Graduiertenkolleg
October 15, 2024 | 6:00 p.m. | The Bigger Picture
"US Migration: Debates and Policies since 1965"
Nancy Foner & Carly Goodman
NANCY FONER, City University of New York & CARLY GOODMAN, Rutgers University; moderated by TOBIAS BRINKMANN, Penn State University
In cooperation with the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. and DGfA
October 17, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | The Future of U.S. Democracy
"Religion in the 2024 Election"
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
HCA Atrium
October 23, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"The Sociology of Literature: Bridging the Humanities and the Social Sciences"
EHESS, Paris
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with the Max Weber Institute of Sociology
October 24, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | The Future of U.S. Democracy
October 31, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | The Future of U.S. Democracy
"The US Presidential Elections – What’s at Stake?"
Michael C. Kimmage & Robert Saldin
The Catholic University of America / University of Montana
Moderator: Natalie Rauscher, HCA
HCA Atrium
In Cooperation with the American Academy in Berlin
November 6, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | The Future of U.S. Democracy
"Wahlnachlese"
NICOLE COLAIANNI, Heidelberg & MARTIN THUNERT, Frankfurt/M. moderated by STYLES SASS, Stuttgart
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
HCA Atrium
November 14, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Book Talk
"Edward A. Tenenbaum and the Deutschmark: How an American Jew Became the Father of Germany’s Postwar Economic Revival"
FU Berlin
HCA Atrium
November 26, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | HCA Book Launch
"Frieden und Frauenrechte im Kalten Krieg: Women Strike for Peace und die amerikanische Frauenrechtsbewegung im Spiegel transnationaler Kooperationen, 1961-1990"
HCA Atrium
December 12, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar/GKAT Lecture
"Slow and Sudden Violence: Linking Urban Renewal, Police Repression, and Unrest in America"
American University
HCA Atrium
December 19, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
January 28, 2025 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar/ Encounters
"Global Space Governance: Co-ordination Without Co-operation?"
Durham University
HCA Atrium
February 6, 2025 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar/ GKAT Lecture
"The Formation of Ethnic Capital: Network, Economy, and Community Building"
UCLA
HCA Atrium
April 25, 2025 | 6:15 p.m. | Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize/
"Home-(un)making: The Entangled Geographies of Trust and Home in the US Real Estate Economy"
Universität Heidelberg
HCA Atrium
October 11, 2024 | 6:00 p.m. | HCA Commencement
"Off Autopilot: Atlanticism Today"
German Marshall Fund
Alte Aula der Universität, Grabengasse 1
September 26-28, 2024 | Conference
“What was Contemporary Literature?”
Conveners: LAURA BIEGER & PHILIPP LÖFFLER
Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Universität Heidelberg
September 20, 2024 | 6:00 p.m. | The Future of U.S. Democracy
"Campaign Strategies and Political Dynamics"
New York Times
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with DAI Heidelberg
Supported by Aspen Institute Germany, U.S. Embassy
July 25, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Enfreakment and the Fantasy of Super-Whiteness: The Circassian Beauty in the 19th-Century Freak Show"
Universität Leipzig
HCA Atrium
July 18, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | The Future of U.S. Democracy
"Contested and Challenged, but not Dying - Democracy in the United States"
HCA
HCA Atrium
July 11, 2024 | 6:00 p.m. | The Bigger Picture
"Whatever Happened to American Conservatism?"
