Talking American Studies

By: Verena Adamik (and others)
  • Summary

  • Dedicated to highlighting currents of North American Studies in Germany.Also on spotify and itunes, or follow Talking American Studies on twitter/facebook/instagram!About the host/creator: I'm Verena Adamik, and I teach and research American Studies at the University of Potsdam. For my PhD project, I investigated the link between the United States' national narrative and utopianism by looking at fictional renditions of utopian communities (i.e. 'communes') in the nineteenth century. I am currently turning some of my findings into a book. Further research interests include horror fiction and African American writing, specifically sf, horror, and literary responses to White supremacist discourse. Because I miss going to seminars and lectures, I decided to just get scholars to spill their intellectual beans in this podcast.
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Episodes
  • Jens Temmen on Mars
    May 22 2021

    ... leaving this planet behind (or not) with Dr. Jens Temmen (HHU Düsseldorf). Listen in on us Talking American Studies: the difference between the PhD and the PostDoc phase, on Mars colonization, climate change, and the havoc an error in translation can wreak.

    Featuring

    Dr. Jens Temmen https://www.anglistik2.hhu.de/en/anglistik-ii-american-studies/faculty/staff/dr-jens-temmen

    Dr. Verena Adamik https://vadamik.wordpress.com/
    Anja Söyunmez

    Bibliography 

    Atanasoski, Neda, and Kalindi Vora. “Why the Sex Robot Becomes the Killer Robot - Reproduction, Care, and the Limits of Refusal”. spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures. vol 6. 2020, pp. 1 - 16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13850 .

    Davenport, Christian. The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos. Public Affairs. 2018.

    Ganser, Alexandra. “Astrofuturism.” Critical Terms in Future Studies. Ed. Heike Paul.Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 35-43

    Jameson, Fredric. The Seeds of Time. Columbia University Press, 1994.

    Markley, Robert. Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. Duke UP, 2005.

    Messeri, Lisa. Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds. Duke UP, 2016.

    Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard UP, 2011.

    Redfieldt, Peter. Space in the Tropics. From Convicts to Rockets in French Guyana. U of California P, 2000.

    Rieder, John. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Wesleyan UP, 2012.

    Temmen, Jens. “Writing Life on Mars: Posthuman Imaginaries of Extraterrestrial Colonization and the NASA Mars Rover Missions.” Forthcoming.

    Vertesi, Jannet. Seeing like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images have Knowledge of Mars. The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

    Music Intro/OutroTitle: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music https://starfrosch.com

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    28 mins
  • Debate, Democracy, Diversity: University Politics and American Studies; with E. Yekani, M. Klepper, E. Kimmell, N. Habib.
    Nov 13 2020

    In this episode, Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani , Prof. Dr. Martin Klepper, Emma Kimmell, and  Nisreen Habib,(Humboldt-Universität Berlin) reflect on university politics, racism, structural change and, of course, American Studies. The interview was inspired by a town hall meeting at the American Studies section of the Department of English and American Studies of the HU, organized by Daphne Beers, Julia Dutschke, Kristina Graaff, Nisren Habib, Thao Ho, Lia Kindinger, Martin Klepper, Sophie von Lentzke, and Alina Weiermüller. https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/department/sec/amstud/town-hall-meeting-june-24.pdf 

    The episode is hosted by Dr. Verena Adamik and Anja Söyünmez.

    Arghavan, Mahmoud, et al. Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? Transcript Verlag, 2019.

    Bader-Ginsburg, Ruth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg

    BLM https://blacklivesmatter.com/

    Coates, Ta-Nehisi. https://ta-nehisicoates.com/

    Davis, Angela Y. Angela Davis https://web.archive.org/web/20190331175938/https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/angela-davis-40

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

    Department of English and American Studies HU Berlin  https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/

    DuBois, W. E. B. https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/web-dubois

    FridaysForFuture https://fridaysforfuture.org/

    Klepper, Martin.  https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/department/staff-faculty/professors/klepper

    Lorde, Audre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde

    Matthiessen, F.O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._O._Matthiessen

    Vuong, Ocean. https://www.oceanvuong.com/

    Haschemi Yekani, Elahe.  https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/department/staff-faculty/professors/klepper

    As promised, podcast recommendations on the topics discussed, curated by yours truly, Anja Söyunmez.

    Lynching in America - https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/listen; Witness Black History; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01h9dl0/episodes/downloads; Pod Save the People - https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people/ ; Seeing White  https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/; The Breakdown https://open.spotify.com/show/3rInLkkAglRgLWZoa5cmlU

    Music Intro/Outro

    Title: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music from https://starfrosch.com

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    40 mins
  • Conspiracy Theories and being a 'Public' Academic with M. Butter
    Oct 17 2020

     … all about conspiracy theories – Prof. Michael Butter (University Tübingen) talks about the history of conspiracy theories and their status today, about relating academic research to public audiences, and the importance of engaging with so-called unloved subjects. Last but not least - we're talking American Studies! Hosted by Verena Adamik & Anja Söyünmez (University of Potsdam)

    Featuring

    Prof. Dr. Michael Butter https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/neuphilologie/englisches-seminar/sections/american-studies/faculty-staff/prof-dr-michael-butter/

    Dr. Verena Adamik https://vadamik.wordpress.com/

    Bibliography 

    Agamben, Giorgio. “Una domanda.” Quodlibet, April 13, 2020. https://www.quodlibet.it/giorgio-agamben-una-domanda

    Birchall, Clare. Knowledge Goes Pop: from Conspiracy Theory to Gossip. Berg,2006.

    Butter, Michael. Nichts ist, wie es scheint: Über Verschwörungstheorien. Suhrkamp, 2018. 

    Butter, Michael. “Einfache Wahrheiten für eine komplizierte Welt.” Deutschlandfunk Nova Hörsaal, 2008.

    Butter, Michael. Plots, Designs, and Schemes: American Conspiracy Theories from the Puritans to the Present. de Gruyter, 2014.

    Butter, Michael; Knight, Peter. Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. Routledge, 2020. 

    Butter, Michael. The Epitome of Evil: Hitler in American Fiction, 1939-2002. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

    Butter, Michael. The Nature of Conspiracy Theories. Polity, 2020.

    Butter, Michael. “Warum gibt es gerade so viele Verschwörungstheorien?” Politikstunde. bpb, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVQAShC3L2c

    Fenster, Mark. Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture. U of Minnesota P, 2008.

    Fielding, Nigel. “Mediating the Message: Affinity and Hostility in Research on Sensitive Topics”, Researching Sensitive Topics. Sage, 1993.

    Hofstadter, Richard. “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Harper's Magazine, 1964.

    Knight, Peter. Conspiracy Culture: American Paranoia from the Kennedy Assassination to the X-Files. London: Routledge, 2001.

    Lamberty, Pia. Fake Facts: Wie Verschwörungstheorien unser Denken bestimmen. Bastei, 2020. 

    Thalmann, Katharina.The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory Since the 1950s. Routledge, 2019.

    Turner, Patricia A. I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture. U of California P, 1994. 

    Sanders-Mcdonagh, Erin. “Conducting ‘Dirty Research’ with Extreme Groups” Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, vol 9, no. 3, 2014.

    Zeit Online – das Politikteil “Was tun, wenn der Nachbar fantasiert?” https://www.zeit.de/politik/2020-09/verschwoerungstheorien-michael-butter-corona-demos-politikpodcast

    Music Intro/OutroTitle: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music https://starfrosch.com

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    36 mins

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