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Aktuelle Konferenzen
Frühere Konferenzen
ERP Konferenz: "From Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks: A Transatlantic Conversation on the Public’s Right to Know"
10. - 12. Mai 2012, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Gefördert durch das Transatlantik-Programm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus Mitteln des European Recovery Program (ERP) des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
In 1822 James Madison wrote that “a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." In Madison’s day, the challenge was publishing such information. Today it is far more access to such information. This conference will explore the multiple barriers to an informed citizenry and the ways in which first and foremost the press but also other activists have challenged those barriers.
Konferenz: "Marginalized Masculinities and the Nation: Global Comparisons, 1800-1945"
15.-17. März 2012, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Historical scholarship has long established the inextricable interrelationship between gender and the nation. Feminist scholars in particular have demonstrated how male nationalists incorporated women as symbolic, cultural, and biological reproducers of the nation into their “imagined communities.” Most studies on the subject tend to focus on the tensions between women’s inclusion in nationalist discourse and their exclusion from political decision-making. Others have explored women’s active role in nation-building projects. Despite scholars’ insistence on the relational character of gender, however, masculinity continues to be neglected by scholars of gender and the nation. If masculinity is addressed, historians either overstate the cohesion of interests among men or focus exclusively on hegemonic models of manhood and the corresponding perpetuation of the nation-state and patriarchy.
This conference seeks to provide a fresh perspective on the interrelationship between gender and the nation by focusing on the role of marginalized masculinities in nation-building processes between 1800 and 1945. During that period, the emergence of particular forms of masculinity coincided with the founding of modern-nation states. Scientific racism, Imperialism, eugenics, and other forms of exclusion and subjugation became part and parcel of these gendered nation-building processes. Seeking to detect similarities/dissimilarities and continuities/discontinuities across space and time, the conference includes papers on North- and South America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, all of which shed light on the history of the interrelationship between marginalized masculinities and the nation in the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century.
The conference organizers believe that the constructed character and function of manhood in people’s attempts to create “imagined communities” during that period cannot be fully comprehended if the exclusive focus of analysis is the subjugation of women or their resistance to and complicity in that subjugation. Concentrating exclusively on hegemonic masculinity in these processes seems similarly narrow. To understand hegemonic notions of masculinity and the nation, we need to explore the tensions and interrelationships between these dominant concepts and their margins. Studying the history of gender and the nation from the perspective of marginalized masculinities means focusing on the conflicts among competing concepts of manhood as well as on the differences between them. Far from being one ideologically monolithic bloc, men’s access to and interest in nation-building power varies considerably according to race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, etc. The conference focuses on these various fragmentations and their role in the creation, expansion, consolidation, and decline of nations around the globe.
Konferenz "Religion and the Marketplace in the United States"
6.-8. Oktober 2011, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
As decided at the 2010 meeting of the European Association of American Studies in Dublin, the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), in cooperation with the American Studies Network (ASN), will host a conference entitled “Religion and the Marketplace: New Perspectives and New Findings.” The HCA will host the conference on October 6-8, 2011, as part of Heidelberg University’s 625 anniversary celebration.
This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to investigate and explain how the conditions of the marketplace have determined, influenced, and limited American religion in the past and present. Given the prominence of the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses in the American constitution, a broad-based ‘competition for souls and purses’ has historically helped define the contours of religion in America. This conference will build upon previous insights while probing further into the complex relationship between religion and the marketplace along the lines described below.
We invite scholars in American Studies and related fields (geography, history, law, literature, media studies, political science, religious studies, theology, etc.) to submit paper abstracts for this conference. Individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) should be specifically directed at one (or more) of the panel topics included in the CFP. Abstracts must be received by March 31, 2011. Participants will be notified by May 1, 2011. All questions and submissions should be sent electronically to: djunker@hca.uni-heidelberg.de.
We especially desire participation from European scholars working in these fields, but welcome submissions from all around the world. The HCA will cover travel expenses (economy), lodging and meals for conference participants.
