Events
August 15, 2025
#Guest Lecture
As part of the Eccles Institute's Summer Scholars Lunchtime Talks series, Florian Zappe will give a talk entitled "The Atheist Pamphlet and the American Public Sphere" at the Knowledge Centre of the British Library on Thursday, 14 August at 12:30 PM. The talk will take place at the British Library in London and is open to the public.
August 1, 2025
#Fellowship
In August, Florian Zappe will begin a Visiting Fellowship at the Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania at the British Library in London. During his fellowship, he will explore the role of atheist and secularist activist literature in shaping cultural and political discourse in the United States, with particular emphasis on secularist manifestos and their function in articulating and negotiating post-metaphysical ethical norms.
June 19, 2025
#Symposium
Pierre-Héli Monot has co-organized a conference panel at the annual meeting of the German Association for American Studies. The panel is entitled “Can Archives Be More Than Datasets?” and focuses on the emergence of AI protocols in scholarly practices. This question is eminently relevant to the project, as the trawling of pamphletary archives has brought new epistemic and ethical problems to the fore. A detailed program of the panel is available here.
June 5, 2025
#Guest Lecture
David Bebnowski gave a guest lecture at Paderborn University on 5 June in the seminar Ressentiments – Theorie, Empirie, Literatur, hosted by Prof. Dr. Claudia Öhlschläger (Comparative Literature). The title of the lecture was Identitätspolitik: Trigger des Ressentiments oder Solidaritätsressource. Drawing on feminist pamphlets, David discussed the evolution of the concept of identity politics, tracing its roots from Black feminist discourses during the second wave of feminism (1960s/70s) and referring to earlier 19th-century historical discourses.
May 16, 2025
#Roundtable Discussion
HU Berlin
David Bebnowski participated in a roundtable discussion on the topic What Was Theory? at the inaugural conference of the Humboldt University in Berlin’s Center for Advanced Studies “Applied Humanities” on 16 May. In the discussion, David shed light on the contributions of dissident theory and related discourses to the humanities and referred to pamphlets as a medium and infrastructure for tracing these ideas. The center for “Applied Humanities” is jointly led by Prof. Dr. Anke te Heesen (History of Science) and Prof. Dr. Viktoria Tkaczyk (Media Studies).
April 14, 2025
#Guest Presentation
FU Berlin
David Bebnowski gave a presentation entitled Feminist Pressure: Feminist Pamphleteering in Germany and the U.S. at the Colloquium of the History Department of the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University in Berlin on 14 April. In his talk, David presented his ongoing research on feminist pamphlets and offered insights into his current book project: Feministischer Druck.
January 20, 2025
#Book Launch and Symposium
We are happy to present our work and project at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin on January 20, 2025. The event, which is open to the pubic, is hosted by Patrick Eiden-Offe and will present our recent publications and work projects. Find out more here.
December 4, 2024
#Guest Lecture
HKB Bern
David Bebnowski will be giving a guest lecture at the Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), Switzerland, on 4th December. The lecture discusses the interconnections of printed matter and pressure as a political force by focusing on pamphlets from various fields and journals of the New Left and the New Right in Germany and other states.
December 10, 2024
#Guest Lecture
Janet Lyon
We are happy to welcome Professor Janet Lyon (Pennsylvania State University) for a guest lecture. Janet Lyon’s Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern has been a seminal text for much of the scholarship on polemical cultures.
The lecture takes place on December 10, 2024 at 18:00 and is open to the public.
December, 2024
#Conference Paper
Macropolitics and Microtexts
Pierre-Héli Monot will address the Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata, upon invitation by Prof. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha on December 16. His paper, entitled Macropolitics and Microtexts: A Brief Transnational History of Local Protest, discusses the recent emergence of a global archive of polemical literature and its historical precedents in political history.
November 20, 2024
#Guest Lecture
Gloria Fears-Heinzel
We are happy to host Gloria Fears-Heinzel (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) for an online guest lecture on Wednesday, November 20 at 16:15.
Gloria Fears-Heinzel’s dissertation project was inspired by previous research for their M.A. thesis which dealt with the effects of sexism and machismo on Black women leaders of the Black Panther Party during the 1960s and -70s. On Wednesday, they will be providing an overview of their thesis, as well as a case study from two research trips to libraries and archives across the U.S., made possible by a generous grant from the Gerda Henkel foundation.
