Here are my recent and upcoming public activities:
SELECTED TALKS AND LECTURES
Selected Recent Conference Presentations
Haas, Astrid. “Black Mobility in Slavery and Freedom: Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative as Seafarer’s Life Narrative.” 14th CAAR Conference: Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformation, Humboldt-University Berlin, 21/3/2025
Haas, Astrid. “Central American Northward Migration in Latinx US Superhero Comics.” 8th IAS Conference: Possible Futures in the Americas. UNAM, Mexico City, 17/2/2025.
Haas, Astrid. “Moving Narratives, Mobilizing Faith: Diverse Mobilities in Black Loyalist Missionary Memoirs.” 13th MESEA Conference, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, 12/6/2024.
Haas, Astrid. “Entangled Exploitations: Atlantic Slavery and the Anthropocene in Caribbean Slave Narratives.” 7th IAS Conference, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, 3/10/2023.
Haas, Astrid. “From Property to Proprietors: Free Black Entrepreneurialism in Mid-19th-Century Slave Narratives.” 69th Annual Meeting, German Association of American Studies, Rostock University, Germany, 03/6/2023.
Haas, Astrid. “Undocumented Border Crossing and Migrant Activism: The Artivism of Mexican American Graphic Fiction.” International Conference Representations of Border Crossings in Media, Literature, and the Arts, University of Central Lancashire, UK, 15/12/2022.
Haas, Astrid. “Black Narrative Self-Making in a Changing Scene: The Life and Adventures of James Beckwourth.” International Conference Life Writing, Creativity, and the Social. Bielefeld University, Germany, 24/6/2022.
Recent Public Talks and Lectures
Haas, Astrid. “Entangled Exploitations of Nature and Labor in Caribbean Slave Narratives.” MIDEX Seminar Series, Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora, and Exile, University of Central Lancashire, 20/9/2023.
Haas, Astrid. “Undocumented Border Crossing and Migrant Activism: The Artivism of Mexican American Graphic Fiction.” Research Group “Aesthetic Imaginaries,” University of Bergen, 9/5/2023.
Book Launch, featuring Astrid Haas on Lone Star Vistas: Travel Writing on Texas, 1821-1861. University of Central Lancashire (F2F and online), 16/03/2022.
Book Launch Roundtable Discussion, featuring Astrid Haas as contributor to Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse. Winchester School of Art, UK (online), 14/07/2021.
For more information on my current research, check out my project website: BIMAAR
EVENT ORGANIZATION
Convener: Conference Black Mobilities in the Atlantic World
Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire, UK (online).
13-14/01/2022.
See here for theCONFERENCE PAGE
The video recordings of the conference’s keynote lecture and creative practitioners’ roundtable discussion can be accessed here: VIDEO RECORDINGS
Co-Convener: Conferences and Lecture Series
International Postgraduate Forum, Bielefeld University, Germany.
Exploring the Periphery: Perspectives from Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching, Literary and Cultural Studies
Bielefeld University, 8-9/11/2013.
Research Group “E Pluribus Unum: Ethnic Identities in Transnational Integration Processes in the Americas.”
Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University.
nine conferences and workshops, 2008-2009.
Academic Association “Genus—Münsteraner Arbeitskreis für Gender Studies.”
University of Münster, Germany.
conference and seven lecture series, 2000-2005.
For my own contributions resulting from these activities, check out my PUBLICATIONS