Greta Olson

Events and Talks

 

2024 Talks

 

 

  • Guest Lectures for the Lecture “‘Woman’/Feminisms/Queer/Trans and Nonbinary/Race/Nation/Ability – Decolonizing Knowledge, Introducing Diversity Studies and Inclusion”

  • 2022 Talks

    • Invited Lecture: “After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: Naming and Resisting Anti-Feminist, Anti-Trans, and Racist Tropes and Narratives in Current U.S. Law” in the workshop “When Dystopia Becomes Reality: Law, Literature and the post-Roe v. Wade World” by the Research Platform “GAIN – Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities” (2 December 2022), University of Vienna
    • Panel Contribution: “Reading Kamala Harris’s Vice-Presidency Intersectionally” at the conference “The Emergence of Gendered Power Structures since Early Modern Times: Practices, Norms, Media” (24 November 2022), University of Marburg
    • “Life after Dobbs” – Pre-Midterm Event with Dr. Michaela Dudley and Laura Borchert (7 November 2022), University of Giessen
    • “Naming and Resisting Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBTQIA Narratives and Tropes: Philology as Political Practice,” 49th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) on “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” (21 October 2022), Unipark Nonntal, Salzburg
    • Featured Lecture: “Von der Schwierigkeit und Notwendigkeit feministisch zu arbieten,“ Femme*Festival Giessen (21 September 2022), University of Giessen
    • “From Legal Culture to Cultures of Legality”at the Final Conference “The Käte Hamburger Center ‘Law as Culture’: Reflecting on a Paradigm and a Format of Knowledge” (12 May 2022), University of Bonn
    • Presentation on “Sexism and Racism in Images of Migration: Comparing Images from the ‘Crisis’ (2015/16) to those of Migration from Ukraine (2022)” in the panel “En-Gendering Borders: Media and Migration Reframed” with Jennifer Kamau, Krista Lynes, and Veronika Zablotsky (29 April 2022), University of Giessen
    • “Towards Decolonial Trans Feminist Womxn” at the Final International Conference on Homo Mimeticus, “The Mimetic Turn” (22 April 2022), University of Leuven
    • Lecture on “Law and the Material Turn, Research Seminar” at the Minerva Center for Human Rights (18 February 2022), University of Tel Aviv
    • Lecture with Laura Borchert on “Narrative Authority, Affective Unreliability, and Transing Law” at the Dynamisches Cluster “Feministische Perspektiven auf Recht und Literatur“ des SFB 1385 (10 February 2022), University of Münster
    • Lecture on “Law and the Material Turn, Research Seminar” at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, University of Tel Aviv (18 February 2022)
    • Lecture with Laura Borchert on “Narrative Authority, Affective Unreliability, and Transing Law” at the Dynamisches Cluster „Feministische Perspektiven auf Recht und Literatur“ des SFB 1385 – University of Münster (10 February 2022)
    • Keynote: “Resilience, Resistance, and Healing in Anti-Gender and Pandemic Times,” Fourth International Conference on English Language, Literature, Teaching and Translation Studies (1 October 2021) University of Sarajevo
    • Talk on “Feminist, Queer, and Trans Communities in Pandemic Times: Legal Subjectivities and Resilience” at the International Online Conference “Communities and the(ir) Law,” 2 July 2021, University of Bonn
    • Interview with Michael Knipper about the value of teaching, transferring knowledge between the sciences, BlackLivesMatter protests and health as a human right for the podcast “Research LAB” (1 July 2021)
    • Public lecture on “Resilience, Resistance, and Healing in Anti-Gender and Pandemic Times – A Dialogue” in the interdisciplinary lecture series “Shaping the Future: Female and Queer Perspectives on Possible Futures,” 30 June 2021, University of Giessen
    • Panelist in discussion of “Too Much Participation? Liberal Democracies in Times of Crisis” (German Association of American Studies, DGfA), 18 June 2021, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
    • Paper on “Challenges to Narrative Approaches to Law” at the Conference “Law and Literature from a Narratological Perspective/Recht und Literatur aus narratologicscher Sicht” (7 May 2021) University of Freiburg
