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  • Lecture series: Outlaws, Bandits, Terrorists from 1868 to 1968


    Montag, 23.04.2018 - 16:15 Uhr - 17:45 Uhr

Lecture series “Issues in American Literary & Cultural History”: by the Department of American Studies, University of Tübingen. Fifty years after 1968, a symbolic and date of the turmoil of the 60s, this lecture uses the time span of roughly a hundred years to examine a special variation of a rebellious figure, namely one ready to use illegal means, perhaps violence to challenge the social order. The spectrum ranges from outlaw to bandit to terrorist and thus from figures easy to romanticize to figures easy to vilify. All, however, are admired by some and hated by others: in the classic work of Eric Hobsbawm, the myths surrounding the figures living outside the law are expressions of social inequality, injustice, and the presence of past and present violence.It is because of the social strife they rise from that both their practices as well as their memory will continue to be controversial but also inspiring. We invite you to relect upon this, using figures that range from Western outlaws as Billy the Kid or Jesse James to African American and Native American activists such as Clyde Warrior, Angela Davies or Malcolm X.

23.04   Astrid Franke: Introduction

30.04   Astrid Franke: “The American Outlaw and the Myths of the West”

07.05   Daniel Cobb (Chapel Hill): More than “wide eyed and radical”: Clyde Warrior and Indigenous Anticolonialism during the 1960s

14.05.   Nicole Hirschfelder (Tübingen): Bayard Rustin and the Challenges of Radical Pacifism

21.05.   Pentecost Break

28.05.   Isabell Klaiber (Tübingen): “Victoria Woodhull: Rebel, Reformer, and Self-Made Woman”

04.06.  Astrid Franke (Tübingen): Violence in the West and Billy the Kid

11.06.   Horst Tonn (Tübingen): “’Billy, they don’t like you to be so free’ - Bob Dylan’s Take on the Western Outlaw”

18.06.  Terri Snyder (Fullerton): “Slavery, Suicide, and Memory in American Culture”

25.06.   John Munro (Halifax): “A Century in the Making: W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction, and the Radical Roots of 1968”

02.07.   Open Doors: 60 years AmStud in Tübingen

09.07.   Katharina Gerund (Erlangen): "When they call you a Terrorist': Angela Davis' Activism from Black Power to  #BlackLivesMatter”

16.07.  Michael Butter (Tübingen): “Outlaws and Drifters: Bonnie and Clyde and the Emergence of New Hollywood”

• Every Monday. Start: Mo. 23.4.
• In English
• Location: HS 36, Brechtbau, Wilhelmstr. 50, Tübingen
• Admission: free
• More information about the exact schedule and speakers of the weekly lectures www.uni-tuebingen.de/amerikanistik

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