JGU FACES: Alfred Hornung (18.04.2013)

Alfred Hornung, Professor of English and American Studies, received his PhD and Habilitation from the University of Würzburg. He is a specialist in American ...

Baad - Jeffrey schnapp

Until joining the Harvard University faculty in 2011, Jeffrey Schnapp was the director of the Stanford Humanities Lab from its foundation in 2000 through 201...

Martha Nussbaum - The Value of the Humanities

http://www.philosophybites.com/ Martha Nussbaum received her BA from NYU and her MA and PhD from Harvard. She has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Univer...

American Studies at JGU: Mita Banerjee

Mita Banerjee is Professor and Chair of American studies from the 19th to the 21st century with an emphasis on contemporary American literature and culture a...

Sidonie Smith - Toward a sustainable Humanities

Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and was the 2010 President of the Mo...

Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 5, German 59, UCLA

Course Description: German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory throug...

How Indians Shaped the U.S.--Mexican War

For more than 150 years, historians have crafted narratives of the U.S.--Mexican War with virtually no conceptual space for the stateless peoples who actuall...

Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder on 'The Anthropocene'

Carson Professor Reinhold Leinfelder's research interest focuses on the concept of the Anthropocene, which combines natural, social, cultural sciences, and t...

History of US Constitutional Principles

The Center for American Studies and Research sponsored a lecture entitled ""The History of U.S. Constitutional Principles: Civil Law vs. Religious Imperative...

Ph.D. Billy L. Edge

He is Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University and Head of Coastal Processes and Engineering at the ...