Program
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DGFA 2025: Archiving America/American Archives - University of Siegen (12 -14 June 2025)
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
- 16.30 - 18.30 Editorial Board Meeting
Thursday, 12 June 2025
- 09.30 - 14.00 DGfA/GAAS Board Meeting
- 15.00 - 16.00 PGF Get-Together
- 17.00 - 19.30 Conference Opening:
- Opening Remarks President GAAS: Christian Lammert
- Opening Remarks Local Organizer: Daniel Stein
- Representative of the City of Siegen
- Rector of the University of Siegen: Stefanie Reese
- Celebrating Amerikastudien/American Studies
- Keynote Lecture: P. Gabrielle Foreman (Pennsylvania):
"Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th-Century Black Political Organizing"
- 19.30 - 20.30 Reception
Friday, 13 June 2025
- 09.00 - 10.30 Keynote Lecture: Katrin Horn (Greifswald): “Eavesdropping on the (Queer) Past: On Epistolary Intimacy and Connectivity”
- 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
- 11.00 - 13.00 Workshops 1-6
- 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch:
a) Digital American Studies Initiative
b) Teaching American Studies
c) Barbara Price (Germanna Foundation): “The Virginia Connection: Iron, the Siegerland and Germanna”
- in collaboration with DAG SiWi - Deutsch-Amerikanische Gesellschaft Siegen-Wittgenstein - 14.30 - 16.30 Workshops 7-12
- 16.30 - 16.45 Coffee Break
- 16.45 - 17.45 Diversity Round Table
- 17.45 - 18.45 Women’s Caucus
- 20.15 - 21.45 Current Events Panel: Precarious Archives
Saturday, 14 June 2025
- 09.00 - 10.30 Keynote Lecture: Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton): "The Making and Remaking of Beloved"
- 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
- 11.00 - 13.00 Workshops 13-18
- 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch:
a) Presentation: Handbooks of English and American Studies (HEAS)
b) PGF Meeting - 14.30 - 16.45 GAAS Member’s Meeting
- 16.45 - 17.15 Coffee Break
- 17.15 - 17.45 Book Launch Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
- 17.45 - 18.45 Award Ceremony
- 20.00 - Social Gathering and Closing Event at Vortex, Siegen-Weidenau