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- Guest Lecture: Robert Gross, Speaking a Word For Nature: Thoreau,
Reform and Environmentalism, 19 November 2003.
- Guest Lecture: Alan Trachtenberg, Make It New: Modernism and Modernity
in the US, Early 20th Century, 24 September 2003.
- Guest Lecture: Isabel Durán, The Place of Autobiography in
Literary Studies, 3 May 2001.
- Guest Lecture: Mette Koch-Jensen, Wonderland Revisited: Approaching
American Children's Literature, 4 April 2001.
- Guest Lecture: Carol Colatrella, Lunacy and Literacy: Bartlebys
Sentence; or, Herman Melville and Reform, 11 October 2000.
- Guest Lecture: Jewel Spears Brooker, The
Eye in the Poem: Subjectivity in Eliot and Lowell, 12 April 2000.
- Guest Lecture: Dori Sanders, An
African-American Woman in Fact and Fiction, 8 March 2000.
- Guest Lecture: Nick Radel, Reading (Edmund) White: Race and the
Mainstreamed Gay American, 13 October 1999.
- Guest Lecture: J. Hillis Miller, Reading the End of The Wings of
the Dove, 7 September 1999.
- Guest Lecture: Stipe Grgas, The Phenomenon of Dreck in the Writings
of Donald Barthelme, 6 May 1999.
- Guest Lecture: Stipe Grgas, The Violence of Images in Don DeLillo,
5 May 1999.
- Guest lecture: Theo D'Haen, American
Literature on the Edges: Hemingway and Faulkner as Caribbean,
9 December 1998.
- Workshop: The American Short Story/Creative
Writing. Papers by Thomas Kennedy, David Kranes, Rolf Heitmann, and
James Bulman-May, 23 September 1998.
- Workshop: Tao Jie, American
Literature in China, 22 September 1998.
- Guest Lecture: Tao Jie, Repressed
Voices: Faulkner's Three Female Characters, 22 September 1998.
- Public Reading: David Kranes,
11 September 1998.
- Guest Lecture: Carol Colatrella, Creative
Ethnographies: Reading Culture and Developing Character in Melvilles
Typee, Omoo and Mardi, 22 April 1998.
- Guest Lecture: Patrick O'Donnell, Libra,
JFK, and the Mediational Conspiracy, 24 October 1997.
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- Video Screening: Reputations: Billie Holiday (David Turnbull, 2001),
25 February 2004.
- Guest Lecture: Dale Carter, Three Wheels on His Wagon: The Early
Westerns of Van Dyke Parks, 12 November 2003.
- Conference: American Popular Music in the 1960s. Lectures by Aidan
Day, Jody Pennington, Dale Carter and David Harding, 12 March 2003.
- Video Screening: That Rhythm, Those Blues (George T. Nierenberg,
1989), 5 December 2002.
- Video Screening: High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (Rachel
Liebling, 1991), 7 November 2002.
- Video Screenings: Three episodes from BBC Television, Walk On By:
The History of Popular Song, 10 - 31 October 2002.
- Video Screening: Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory (Llewellyn
Smith, 2000), 19 September 2002.
- Video Screening: Swing: Pure Pleasure (1935-1937), Episode 5 of
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns, 25 February 2002.
- Guest Lecture: Scott DeVeaux, Struggling with Jazz: Ken Burns and
American Jazz Music, 26 February 2002.
- Video Screening: The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978), 5 December
2001
- Video Screening: Don't Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker, 1967), 25 October
2001.
- Video Screenings: Six episodes
from Time-Life/Warner Brothers History of Rock'n'Roll, 20 September
- 15 November 2001.
- Guest Lecture: Robert O'Meally,
Eight Ways of Singing Jazz, 11 November 1998.
- Conference: Brikker til en Mosaik
om Americansk Jazz. Lectures by Erik Wiedemann, Frank Büchmann-Møller,
Carl Chr. Møller, Morten Øberg, Pia Rasmussen, and Christen
Kold Thomsen, 30 April/1 May 1997.
- Conference: Music in a New Found
Land. Lectures by Jody W. Pennington, Niels Nørlund Rasmussen,
and Dale Carter, 16 September 1996.