Manfred Berg & Michelle Nickerson
Universität Heidelberg / Loyola University Chicago
HCA Atrium | online
In cooperation with DHI Washington | DGFA
July 4, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Dying and Grief in Contemporary US Culture: The Authority of Literature"
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
HCA Atrium
July 2, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Migration and the Americas
"Migration and Exclusion of Chinese across the Americas: Historical Origins and Recent Repercussions"
Universität Osnabrück
HCA Atrium
June 25, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Justice, Peace and War in the Religious Imagination: Lessons from Contemporary Conflicts"
University of Notre Dame
HCA Atrium
June 20, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Book Launch
"Das gespaltene Haus. Eine Geschichte der USA seit 1950"
Historisches Seminar Heidelberg
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with Klett-Cotta
June 18, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Pennington Award/ Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Abolitionism, Secularism, and the Black Intellectual Tradition"
University of North Carolina Charlotte
HCA Atrium
In Cooperation with the Faculty of Theology, Heidelberg University
June 10-12, 2024 | GKAT Conference
June 11, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Conference Keynote/ Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Authority and Trust in American Politics and Society"
Conveners: Natalie Rauscher (HCA), Maren Schäfer (IPW), Martin Thunert (HCA), Sarah Wagner (Atlantische Akademie) & David Sirakov (Atlantische Akademie)
Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the DGFA
HCA
June 6, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Conference Keynote
June 4, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Encounters/ Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Taiwan Rising"
University of Pittsburgh
In conversation with Barbara Mittler
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with the American Academy in Berlin
May 29, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar/ GKAT Lecture
"Dollar Signs - The Myth of American Decline and the Future of World Order"
University of Wisconsin and American Academy in Berlin
HCA Atrium
In Cooperation with the American Academy in Berlin
May 28, 2024 | 6:00 p.m. | The Bigger Picture
"Civil War – Isolationism – Trumpism: Challenges to Democracy in American History and Politics"
In cooperation with the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. and DGfA
May 16, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Grounding Asset-Class Infrastructure in City Logistics: Global Rentiership, Local Frictions, Racial Entanglements"
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario
HCA Atrium
May 7, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Migration and the Americas
"Crossing No Man’s Land? Acknowledging the Indigenous Communities along US-bound Migrant Routes in the Darién Gap"
Erasmus University Rotterdam
HCA Atrium
May 3, 2024 | 1:00 p.m. | Alfred Weber Lecture
"Finanzpolitik zwischen Auftrag, Erwartung und Anspruch"
Bundesminister der Finanzen
Neue Aula
Registered guests only - the event is booked out
May 2, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"The Ambiguities of Early Cold War Era Catholic Liberalism and Racial Politics in Suburban Chicago, 1950-1951: A Case Study"
University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia
Online
Please sign up with ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
April 25, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize/ The U.S. and the Holocaust
"Identity Trouble: German American Politics of Memory and the Holocaust"
Julia Lange
Universität Hamburg
HCA Atrium
April 22, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar/ GKAT Lecture
"Indigeneity,'Americanity': Nathaniel Hawthorne's Romance with Settler Colonial Capitalism"
Dartmouth College
HCA Atrium
April 18, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"The Rise and Fall of America’s Federal Theater"
Columbia University
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with the American Academy in Berlin
February 6, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"The Big Chill: German-American Relations in Reset Mode"
Geman Marshall Fund of the United States
HCA Atrium
MOVED TO February 1, 2024 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"U.S. Policy in a Changing Middle East"
UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, Fulbright Schuman Scholar, University of Lund
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with Fulbright Germany
CANCELED! December 14, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Migration and the Americas
"Crossing No Man’s Land? Acknowledging the Indigenous Communities along US-bound Migrant Routes in the Darién Gap"
Erasmus University Rotterdam
HCA Atrium
December 11, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | The U.S. and the Holocaust
"Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein"
Filmscreening and Talk with Director Peter Stein, New York
HCA Atrium
December 7, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Migration and the Americas
"Interpreting Complexity and Contradiction in the Study of Language Attitudes: Spanish in the United States"
University of Miami
HCA Atrium
November 30, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | The U.S. and the Holocaust
"Franklin D. Roosevelt and the November Pogroms — A Turning Point on the Road to War?"
University of Southern Denmark
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with Fulbright Germany
November 16, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Migrations/ Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Beyond Trust: Migrants and Their Interactions with Smuggling Facilitators on the US-Mexico Border"
Georgetown University
HCA Atrium
November 9, 2023 | 7:30 p.m. | The U.S. and the Holocaust/ Book Launch
"Nichts als das Nackte Leben"
Gerda Weissmann Klein (1924-2022)
Gast: Andrea Rudorff, Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt/M.
