Prof. Dr. Nicole Maruo-Schröder Department of English, Campus

Prof. Dr. Nicole Maruo-Schröder Department of English, Campus

Prof. Dr. Nicole Maruo-Schröder
Department of English, Campus Koblenz
TALKS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES
TALKS
05/2016
“Nineteenth-Century Material Culture, Domesticity, and the Question of Race:
Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and their Friends”
27th annual conference of the GAPS, “The Postcolonial and the Material,”
University of Augsburg
01/2016
“What It Means to Be Human and Free: Aspects of the Body in 21st Century
Dystopias for Young Adults”
Conference “‘Tell Freedom I Said Hello’: Issues in Contemporary Young Adult
Dystopian Literature,” University of Koblenz, 22 January 2016
12/2015
“Reel Gender Matters: Princes and Heroines (and Monsters) in Contemporary
Animation Movies”
Lecture series for prospective students, University of Koblenz-Landau 16
December 2015
11/2015
“Furnishing the Nation: Literarische Dingwelten in den USA des frühen 19.
Jahrhunderts – Überlegungen zum Begriff des Materials bei literarischen
Dingen”
Session of the division “Materielle Kulturen,” University of Lüneburg
11/2012
“Intersektionalität und Literatur: Race, Gender und Raum in Harriet Jacobs’
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl und Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass”
Invited lecture for the lecture series “Intersektional forschen – aber wie?”,
University of Kassel, 21 November 2012
06/2012
“The Business of Gender and Class in Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven
Gables”
International conference “Buying America: Literature and Consumption in the
Nineteenth Century,” University of Paderborn, 12-16 June 2012
05/2012
“‘Strikingly and Confessedly Ridiculous in the Wilderness’: Consumption,
Community, and Identity in Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home”
Invited talk, University of Koblenz-Landau, 7 May 2012
Maruo-Schröder, papers, workshops, conferences
04/2012
“‘I guess they’ll do better for kindlin’s than anything else’: Japanned Tables,
Circassian Dresses, and the Hand of Refined Taste in Caroline Kirkland’s A
New Home”
Guest lecture, Department of English, Illinois State University, Normal, Il.,
USA, 5 April 2012
02/2012
“Risk, Sacrifice, and Disaster Narrative in American Film“
Invited talk for the conference “The Shaping Power of Risk: Literature –
Culture – Environment,” University of Bayreuth, 24-26 February 2012
12/2011
“The Business of Nature and the Nature of Business: The Portrayal of
Consumption in Thoreau’s Walden”
International conference “Reading Nature,” University of Madrid, Spain, 14-16
December 2011
06/2011
“‘The End is Just the Beginning’: National Identity, (Trans-) Nationalism and
Global Catastrophes in Recent Hollywood Movies”
Workshop “Mega-Events and Global Popular Culture,” 58th annual meeting of
the DGfA (German Association for American Studies) “Transnational
American Studies,” University of Regensburg, 16-19 June 2011
05/2011
“‘When Idleness was the Most Attractive and Productive Industry’: Buying and
Selling Culture in Thoreau’s Walden”
2nd Paderborn-Siegen English and American Studies Colloquium, 27 May
2011
07/2009
“Consumer Practices on the Frontier: Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home, Who’ll
Follow?“
International symposium “Reading the Everyday: Literary and Cultural
Perspectives,” University of Paderborn, 3-4 July 2009
06/2009
“Between Nature and Culture: The Transitional Space of Film Beaches”
International conference “’Twixt Land and Sea: The Beach in Literature, Film
and Cultural Theory,” University of Bern, Switzerland, 18-21 June 2009
04/2009
“Sentimental Consumption and the Perfect Home: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
House and Home Papers”
Invited talk, University of Oldenburg, 1 April 2009
01/2009
“Portraying Consumption in 19th Century American Literature: Harriet Beecher
Stowe and Caroline Kirkland”
BOND: American Studies Workshop, University of Bochum & University of
Dortmund, 30-31 January 2009
12/2008
“Genderperspektiven
auf
den
zeitgenössischen
Hollywood-Film“
Invited lecture (with Christoph Ribbat) for a lecture series organized by the
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Maruo-Schröder, papers, workshops, conferences
Zentrum für Gender Studies in Lehre und Forschung, University of Paderborn,
10 December 2008
05/2008
“Commodifying Difference: Depictions of the ‘Other’ in 19th Century
