SoSe 15: North American Studies

• The History of American Thought and Theories of American Culture

  024aA2.1
  • 32110 Lecture
    A Revolutionary Culture: Sources of America's Political Imaginary (Frank Kelleter)
    Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-13)
    Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32111 Graduate Course
    The American Enlightenment: Discourses, Politics, Narratives (Frank Kelleter)
    Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-13)
    Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32112 Graduate Course
    All New! Functions of Novelty in American Cultural Theory and Practice (Alexander Starre)
    Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
    Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32113 Graduate Course
    Neoliberal Culture (Simon Schleusener)
    Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• Cultural History of Individual Media and Aesthetic Forms of Presentation

  024aA2.2
  • 32112 Graduate Course
    All New! Functions of Novelty in American Cultural Theory and Practice (Alexander Starre)
    Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
    Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32113 Graduate Course
    Neoliberal Culture (Simon Schleusener)
    Schedule: Do 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32115 Graduate Course
    From Public Sculpture to Public Art (Michele Bogart (Terra Gastprofessur))
    Schedule: Mi 14:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2015-05-20)
    Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32116 Graduate Course
    Beyond The Black Atlantic: African Americans and US Popular Culture (Martin Lüthe)
    Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• Regional, Ethnic, and Gender-Specific Subcultures

  024aA2.3
  • 32114 Lecture
    Reform, Diversity, and Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Romanticism (Frank Kelleter)
    Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
    Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32115 Graduate Course
    From Public Sculpture to Public Art (Michele Bogart (Terra Gastprofessur))
    Schedule: Mi 14:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2015-05-20)
    Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32116 Graduate Course
    Beyond The Black Atlantic: African Americans and US Popular Culture (Martin Lüthe)
    Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• History of Literature

  024aA3.1
  • 32210 Graduate Course
    The Puritans and American Studies (Florian Sedlmeier)
    Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• Theory of Literature

  024aA3.2
  • 32212 Graduate Course
    Jameses: Rewriting Themes of International Modernity (Mary Ann Snyder-Körber)
    Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• Literary Text Analysis

  024aA3.3
  • 32212 Graduate Course
    Jameses: Rewriting Themes of International Modernity (Mary Ann Snyder-Körber)
    Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32215 Seminar
    Queer Transnational Writing and the Work of Christopher Isherwood (Ben Robbins)
    Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• Institutions, Stakeholders, and Processes

  024aA4.2
  • 32510 Graduate Course
    The American Worker, the US Labor Movement, and Film (Thomas Greven)
    Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32511 Seminar
    The politics of the U.S. Supreme Court (Pawel Laidler)
    Schedule: Di 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32515 Graduate Course
    Clash of Law and Politics in the U.S. (Pawel Laidler)
    Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
    Location: 2 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 5)
    

• Areas of Politics/Policy Research

  024aA4.3
  • 32511 Seminar
    The politics of the U.S. Supreme Court (Pawel Laidler)
    Schedule: Di 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32512 Seminar
    Inequality and Political Participation (Christian Lammert)
    Schedule: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-17)
    Location: 319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32513 Seminar
    Cyberpolitics, Online Publics and the Power of the Net (Curd Benjamin Knüpfer)
    Schedule: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-17)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32514 Graduate Course
    Liberal Nationalism and American Empire (Boris Vormann)
    Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-13)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32515 Graduate Course
    Clash of Law and Politics in the U.S. (Pawel Laidler)
    Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
    Location: 2 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 5)
    

• Social Systems, Institutions, and Regulations - Meaning and Function

  024aA5.2
  • 32610 Basic Course / Seminar
    Autonomy, Control and Bodily practices: A Sociology of the Body (Markus Kienscherf)
    Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
    Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32611 Graduate Course
    What's love got to do with it? Theorizing Capitalist Crisis as Crises of Social Reproduction: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (Jana Gerlach)
    Schedule: Mi 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-22)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• Exploration of Social Processes - Problem, Conflict, Crisis

  024aA5.3
  • 14639 Seminar
    The Black-Jewish Alliance in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s (David Jünger)
    Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
    Location: Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, Sophienstraße 22a, 10178 Berlin; Raum 1.01
    

• North American International Economic Policy

  024aA6.3
  • 32710 Seminar
    International Macroeconomics (Irwin Collier)
    Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
    Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32711 Graduate Course
    International Macroeconomics - Case Studies (Irwin Collier)
    Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-16)
    Location: 340 Hörsaal (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• Theories and Methods

  024aA7.2
  • 32214 Advanced graduate seminar
    Literature and Economics in the Two Gilded Ages (James Dorson, Julia Püschel)
    Schedule: Mi 16:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32214L Advanced graduate seminar
    Literature and Economics Lektürekurs (James Dorson Julia Püschel)
    Schedule: Mi 17:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-15)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• Culture and Society

  024aA7.3
  • 32516 Advanced graduate seminar
    The US in the Middle East (Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Lora Viola)
    Schedule: Di 14:00-15:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    
  • 32516L Reading Course
    The US in the Middle East (Jessica Gienow-Hecht)
    Schedule: Di 15:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2015-04-14)
    Location: 201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)
    

• Modules w/o courses in this semester

  11 Modules
  • History of American Foreign Policy 024aA1.1
  • The Societal and Cultural History of North America 024aA1.2
  • Colonial History/History of the Atlantic Realm 024aA1.3
  • Theories and Methods of Political Science (Import) or American Political Theory 024aA4.1
  • Sociological Theories of North America 024aA5.1
  • North American Economic Policies in a Historical Dimension 024aA6.1
  • North American Domestic Economic Policy 024aA6.2
  • Epochs 024aA7.1
  • Theoretic Linguistics 024aA8.1
  • Languages in North America 024aA8.2
  • Language Policies in North America 024aA8.3