Heike Paul is invited to give a keynote on "Violent American Beginnings and Memorial Culture" as part of the Swiss Association of North American Studies (SANAS) biennial conference, titled "American Un/Freedoms". The conference takes place at the University of Zurich from Thursday, November 5, to Friday, November 6, and is organized by Katharina Gerund and Barbara Straumann. For more information on the conference, including the program and abstracts, see here.

Together with Axelle Germanaz, Heike Paul gives a talk titled "'Manifest Domesticity' Reloaded: The Neo-Imperial Politics of the Tradwife-Movement". It is part of a conference on "Neoimperialism and Human Rights", which is a cooperation between the Research Groups "Neoimperialismus als Herausforderung der Gegenwart" (BAdW) and "Universalism and Particularism in European Contemporary History" (LMU Munich) and the Academy for European Human Rights Protection (University of Colo

As part of a conference on "Purity Politics", Heike Paul participates in a discussion with Duncan Faherty under the title "Purifying the Past & Policing the Future". The conference is organized by the ifk (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) and takes place at the ifk Arkade in Vienna from Wednesday, Oktober 28, to Friday, October 30. For more information on the conference, including the program and how to register, see here.

Right now, there is much talk of conflict, division, and civil war-like conditions in the US, while at the same time the 250th anniversary of the world’s oldest democracy is being celebrated. In her talk, Heike Paul examines the power and influence of the country’s political and cultural founding myths, which for a long time were widely regarded as the common basis of the national identity. These include the myths of discovery, expansion, the founding of the state, and social

Heike Paul was interviewed by Doris Schäfer-Noske for "Kultur heute" (Deutschlandfunk) about the exhibition "Chimes of Freedom: Protest, Patriotism & the Power of Song" at the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music on the Monmouth College campus in New Jersey. To listen to the full conversation, see here.

As one of the project leaders of the newly established research group "Neoimperialismus als Herausforderung der Gegenwart" (Neoimperalism as the Challenge of the Present), Heike Paul participates in its kick-off event. Following a talk by Jörn Leonhard, Heike Paul takes part in a discussion with Jörn Leonhard and fellow project leaders Martin Schulze Wessel and Carlo Masala. For more information (in German), see here. All Pictures © BAdW / Philipp Gülland