HCA Atrium
Registration required with ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
November 9, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. | The U.S. and the Holocaust
"Doch mit Euch wieder vereint zu sein - (Kein) US Exil für die jüdische Familie Klein aus Walldorf"
In cooperation with
Kurfürst Friedrich Gymnasium Heidelberg
Aula der Alten Universität
Please register with ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
Unfortunately this event is already booked out.
November 7, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | "Eine Uni - ein Buch"
Reading Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
HCA Stucco
November 2, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar/ GKAT Lecture
"Home-city Geographies: Dwelling in Displacement and Practices of Radical Care"
Birkbeck University of London
HCA Atrium
October 31, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | "Eine Uni - ein Buch"
Reading Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
HCA Stucco
October 26, 2023 | 8:00 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Gemeinsam gegen China? Transatlantische Beziehungen vor neuen Herausforderungen"
Michael Link & Marina Rudyak & Florian Böller
Koordinator für transatlantische Zusammenarbeit / Universität Heidelberg / TU Kaiserslautern
dai Heidelberg
In cooperation with dai Heidelberg
October 25, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | "Eine Uni - ein Buch"
Reading Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
HCA Stucco
CANCELED! October 24, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar/ GKAT Lecture
"Literary Agents and the Development of Commercial Fiction"
Temple University
HCA Atrium
October 18, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | "Eine Uni - ein Buch"
Reading Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
HCA Stucco
October 18, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
CANCELED! October 17, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Jews in the United States and Israel: Increased Separation, Increased Involvement"
Bar-Ilan University
HCA Atrium
In Cooperation with the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien
October 13, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Commencement
"Jump! 2023 Commencement Remarks"
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Co-Chair International Leadership Council Center for European Policy Analysis, Federal Minister of Defense (2019-2021), Minister President of the Saarland (2011-2018)
HCA Atrium
Please register with ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
July 27, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"American Hunger vs 'America Eats': Richard Wright, The Federal Writer’s Project, and the Racial Politics of Lifestyle Writing"
Dartmouth College
HCA Atrium
July 20, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"Reforming Church History: A History of Reformed Communities in the United States"
Western Theological Seminary und Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Universität Heidelberg
HCA Oculus
CANCELED! July 13, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
July 6, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Populism: Confusing Authority with Authoritarianism and the Erosion of Social Trust"
New York University & Humboldt Universität Berlin
HCA Atrium
July 4, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Advising Three Presidents – Gender and Class in U.S. Policymaking"
Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. & Bosch Academy, Berlin
In conversation with
Institute for Political Science, Heidelberg University
HCA Atrium
June 29, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"The Most Famous Woman in the World: Frances Willard, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and Social Reform in 19th-Century America"
Boston University
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with GKAT
June 28, 2023 | 2:15 p.m. | Lecture
"Disenchantment of the World or Fragmentation of the Sacred? An Alternative Narrative of Western Modernity"
Yale University
Campus Bergheim 00.024
In cooperation with the Max-Weber-Institute for Sociology
June 15, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"The Gospel of Rise and Grind: How Americans Came to Worship Work"
Princeton University
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with GKAT
June 13, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Pennington Award
"Republicanism in Black: Nineteenth-Century African American Contributions to Our Idea of Freedom"
Brown University
HCA Atrium
In Zusammenarbeit mit der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg
CANCELED! June 1, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Migration and the Americas
"Beyond Trust: Migrants and Their Interactions with Smuggling Facilitators on the US-Mexico Border"
Georgetown University
HCA Atrium
May 31, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Domain Specificity and Cultural Diffusion: The Spread of Romantic Nationalism in Europe’s Long 19th Century"
Columbia University
HCA Atrium
May 30, 2023 | 6:30 p.m. | Encounters
"German Legal Structures and American Promises – Taiwan’s Democracy and the Rule of Law"