October 31, 2024
#Doctoral Defense
Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier
Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier will defend her thesis on Thursday October 31st, 14-16, at the Amerika-Institut. This will be a hybrid event. To register, please contact: Sakina.Groeppmaier@lmu.de
August 1, 2024
#London School of Economics
Pierre-Héli Monot is spending the summer of 2024 as a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. His profile page at the LSE is available here.
His usual office hours are temporarily suspended; please get in touch via email instead to schedule a meeting.
July 24, 2024
#Conference Papers
Manifesto Now!
We are happy to give a joint paper at the upcoming Manifesto Now! conference. The event takes place on Wednesday, July 24 at the Technical University of Dresden. Pierre-Héli Monot and David Bebnowski will present their recent work and discuss current transformations of pamphleteering. Find out mere here.
June 17, 2024
#Conference Paper
Radical Press and Radical Pressure
David Bebnowski took part in a presentation of his most recent article, “Radical Press and Radical Pressure,” in the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies at the University of Vienna on June 17, 2024. Under the headline “Revolution and Gender,” this presentation was part of the retirement celebrations organized for Prof. Dr. Gabriella Hauch, who co-edited the special issue on “Radicalities,” of which David’s essay is a part.
May 22, 2024
#Guest Lecture
Anya Shchetvina
We are happy to host Anya Shchetvina (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) for a guest lecture on Wednesday, May 22 from 16:00-18:00 online. Anya Shchetvina will speak about digital manifestos and society-building between the 1980s and 2020s. For registration and more information, please contact: p.monot@lmu.de
March 20, 2024
#Conference Paper
Sorbonne
Pierre-Héli Monot will be giving a paper at the Sorbonne on March 20, 2024. The paper discusses the American Indian Movement and its understanding of resistance. A programme is forthcoming.
March 11, 2024
#Conference Paper
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Pierre-Héli Monot will take part in a round table at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften on March 11. The round table focuses on the contradictions of censorship in democratic societies. A programme is available here.
March 7, 2024
#Conference Paper
Le Mot Juste
Pierre-Héli Monot will be giving a paper at the the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Germany, on March 7. The paper discusses polemical tropes against the backdrop of the emergence of “tact”, “politeness”, and social grace during the Enlightenment. A programme is available here.
January 30, 2024
#Guest Lecture
Breanne Fahs
As part of our research group's lecture series, we will be hosting Breanne Fahs (Arizona State University) on Tuesday, January 30 and would like to invite you all to join. The event is co-organized by our ERC project "The Arts of Autonomy" and the DFG project "The Upsurge of the Manifesto" (TU Dresden).
Breanne Fahs is a feminist literary scholar who has published extensively on the genre of the feminist manifesto. In her talk, she will discuss the impact of manifestos and provocative political literature on the public and their general relevance for political protest. Breanne Fahs' talk, entitled "Radical Provocations: Scum, Feminism, and Reading Publics", will take place as an online event and will be hosted via Zoom from 17:00 (c.t.) to 19:00. For registration and more information, please contact: d.bebnowski@lmu.de
January 5, 2024
#Conference Paper
MLA Philadelphia
Pierre-Héli Monot will be giving a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia on January 5. The paper discusses the affordances of print culture, the virtues of anonymity, and literary circulation among combat troops. A programme is available here.
January 10, 2024
#Guest Lecture
Martin Puchner (Harvard)
We are happy to host Martin Puchner (Harvard University) for a guest lecture on Wednesday, January 10 from 16:00-18:00 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Political manifestos, which emerged in the 19th century, and art manifestos, which emerged in the early 20th century, have been important tools for activism. So why are recent protest movements shying away from this genre? And what happens when groups and individuals nevertheless issue manifestos today? We look forward to discussing such questions and more. For registration and more information, please contact: Sakina.Groeppmaier@lmu.de
November 14, 2023
#Guest Paper
Tübingen
David Bebnowski will be speaking about his current work at the University of Tübingen on November 14. David will present the foundational ideas that structure his book project „Feministischer Druck: Druckerzeugnisse, Gegenöffentlichkeiten, Mobilisierung in Deutschland und den USA (1848-2000)" in the Examenskolloquium Zeitgeschichte hosted by Prof. Dr. Sonja Levsen.
