JOIN US FOR A ELECTION NIGHT SHOW & TELL | 5.11.24 um 16:40 Uhr | W48/016

 US ELECTION NIGHT SHOW & TELL

The North American Studies Colloquium and Friends will open its doors for TUD students and faculty to discuss the cultural ramifications of the American Presidential Elections.

Coconut Trees, Childless Cat Ladies, MAGA, and Project 2025. The U.S. election has created international headlines not just with everything that is at stake both in the U.S. and globally, but also with its viral election campaigns, speeches and weird moments that circulate virally through (social) media.

On election day (Nov 5), we will gather in an informal setting to talk about how the elections and the issues that have come to define it manifest in various objects in (popular) culture, discuss the election campaigns from our perspectives as researchers and students and think about the impacts and effects on American culture that each presidential candidate promises to bring with them into the Oval Office. We reflect and speculate on the rhetorics and imaginaries around the election and take a closer look at visible and invisible actors at this critical moment in U.S. history.

We invite you to bring your questions, observations, and thoughts and join us in this conversation on the contexts—both in the U.S. and in Germany—that mark this U.S. election as particularly critical.