Amerikanistik Bamberg

03/06/2026

Aktuell findet deutschlandweit die Themenwoche "Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus" statt. Auch in Bamberg gab und gibt es tolle Veranstaltungen dazu. 🤩❤️

Wem das nicht reicht, die/der kann hier eine ganze Reihe von Online-Veranstaltungen besuchen:

://wissenschaft-gegen-faschismus.de/index.php/online-programm/?fbclid=IwVERDUASNR7JleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR58avkm6jcpJG8RBrMmY4pyj5JoQiRi6nn7oqYgORfyUR561ECezWfQqePXKA_aem_EW-ZsMq7N3BQlvpBR_V1SQ

THE TIME IS NOW!

Neben den Veranstaltungen vor Ort bieten wir in der Aktionswoche ein bundesweites Programm an. Schaut gerne öfters vorbei, die Seite wird im Laufe der Woche stetig aktualisiert! 

03/06/2026

Join us on July 1st in the KR14 courtyard to celebrate all things Canada!
We'll kick things off at 4.00 p.m. and have a bunch of fun things planned. To find out what those are, check out the event here: https://fb.me/e/4MnVJjrcT

02/06/2026

Happy Pride Month!

If you still need reading recommendations, the American Library Association has got you covered: https://www.glbtrt.ala.org/overtherainbow/

For more of their resources and information on their fight agains book bans, check out the post below!

June is Pride Month, and it's also Rainbow Book Month - a nationwide celebration of the authors and writings that reflect the lives of the LGBTQIA+ community.

You can find lists of award-winning LGBTQIA+ books, tools for libraries and library workers from ALA's Rainbow Round Table, and graphics to help celebrate and spread the word on ALA's website: https://bit.ly/4kKOkOg. Is your library hosting a program you're excited for? We'd love to hear about it!

We also know that these stories are under attack. In 2025, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom found that 39% of books targeted for censorship in U.S. libraries and schools - 1,671 unique titles - represent the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ people and people of color. As these stories continue to be disproportionately targeted for censorship and library workers across the country are facing threats and harassment for serving these communities, Rainbow Book Month has never been more important.

If your library is experiencing challenges to materials and programs serving LGBTQIA+ patrons, ALA has resources to help. You can report censorship to ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom and receive free, confidential support, and the Unite Against Book Bans campaign can help you activate your community to push back against censorship.

Read with pride.

📸 Photo: ALA's Gay and Le***an Task Force (now the Rainbow Round Table) marching in the 1992 San Francisco Pride March, from the ALA Archives.

01/06/2026

Unter dem Titel „Die Fanatiker – Überall? Wir alle?“ dreht sich bei der diesjährigen Bamberger Hegelwoche alles um Fanatismus!
Ob Gaza-Krieg, Klimaproteste, Migration oder Genderdebatte: Fanatikerinnen und Fanatiker scheinen überall zu sein. Sie kennen keine Zweifel, keine Grauzonen – nur Freund oder Feind. Doch was bewegt fanatische Menschen? Warum bleibt Fanatismus gerade in unserer liberalen und digitalisierten Welt so verführerisch? Und wie können wir ihm begegnen?

Die 36. Bamberger Hegelwoche widmet sich diesen Fragen mit spannenden Vorträgen und Diskussionen.

Wo?📍Aula der Universität Bamberg
Dominikanerstraße 2a
Wann? 9. bis 11. Juni 2026 jeweils um 19.15 Uhr

🎟 Der Eintritt ist frei. Für die Veranstaltungen werden jedoch kostenfreie Eintrittskarten benötigt.

Tickets erhältlich bei:
• Teilbibliothek 3, Feldkirchenstraße 21
• Teilbibliothek 4, Heumarkt 2
Die Öffnungszeiten der Bibliotheken: www.uni-bamberg.de/ub/teilbibliotheken

28/05/2026

Save the date! 🤩🤩🤩

28/05/2026

Jennie Carter Knew the West Was Never Innocent
In the pages of a Black newspaper, Jennie Carter wrote about beauty, brutality, schools, suffrage and survival — and left behind one of the most revealing records of post-Civil War Black life in California.

Jennie Carter is the kind of American writer who makes you wonder how many foundational figures have been hiding in plain sight. She did not leave behind a famous portrait, a shelf of bound books published in her lifetime or a household name that passed cleanly from one generation to the next. What she did leave was something, in its own way, even more revealing: a body of newspaper writing that caught the Black West in motion. From Nevada County, California, during and after the Civil War, Carter wrote essays and letters for The Elevator, a major Black newspaper in San Francisco, on subjects ranging from racism and education to women’s rights, temperance, memory, landscape and the daily negotiations of dignity. In those columns, she emerged as a literary stylist, a moral critic and a political observer with a voice at once intimate and unsparing.

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/04/01/jennie-carter-knew-the-west-was-never-innocent/

27/05/2026

“So this is where God put the West,” said actor John Wayne when he came across this majestic expanse that straddles Utah and Arizona. The actor, who was born on this day in 1907, starred in "The Searchers" and "Stagecoach" which used Monument Valley as a backdrop.

The landscape was a favorite of director John Ford, who filmed seven westerns in the valley and called it the "most complete, beautiful and peaceful place on earth."

Check out this spot on our 250 places to celebrate America and discover more about the scenic site: https://bit.ly/3S4tccI

📸: Qian Weizhong / VCG via Getty Images

26/05/2026

There’s a lot of talk about the Founding Fathers of the U.S. as we celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday, but what about the Founding Mothers? One name that should be considered for this title is Mary Katharine Goddard, an accomplished printer and publisher whose name appears on the second printing of the Declaration of Independence.

In January of 1777, after fleeing Philadelphia for Baltimore, the Continental Congress commissioned Goddard to print a second issue of the Declaration of Independence. This time, those who signed the Declaration in July of 1776 reasserted their commitment to the cause of Independence by allowing their names to be printed on the broadside. Mary Katharine Goddard put her name in print, too.

Printing this document was an act of treason. By printing this broadside and including her name, Mary Katharine Goddard was bravely aligning herself with the same risks that the signers had undertaken.

There are only 11 known surviving copies of the Goddard broadside, making it a very special treasure in the Library's collections.

To learn more about the Goddard broadside, visit the links below.

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/03/rare-book-of-the-month-a-revolutionary-woman-and-the-declaration-of-independence/?loclr=fbloc

https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10718/?loclr=fbloc

Image: A cropped and zoomed-in image of the Goddard Declaration of Independence with Mary Katharine Goddard's name highlighted at the bottom, and an illustration of Goddard in the upper righthand corner.

22/05/2026

Many congratulations to Dr. Laura Passin for this very deserved Pushcart Prize!!

We've hosted Dr. Passin for guest lectured and creative writing seminars in the past and students and guests were delighted by her work.

If you want to read her poetry, check out her books in the University library!

We are wildly excited to announce that "Poem in Which I Fail to Teach Homer" by Laura Passin has won a Pushcart Prize!! 🎉🎉🎉 This brilliant poem in included in her second collection, We the Destroyers, which you can purchase from the link below. Huge congrats to Laura! This prize is so deserved!

https://riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-the-destroyers-by-laura-passin/

21/05/2026