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- Guest Lecture: Kyle Nicholas, Born Free: Notes on a Cultural History
of Napster, 18 February 2004.
- Guest Lecture: Gordon Slethaug, American Fiction and Film in the
Cross-Cultural Classroom: The Perils and Possibilities of Film Adaptation
Courses, 24 September 2003.
- Guest Lecture: Erna Smith, Transmitting Race: The Framing of Race
in US News Media, 10 March 2003.
- Guest Lecture: Karin Esders, Purity
and Danger. Problems of Gender in the Early American Novel, the Early
American Cinema, and the Internet, 27 September 2001
- Guest Lecture: Karin Esders, Intermediality
in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 26 September 2001.
- Guest Lecture: Karin Esders, Feminist
Film and Media Studies, 24 September 2001.
- Guest Lecture: John Cawelti, The Western, the Cold War, and American
Violence, 10 March 1999.
- Guest Lecture: Susan O'Hara, The
White Man's Fantasy: Representations of Native Americans in Hollywood
Cinema, 16 February 1998.
- Guest Lecture: Betty Medsger, From
Lapdog to Watchdog to Bloodhound to the Dog House: The Evolving Perception
of US Journalism in the Last Half-Century, 2 October 1997.
- Guest Lecture: John Cawelti, From
Hell's Hinges to Dallas: The Rise and Fall of the American Western,
7 May 1997.
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- Guest Lecture: Marc Galanter, The 'Litigious Society' and its Critics:
The Distinctiveness of American Legal Culture, 10 March 2004.
- Guest Lecture: David Mauk, Who's In and Who's Out: Landmarks in
the Evolution of Political Identity in the United States, 20 November
2003.
- Guest Lecture: Juliet Flower MacCannell, Politics in the Age of
Sex: Clinton, Leadership, Love, 4 October 2002.
- Research Seminar: The American City and the Public Welfare. Lectures
by David Goldfield, Nicola Stokes, Svend Erik Larsen, Anette Nibe,
and Martin Melosi, 8/9 March 2001.
- Staff/Student Round Table: Beyond the Arrivals Hall: American Cultural
Regions, Patterns and Practices, 14 November 2000.
- Guest Lecture: Theodora Tsimpouki, Visual Representations of Ethnic
American Identity, 28 September 2000.
- Education in America. Lectures
by Jos van der Linden, Bruce Leslie, Birgitte Nielsen, David Harding
and Anette Nibe, 16/17 March 2000.
- Guest Lecture: David Plotke, Immigration and Political Incorporation
in the Contemporary United States, 12 October 1999.
- Guest Lecture: David Plotke, The Conservative End of the American
Century, 1970-2000, 11 October 1999.
- Guest Lecture: Elyce Rotella, Affirmative Action in the US: Has
it Been Effective? 13 April 1999.
- Conference: The US Mid-Term Elections.
Lectures by Hon. Richard Swett, Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Niels Bjerre-Poulsen,
and Ian Scott, 2 November 1998.
- Workshop: Patrick Miller, Racism,
Science and African-American Studies, 8 October 1998.
- DATE seminar: Watts Going On? The
Lessons of American Race Relations. Lectures by Nancy Graham Holm,
Carl Pedersen, Coleman Jordan, and Nina Roth, 6 March 1998.
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- Video Screening: The Merchants of Cool (Barak Goodman, 2001), 11
November 2002.
- Research Seminar: Cultures of Criticism/Criticism of Cultures; or,
Reading Multiethnic and Interdisciplinary American Studies. Lectures
by Paulette Brown-Hinds, Kirby Hinds, Paul Spickard, Katrine Dalsgaard,
and Coleman Jordan, 25/26 March 1999.
- Research Seminar: American/European
Cultural Exchanges since 1945. Papers by Richard Pells, Thomas
Kennedy, Helle Porsdam, Henrik Bødker, Ole Bech-Petersen, and
Robert Wells, 20/21 November 1997.
- Conference: What a Drag! Representations
of Gender and Sexuality in English and American Studies. Papers
by Nick Radel, Tom Byers, Magdalena Zaborowska, Renee Hoogland. 24
September 1997.
