ACTIVITIES

Here are my upcoming and past public activities:

 

RECENT AND UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

Public Lectures and Conference Presentations

  • Haas, Astrid. “Island (Im)Mobilities: Free and Coerced Movements in the Narratives of Ashton Warner and Mary Prince.” 44th Annual SCS Conference. Bute Town Community Centre, Cardiff, UK, 1-3/7/2020.
  • Haas, Astrid. “Contesting Borders of Gender, Genre, and Geography in The History of Mary Prince.” 12th MESEA Biennial Conference, UCLAN Cyprus, 27-30/5/2020.
  • Haas, Astrid. “Flight to Canada: Black Mobility and Activism in Transborder Slave Narratives.” 65th Annual Conference of the British Association for American Studies. University of Liverpool, 18/4/2020.
  • 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.

See here for more information on my current research: BIMAAR

ORGANIZED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Conf conference postererence of the International Postgraduate Forum
Bielefeld University, Germany
http://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 and 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/(en)/ZIF/FG/2008Pluribus/veranstaltungen.html

  • conference posterMulticulturalism 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).

Conference and Lecture Series
Academic Association Genus—Münsteraner Arbeitskreis für Gender Studies
University of Münster, Germany

  • 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.

For my own contributions resulting from these activities, see my articles on sport films and on Latina/o education here: Publications

 

SOCIO-CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

German-Russian Society of Münster, Germany
https://www.muenster.org/drg/

  • 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 their lecture series