July 12, 2023
#Guest Lecture
Ivan Stacy, Beijing Normal University
We are happy to to host Ivan Stacy for a guest lecture entitled "Of Big and Small Characters: Reflections on Pamphlets and Posters in Contemporary Chinese Fiction". The title of this talk refers to the interplay between what are known as "big character posters" and the physically smaller writing in political pamphlets, both of which enable forms of expression that can lie on a spectrum between support of authority and dissent. This talk argues that this ambivalence with regard to the efficacy of pamphlets and posters in terms of achieving their goals, such as those issued during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), is evident in contemporary Chinese fiction, such as writings by Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Su Tong, Yan Lianke and Sheng Keyi, that looks back on periods of ideological ferment.
June 19, 2023
#Fulbright American Studies Award 2023
We are happy to announce that Dr. David Bebnowski has received the Fulbright American Studies Award 2023 (10.000€) to advance his studies on feminist pamphleteering in the United States and Germany and for his general academic achievements. While a Fulbright fellow, David will also serve as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in August 2023 and in February 2024. At the Schlesinger Library, he will do archival work for his book project "Feminist Pressure." We congratulate David on this accomplishment and are grateful to the Fulbright Foundation and the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) for selecting him as the recipient of this prestigious award.
June 6, 2023
#Guest Lecture
The Agency of Short Forms
We are happy to welcome Dr. Florian Fuchs (Freie Universität Berlin) for a guest lecture on “The Agency of Short Forms: On Topical Speech”. Florian Fuchs recently published Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature with Zone Books. The guest lecture will take place on Tuesday, June 6 and is open to the public.
May 20, 2023
#Conference Paper
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Pierre-Héli Monot will be giving a paper on May 23 at the American Studies Research Colloquium at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. His talk presents some of the main research models of the research project “The Arts of Autonomy”. A program is available here.
March 31, 2023
#Conference
Sorbonne
Pierre-Héli Monot will be speaking about his current work at the Sorbonne on March 31. The conference centers on the “crises of the universal” that have washed over entire segments of the philosophical tradition. Pierre-Héli Monot will contend that universality has, if anything, lost some of its aspirational value: the universalisation of access to universal rights, i.e. the universalisation of conditions of access to universality itself, was once an undisputed horizon of emancipation, and should remain so. A programme is available here.
Febrary 22, 2023
#Conference Paper
ACLA Chicago
Pierre-Héli Monot will be giving a paper at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in Chicago on March 18. The paper deals with the ethical transgressions of one of the great polemical movements in 20th-century literature. A program is available here.
December 18, 2022
#Conference Paper
Politischer Druck/Political Pressure
David Bebnowski will be giving a paper on his project "Politischer Druck. ‚Druckerzeugnisse' und feministische Gegenöffentlichkeit in den USA und Deutschland 1848 bis heute" at the Research Colloquium on Cultural History led by Prof. Dr. Philipp Felsch at the Humboldt University of Berlin on December 21.
November 28, 2022
#Conference Paper
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Pierre-Héli Monot und David Bebnowski sprechen am 28. November an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin über die Poesie und Politik des Pamphlets. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an die breite akademische Öffentlichkeit. Mehr Informationen zum Kolleg Kleine Formen sind hier erhältlich.
Pierre-Héli Monot und David Bebnowski will be giving a paper on the poetry and politics of the pamphlet at the Humboldt University of Berlin on November 28. The event is open to the academic public. More information on the research training group Kleine Formen is available here.
November 1, 2022
#Conference Paper
University of Lausanne
Pierre-Héli Monot will be giving a paper on the Civil Rights Movement and the GI underground press at the University of Lausanne on November 9. The conference is organized by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet and Ana Gomes Correia. A program is available here.
September 19, 2022
#Conference Paper
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
David Bebnowski will be presenting a paper at the upcoming conference "Political Economy for Everybody? Popularizing and Moralizing the Economy in Political Conflicts" organized by Stefanie Middendorf and Rüdiger Graf at the Leibniz-ZZF Potsdam. David Bebnowski's paper is entitled "German Populism: The AfD as a Result of a Popularized Economy". The conference will take place from 22-23 September. More information is available here.