Ian-tsing Dieu & Hanno Kube
Taipei Representation Germany, Munich Office / Faculty of Law, Heidelberg University
HCA Atrium
May 25 - 27, 2023 | Conference
"'By the Mouth of His Holy Prophets': Sacred Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America"
Conveners: Jan Stievermann (HCA) & Everett Messamore
Please pre-register with Everett Messamore: emessamore@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
May 25, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"'Many Shall Come in My Name': The Dangers of False Scriptures in America’s Era of Divine Utterance"
Washington University
HCA Atrium
Keynote der Konferenz "By the Mouth of His Holy Prophets": Sacred Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America
May 23, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar / GKAT Lecture
"American Self-Narrative and Religious Authority in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Princeton University
HCA Atrium
May 16, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"American Engineers and Global Networks, ca. 1870-1930"
University of Notre Dame
HCA Atrium
May 9, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Book Launch
"American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation"
University of Minnesota
HCA Atrium
April 27, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize
"Joyriding Otherwise: William Pickens' Automotivity as Spiritual Practice"
University of Erfurt
HCA Atrium
April 25, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Reading and the Realisation of Sacred Goods"
The University of Edinburgh
HCA Atrium
April 20, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"How the Priesthood of All Believers Became American: The Curious Career of a Reformation Slogan"
Emory University
HCA Atrium
February 16, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Reimagining, Repurposing, Reckoning: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and the Aesthetics of Infrastructure"
Ruhr Universität Bochum
HCA Atrium
February 14, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. | Encounters
"China and the U.S. – Ambition and Frustration in Fragile Societies"
MPI for Social Anthropology / Historisches Seminar Heidelberg
CATS Auditorium
February 9, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | MAS Colloquium
"Bunkerization in America: Preparing for the Worst Case Scenario"
CAPAS, Universität Heidelberg
HCA Atrium
February 2, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Panel Discussion
"Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia"
Natalie Koch, Geographisches Institut Heidelberg
Veronika Cummings, Catrin Gersdorf, Christian Henderson, Robert Lee, Brittany Meché, Ingrid Nelson, Francisco Robles & Michele Sollai
HCA Atrium
January 26, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Hammer and Sickle, Stars and Stripes: Earl Browder’s American Dream"
University of Richmond
HCA Atrium
December 15, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Surfing Through the American Century: How Surfing Helps Us Understand the Modern United States"
University of Minnesota
HCA Atrium
December 8, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Imagining Trustworthy Authority in a Society of Equals"
Western Illinois University
HCA Atrium
December 6, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. | Lecture
"Die USA – Ein gespaltenes Land? Ein Blick auf die USA nach den Midterms"
Frauke Kühnl
Claus Gramckow & Stefanie Wallbraun
Friedrich Naumann Stiftung / GKAT
HCA Atrium
In Kooperation mit der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, der Reinhold-Maier-Stiftung und der Liberalen Hochschulgruppe Heidelberg
Bitte anmelden bei service@freiheit.org
November 22, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Red Wave or Blue Wall? The Dynamics of the 2022 U.S. Midterms"
Sonoma State University
HCA Atrium
November 21, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"From Eppelsheim to Chicago: 19th Century Jewish Migration from Southwest Germany to the United States"
Pennsylvania State University
HCA Atrium
November 15, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Migrations
"American-European Migration and the Unbearable Multi-sitedness of Home: Lessons Learnt from Fieldwork with Ecuadorian Women in Italy"
University of Trento
HCA Atrium
November 10, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"High-Fidelty Religious Transmission: Orthodox Buddhism in the Religious 'Supermarket' of Secular America"
Simon Fraser University
The event will take place online.
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
November 9, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Panel discussion
"Zwischenwahlen in den USA – Eine erste Bilanz"
Nicole Colaianni & Martin Thunert & Welf Werner
Moderated by Wilfried Mausbach
History Department / HCA / HCA
HCA Atrium
November 3, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"Understanding Transatlantic Puritanism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
Harvard Divinity School
HCA Atrium
October 18, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Encounters
"Rivals or Enemies? The United States, Russia, and China"
Brookings Institution / HCA
The event will take place online.
