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Jul 3

Event | "The Poetics and Politics of Family Feelings" | 03.-05.07.2024

Heike Paul is co-organizer of a joint workshop of the two research training groups "The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics"...

May 18

Talk | "Singing Songs to the Presidents: Barbra Streisand's Civil Sentimentalism" | 21.05.2024

Heike Paul is giving a talk on Barbra Streisand and her history of singing to American presidents, discussing how this relates to civil...

Sep 19, 2023

Talk | "'Rally Around the Christmas Tree' - About a Civil Religious Holiday" | 21.09.23

In context of the conference "Sentimental State(s) - Sentimental Politics of Order and Belonging" held in Erlangen from September 20-22,...

Aug 7, 2023

Talk | "Singing (Sentimental Songs) to the President" | 13.09.23

Heike Paul is participating in an international symposium titled “'You are beautiful, no matter what they say' - Sentimental Ballads...

Jul 6, 2023

Publication | To the Last Drop: Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality | 27.07.23

The volume To the Last Drop: Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality, edited by Heike Paul together with Axelle Germanaz,...

Nov 3, 2022

Event | Workshop "Civil Sentimentalism in the Americas" at Amerikahaus Munich | 09.-11.11. 2022

This workshop seeks to discuss the forms and functions of the sentimental in popular and political cultures in the Americas. It is part...

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