July 20, 2022
#Guest Lecture
“The Pamphletary and the Public”
Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier will give a lecture on the role of pamphletary claims in dialogical processes between political actors and engaged publics on July 20th at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The presentation is part of the American Studies Research Colloquium organized by Prof. Dr. Heike Paul. Please see here for more information.
June 2, 2022
#Workshop
Popular Philology
Our research group has organized a workshop at the upcoming DGfA meeting at the University of Tübingen. The workshop revolves around the notion of “popular philology”, that is, the cognitive and critical dispositions broadly shared among non-professional publics. We are honored to host several distinguished guests; a complete programme is available here.
May 30, 2022
#Video Keynotes
Activist Writing
Our keynote talks at our conference "Activist Writing” are now available online.
May 11, 2022
#Guest Paper
Territoriality, Democracy, and Deliberative Engagement
Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier will give a presentation on the rhetorical trajectory of contemporary territorialist movements in Western democratic systems and their reception amongst engaged publics on May 16th at 18:00 at the History Department of the Amerika-Institut at LMU Munich. The presentation is part of a series featuring postgraduate scholars whose work falls in the scope of transatlantic and American studies. Please contact Prof. Dr. Michael Hochgeschwender and Prof. Dr. Ursula Prutsch for more information.
May 9, 2022
#Conference Paper
Flyover Fictions
David Bebnowski will be presenting a paper at the upcoming conference "Flyover Fictions", which is organized by the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The event will take place from 27-28 May 2022 at the Claudiana Palais in Innsbruck. David's paper is titled "Libertarianism as Flyover Fiction: Populist Core Dynamics in Libertarian Pamphlets". For more information, please visit the conference website.
January 12, 2022
#Conference Program
“Activist Writing” Now Online – February 24-26, 2022
The pamphlet is the ultimate contentious format: It is deeply political, it always conveys protest, and it always appeals to the public at large. In short, the pamphlet is a prime example of activist writing. Our conference will focus on the role and evolution of the pamphlet and the uses of polemical styles in political activism.
This conference is an online event and is open to the public.
We kindly ask our guests to register here. Links to the conference will be sent to your email.
A program of the conference is available here.
We have invited several keynote speakers:
Sigrid Weigel (February 24)
Robert Pfaller (February 24)
Eva von Redecker (February 25)
Philipp Staab (February 25)
Grace Blakeley (February 25)
Amber A’Lee Frost (February 25)
We look forward to seeing you soon!
January 11, 2022
#Conference
Labor and Capital in U.S. History
David Bebnowski will be presenting a paper at the upcoming annual meeting of the historians of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) on “Labor and Capital in U.S. History”, which is jointly organized by the DGfA, the Obama Institute at the University of Mainz, and the IEG Mainz. The event will take place online from 11-12 February 2022. David’s paper is titled “Conflicting Transnationalisms and the Fate of Labor: The IWW Between Internationalism and Nationalism”. For more information, please visit the conference website.
January 3, 2022
#Talk
“Towards a Theory of the Pamphletary”
Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier will give a brief talk on the functions of pamphletary literature in contemporary territorialist movements as well as an overview of her project at its current stage. The hybrid event will take place in Room 201 at Amerika-Institut at LMU Munich, on Thursday January 27th at 18:15. Registration is required – please contact Anna Flügge at anna.fluegge@lmu.de for more information.
*Please note that there is a 2G requirement for entry
November 19, 2021
#Conference Paper
Literature and Sociology: Describing Inequality
Pierre-Héli Monot will give a paper on the figure of the proletariat in recent polemical academic texts on November 19 at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany. The event, which gathers sociologists, literary theorists, and historians, will focus on inequality at the intersection of literary and sociological disciplinary practices. A program of the event is available here.
November 13, 2021
#Workshop
The Power of Lists
Pierre-Héli Monot will give a paper on “lists” in the pamphletary tradition on November 13 at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany. The workshop is organized by Julika Griem and Il-Tschung Lim and deals with list-making in literature. Pamphlets are both a typical and a heterodox example of literary list-making, as the lists present in Zola’s “J’accuse…!” or BLM tracts gather disparate political claims, yet tend to serve striclty instrumental and clearly defined purposes. A program of the workshop is available here.
