1. 10. 2019

The HCA Spring Academy

The seventeenth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 23-27, 2020. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects.

17. 9. 2019

The Anniversary Issue of Re:Views Magazine is out!

The 10th issue of Re:Views Magazine, created by students of the Department of English and American Studies from the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University is out!

13. 9. 2019

Erasmus 3rd call 2019/2020

This is to inform you that the 3rd round of applications opens on Monday, September 16, with the deadline being Sunday, September 29.

3. 9. 2019

Academic year 2019/2020 - Information

On behalf of the Department of English and American Studies, I would like to welcome you in the new academic year 2019/2020.

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8. 12.

The GWP present: Macbeth by W. Shakespeare

19:00

The Department's student theatre troup The GWP are presenting the play of the season: the Scottish play by the Bard himself. At the Barka theatre. For more info, see the Instagram.

4. 12.

Belonging: Rethinking Native American Art on Display at the World’s Columbian Exposition

17:00

Throughout the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, Native American “artifacts” were on evident display in the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology pavilion, the Indian boarding school exhibition, the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West performance, and even the metalwork company Tiffany & Co.’s display. While these contexts impose narratives of Native American decline and assimilation, re-thinking this material culture through the lens of Native American and Indigenous studies as animate and relational Belongings invites new questions and interpretations about how Indigenous epistemologies inhere and communicate even within these restrictive contexts.

29. 11.

Speculating Backward: History and Empire in American Literature 1880-1940

12:00

Drawing from her dissertation, “Speculating Backward: Speculative Rewritings of the Past as Anti-Colonial Protest,” this presentation will discuss time and imperialism in American speculative fiction at the turn of the twentieth century.

12. 11.

U.S. - Czech Partnership in Times of Upheavals

14:00

Přednáška a diskuze s J. E. Bijanem Sabetem, velvyslancem USA v ČR

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