2024 - The Global Sentimentality Project

18.12.2024, 10.15 a.m., room A602, Bismarckstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen

Guest Lecture: Kimberly Juanita Brown (Dartmouth College): „Grief in the Dark“

09.12.2024, UB Ausstellungsraum, Schuhstraße 1a, 91054 Erlangen

Guest Lecture: Sigal Yona (Ghent University): „Melodrama, Memory, and Sense(s) of Proximity: A Single Case Study“

04.12.2024, 10.15 a.m., room A602, Bismarckstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen

Guest Lecture: Elaine Roth (Indiana University): „Civil Sentimentalism in Epidemic Media, from Contagion (2011) to The Last Of Us (2013; 2023) and Station Eleven (2014; 2021)“

02.12.2024, 2.15 p.m., room C601, Bismarckstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen

Guest Lecture: Ethel Matala de Mazza (Hu Berlin): „Schwarze Reportagen. Muckraking in Berlin und Wien um 1900“

29.10.2024, 6 p.m., Wassersaal Orangerie, Erlangen

Joint Conference: „The Poetics and Politics of Family Feelings“

03.-05.07.2024, Lyrik Kabinett and Siemens Stiftung Munich. In cooperation with the research training group 2845 „Family Matters – Figuren der Ent-bindung.“ With keynotes by Elisabeth Bronfen, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, and Rebecca Wanzo.

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Laura Hindelang (Universität Bern): „Exploring Nostalgia and Belonging in Architecture and Urban Visual Culture of the Arabian Peninsula“

17.06.2024, 14.15 p.m., room C 601, Bismarckstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen

Clara Dawson (Global Sentimentality Project Fellow): „Sentimental Narratives: Taxidermy, Museums, and Poetry in the 19th Century“

29.05.2024, 10.15 a.m., room C 601, Bismarckstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen

Manuel Vogelsang (Global Sentimentality Project Fellow): „Revisiting the Archive, Excessively! Melodrama, Excess, and the Archive of the American Imaginary“

24.04.2024, 10.15 a.m., room C 601, Bismarckstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen

New Publication!

Elsa-Margareta Venzmer’s article „Ineffable Husbands. Sentimental Queerbaiting in the TV Series Good Omens“ was published in March 2024 in the latest ffk Journal.

Theresa Nink (SFB Transformationen des Populären/Siegen): „Kuschelrock als Low Pop? Sentimentale Balladen in populärer Musik“

05.02.2024, 2.15 p.m., room C601, Bismarckstr.1, 91054 Erlangen

Anna-Rose Shack (Global Sentimentality Project Fellow): „“She is the first sentimental writer in the English Language”: Katherine Philips’ nineteenth-century reception and the sentimental tradition“

24.01.2024, 10.15 a.m., room C 601, Bismarckstr.1, 91054 Erlangen

Global Melodrama – Das Melodram im Weltkino: Season 4 at Filmhaus Nürnberg!

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Spain, 1988) – 16.10.2023, with an introduction by Rama Srinivasan (Global Sentimentality Project)