November 4, 2021
#Workshop
Infection and Injustice: Narrative Responses to Pandemics
Pierre-Héli Monot will give a paper on “Virality” as a metaphor in both public health discourse and spreadable "(“viral”) texts on Saturday, November 6. The symposium is organized by the University Medical Center at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. Monot’s paper criticizes the concept of “infodemic”. The term was coined in 2003 by David Rothkopf during the SARS crisis in a column for the Washington Post: “SARS is the story of not one epidemic but two, and the second epidemic, the one that has largely escaped the headlines, has implications that are far greater than the disease itself.” Infodemics are a cocktail of “a few facts, mixed with fear, speculation and rumor, amplified and relayed swiftly worldwide by modern information technologies.” Yet, elaborate sign systems are part of evolution: it is difficult to establish a clear distinction between properly biological phenomena and semiotic ones or communicational ones. We could hence describe terms such as “viral information” or “infodemic” as tautologies.
November 20, 2021
#Conference Papers
Écrivains Polémistes et Essais Polémiques dans la Littérature Mondiale – Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Pierre-Héli Monot will give a brief paper on Theodore Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and its Future at the Université de Bordeaux Montaigne on November 22. The conference is particularly interesting because it is one of the few academic events in recent years that deal with polemical literature and the pamphletary tradition. A program of the event is available here.
August 15, 2021
#Workshop
Krise und Kleinformat. Von der Institutionskritik zur politischen Mobilisierung (1918-1933)
David Bebnowski will be presenting a paper at the upcoming conference “Krise und Kleinformat. Von der Institutionskritik zur politischen Mobilisierung (1918-1933) [Crisis and Small Forms. From the Critique of Institutions to Political Mobilization (1918-1933)]” organized by the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2190 “Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte kleiner Formen [Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms]” at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. David Bebnowski’s paper is entitled “Die Umcodierung des Proletariats – Kleine Formen im nationalsozialistischen Kampf um die Arbeiterschaft [Re-Coding of the Proletariat – Small Forms in the Nazi‘s Struggle to Win Over Workers]”. More information is available here.
August 12, 2021
#Conference Paper
Doing the Global Intellectual History of Social Movements
David Bebnowski will be presenting a paper at the upcoming conference “Doing the Global Intellectual History of Social Movements” jointly organized by the Freie Universität and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. David Bebnowski’s paper is entitled “Reproduction in Renewal: The Global Imaginary Intellectual History of the European New Left”. More information is available here.
June 1, 2021
#Guest Lecture
Kathy Newman
We are happy to host Kathy M. Newman (Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh) for a guest lecture on "Connecting Labor Films to Labor Archives in the US and Beyond”. This guest lecture takes place online on June 30 at 18:15.
April 25, 2021
#Workshop
Peaks Krafft
We have organized a workshop with Dr. Peaks Krafft (University of the Arts London) entitled “Three Components of My Critical Technical Practice: Personal Responsibility, Pluralist Epistemology, And Collective Action.” Responding to how power relations are organized, embedded, and perpetuated in information technologies, Dr. Krafft will explore ways such power relations can be re-organized and challenged through critical, creative, and activist practice.
Dr. Peaks Krafft (they/them) are Senior Lecturer and MA Internet Equalities Course Leader at the UAL Creative Computing Institute. They undertake critically-oriented computer science research, academic organising, and community organising, especially recently on four issues in higher education and tech: social impacts of technology; personal and institutional accountability; anti-racism in organisations, and conflicts of interest from tech funding. Dr. Krafft’s work is animated by an interest in who and what is missing when we talk about or are involved in data science and computing. How do we move beyond the terms equality, diversity and inclusion, to build counter-power to the modes of oppression in society that are replicated within tech? For many who are marginalised, the status quo remains a central barrier to being present and progressing in the fields of computer science and data science. They are equally occupied with how work is organised in tech and higher education, as with doing work in these sectors.
The workshop will be held via Zoom on Wednesday May 5th, from 16:15 – 17:45 CET. Dr. Krafft will give a c. 30 minute talk, which will be followed by a Q&A session and discussion. The workshop will be held in English. To register, please send an email to: sakina.groeppmaier@lmu.de
April 22, 2021
#Introducing "A Blog"
We are introducing a new series on our website: "A Blog" provides insights into our our work and presents topics and questions to the broader public. The content will consist of shorter pieces in which we allow ourselves to be somewhat experimental. We aim to combine scholarly insights, topical comments on current events, and easy accessability for anyone interested in our research.
