“Invisible and Extractable? Settler Resource Logic and Indigenous Futurity in John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown (1934)” Talk by Jannis Buschky, August 28th 2026

Talk Jannis Buschky will give a talk about the relationship between discourses of Indigenous vanishing and the invisibility of oil in John Joseph Mathews’s novel Sundown (1934) at the 2026 “Petrocultures: Situating Energy” conference at TU Dresden on August 28th. “Petrocultures” is the largest conference examining the social and cultural dimensions of energy. […]
Talks by Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler and Timo Müller at the 36th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies, September 2nd 2026

Talks Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler and Timo Müller will present on the modernist aesthetics of early automobility at the 36th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies. The conference, entitled “Visions of Freedom,” explores “how the concept of freedom has shaped the United States—past and present, real and imagined.” Timo Müller’s and Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler’s […]