe is vast, encompassing numerous vernacular and Latin versions of the account, which differ through their emphasis of specific aspects. This conference, commemorating the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death in 2024, explores some of the different descriptions, projections, and phantasies of Asia in the light of Marco Polo’s Il Milione and beyond.

November 14-16, 2024 | Palais Claudiana  | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mario Klarer

“There would seem to be nothing there to study”: Audible Pasts and Literary Soundscapes

Philipp Leonhardt’s lecture is part of the interdisciplinary lecture series “Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft” (Institut für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft).

November 19, 2024 | 10:15 am - 11:45 am | GEIWI-Turm, Innrain 52d, HS 4 | Philipp Leonhardt, MA