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
In Cooperation with CATS
October 14, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Commencement, Baden-Württemb...
"Navigating Disruption and Uncertainty: Transatlantic Relations in a Fractured World"
President of the American Council on Germany
Aula der Neuen Universität
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
October 5, 2022 | 5:30 p.m. | Lecture
July 28, 2022 | 18:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"The Case of the Camden 28: How Radical Defendants of the 1960s Put their Federal Prosecutors on Trial"
Loyola University Chicago
HCA Atrium
July 26, 2022 | 8:30 p.m. | Encounters - New Perspectives...
"Peaceful World, Where Are You? Activism and Art in a Global Context."
Author-in-Residence, Nationaltheater Mannheim / CATS, Heidelberg University
CATS Auditorium, Voßstraße 2, Heidelberg
July 26, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Reconsidering 1776: A Nation Approaches Its Semiquincentennial"
University of Notre Dame
HCA Atrium
July 21, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Migration and the Americas
"Migration and Infrastructures of Care"
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
HCA Atrium
In Cooperation with the Heidelberg Center for Ibero American Studies and the Institute for Geography
July 14 - July 16, 2022 | Conference
"Natural Catastrophes in the United States – Making Sense of Risks and Vulnerability"
Conveners: Natalie Rauscher (HCA) & Welf Werner (HCA)
July 14, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Conference Keynote
"Risk Reduction or Rejection: Louisiana’s Chronic Coastal Crisis"
University of Louisiana
HCA Atrium
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
July 12, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Rethinking U.S. Feminisms through Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress"
University of California, Irvine
HCA Atrium
July 5, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
June 30, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Jews, Germans, Allies – Changing Perspectives on Postwar Encounters"
Atina Grossmann & Frank Mecklenburg
Cooper Union, New York City/ Leo Baeck Archive, New York City
HCA Atrium
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
In cooperation with "Kurt Klein Tage", Walldorf
June 23, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Migration and the Americas
"The Common Roots of Central American Migration, Inequalities and Violence in the Region"
University of California, Los Angeles
HCA Atrium
In Cooperation with the Heidelberg Center for Ibero American Studies and the Institute for Geography
June 21, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City"
The Pennsylvania State University
HCA Atrium
June 9, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
June 1, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Pennington Award
"The Unfinished Work of Reconstruction: The Long and Ongoing Civil Rights Struggle in the United States"
Carol Anderson & Manisha Sinha
Emory University / University of Connecticut
HCA Atrium
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
In Cooperation with the Faculty of Theology, Heidelberg University
May 31, 2022 | 12:30 - 2 p.m. | Encounters - New Perspectives...
"Enfant Terrible, Minister of Culture, Silent Loner?"
Lung Ying-tai & Barbara Mittler
This event will take place online.
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
May 24, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"Trust and Language: Linguistics Meets Communication Studies - Some Thoughts and Insights"
University of Greifswald
HCA Atrium
May 12, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
May 5, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Rolf-Kentner Dissertationspreis
"The Future of Work in the United States – Examining Crucial Narratives and Discourses"
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Old Lecture Hall of the Univerisity
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
May 3, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"The African American Experience in WWII, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle for Equality"
Charles Postel
San Francisco State University
HCA Atrium
April 29, 2022 | 2:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Workshop
"Säkularisierung und der Wille zum Glauben"
Lecture: "Losing (one's) Religion. Pragmatist Considerations."
University of Helsinki
Book Presentation: William James: "The Will to Believe"
University of Koblenz
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with "Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft e.V. (FEST)".
April 7, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Encounters - New Perspectives...
"Die liberale Weltordnung in der Krise? Die EU zwischen den USA, Russland und China"
Reinhard Bütikofer & Dr. Florian Böller
Europäisches Parlament / TU Kaiserslautern
Aula der Alten Universität, Grabengasse 1, Heidelberg
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
March 25, 2022 | 5:00 p.m.
