Karin Esders is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Women's Studies at Potsdam University. Having studied American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute Berlin and the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and written a master's thesis on Feminist Film Theories, Dr. Esders was awarded her Ph.D. in 1995 for a dissertation entitled Codifications of Femininity in Early American Western Films: 1896-1917. She is currently completing work on Gender, Identity, Media: Versions of the Self in the Early American Novel, in Early American Cinema and on the Internet, and this week will be visiting the Gender Studies section of the Center for European Studies, University of Aarhus, to give the following series of lectures:

24 Sept Feminist Film and Media Studies

Place: Room 516, Building 461; Nobelparken, University of Aarhus

Time: 11:15–14:00

26 Sept Intermediality in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Place: Room 35, Building 241; Bartholin Building, University of Aarhus

Time: 14:15–17:00

27 Sept Purity and Danger. Problems of Gender in the Early American Novel, the Early American Cinema, and the Internet

Place: Room 516, Building 461; Nobelparken, University of Aarhus

Time: 13:15–16:00

28 Sept Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Meets Donna Haraway's Cyborg

Place: Room 340, Trøjborg Building, University of Aarhus

Time: 8:15–11:00

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This semester, ASCA will be initiating a series of video screenings featuring a variety of television documentary histories of American culture and society. The Fall 2001 program features episodes from the acclaimed Time-Life/Warner Brothers history of rock'n'roll. Each episode lasts between 40 and 55 minutes, and weekly screenings will be preceded by a brief introduction. The episodes will be as follows:

20 Sept Rock'n'roll Explodes: The Historical and Generic Roots of Rock

27 Sept Good Rockin' Tonight: From Elvis to the Brill Building, 1954-1963

4 Oct Britain Invades; America Fights Back, 1964-1967

11 Oct Plugging In: Bob Dylan and the Rise of Folk-Rock, 1961-1967

1 Nov The Sounds of Soul: From New York to Detroit; From Memphis to Philadelphia

15 Nov My Generation: Rock and the Counterculture, 1965-1970

Place: Room 416, Building 465; Department of English, University of Aarhus

Time: 10:30–11:30

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25 Oct Don't Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker, 1967)

During the spring and summer of 1965, the distinguished American songwriter and musician Bob Dylan gave a series of shows in Great Britain amid intense, and in some ways unprecedented, controversy concerning his beliefs, objectives, style, language and performance. In this celebrated documentary film about the tour, D.A. Pennebaker throws light not only on why it was that Dylan by the mid-1960s had become a god to some and a sell-out (if not yet a Judas) to others, but also on how it felt to live and work within one of the era's most high-pressure cultural goldfish bowls.

Place: Room 416, Building 465; Department of English, University of Aarhus

Time: 10:15–12:00

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5 Dec The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)

On Thanksgiving 1976 the Canadian-American five-piece group The Band staged a farewell show at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Sometimes regarded as culmination (or last gasp) of the American rock culture whose roots reached back to the 1950s, the concert featured — in addition to The Band — many of the biggest names of the era, from Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Neil Young to Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison. Martin Scorsese’s documentary of the event includes performances and interviews, and is often cited as one of the best concert documentary films ever made.

Place: Room 416, Building 465; Department of English, University of Aarhus

Time: 13:15–15:30

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