Here are my recent and upcoming public activities:
SELECTED TALKS AND LECTURES
Conference Presentations
UPCOMING: Haas, Astrid. “Landscapes and Lifeways: Engaging with Western Nature in the Autobiography of James Beckwourth.” Conference of the Netherlands American Studies Association. Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, postponed to 2022.
Haas, Astrid. “Waves of Emancipation: Olaudah Equiano’s Atlantic Travels beyond the Middle Passage.” International Conference Black Mobilities in the Atlantic World, University of Central Lancashire, UK (online), 13/01/2022.
Haas, Astrid. “Black Mission and Mobilization Across Borders.” 6th Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies. Texas A&M International University, USA (online), 13/11/2021.
“Island (Im)Mobilities: Free and Coerced Movements in the Narratives of Ashton Warner and Mary Prince.” 44th Annual Conference, Society for Caribbean Studies. University of Wales, UK (online), 8/7/2021.
“To Canada and Beyond: Samuel Ringgold Ward’s Transborder Mobility and Activism.” 66th Annual Convention, British Association for American Studies (online), 8/4/2021.
Public and Guest Lectures
Haas, Astrid: “Versatile Elements: Water and Mobilities in Caribbean Slave Narratives.” Black History Month Lecture, University of Central Lancashire (online), 13/10/2021.
“Black Mobilities in the 19th-Century Indigenous Borderlands.” University of Bremen, Germany (online), 20/05/2021.
“Canaan Limited: Canada in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives.” Black History Month Lecture, University of Central Lancashire (online), 21/10/2020.
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 (online).
13-14/01/2022.
See here for theCONFERENCE PAGE
Co-Convener: Conferences and Lecture Series
International Postgraduate Forum, Bielefeld University.
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, Germany.
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