American Trade Cards”
19th annual meeting of the ASNEL (Association for the Study of the New
Literatures in English) “Commodifying (Post-) Colonialism,” University of
Regensburg, 22-25 May 2008
05/2008
“Narratives of American Identity: Hollywood Movies after 9/11”
EAAS-Conference (European Association of American Studies) “‘E Pluribus
Unum’ or ‘E Pluribus Plura’?,” University of Oslo, Norway, 9-12 May 2008
04/2008
“Narrating (My) Self: Subjectivity in Recent American Novels”
Conference “‘Hello, I Say, It’s Me’: (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in
Contemporary Literature and Culture,” University of Düsseldorf, 4-5 April
2008
02/2008
“True Womanhood: (Weiße) Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im Schnittfeld von Kultur,
Nation und race in den USA des 19. Jahrhunderts”
Keynote for the conference “Transkulturalität und Gender in
bildungshistorischer Perspektive,” University of Cologne, 8-9 February 2008
01/2008
“Gendering Things: The Use of Objects in 19th Century American Short
Stories”
BOND American Studies Workshop, University of Bochum & University of
Dortmund, 25-26 January 2008
11/2007
“E Pluribus Unum: National Identity and the Representation of Crisis and
Disaster in Recent Hollywood Movies”
Invited talk, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, 27 November 2007
07/2007
“Framing Disaster: Ecocriticism, Nature Images and Strategies of Representation in Hollywood Disaster Movies”
Invited talk, University of Braunschweig, 13 July 2007
06/2007
“Family Treasures: Objekte als Kommunikationsmedien in der amerikanischen
Kultur des 19. Jahrhunderts”
Tag des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, University of Düsseldorf, 22 June
2007
05/2007
“Spectacular
Destructions:
Media
and
Catastrophe
Movies”
18th annual meeting of the ASNEL “Local Natures, Global Responsibilities,”
University of Jena, 17-20 May 2007
02/2007
“A ‘truly feminine tangle’: Gender Transactions and the Consumption of
Objects in 19th Century American Short Stories”
Invited talk, University of Tübingen, 3 Feburary 2007
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Maruo-Schröder, papers, workshops, conferences
11/2006
“Objects on Display: The Use and Function of Objects in 19th Century
American Media”
Invited talk, University of Göttingen, 3 November 2006
11/2006
“Borders and Transgressions: Grenze als imaginativer Raum im HollywoodFilm”
Workshop “Das Fremde und das Eigene: Grenzüberschreitungen in Amerika,”
Tag der Forschung, University of Düsseldorf, 5 November 2006
06/2006
“Representing Natural Catastrophes: Nature and Technology in Hollywood
Disaster” Movies”
53rd annual meeting of the DGfA “American Studies as Media Studies,”
University of Göttingen, 8-11 June 2006
05/2006
“Words, Images, and Meaning: Negotiating ‘Home’ in Ken Lum’s There Is No
Place Like Home”
17th annual meeting of the ASNEL “Words and Images,” University of
Koblenz, 24-27 May 2006
05/2002
“Locating the Other/Self: Memory and Place in Michelle Cliff’s Works”
13th annual meeting of the ASNEL “Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in New Literatures in English,” University of Erfurt, 8-11 May 2002
04/2002
“Einführung: Ort, Raum, Grenze und Gender in den Geisteswissenschaften”
and “‘Webs of Motion’: Joy Harjos dichterische Räume”
Lectures for the interdisciplinary lecture series FrauenKulturStudien “Der
entgrenzte Raum,” University of Düsseldorf, summer term 2002
11/2001
“Witwen, ‚Alte Jungfern‘ und andere ex-zentrische Frauen: Frauenbilder in
Kurzgeschichten des 19. Jahrhunderts”
Workshop “American Counter Culture,” Tag der Forschung, University of
Düsseldorf, 4 November 2001
11/2000
“Kultur und Hybridität in amerikanischer Literatur”
Workshop “Ansichten Amerikas,” Tag der Forschung, University of
Düsseldorf, 5 November 2000
07/2000
“Concepts of ‘Culture’: Forms of ‘Traveling’ as Metaphors for Emerging
(Cultural) Identities”
6th conference of the American Studies Network NRW “Migration and Multiculturalism,” University of Paderborn, 30 July - 1 June 2000
06/2000
“Concluding Notes: Names, Borders, Definitions – Questions and Issues in
American Studies”
Workshop “At the End of the American Century – the End of American
Studies?,” 47the annual meeting of the DGfA “Millenial Perspectives,”
University of Dresden, 13-16 June 2000
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Maruo-Schröder, papers, workshops, conferences
05/2000
