Talks and Presentations
Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler introducing the CRC 1285 to the public at the Zentralbibliothek Dresden.
Below you can find a list of all conference papers, research presentations, and (public) lectures that we have thus far given in the context of our work at the CRC 1285. We also invite you to listen to three short teasers, which introduce our work and aim to make our research on specific topics and/or material more tangible to the public.
Katja Kanzler
Teaser: Katja Kanzler on "The Cringe and the Sneer." © Katja Kanzler
“The Cringe and the Sneer: Structures of Feeling in Contemporary TV Culture.” Herrenhaus-Konferenz: Painful Laughter: Media and Politics in the Age of the Cringe, 15 October 2020, Hannover. Conference presentation.
“Invective Form in Popular Media Culture: Genre – Mode – Affordance.” Gattungen und Medien des Invektiven: Interdisciplinary Connference of Project E "Sakralität und Sakrileg: Die Herabsetzung des Heiligen im interkonfessionellen Streit des 16. Jahrhunderts", CFC 1285, 19 - 21 February 2020, Dresden. Conference presentation.
“’Trumpism:’ Mediated Populism and Reality TV Scripts of Anger.” Invectivity & Democracy: A Powerful Tool to Destroy, Reform and Revitalize Political Order and Democracy?, 20 - 21 June 2019, Munk School Transit House, Toronto. Conference presentation.
“From Duck Dynasty to ‘Quality Reality TV:’ On the Invective Performativity of Taste.” Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), 15 June 2019, Hamburg. Keynote address.
“#NastyWoman: Vernacular Feminism and the Poetics of Resignification in 21st-Century US Popular Culture.” Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for Amerian Studies (AAAS), 16 - 18 November 2018, Vienna. Conference presentation.
With Sabine Müller-Mall. “Rant Cultures: Cultural and Legal Perspectives on Media(ted) Invective.” 30 November 2017, King’s College, London. Guest lecture.
“The Poetics and Politics of Shame in ‘Home-Improvement’ Narratives.” 24 November 2017, University of Zurich. Guest lecture.
“Disparagement Television: Invective Spectacle in Veep.” Research Colloquium: Perspectives on American Literature and Culture, 17 May 2017, John-F.-Kennedy Institute, Berlin. Conference presentation.
“Domesticity and the Pedagogy of Shame in Didactic Domestic Novels.” Annual Conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), 17 November 2016, Denver, CO. Conference presentation.
Anne Krenz
“Basic Mechanisms of Disparagement in What Not to Wear.” Summer Course in Narrative Study (SINS 2018), 30 July 2018, Sønderborg. Presentation during Summer School.
Katja Schulze
Teaser: Katja Schulze on the Mockumentary Sitcom Parks and Recreation. © Katja Schulze
“'Why we hate Jerry Gergich' – Participation in Super Nice Sitcoms.” 67th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies. Rescheduled/2021.
“'Cover up that hole!' — Invektivität, Selbstreflexion, und weibliche Stand-Up Comedy in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” weiter.sehen. Rescheduled/2021.
“Embarrassment as an Invective Strategy in the Mockumentary Sitcom Parks and Recreation.” Annual Conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), 7 November 2019, Honolulu, HI. Conference presentation.
“’The Comedy of Super Niceness:’ Parks and Recreation.” Summer Course in Narrative Study (SINS 18), 30 July 2018, Sønderborg. Presentation during Summer School.
“The Poetics and Politics of Invectives in 21st-Century US Television: Sitcom.” Mitteldeutsches Regionalkolloquium für Amerikastudien, University of Erfurt, 13 April 2018. Conference presentation.
Gesine Wegner
Teaser: Gesine Wegner on "Disability and Cringe." © Gesine Wegner
“Rethinking Notions of Ability through Sites of Ridicule and Shame in Comics” Jahreskonferenz der American Studies Association (ASA), 14. November 2020. Rescheduled/ 2021.
“’Kill the Puppies!’: Disability Humor and the Invective Mode in Comedy Live Performances.” Herrenhaus-Konferenz: Painful Laughter: Media and Politics in the Age of the Cringe, 15 October 2020, Hannover. Conference presentation.
“Toward Open Access for All: Theory, Methods, and Practice.” Annual Conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), 8 November 2019, Honolulu, HI. Panelist in a non-paper session.
“To Be Continued?: Serializing Traditions of Cripping up on American Television.” 8th Annual Conference of Alter – European Society for Disability Research, 5 September 2019, University of Cologne. Conference presentation.
“When Literary Classics Meet Pop Culture: (Re)Imagining the American Literary Canon through Comics.” Workshop ‘Popular Culture(s) in the Classroom,’ Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), 14 June 2019, University of Hamburg. Conference presentation.
With Mirjam M. Frotscher. “The Handmaid's Tale zwischen Feministischer Erzählung und ‘Torture Porn:‘ Eine intersektionale Kritik.“ 7th Conference of Weitersehen: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Dresdner Serienforschung, 3 November 2018, Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Dresden. Conference presentation.
”’Through Deaf Eyes:’ Losing and Reclaiming Public Space in Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck.” Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), 25 May 2018, Freie Universität Berlin. Conference presentation.
“Affective/Effective Images?: The Aesthetics of Representing Disability Experience in Comics.” Seminarreihe ‘Disability and the Emotions,’ 7 March 2018, Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University. Guest lecture.
“A Crip Culture Talks Back: Zur Darstellung von Behinderung in der (Amerikanischen) Populärkultur.” Seminar ‘Inklusion auf allen gesellschaftlichen Ebenen,‘ 17 November 2017, Zentrum für Medien und Soziale Arbeit, Hochschule Mittweida. Guest lecture.