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Guest Lecture: Representation of US Poverty in German EFL Textbooks: A Critical Examination

Professor Roger Dale Jones’s lecture will present recent findings on the representation of US poverty in German EFL school textbooks. It will discuss how these textbooks often misrepresent the reality of poverty in the United States compared to other countries and may employ a neoliberal framing that masks serious structural issues related to class and inequality. The guest lecture will explore these distortions, their implications for students' understanding of global poverty, and the broader consequences for education and society.

June 4, 2025 | 17:00 pm - 18:30 pm | GEIWI-Turm, Innrain 52d, HS 5 ¾ | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roger Dale Jones

QUEER JOURNEYS IN NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

This two-day conference will consider the diverse ways in which journeys undertaken by queer people have been represented in North American literature and culture, as well as how queer journeys interact with and impact social structures, transnational relations, and cultural forms. LGBTQ+ people in North America and beyond continue to experience forms of mobility characterized by complex and often fraught economic, cultural, and affective dynamics. Queer journeys may contain forms of movement that are voluntary or involuntary, joyful or exploitative, expansive or inhibiting, normative or deviant. This conference will consider such queer mobilities through an interdisciplinary lens that includes literary and cultural studies, media studies, gender and queer studies, history, and the social sciences. Call for papers: deadline May 16, 2025 
More information available on the conference website:  QUEER JOURNEYS IN NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

14th and 15th November 2025| Claudiana, University of Innsbruck| Benjamin Robbins, Devon Anderson and Matthias Klestil