W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures Winter Semester 2011/12
W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures
Time: Tuesday, 18.30 - 20.00
Location: Dorotheenstr. 24 (Hegelplatz)
Room 1.501
10099 Berlin-Mitte
November 9
Andre Willis (Yale Divinity School)
"The German Influence on Martin Luther King, Jr."
November 15
Angela Miller (Washington University)
"U.S. National Identity and Nation Building in the Arts"
November 29
Jessica Metzler (Cornell)
"Going Nowhere Fast: Queer Temporality in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita"
December 13
Wilfried Raussert (Universität Bielefeld)
"From Thunder Bay to New Orleans: THe Road as Multilayered Concepts and Traveling Sounds in Bruce McDonald's Road Movie Highway 61"
January 10
Hans-Jürgen Grabbe (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg):
"Filiopietismus, Nationalismus, Atlantizismus: Vom nationalen zum atlantischen Paradigma in der deutschen Auswanderungsforschung
The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures are sponsored by:
- Institute for the International Education of Students (IES)
- Embassy of the United States of America and
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of English and American Studies