Fachbereichsmitglied Dr. Jonas Kellermann wurde für seine Dissertation im Fachbereich Literatur-, Kunst- und Medienwissenschaften mit dem Wissenschaftsförderpreis 2021 der Stadt Konstanz ausgezeichnet.
The department is delighted to announce that Dr. Moritz Ingwersen (American Studies) has received an offer to assume a junior professorship in North American Studies at TU Dresden starting March 1, 2021. His new website can be found here.
Supported by a grant from the University of Konstanz International Office. Online graduate seminar on the aesthetics, poetics, and politics of oil in American culture (WS 2020/21), organized by Moritz Ingwersen.
Co-organized by Moritz Ingwersen and Sina Steglich (German Historical Institute London), this workshop for early-career scholars examines the rise of scientific conceptions of time and temporality in the nineteenth century as central to interdisciplinary dialogues between the humanities and the natural sciences in the context of the Anthropocene. Keynote speakers come from the fields of media theory, literary studies, and history.
Recent events in the United States have spotlighted the persistence of deeply engrained structures of systemic racism on all levels of society—not only in North America but also in the United Kingdom, Germany, and other European countries.
