Fulbright lecture: Native populations in a global perspective
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Researcher of American studies Susan Hegeman will give this year’s Fulbright lecture the 30 January in the University Main Building. She will talk about her ongoing research project about native populations in a global perspective.
Hegeman teaches and conducts research in litterature and culture at the Department of English at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA. Her research has among other things touched upon the history of social sciences in the US, modern literature and the concept of culture. This year she holds the Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the Swedish institute for North American studies at the Department of English, Uppsala University.
Susan Hegeman will base her lecture on a project about native populations that she is currently working on. Native Americans and other native populations have been regarded as both ‘wild’ opponents and romantic alternatives to the western modernity. The basis of her lecture is native populations in the romantic tradition and how they have come to be both historic and social alternatives to modern society. Given the political, economic and environmental changes today, native populations have become both more visible and more threatened than before, and also represent possibilities for social changes. The lecture also shows how American studies are connected to global issues and problems.
Hegeman is author of the books Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (1999) and The Cultural Return (2012), which both in different ways discuss how the concept of culture has developed in different subjects during the last century.
The Distinguished Chair in American Studies was instituted in 1996 and is the only one of its kind in Sweden. It was funded by the Swedish Fulbright Commission in Stockholm and Uppsala University and makes it possible for a senior researcher of American studies to work at Uppsala University for one year, which has contributed considerably to strenghtening the research field.
Time and place: 16.15 the 30 January, lecture hall IX in the University Main Building.
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