Book Launch Diversity Issues in the USA, 23 Oct 2024
Join the book launch on Wednesday, 23 October from 4:15 to 6 PM / 16:15 to 18:00 (CET). Everyone is welcome, and there is no need to register beforehand. More information below.
Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections
When the U.S. sneezes, the world catches a cold.
– Khanyisile Phillips (South Africa)
Join the book launch on Wednesday, 23 October from 4:15 to 6 PM / 16:15 to 18:00 (CET). Everyone is welcome. No need to register beforehand.
With bans on reproductive rights and access to health care, with censorship in schools and universities, and the instrumentalization of rights rhetoric itself, diversity stands at the heart of the elections in the United States.
Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections (transcript 2024) examines how the American elections influence diversity issues in the United States and elsewhere. Authors focus on reproductive and immigration rights, planetary justice, epistemic and physical violence against LGBTQIA+ people as well as efforts to abet this violence. The book and its contributors highlight the symbolic and political weight of the 2024 U.S. elections as a watershed moment for citizens of the world.
Join us in person:
JLU Seminargebäude II
Alter Steinbacher Weg 44
35394 Gießen
Room 011
Or, digitally via this link.
If you have issues logging in, please contact ralph.zoth (German) or hiwis.olson (English).
The book launch will begin with inputs by:
Chia Youyee Vang (Vice Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Division of Community Empowerment & Institutional Inclusivity and Professor in the Department of History)
Āryā Jeipea Karijo (human, activist, storyteller and community organizer Kenya, Global Narratives Hive, TransQueer Fund and Collective)
and
K. Allison Hammer (Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale).
And feature spotlights on diversity issues by authors Melanie Kreitler (University of Giessen), Marzia Milazzo (University of Johannesburg), Sabine N. Meyer (University of Bonn), Georgiana Banita (University of Bamberg), Maik Paap (University of Giessen), Birte Christ (University of Giessen), Sara Polak (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society), Esther Edelmann (Leiden University) and Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society), Christine M. Klapeer (University of Giessen), and Mariel Reiss (University of Marburg).
The launch will be moderated by Greta Olson (Professor of American and British Literature and Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for Diversity, Media, and Law (DiML) at the University of Giessen). Edited by Melanie Kreitler and Greta Olson, Diversity Issues in the USA marks the first volume in the transcript book series [diversity, media, and law] with the Series Editors Dr. Jutta Hergenhan, Prof. Julian Ernst, Prof. Malte-C. Gruber, and Greta Olson).
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