Dear colleagues and friends, we’d like to invite to join a workshop on "Competing American Literary Institutions around 1900" hosted by the Departments of Literature and Culture in cooperation with the Excellence Cluster “Temporal Communities.” This is a follow-up event to a digital symposium held in June. Due to the improving Coronavirus situation, our two guests Sheila Liming (Champlain College) and Kathryn Roberts (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) will join us at the Institute to give lectures. The event will be streamed live via Webex Presentations start at 3 pm CET on Thursday; on Friday morning, we’ll host a reading group centered on recent critical work in the field. The full schedule is available here: https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/culture/dates/literary_institutions_partII.html Please send me a short message if you’re interested in participating. We look forward to seeing you! Alexander Starre & Florian Sedlmeier -- Dr. Alexander Starre John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Department of Culture Freie Universität Berlin Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin +49-30-838-59410 http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/culture