GGS-Summer Event 2025
Programme
At the assembly hall (6 p.m. - approx. 7.30 p.m.):
- Greeting by the Vice President of the JLU Professor Dr Wencke Gwozdz
- Greeting by the Executive Director of the GGS Professor Dr Peter Tillmann
- Insights into the research activities of young scientists
- Guest lecture by Prof Dr Greta Olson (head of the ‘Political Education’ section)
Courtyard at the side entrance of the assembly hall (from about 7:30 p.m.):
- Stand-up reception of the GGS
- Get to know the sections, their activities and speakers
- Network with GGS members and cooperation partners
- Meet the directors and staff of the GGS
The guest speaker
|
Prof Dr Greta Olson |
|
|
Our guest speaker this year will be Prof Dr Greta Olson, who will give a lecture analysing the current state of the USA with the title: Trump 2.0: The Return & The Resistance. Abstract:
First, this talk pushes back against the dominant narrative that there is no resistance to the second Trump presidency. This narrative results out of a problematic “he said – she said” form of reporting that has tangible negative political consequences. Second, I highlight the multiple forms of organized political work that successfully impeded Trump from carrying out policies during the first administration, like the sanctuary movement, and name forms of anti-Trump collective action now. These include Invisible, the vast response to the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, and “Know Your Rights” trainings. Third, the talk confirms Trump 2.0 as a “lawless and authoritarian” presidency in its systematic attacks on immigrants and the abrogation of asylum rights; its assaults on freedom of speech, information, and the rule of law in targeting universities, student protesters, trans persons, and law firms, and its destruction of postwar political alliances and destabilization of the world economy. We witness America the Ugly and the Transactional. Finally, I discuss consciously exercising hope as a form of political resistance and self-care. Short biography of the author:
Greta Olson is Director of the Center for Diversity, Media, and Law (DiML) and Professor of American and British Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen. She was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” in Bonn (2014, 2016) and served as General Editor of the European Journal of English Studies (EJES) between 2010 and 2025. She is co-founder with Justice Jeanne Gaakeer (The Hague and University of Rotterdam) of the European Network of Law and Literature. She is a principle investigator in the DFG-Forschergruppe Menschenrechtsdiskurse in der Migrationsgesellschaft (Speaker Prof. Jürgen Bast, FB 01: Co-Speaker Prof. Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps University of Marburg) with a project on the political and affective work of images of migration. Greta wishes to facilitate work on the nexus between political and artistic practices and academic analysis. She aims to foster projects concerning legal pluralism/law and literature/cultural approaches to law, the politics of form, critical media studies, American Studies, feminism and sexuality studies, and diversity advocacy. |
The lecture will be moderated by Luana Sommer the head of the ‘Political Education’ section, Luana Sommer.
Presentations on the research activities in the GGS sections
|
Reqqa Salem |
Dr. Theresa Braun |
||||
|
|
|
We look forward to celebrating our summer event with you again and look forward to seeing you at our festivities.
Sponsoring and Supporter
Rittal
This is the third year that the GGS summer event has been sponsored by Rittal GmbH & Co. KG. We are very grateful for this support.
Licher Privatbrauerei
The Licher private brewery supports the GGS summer event with a culinary donation in kind. We are very grateful for this donation!
To the website of Licher