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"'We were safer in space': NewSpace and the Male Gaze in Alien: Earth and William Shatner’s Boldly Go.“

Conference "Ethnographies of Outer Space“ at the University of Vienna.

Friday 26, December 2025. 

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Prof. Dr. Jens Temmen: "It’s not rocket science: North American Astroculture & the Second Space Age“.

Guest Lecture “Current Cultural Studies Lecture Series” at the University of Rostock. 

Monday, 8 December 2025. In person.

NYU Space Talks by Jens Temmen on Tuesday, 2 December 2025 from 10:00-11:30

Prof. Dr. Jens Temmen: "'New Planet, Dad. Please!' Multiplanetarity and Terralectics in Contemporary North American Astroculture.“

Space Talks Lecture Series at New York University (NYU). 

Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 10–11:30 EST. Online.

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Prof. Dr. Jens Temmen

Prof. Jens Temmen takes over the Chair of American Studies at KU

Prof. Dr. Jens Temmen has been the new Chair of American Studies at KU since the summer semester of 2025. The cultural and literary scholar brings…

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Prof. Christopher Pexa (Dakota), Harvard University

Christopher Pexa (Dakota) is a visiting professor at the Chair for American Studies at KU for the summer term 2025. He is teaching four classes in…