Heike Paul has been invited to give a guest lecture on lost cause sentimentalism and the rise of the right-wing populism. The lecture is part of the lecture series "Loss in the Land of Plenty: Understanding American Crisis, Decline, and Paths to Renewal", organized by the John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin.   For more information, see here .

In her talk titled "The Myths That Made America – Revisited" at the University of Cologne, Heike Paul discusses the popular and powerful narratives of US-American national beginnings which have shaped discourses on 'Americanness'. With attention to current U.S. politics, Heike Paul explores American culture(s) through foundational myths such as the myth of Columbus' 'discovery' of America, the myth of the Founding Fathers, or the myth of the self-made man.   For more informat

Heike Paul looks at mythologized tales of American beginnings and analyzes the narratives of the "Lost Colony" and the "Lost Cause" in...