North American Studies Week 2025
Welcome to our North American Studies Week 2025.
You can find an overview of our program below!
All students, doctoral students, and faculty are welcome!
Organized by: Prof. Dr. Birgit Däwes
Canada on Campus!
On Tuesday, November 4, Drew Hayden Taylor will read from his new novel Cold.
The event will take place in TAL 007.
Start time is 5pm.
You can find a lot more details about the event here: Lesung von Drew Hayden Taylor mit Leo Strohm.
Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1962), an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario, is an award-winning Indigenous playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and journalist from Canada. He has done everything from performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. to serving as artistic director of Canada's first Indigenous theater company, Native Earth Performing Arts. Drew Hayden Taylor is the author of 36 books to date. In Germany, he became known to a broader audience through his documentary "Searching for Winnetou" (2018). Cold is Drew Hayden Taylor's first novel to be translated into German.
Celebrating our North American Partnerships
Thursday, Nov. 6
6pm - 8pm
As students at Europa-Universität Flensburg’s English department, you have the chance to spend a semester studying at one of our partner universities in the U.S. and Canada. We have several partnerships in North America, some of them quite recent, some long-established, which offer you exciting opportunities for a semester abroad, especially during the fifth semester of your B.A. If you are currently thinking about a semester abroad in the U.S. or Canada, then this digital event, which is part of the North American Studies Week at the department, is your chance to hear directly from our partner institutions there, get a short introduction to their campus and to student life on this campus and get an idea of what it would be like to study there for one semester. The event will be especially useful to you if you are currently a third or first semester B.A. student.
On WebEx: https://uni-flensburg.webex.com/uni-flensburg/j.php?MTID=mb6b3a831303e3a8a87bd4017756576c5
Workshop: Current Research in British and North American Studies
Friday, Nov. 7 2025
9am - 5pm
TRO 107
9:00-11:15
- Chiona Hufnagel, “(Counter)-Hegemonic Constructions of Masculinities in Contemporary North American Indigenous Literature: Reparative Self- and Worldmaking in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Joshua Whitehead”
- Laura Jungblut, “‘backstabbing my gákti’: Wearing Indigeneity in Correspondence Between Sápmi and Turtle Island”
- Manuela Engstler, “(Not) At the Museum: Dis/Connections of Material Artifacts and their Cultures of Origin”
Coffee Break
11:30-13:00
- Jana Rosebrock, “Black Aesthetics and Counter-Memory on Screen: bell hooks, Tina M. Campt and the Gaze in American Streaming Narratives”
- Nicole Poppenhagen, “Relating Transpacific Families: Kinship and Entanglements in Chinese American Return Narratives”
Lunch Break
14:30-16:45
- Johannes Babbe “‘The science of deception […] had been ever my favorite study’: Criminal Autobiography in the Early Republic”
- Rebekka Rohleder, “Transformations: Discovering the Nineteenth-Century German Translations of Mary Shelley’s Shorter Fiction”
- Marie Hill, “From Silicon Valley to Loudoun County – Artificial Intelligence and the Data Center Gold Rush”
16:45-17:00
Conclusion
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Birgit Däwes.