Here are my recent and upcoming public activities:
Selected Talks and Lectures
Recent Conference Presentations
Haas, Astrid. “Articulating Central American Migrant Aspirations in US Latinx Superhero Comics.” 28th Conference, Nordic Association of American Studies (NAAS): Aspirations. University of Turku, Finland, 6/6/2025.
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, Germany, 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, Mexico, 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.
Recent Invited Talks / Lectures
Haas, Astrid. “Drawing Resistance in the Borderlands: Fighting Trumpism and Transborder Violence in/with the Peso Hero Comic Series.” Research Colloquy in Inter-American Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany, 16/12/2025.
Haas, Astrid. “Narrating Scientific Practices and Social Identities in the Works of Irete Lazo and Yaa Gyasi.” Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University, 15/7/2025.
Haas, Astrid. “From Property to Proprietors: Black Entrepreneurialism in African American and Caribbean Slave Narratives.” Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University, 26/1/2024.
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, UK, 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, Norway, 9/5/2023.
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