- Research Seminar: Reading American
Culture(s). Papers by David Nye, Inger H. Dalsgaard, Dale Carter,
John Cawelti and Michael Böss, 17/18 April 1997.
- Research Seminar: Other America(n)s:
Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism. Papers by Helle Porsdam,
Ib Johansen, David Cowart, Bruce Leslie, Russell Duncan, Clara Juncker,
Magdalena Zaborowska, and Zygmunt Mazur. 6/7 March 1997.
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- Guest Lecture: Niran Abbas, Infectious Laughter: An Uncle Sampling of Internet Myths and Hoaxes, 10 May 2002.
- Guest Lecture: Dorte Dejbjerg Pedersen, 9-11: A Visual Distress Call, 10 April 2002.
- Guest Lecture: Inger H. Dalsgaard, Remote Sensing and Explosive Images: From the Manhattan Project to the World Trade Center, 3 April 2002.
- Guest Lecture: Karin Esders, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Meets Donna Haraway's Cyborg, 28 September 2001.
- Guest Lecture: Eric Guthey, The New New Thing or the Same Old Thing: On Silicon Valley, the New Internet Economy, and Reading Persons as Fictions, 5 April 2001.
- Guest Lecture: Klaus Rasmussen, Big Science and the Political Decision-Making Process in the United States, 16 February 2001.
- Guest Lecture: Martin Melosi, Technologies of Sanitation: Seeking the Liveable City, 1 November 2000.
- Workshop: Carol Colatrella, Gender in Science and Technology Studies: The Relevance of Theory and Practice, 22 April 1998.
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- Video Screening: Reputations: Martin Luther King, Jr. (John Akomfrah,
1997), 21 April 2004.
- Video Screening: The Muder of Emmett Till (Stanley Nelson, 2003),
17 March 2004.
- Guest Lecture: Bruce Leslie, When the Past is Not Another Country:
Perils of Historical Research in Your Own Backyard (i.e., University),
9 April 2003.
- Guest Lecture: Toby Musgrave, The Staples of American Society, 13
March 2002.
- Guest Lecture: Julie Roy Jeffrey, Abolitionism: the Unintended Consequences
of a Reform Commitment, 9 November 1999.
- DATE Seminar: Native Americans: Past and Present. Lectures by John
Cawelti, Russell Duncan, Magdalena Zaborowska, Fran Hoppenwasser,
and S. Edward Clewett, 12 March 1999.
- Workshop: Robert Wells, The
Great American History Machine, 30 March 1998.
- Research Seminar, Re-enacting the
Past: Memory and Ritual in American Culture and Society. Papers
by Carl Pedersen, Fran Shor, Robert Wells, Joel Pfister, and Elsebeth
Hurup, 19/20 March 1998.
- Guest Lecture: Dennis Nordin, Writing
a Scholarly Biography: The Case of Arthur Wergs Mitchell, 9 February
1998.
- Guest Lecture: Bruce Leslie, The
Multicultural Debate and the Misuse of History, 19 June 1997.
- Guest Lecture, Michael Stohl, Human
Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy: Myth and Reality, 18 April 1997.
- Symposium: American Youth Culture
in the 1950s. Lectures by Bruce Leslie, Jody W. Pennington, Elsebeth
Hurup, and Dale Carter, 2 April 1997.
- DATE Seminar: America in the 1950s.
Lectures by Bruce Leslie, Jody W. Pennington, Elsebeth Hurup, and
Dale Carter, 28 February 1997.
- Research Seminar: Trends
and Issues in the Recent Historiography of US Foreign Relations,
21 February 1997.
- Guest Lecture: Warren Kimball, The
Indispensable Glue: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Wartime Leadership,
21 February 1997.
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Studying in the United States
- Round Table: Studying in America: Myths and Realities of Life on
the American Campus - and Beyond, presentation by Hedvig Gyde Thomsen,
14 April 2004.
- Guest Lecture: The United States at Your Fingertips: Researching
American Studies and US Foreign Policy Through and Beyond the Internet,
presentation by Michael Funch, 3 November 2003.
- Round Table: Studying in America: Myths and Realities of Life on
the American Campus - and Beyond, presentations by Bruce Leslie and
Scott Lewis, 9 April 2003.
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