Half an Hour with ... Prof. Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Project no.:
26-0910
Speaker:
Prof. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University
Host:
Prof. Astrid M. Fellner, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland
Date:
Thursday, September 10, 2026, 5.30 p.m.
Venue:
Online via Zoom
Sprache:
English
Registration:
Please register here.
Partner:
Diese Veranstaltung findet in Kooperation mit dem Verbund Deutsch-Amerikanischer Zentren (VDAZ) statt.
Description:
Prof. Shelley Fisher Fishkin is one of the leading scholars in American Studies and a professor at Stanford University. Her work explores race, cultural memory, and the voices that have been marginalized or overlooked in American history. Her latest book, Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade, demonstrates why engaging with literature and history remains essential in times of social and political polarization.
Drawing on her long-standing engagement in public scholarship, civic initiatives, and debates about democracy and social justice, she will also reflect on the current political situation in the United States and the role of academics in public life.
Half an Hour with... ist ein neues transatlantisches Gesprächsformat des Verbunds Deutsch-Amerikanischer Zentren, dessen Mitglied die Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz ist. Einmal im Monat laden wir gemeinsam zu einem halbstündigen Gespräch mit Expertinnen und Experten, die fundiert und kompakt über die USA und die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen sprechen. Ob aktuelle politische Entwicklungen, gesellschaftliche Trends, wirtschaftliche Perspektiven oder kulturelle Einblicke: Half an Hour with... bringt transatlantische Themen direkt zu Ihnen nach Hause oder ins Büro. Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit, spannende Persönlichkeiten kennenzulernen, unterschiedliche Sichtweisen zu entdecken und Ihre Fragen in den Dialog einzubringen.
Referent
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities. Professor of English and (by courtesy) of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the former Director of Stanford's American Studies Program and Co-Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford. She is the award-winning author, editor, or co-editor of fifty books and has published over one hundred fifty articles, essays and reviews, many of which have focused on issues of race and racism in America, and on recovering and interpreting voices that were silenced, marginalized, or ignored in America's past.
Her most recent book is Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade (Yale UP – “Black Lives” series, 2025), which was named an “Outstanding Academic Title” in American Literature by CHOICE in 2026. Her research has been featured twice on the front page of the New York Times, and she has been awarded Bode-Pearson Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Studies Association and the Tuckey Lifetime Achievement award by the Center for Mark Twain Studies. The American Studies Association created a new prize, the "Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies” in 2019. She is a Founding Editor of the Journal of Transnational American Studies.
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