Here are my upcoming and past public activities:
RECENT AND UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Public Lectures & Online Seminar
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- Haas Astrid. “Canaan Limited: Canada in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives.” Public Lecture in Honor of UK Black History Month. IBAR / MIDEX Seminar Series. University of Central Lancashire, 21/10/2020. https://www.uclan.ac.uk/students/events/bhm.php
- Cullen, Sarah, Astrid Haas, Raphael Hoermann, and Alan Rice. “Applying for and Hosting an EU-funded MSCA Fellowship (all research areas).” Webinar, University of Central Lancashire, 23/6/2020.
- Haas, Astrid. “Black Inter-American Mobilities and Autobiography in the Age of Revolutions (1760-1860).” Lecture Series In Conversation. English and Creative Writing, in collaboration with IBAR and MIDEX, University of Central Lancashire, 11/12/2019.
For more information on my current research, check out my project website: BIMAAR
ORGANIZED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Conference:
International Postgraduate Forum,
Bielefeld University, Germany.
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ias/flyer_periphery_2013.pdf
Exploring the Periphery:
Perspectives from Applied Linguistics,
Language Teaching, Literary and
Cultural Studies, 8-9/11/2013.
Conferences & Workshops:
Research Group “E Pluribus Unum: Ethnic Identities
in Transnational Integration Processes in the Americas,”
Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany.
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/FG/2008Pluribus/veranstaltungen.html
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Multiculturalism and Beyond: Identity Politics, Cultural Difference, and Hybridity in the Americas, 22-25/7/2009.
- Beyond Borders: Reconceptualizing Fine Lines, Fences, and Frontiers in the Americas, 29/6-1/7/2009.
- Selling EthniCity: Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas, 5-7/5/2009.
- Educación intercultural y políticas de identidad en las Américas, 16/4/2009.
- EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas,” 18-20/3/2009 (funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation).
- Mediating Ethnic Identity in the Americas: Ethnic Filmmaking and Film Politics in Globalizing Markets, 16-18/3/2009.
- Ethnicities under (Visual) Construction: A Workshop on Communication Analysis, 8-9/1/2009.
- E Pluribus Unum? Ethnic Identities in Transnationalization Processes in the Americas, 8-11/10/2008 (funded by Volkswagen Foundation).
- Latino Images for the 21st Century, 10-12/1/2008 (funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation).
For my own contributions resulting from these activities, check out my articles on sports films and Latina/o education among my publications: Link to Publications
Conference & Lecture Series:
Academic Association “Genus—Münsteraner Arbeitskreis für Gender Studies,” University of Münster, Germany.
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- Leben machen, sterben lassen: Biopolitische Strategien und Gender, Summer Term 2005.
- Geschlecht und Gewalt, Summer Term 2004.
- Conference Engineering Gender: Konfigurationen kybernetischer, virtueller und biopolitischer Existenzen, 05-07/11/2003.
- Schöne Bescherung: Schönheit in den Gender Studies, Winter Term 2001-02.
- Schönheit in den Gender Studies II, Summer Term 2002.
- MoveYourSelf, in cooperation with the “University Art Days,” Summer Term 2001.
- Münster goes gender: Vorträge Münsteraner Gelehrter zur Geschlechterforschung, Winter Term 2000-01.
- genus präsentiert: Vorträge zur Geschlechterforschung, Summer Term 2000.
SOCIO-CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
Readings, Lectures, Concerts & Excursions:
German-Russian Society, Münster, Germany.
https://www.muenster.org/drg/
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- Concert by Oleg Mityayev (Singer-Songwriter, Moscow), 26/2/2005.
- Public lecture “Das System Putin,” Hans-H. Schröder (University of Bremen, Germany), 20/4/2004.
- Concert by Aleksandr Gorodnitsky (Singer-Songwriter, St. Petersburg), 29/2/2004.
- Excursion to the Art Exibition “Berlin – Moskau, 1950-2000,” Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, 21-22/11/2003.
- “Gender and Society:” One-Week Excursion for Münster University Students to the University of Ryazan and Moscow State University, Russia, 10/2003.
- Public lecture “Sowjetische Zwangsarbeiter im nationalsozialistischen Herrschaftssystem,” Mark Spoerer (University of Hohenheim, Germany), 30/1/2003.
- Public lecture “Exklave Kaliningrad: politische und wirtschaftliche Perspektiven,” Heike Dörrenbächer (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, Berlin), 14/11/2002.
- Lecture-performance “Zwischen Laut und Bild,” Sergey Biryukov (Poet, St. Petersburg), 27/9/2002.
- Excursion to the art exhibition “Ilya Repin: Het Geheim van Rusland,” Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2/3/2002.
- Series of lectures and literary readings “Frauen in Russland,” Lecture 10/2001-6/2002.
AWARD
2001 Promotion of Women’s Issues Award, University of Münster
given to the academic association “Genus – Münsteraner Arbeitskreis für Gender Studies” for our lecture series.