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The Return of the Aesthetic in American Studies - International Conference, Goethe University Frankfurt, 29.11.2018 – 01.12.2018

“The Return of the Aesthetic in American Studies” is designed as an international milestone conference for research in aesthetics in American Studies. The topic’s urgency derives from the disciplinary history of American Studies. During the last decades, scholars within the discipline have routinely rejected aesthetic inquiry as ideological, exclusionary, or politically quietist. Only in the most recent past have several scholars begun to pay renewed attention to the aesthetic and to rethink its relationship to the spheres of the social, economic, and political. Our conference aims to critically take stock of recent returns to the aesthetic and to significantly extend their scope. For this purpose, the conference assembles leading Americanist scholars of aesthetics from the United States and Europe.

Link zur Konferenz: https://returnoftheaesthetic.wordpress.com/

Lecture Series

We thank our speakers of the summer term 2018: Leonard Cassuto and David James.
To be continued. 

“In Transit|ion – Frankfurt Lectures in Literary and Cultural Studies” is a transdisciplinary lecture series that the departments of American Studies, English Studies, and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt organize twice a semester. It functions as a forum to cultivate dialogue among the disciplines of our institute. Faculty members, graduate students, as well as Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts students of the Institute for English and American Studies are its target audience. ...more

Memory Studies is an international and interdisciplinary convergence field. It addresses – broadly speaking – the interplay of past and present in sociocultural contexts. Memory Studies is interested in the social shape of individual memory as well as in the collective generation of past, present, and future.
The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform (FMSP) is an initiative of the Forschungszentrum für Historische Geisteswissenschaften (FzHG). It brings together people and projects from history, sociology, literature, arts, media studies, psychology, and other relevant disciplines in a dialogue about memory. It wants to shape the future of memory studies by developing and discussing new research questions and new methodologies.
The activities of the FMSP revolve around three main Research Lines: Transcultural Memory, the Mediality of Memory, and Memory and Narrative.

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