    • Lecture on “Negotiating Contested Sexual Cultures” at the University of Freiburg (25 January 2021)
    • Interview with Radio Dreyeckland for the program “Amnesty Aktuell” on “Die Ära Trump (7 December 2020)
    • Digital podium discussion on “Trump oder Biden? Wer entscheidet: Das Volk oder die Gerichte?” organized by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Hessen and the Frankfurter Rundschau (5 November 2020), Frankfurt am Main
    • Participation in “U.S. Election Night 2020: Das digitale Wahlevent,” organized by the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum (3 November 2020), Stuttgart
    • Digital podium discussion on “Voices from Abroad: Americans in Germany Discuss the 2020 U.S. Elections,” organized by the Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität, University of Giessen (3 November 2020), Giessen
    • Digital podium discussion on “Polizeigewalt, Rassismus, Trump: Über Ursachen und Wirkungen der amerikanischen Wut” organized by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Hessen (16 June 2020), Frankfurt am Main. Streamed online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STH8FuRp7ho
    • Digital podium discussion on “Grenzen in Zeiten der Pandemie” as part of the discussion series “Kontroversen” organized by the Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität, University of Giessen (9 June 2020) Streamed online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrfwEO_rgfo
    • Podium discussion on “Die Demokratische Partei nach dem ‘Super Tuesday.’ Wer fordert Trump heraus?” organized by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Hessen and the Frankfurter Rundschau (6 March 2020), Frankfurt am Main
    • Talk on “Strategies for Attending to Our Own Democratic Voices” at the Democrats Abroad Germany Annual General Meeting (24 January 2020) at the Literaturhaus München
    • Talk on #MeToo, Shame, and the Affective Politics of Fourth-Wave Feminism” at the conference “Shame – Shaming – Shamelessness” for the Research Network “Gender and Agency” (Nov. 29, 2019) at the University of Vienna
    • Talk on “From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect” at the Conference “Law and Emotions – Some Reflections on Passion and Dispassion of Law across Legal Cultures (22 November 2019) at the Center for Advanced Study of the Humanities “Law and Culture,” University of Bonn
    • Keynote on “Law and Literature or Legality of Human Rights” at the Summer School “Law, Literature, and Human Rights” at the University of Groningen (19 July 2019)
    • Public lecture on “What is Wrong With Human Rights? The Politics of Images of Refugees” at the Summer School “Law, Literature, and Human Rights” at the University of Groningen (19 July 2019)
    • Talk on “The Affective Politics of Debates about Online Feminism” at the conference “U.S.-American Culture as Popular Culture” (15 June 2019) at the Institute for English and American Studies, University Hamburg
    • Talk on “Rechtsgefühle and the Affective Turn in Legal Scholarship” at the conference “Feelings about Justice/Law: The Relevance of Affect to the Development of Law in Pluralistic Legal Cultures” (13 June 2019) at the University of Giessen
    • Talk on “Comparing Racisms in Germany and the United States – Ethnosexism versus White Fragility and Colorblindness” (6 June 2019) at the workshop “Reemerging Racism – Geneaology, Mediations and Contestations” at the University of Giessen
    • Talk on “Von Recht und Narrativität zu einem morphologischen und affektiven Zugang zur Legalität” at the round-table workshop “Rechtsästhetik als Ästhetik in rechtsphilosophischer Absicht” (29 March 2019) at the University of Magdeburg
  • “Life after Dobbs” – Pre-Midterm Event with Dr. Michaela Dudley and Laura Borchert (7 November 2022), University of Giessen
  • “Von der Schwierigkeit und Notwendigkeit feministisch zu arbieten,“ Femme*Festival Giessen (21 September 2022), University of Giessen
  • Guest Lecture for the Seminar “Images of Migration” (9 February 2022)
  • Guest Lecture at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 10 February 2022:
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2021 Talks

