Greta Olson - Events

Events

Conference: "Obama and the Paradigm Shift: The Measure of Change in the US and Germany"
Click here to visit the conference website (Direct links to pictures, press coverage, and student work).

Lecture Series on Gender
As part of the project Integrating Women’s and Gender Studies, six major scholars in women’s, masculinity, and gender studies will be speaking in Giessen this spring. They will describe their research and position their work within the context of making women’s, men’s, gender, and queer studies part of the university. Click here for more information.

November 23 "What are Literary and Cultural Studies for?" A Panel Discussion Featuring Professors of the Department for English and American Literature and Culture
(Poster)
November 9 & 23 "écriture feminine, Butler and Beyond: A Workshop on Political Approaches to Cultural Studies III" (with Mirjam Bitter & Mirjam Horn)
(Flyer)

July 7 Guest Lecture by Dr. Michael Butter on "The Obama Deception and Other Episodes in Recent Political Demonology"
(Poster)
June 9, 2010 JP Morgan Run in Frankfurt

RVL: New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies (Poster)

Held in the winter term of 2009-2010, this lecture series was intended to offer Giessen students an overview of state-of-the-art methods and models for conducting literary and cultural studies. In this way, the organizers Ansgar Nünning and Greta Olson hoped that students might move forward in devising their own research models and deciding on the method or methods most appropriate for their own work. The lecture series also addressed the question of, “If theory is dead what comes next?” The many answers offered to this question in the form of the lectures suggest that literary and cultural studies are alive and well and flourishing as theoretical as well as pragmatic forms of analysis.
Many of the lectures are now available as podcasts, and a publication of all of the lectures will be available shortly in the WVT Handbook: New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Ansgar Nünning and Greta Olson (in preparation).

The Battle of the Books (with Professor Ingo Berensmeyer, Dr. habil. Ute Berns and Dr. Andrea Rummel)(Poster)
This literary soirée consisted of a debate between Ingo Bernsmeyer, Ute Berns, and Greta Olson and was moderated by Andrea Rummel. We argued about the relative merits of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), Dara Horn’s The World to Come, and J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year (2007) and read passages from these novels aloud. After the 'battle’ audience members added their comments, and the evening was concluded with wine and food.