... 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

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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.

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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

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 … 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/

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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

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