ERP-Konferenz:
"Zeitenwende 9/11? Eine transatlantische Bilanz 10 Jahre danach"
9.-11. September 2011, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Gefördert durch das Transatlantik-Programm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus Mitteln des European Recovery Program (ERP) des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Durch die Verbindung vergleichender, transnationaler und multidisziplinärer Perspektiven soll die Konferenz die historische Bedeutung der Terroranschläge vom 11. September 2001 untersuchen. Ziel der Tagung ist es, bisherige geschichtlich-politologische Einordnungsversuche zu hinterfragen und neue Forschungsdiskussionen anzustoßen, die dezidiert nach den transatlantischen Dimensionen der Geschichte des 11. September fragen. Die Tagung will besonders deutschen Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftlern die Möglichkeit eröffnen, einen Beitrag zu dieser Forschungsdebatte zu liefern und mit etablierten Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in einen multidisziplinären Dialog einzutreten.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Homepage der 9/11-Konferenz.
ERP Konferenz: "Energy Policy and Energy Security - Transatlantic Perspectives"
27./28. Mai 2011, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Gefördert durch das Transatlantik-Programm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus Mitteln des European Recovery Program (ERP) des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Conveners:
Dr. Karen Smith Stegen (Jacobs University Bremen)
Dr. Martin Thunert (HCA, Universität Heidelberg)
Administration: Rebecca Zimmermann (HCA, Universität Heidelberg)
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies, with the generous support of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, will host a workshop on Energy Policy and Energy Security - Transatlantic Perspectives. You are cordially invited to attend.
The workshop will address the following questions and issues: What are the likely future approaches of the US/Canada and of Germany/Europe to energy policy in general and to energy security in particular? As both the US and Europe are currently confronting similar energy and environmental dilemmas, such as increasing demand; decreasing indigenous production; fewer worldwide resources, 75% of which are owned by foreign governments; and climate change, which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels for energy, they would benefit from converging strategies and transatlantic cooperation. But, despite some efforts to strengthen cooperation, such as the creation of the EU-US Energy Council in November 2009, the differing priorities and interests of the two parties may pose challenges. It is these challenges that the workshop intends to explore.
ERP Konferenz:
"Think Tanks and Foundations in the Transatlantic World – Past, Present and Future"
3.-4. Dezember 2010, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Gefördert durch das Transatlantik-Programm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus Mitteln des European Recovery Program (ERP) des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Think tanks and foundations can be important non-state players in global and national politics. Next to governments, parliaments and representatives of corporate interests, non-governmental study and discussion groups, think tanks and foundations have become important players in the transatlantic world. Think tanks and foundations organize transatlantic dialogues and try to contribute to the preparation of the decision-making process of national governments as well as of trans- and supranational bodies in the Atlantic world. Our conference will scan these actors and their activities on both sides of the Atlantic as wells as in different policy areas, analyze their role in transatlantic relations and evaluate some of their more recent contributions to transatlantic dialogue.
The conference has three objectives: Our first objective is to provide a thorough analysis of the role of think tanks and foundations on both sides of the Atlantic. Second, we would like to examine the role of think tanks, foundations and related non-state actors in transatlantic relations past, present and future. Third, we will discuss and evaluate actual contributions (policy statements, position papers etc.) of selected think tanks and foundations on transatlantic issues. In addition, we will ask two keynote speakers with extensive experience in transatlantic relations to reflect on the role of civil society organisations like the media and non-state actors in transatlantic relations.
To achieve our objectives, we have to chosen two formats for the conference: on day one and in the morning of day two we will assemble panels with experts on think tanks and foundations from both sides of the Atlantic. On the afternoon of the second day, we will conduct an open expert think tank on the past and future of transatlantic relations based on an assessment of recent inputs from think tanks and foundations on transatlantic issues.
Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians 2010:
"American History in Transatlantic Perspective"
September 6-17, 2010
German Historical Institute, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Chicago
Konferenz "Toward an International History of Lynching"
4.-6. Juni 2010, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Conference organized by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS), the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), and the University of Heidelberg's Transcultural Studies Research Group "Radical Nationalism and Gender in the United States, Germany, and Japan."
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Konferenz "Transatlantic Alliances and Networks in a Global Context"
30. April - 1. Mai 2010, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM)
The conference is part of an HCA-UWM-led international research project that explores the Transcultural Atlantic as a realm of crosscultural interaction throughout the period of the Cold War and beyond. More precisely, it investigates various processes of transatlantic networking and community-building in the realms of business, academia, the media, popular culture, government, the military, and elsewhere. The project is neither limited to diplomatic history and political science studies dealing with alliance politics nor to cultural studies that have long focused on the construction of national identities. Instead, it aims at synthesizing both research areas, thus trying to arrive at a fuller understanding of processes of transatlantic community-formation since 1945. By covering a broad period of time, it will be possible to trace changes in the culture of different, sometimes competing communities in the Atlantic realm – to highlight continuities and ruptures; to show the effects of increased flows of goods, services, information, ideas, and identities; and to reassess the impact of major historical developments throughout the era of the Cold War, not least its unexpected end.
UNESCO History Conference: "UNESCO and the Cold War"
4.-5. März 2010, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
The International Scientific Committee for the UNESCO History Project
Konferenz "Transcultural Perspectives on Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Twentieth Century"
26.-27. Februar 2010, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Dr. Simon Wendt (Universität Heidelberg), Brian D. Behnken (Iowa State University) > more
EU-Marie Curie Conference and Training Series: Workshop "Arenas of Contestation"
18.-20. Februar 2010, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Dr. Martin Klimke (HCA), Dr. Joachim Scharloth (Universität Zürich), Dr. Kathrin Fahlenbrach (Universität Halle)
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ERP Konferenz "Cultures of Transatlanticism: The Impact of Lawmakers and Judges"
4.-6. Februar 2010, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Gefördert durch das Transatlantik-Programm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus Mitteln des European Recovery Program (ERP) des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Harnisch, Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg
Conference "Arnold Schwarzenegger: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf
Körper und Image"
September 18-20, 2009, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Dr. Michael Butter, Dr. Patrick Keller und Dr. Simon Wendt > more
Interview mit Michael Butter (.mp3 / SWR2 Journal am Mittag, 14.7.2011)
Symposium "Modernization and Intellectual Authority in US Literary Culture, 1750-1900"
2.-5. Juli 2009, IWH, Universität Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Günter Leypoldt, Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schloss > more
Konferenz "Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries"
19.-21. März 2009, German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington DC
Dr. Martin Klimke, Dr. Mischa Honeck, Dr. Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov > more
Tagung "1968 in Japan, Deutschland und den USA: Politischer Protest und Kultureller Wandel"
4.-6. März 2009, Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin.
Wolfgang Brenn (Japanese-German Center, Berlin), Martin Klimke (GHI); Yoshie Mitobe (Meiji University, Tokyo), Joachim Scharloth (University of Zurich/ University of Freiburg), Laura Elizabeth Wong (Harvard University / HCA)
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EU-Marie Curie Conference and Training Series:
"Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989"
18.-25. August 2008, Charles-University Prague, Czech Republic
Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Charles-University Prague, Czech Republic > more
Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies GAAS
(DGfA – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien)
15.-18. Mai 2008, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
GAAS > more
EU-Marie Curie Conference and Training Series: “European Protest Movements since the Cold War: The Rise of a (Trans-)national Civil Society and the Transformation of the Public Sphere”
Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg Center for American Studies > more
International Conference
“Global Dimensions of Racism in the Modern World: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives”
12.-14. Juli 2007, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
International Conference
“State and Market in a Globalized World: Transatlantic Perspectives”
5.-8. Oktober 2006, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
