Heike Paul will be joining the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College from June 16-22 for its 25th anniversary. Her...

On April 4, Heike Paul will open the 35th biennial conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS) , which is held at...

In context of the project “Doing Without: Re-Shaping the Cultural Imaginary of the Affluent Society“ funded by the Bavarian Academy of...

Heike Paul is giving a talk which focuses on the interplay between fulfillment, on the one hand, and renouncing and doing without, on the...

The conference on "Messy Beginnings" - organized by the ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Art...

In context of the conference "Sentimental State(s) - Sentimental Politics of Order and Belonging" held in Erlangen from September 20-22, 2023, Heike Paul - together with Sarah Marak - talk about the United States' National Christmas Tree as a tradition that has been in place for already 100 years. The full title of the talk is "'Rally Around the Christmas Tree' - The Sentimental Politics of a Civil Religious Holiday" and it will be given as part of a panel on "The People's