The Wittenberg Teacher Academy 2025 is dedicated to issues of media literacy and U.S. democracy. We offer 2.5 days of talks, interactive workshops, readings and informed conversation sessions by U.S. and German scholars, practitioners, and emerging artists that train participants in political, social, and cultural America related issues at Stiftung Leucorea in Lutherstadt Wittenberg. In … [Read more…]
At this year’s „Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften“ in Halle, Phillip B. Williams, winner of the 2022 American Book Award, will read from his latest novel Ours (Viking, 2024), and from an unreleased book of poems called Lift Every Voice. (scheduled for American release summer of 2026) The reading will be followed by an informal conversation … [Read more…]
The Wittenberg Teacher Academy 2024 is dedicated to issues of media literacy and U.S. democracy. We offer 2.5 days of talks, interactive workshops, and informed conversation sessions by U.S., Scottish, and German scholars, practitioners, and emerging artists with talks and workshops on the interconnectedness of media practices and citizenship, issues around social media, KI, and … [Read more…]
The DCN Global Forum in July 2024 took place under the theme of „Unlocking Media Literacy: Shaping Tomorrow’s Minds“. At the Forum in Helsinki, 63 in-person participants from 40 countries and nearly 1.000 virtual participants, including media literacy experts, government representatives and educators, explored the concepts and practices of media literacy. They linked these to the … [Read more…]
In the summer of 2024, for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, 16 students of various programs at MLU (English, French, History, Politics, Media), accompanied by two staff, Julia Nitz and Esther Wetzel, set out to study the memorial sites of the Allied landings in Normandy. The Second World War resulted in a new world order … [Read more…]
The field trip was dedicated to the post-colonial reappraisal (or the lack thereof) of Great Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade. On the one hand, the aim was to understand how Great Britain, as one of the most important colonial powers, remembers its participation in the slave trade in museums and, in particular, what … [Read more…]
Read this interview to learn more about how the idea for my new book, Belles and Poets (LSU Press, 2020), was born and why the diarists Sarah Morgan and Mary Chesnut impressed me most during my research.
The current dual crises of the global CV-19 pandemic and the (also global) renewed struggle for racial justice have turned our attention to women worldwide whose critically important service roles bring to mind and expand on their similar occupations in the long nineteenth century. Women comprise the majority of the workforce that has been deemed … [Read more…]
In light of the holiday season, I revisited some of the texts that I discuss in my new book Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women (LSU Press, 2020) to explore how women during the late 1800s lived and interpreted their lives during the holidays. To read the blog … [Read more…]