  • Keynote: “Resilience, Resistance, and Healing in Anti-Gender and Pandemic Times,” Fourth International Conference on English Language, Literature, Teaching and Translation Studies (1 October 2021), University of Sarajevo
  • Speech contribution at the Official Dedication to the Commemorative Sculpture for Mildred Harnack-Fish (15 September 2021), University of Giessen (Watch on YouTube)
  • Interview von Greta Olson mit Michael Knipper über den Wert des Lehrens, fächerübergreifenden Wissenstransfer, BlackLivesMatter Proteste und Gesundheit als Menschenrecht für den Podcast “Research LAB” (01 July 2021) – available only in German
  • Talk on “Feminist, Queer, and Trans Communities in Pandemic Times: Legal Subjectivities and Resilience” at the International Online Conference “Communities and the(ir) Law” (2 July 2021), University of Bonn
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  • 2020

 

  • Podium Discussion: As part of the ZMI’s (Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität, University of Giessen) „Digitaler Habitus“ week, Greta Olson took part in a podium discussion, „Voices from Abroad: Americans in Germany Discuss the 2020 U.S. Elections“ (November 3, 2020, at 6 pm).The event addressed what it is like to be an American living in Hesse amidst such a momentous election season. Six different American ex-pats in Germany sat down on election night to talk about the divisive presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial 2020 elections and their consequences. The podium discussion was held in english and took place online.

    You can watch the archived discussion here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th7bOcM0UNI 

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  • Podium Discussion: “Trump oder Biden? Wer entscheidet – Das Volk oder die Gerichte?” organized by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Hesse. Watch the video here (from 5 November, 2020, at 7 pm).
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  • 2019

 

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SS 2019

  • Dialog with Eva Meyer-Keller on the performance “Death Is Certain” as part of the “Dialog am Schneidebrett / Dinner Party” (23 August 2019) at the Ruhrtriennale, Bochum
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SS 2017

  • Talk by Donna Liggins and Greta Olson on “Black Lives Matter” at the Augustinerschule Friedberg
  • Podium discussion “Herkunft als Falle. Journalismus und Migration im 21. Jahrundert” (June 6, 2017)
  • Podium discussion “100 Tage Trump” (April 28, 2017)

WS 2016-2017

  • Lecture with Donna Liggins and Greta Olson on “Why Black Lives Should Matter to Us in Germany” (January 16, 2017)
  • Podium Discussion on “Wie konnte es dazu kommen?/How did this happen? – America after the Elections” (November 21, 2016)
  • Expert panel at the “U.S. Election Night 2016” (November 8, 2016), organized by the Stiftung Bayerisches Amerikahaus and U.S. Consulate General Munich

WS 2015-2016

  • Guest lecture on “Fifty Shades of Grey and the Sublime” with Franziska Mader and Prof. Dr. Julika Griem (December 16, 2015)
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SS 2015

  • Roundtable Discussion of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement with Michael Basseler, Greta Olson, Sonja Schillings and Robert Winkler (June 29, 2015)
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  • Interactive Lecture series “Cultural Approaches to Law and US American Legal Culture”
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WS 2014-2015

  • Lecture by Prof. Dr. Carmen Birkle (Philipps-Universität Marburg): “Of Marriage, Motherhood, and Medicine: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892)” (Jan. 19, 2015)
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  • Lecture by Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): “Form and Impact of Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’” (Dec. 1, 2014)
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WS 2013-2014