"Berufsbrücke: HCA Absolvent*innen berichten über ihre Berufswege"
This event will take place online.
Please register with: fachschaft@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
March 21-25, 2022 | Conference
HCA Spring Academy
This event will take place online.
February 10, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
“How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance”
Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
February 4, 2022 | 5:00 p.m.
"Berufsbrücke: HCA Absolvent*innen berichten über ihre Berufswege"
This event will take place online.
January 25, 2022 | 12:30 p.m. | Encounters – New Perspectives…
January 21, 2022 | 5:00 p.m.
"Berufsbrücke: HCA Absolvent*innen berichten über ihre Berufswege"
This event will take place online.
December 15, 2021 | Fireside Chat
"Bröckelnde Brücken: Die Zukunft der transatlantischen Allianz"
Wilfried Mausbach & Sigmar Gabriel
HCA Executive Director / Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke
Click here for the video.
CANCELED! December 14, 2021 | Lecture
6:15 p.m., HCA
"The Diffusion of Romantic Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth-Century"
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
In cooperation with GKATCANCELED! December 9, 2021 | Lecture
6:15 p.m.r, HCA
"The Invective in American (Popular) Culture"
UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG
In cooperation with GKATCANCELED! December 2, 2021 | Awarding of the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize
6:15 p.m., Old Lecture Hall
"Narratives on Technological Changes: The Future of Work in the U.S."
Natalie Rauscher, HCA
November 30, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. | Encounters: New Perspectives on Asia, America and Europe
October 29, 2021 | Lecture
6:15 p.m.
"Pox, Populism, and Politics: Three Centuries of American Vaccination Controversies"
University of Illinois Chicago
October 19, 2021 | HCA Book Launch
7:00 p.m., HCA
October 15, 2021 | HCA Commencement
6:15 p.m., Neue Aula
Keynote Address: DANIEL BENJAMIN, President, The American Academy in Berlin
October 12, 2021 | 1. Christian Broecking Lecture
7:00 p.m., HCA
"Music with Other Means: The Interviews of Christian Broecking"
GEORGE E. LEWIS, Columbia University
In cooperation with ENJOY JAZZ
August 20-21, 2021 | Conference
"James W.C. Pennington and the World of Transatlantic Reform"
Conveners: Jan Stievermann (HCA) & Eddie Glaude Jr. (Princeton University)
Supported by the Manfred-Lautenschläger-Foundation
June 17-19, 2021 | Conference (online)
"Participation in American Culture and Society" International Conference (online)
67 Annual Convention of the German Association for American Studies Conveners: Manfred Berg, Ulrike Gerhard, Günter Leypoldt, Margit Peterfy, Jan Stievermann, Martin Thunert, Welf Werner Heidelberg University
January 25, 2021 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Nach der Amtseinführung: Quo Vadis USA?"
Universität Heidelberg | ZDF "Heute Journal"
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January 18, 2021 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
January 14, 2021 | 6:15 P.M.
"James Baldwin and the Illusion of American Democracy"
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Princeton University
January 11, 2021 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Religion and Politics after Trump"
Jan Stievermann & Daniel Silliman
Universität Heidelberg | Christianity Today
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December 14, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Renaissance oder Krise? Überlegungen zur aktuellen Situation und Zukunft der US-amerikanischen Stadt"
Universität Heidelberg
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December 7, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
November 30, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Die US-Wirtschaft nach der Krise"
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg / Universität Heidelberg
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November 26, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
Vertrauen: Die unsichtbare Macht (2020)
Professor für Philosophie, Universität Luzern
In cooperation with the Graduiertenkolleg "Authority and Trust" | online discussion of his new book via Zoom; please register with hnagl@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
November 23, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Columbus, Jefferson, Bismarck & Co vom Sockel holen? Aktuelle Konflikte um Erinnerungskulturen und Geschichtspolitik"
Universität Bonn
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November 16, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Forschungserfolg versus Privatsphäre: Humangenetik in den USA und Deutschland"
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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November 9, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Die USA nach den Wahlen: Steht die Außenpolitik vor einer Kurskorrektur?"