“(Trans-) Cultural Negotiations of the Self: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Native American Writing”
11th annual meeting of the ASNEL, “Towards a Transcultural Future:
Literature and Society in a ‘Post’-Colonial World,” University of Aachen,
Germany, and University of Liège, Belgium,
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, LECTURE SERIES – ORGANIZATION
05/2016
organization and chair of the workshop “‘Graphic Justice’: Mediating the
Question of Rights in American Visual Culture” (with Astrid Böger)
63rd annual conference of the DGfA, “The United States and the Question of
Rights,” 19-22 May 2016, University of Osnabrück
05/2016
chair of a workshop on Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Things
27th annual conference of the GAPS, “The Postcolonial and the Material,”
University of Augsburg, 5-7 May 2016
01/2016
organization of the conference “‘Tell Freedom I Said Hello’: Issues in
Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction” (with Christian Ludwig),
University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz, 22 January 2016
11/2015
organization and chair of the workshop “Überlegungen zum Material(en)” of
the division “Materielle Kulturen,” 1st annual meeting of the
Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Leuphana University, Lüneburg
01/2015
member of the organization team of the founding conference of the
Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (German Association of the Study of
Cultures), University of Koblenz-Landau, 23-24 January 2015 (conference
convenors: Michael Klemm, Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Thomas Metten)
founding member and speaker of the division “Materielle Kulturen”
05/2013
organization and chair of workshop “Shifting Paradigms of the Machine in the
Garden: The Economies of the Rural, the Pastoral, and the Technological”
(with Eric Erbacher, Florian Sedlmeier), 58th annual meeting of the DGfA, 30
May - 2 June 2013
06/2012
organization of international conference “Buying America: Literature and
Consumption in the 19th Century” (with Christoph Ribbat), University of
Paderborn, 12-13 June 2012
12/2011
chair of panel II “Fictions,” international conference “Reading Nature,”
University of Madrid, Spain, 14-16 December 2011
07/2009
organization of international symposium “Reading the Everyday: Literary and
Cultural Perspectives” (with Miriam Strube), University of Paderborn, 3-4 July
2009
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Maruo-Schröder, papers, workshops, conferences
05/2008
organization and chair of workshop “Popular Pluralisms: Negotiating American
Identity in Recent Popular Culture” (with Astrid Böger)
EAAS conference “‘E Pluribus Unum’ or ‘E Pluribus Plura’?,” University of
Oslo, Norway, 9-12 May 2008
05/2007
organization and chair of workshop “Local Disasters, Global Representations:
Ecocriticism, Natural Catastrophes and the Media” (with Virginia Richter and
Christa Grewe-Volpp)
18th annual meeting of the ASNEL “Local Natures, Global Responsibilities,”
University of Jena, 17-20 May 2007
11/2006
organization of workshop “Das Fremde und das Eigene: Grenzüberschreitungen
in Amerika,” Department of American Studies and Department of Romance
Studies
Tag der Forschung, University of Düsseldorf,
05/2004
organization of conference “Amerika und Europa im Dialog: Philosophieren
über Literatur und Kunst” (with Astrid Böger and Georg Schiller, University of
Düsseldorf)
chair of the panel “Historische Perspektiven,”
University of Düsseldorf, 21-22 May 2004
4-7/2002
organisation and chair of the interdisciplinary lecture series Düsseldorfer
FrauenKulturStudien “Der entgrenzte Raum: Frauenbewegungen aus der Perspektive der Geisteswissenschaften” (with Herwig Friedl)
University of Düsseldorf, summer term 2002
06/2002
organisation and chair of the workshop “At the End of the American Century –
the End of American Studies?” (with Herwig Friedl and Ilka Saal)
47th annual meeting of the DGfA “Millenial Perspectives,” University of
Dresden, 13-16 June, 2002
Further Activities
11/2015
panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Jan Assmann
University of Koblenz-Landau, invited respondent, 18 November 2015
09/2015
roundtable “Publish or Perish”
Conference “Empire & Neurosis,” University of Duisburg-Essen, invited
speaker, 9 October 2015
01/2015 onwards (Founding) speaker of the division “Material Cultures” of the KWG
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