  • Lecture by Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Heinze (TU Braunschweig): ‘We Came all the Way from India so You could Dress like this?’ Postcolonial (American) Literature and the New Immigration (Jan. 3, 2014)
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  • On Monday, 13 January, Consul General Kevin C. Milas (U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt) visited the University of Gießen in order to speak to students about the German-American relationship. A wrap up of the event can be found in the Pressebericht for the UniForum.
  • Lecture by PD. Dr. Jan Alber (University of Freiburg) on “Character Interiority in the Movies” (Dec. 2, 2013)
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  • Lecture by Prof. Dr. Andrew S. Gross (University of Erlangen) on “Modernism, Totalitarianism, and Ezra Pound” (Nov. 11, 2013)
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  • Lecture by Nicholas Kralev (former Financial Times and Washington Times correspondent) on “America’s Other Army: How U.S. Diplomacy Changed after 9/11” (Nov. 4, 2013)
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SS 2013

  • Lecture by Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Lemke (University of Freiburg) on “The Financial Crisis of 2008 and Narratives of Working Poverty” (July 1, 2013)
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  • Lecture by Dr. Bolte-Picker on “Hurricane Katrina – Difference, Diversity and the Power of Skin Politics” (June 3, 2013)
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WS 2012-2013

  • Law and Literature Symposium featuring Dr. Honni van Rijswijk (March 7th, 2013)
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  • “Recognizing the Other: Discourses of Alterity in J. M. Coetzee and His Contexts” — Conference organized by the PhD candidates Angela Müller and Katharina Zilles at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the University of Giessen (October 26th and 27th, 2012) (Conference Program)
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  • Following the 2012 Presidential Elections – Office Door

SS 2012

  • University Challenge (Poster)
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Challenge Champions: Literary and Cultural Studies Team

WS 2011-2012

  • Ringvorlesung: Doing and Undoing Gender (JLU and GCSC)
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June 30th – July 2nd, 2011

  • Conference: “Obama and the Paradigm Shift: The Measure of Change in the US and Germany”

June 15, 2011 JP Morgan Run in Frankfurt

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SS 2011

  • Lecture Series on Gender: As part of the project Integrating Women’s and Gender Studies, six major scholars in women’s, masculinity, and gender studies will be speaking in Giessen this spring. They will describe their research and position their work within the context of making women’s, men’s, gender, and queer studies part of the university.

WS 2010-2011

  • November 23 “What are Literary and Cultural Studies for?” A Panel Discussion Featuring Professors of the Department for English and American Literature and Culture (Poster)
  • November 9 & 23 “écriture feminine, Butler and Beyond: A Workshop on Political Approaches to Cultural Studies III” (with Mirjam Bitter & Mirjam Horn) (Flyer)

SS 2010

  • July 7 Guest Lecture by Dr. Michael Butter on “The Obama Deception and Other Episodes in Recent Political Demonology” (Poster)
  • June 9, 2010 JP Morgan Run in Frankfurt
  • May 6 Inaugural Lecture: Political Positions in Cultural Studies

WS 2009-2010

  • RVL: New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies (Poster) Held in the winter term of 2009-2010, this lecture series was intended to offer Giessen students an overview of state-of-the-art methods and models for conducting literary and cultural studies. In this way, the organizers Ansgar Nünning and Greta Olson hoped that students might move forward in devising their own research models and deciding on the method or methods most appropriate for their own work. The lecture series also addressed the question of, “If theory is dead what comes next?” The many answers offered to this question in the form of the lectures suggest that literary and cultural studies are alive and well and flourishing as theoretical as well as pragmatic forms of analysis. Many of the lectures are now available as podcasts, and a publication of all of the lectures will be available shortly in the WVT Handbook: New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Ansgar Nünning and Greta Olson (in preparation).

SS 2009

  • The Battle of the Books (with Professor Ingo Berensmeyer, Dr. habil. Ute Berns and Dr. Andrea Rummel) (Poster) This literary soirée consisted of a debate between Ingo Bernsmeyer, Ute Berns, and Greta Olson and was moderated by Andrea Rummel. We argued about the relative merits of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), Dara Horn’s The World to Come, and J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year (2007) and read passages from these novels aloud. After the ‘battle’ audience members added their comments, and the evening was concluded with wine and food.

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