Florian Böller & Sebastian Harnisch
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern / Universität Heidelberg
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November 2, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Four More Years? Die USA vor den Wahlen"
Nana Brink (Deutschlandradio Kultur), Horst Kläuser (ehemaliger USA-Korrespondent der ARD), Rachel Tausendfreund (German Marshall Fund), Martin Thunert (HCA); Moderation: Wilfried Mausbach (HCA)
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October 16-17, 2020
"Authority and Trust: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
Conveners: Graduiertenkolleg "Authority & Trust" (GKAT)
Online Conference
Canceled! July 14, 2020
"Bare Handed"
Holly Lynton
Artist, Massachusetts
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! July 9, 2020
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Thomas Andrews
Professor of U.S. History, University of Colorado, Boulder
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! July 7, 2020
"The Performitivity of Objects"
Jeffrey Alexander
Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
July 2, 2020 | 7:30 P.M.
Zum 100. Geburtstag von Kurt Klein
In Kooperation mit Forum 84 und der Vereinigung Walldorfer Heimatfreunde
Aufgrund der Covid-19 Pandemie ist die Zahl der Plätze sehr begrenzt. Die Veranstaltung ist bereits ausgebucht.
Astoria-Halle, Schwetzinger Str. 91, Walldorf
Canceled! June 30, 2020
"Assaulting Democracy: The Religion of the Gun in America"
Dominic Erdozain
Research Fellow, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! June 23, 2020
"City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism"
Abraham VanEngen
Professor of English, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! June 16, 2020
"The Politics of Memory in American Culture: 1620 and Beyond"
David Hall
Bartlett Research Professor, Harvard Divinity School
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! May 14, 2020
"A History of Fake News"
Michelle Nickerson
Loyola University
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! April 30, 2020
HCA Commencement
David Thomas
President, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
Alte Aula, Universität Heidelberg
Canceled! April 23, 2020
"The Big Chill: German-American Relations in Reset Mode"
Jackson Janes
President Emeritus of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Conference canceled! March 23-27, 2020
HCA Spring Academy 2020
Interdisciplinary Conference for Ph.D. Candidates
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! March 19 - April 29, 2020 | Mon-Fri, 9 A.M. - 5 P.M.
"Suffrage: Bilder einer Bewegung"
Kurator: Reinhard Schultz
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
March 4-6, 2020
Jahrestagung des Wirtschaftshistorischen Ausschusses des Vereins für Socialpolitik
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
March 4, 2020 | 2:00 P.M
"'It's the Economy, Stupid!' Or Is It? Zum Verhältnis von sozialer Ungleichheit und Populismus in den USA"
Curt-Engelhorn-Stiftungsprofessor für Amerikanische Geschichte, Universität Heidelberg
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
March 4, 2020 | 4:00 P.M.
"Autorität und Vertrauen in der US-Wirtschaft: Trends und Brüche"
Panel Discussion
With Hartmut Berghoff, Alexander Engel, Korinna Schönhärl and Welf Werner. Moderation: Jan-Otmar Hesse
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 28, 2020 | 6:15 P.M. | HCA Book Launch
Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs
Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Services, University of Illinois
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 23, 2020 | 6:15 P.M. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"American States of Nature: Rights, Race, and the Environment in the U.S. Constitution"
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 21, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
"Das schwierige Ganze: Goethe, Emerson und die Literatur der offenen Gesellschaft"
Universität Göttingen
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 16, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
"Transatlantic Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures"
Chair of North American Cultural Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen
In cooperation with GKAT
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 14, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
"Reinsuring Natural Catastrophes in the U.S.: State, Private Markets, and International Organizations"
Niels-Viggo Haueter
Head Corporate History, Swiss Re, Zürich
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 9, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
"Hurricanes in New Orleans"
Professor for Entangled History of the Americas, University of Bielefeld
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