A Blog starts with a piece by David Bebnowski, in which he reflects on the aptly titled song "Pamphleteer" by the band The Weakerthans. Following the song structure and its lyrics, David asks who pamphleteers are, what pamphleteers do, and how their role and activity reflect changes in the public sphere and the media.
April 9, 2021
#Conference Paper
American Comparative Literature Association – Annual Meeting, Montréal
Pierre-Héli Monot will give a paper on April 10 at the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place on-site at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal. Pierre-Héli Monot’s paper, which discusses the polemical literature that circulates during protest movements in Western societies, will present some of the methodological insights that have emerged during the first phase of the project The Arts of Autonomy. A conference schedule is available here.
March 1, 2021
#New Team Member
David Bebnowski
We are happy to welcome our postdoc David Bebnowski to the ERC research project “The Arts of Autonomy.” David Bebnowski studied social sciences at the University of Goettingen and the University of California, San Diego. He obtained his PhD in contemporary history at the University of Potsdam in 2020. In his research, David Bebnowski focuses on political generations, right-wing extremism and populism, Labour history, intellectual history and the New Left. His monographs include Generation und Geltung (2012) and Die Alternative für Deutschland (2015). His forthcoming book Kämpfe mit Marx is based on his dissertation and will be published in autumn 2021.
February 10, 2021
#Workshop
François Cusset
Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier, Sandra Schmidt and Pierre-Héli Monot have organized a workshop with François Cusset(Paris Nanterre) entitled “Violence: Systems, Circulation, and Resistance.” This online event is open to the public and will take place on February 10, 2020. For registration, please contact Sandra Schmidt at: sandra.schmidt@lmu.de.
January 21, 2020
#Conference Paper
American Politics Group of the UK Political Studies Association
Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier was pleased to be a speaker at the 47th Annual Conference of the American Politics Group of the UK Political Studies Association, which was hosted by the University of Kent and took place from January 21st-23rd, 2021. She presented a paper entitled “Polemics and the Politics of Rebuilding: Race and the Reterritorialization of New Orleans” which examined the power of polemics and the power asymmetries they can expose to a broader public. She is currently working on the publication version of this paper.
November 5, 2020
#Workshop
"Structural Injustices"
Sandra Schmidt will participate in the 8th SWIP Workshop on "Structural Injustices" at the University of Potsdam. She will present a paper entitled "Persönliche Autonomie zwischen Fake News, Algorithmen und Echo Kammern" ("Personal Autonomy Between Fake News, Algorithms, and Echo Chambers").
November 3, 2020
#Conference Panel
“A View from Abroad: Young Scholars’ Panel on Election Night 2020”
Amidst the tension, chaos, and anticipation of the 59th U.S. presidential election, Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier was part of a panel of young scholars discussing issues connected to U.S. democracy as well as the German-U.S. transatlantic relationship. Entitled “A View from Abroad: Young Scholars’ Panel on Election Night 2020” and hosted by the Bavarian American Academy and the Amerikahaus München, the panel brought different perspectives on issues such as Trumpism, racism and police brutality, the Covid-19 pandemic, rising unemployment, and the impact of the Trump presidency on domestic governance, foreign relations, and cultural production. The panel can be viewed here.
September 1, 2020
#New Team Member
Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier
We are happy to welcome Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier to the team at The Arts of Autonomy. As a doctoral student, her research will focus on the various modes and interweaving of text and public discourse connected to contemporary territorialist movements in the public sphere. Sakina has taught courses in North American studies at the Amerika-Institut at LMU and given talks at the University of Lausanne, the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Niedersachsen, the German-American Institute in Nürnberg, and elsewhere. Sakina received her Master’s degree in American Studies from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and her Honors Bachelor of Arts in English and History from the University of Toronto.
April 1, 2020
#New Team Member
Sandra Schmidt
We are happy to welcome our doctoral student Sandra Schmidt to the ERC research project “The Arts of Autonomy.” Sandra Schmidt studied International Politics and Philosophy at the University of Western Australia in Perth and at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. In “The Arts of Autonomy”, she will work on contemporary concepts of freedom and autonomy, feminist philosophy and theories of justice.