Join our last talk of the semester by Alice Ba from the University of Delaware (@udelaware.bsky.social) on "South East Asia beyond America?" 🕰️ July 21, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium
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This Thursday, Laura McGrath from Temple University (@temple.edu) will give an interesting talk on "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction". 🕰️ July 16, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium
Join us on Saturday for a film screening🎬 of "The Conductor" at Gloriette cinema. This event is organized in cooperation with the SFB Heimat(en) of @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and part of a GKAT workshop. 🕰️ July 11, 5 p.m. 📍 Gloriette-Kino, Hauptstraße 146, 69117 Heidelberg
On Thursday, Fabio Santos from the University of Copenhagen (@ucph.bsky.social) will give a lecture on “'Is It Because We Are Negroes?': Haitian Refugees, Racialized Detention, and Anticolonialism in Puerto Rico." 🕰️ July 9, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium
Tonight we are hosting a book launch🥂 discussing new insights on James W. C. Pennington, a remarkable figure of Black religious and political history. Go check out the books below!
Pennington Book Launch🥂 On Tuesday, we are hosting a book launch featuring a discussion by Manisha Sinha, Jan Stievermann and Caitlin Smith on new research regarding James W.C. Pennington, a truly remarkable figure of Black religious and political history. 🕰️ June 30, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium
Universität Heidelberg@uniheidelberg.bsky.social · last mo.Buchvorstellung: „Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington“ – Veranstaltung am Heidelberg Center for American Studies gewährt Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung zu ... www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #amerikanistik #americanstudies #theologie #pennington
On Thursday, Charles Zug from the University of Missouri-Columbia will give a talk on "The Constitution of the Criminal State". 🕰️ June 18, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium This talk is part of our event series "The Future of US Democracy".
On Tuesday, Gerlinde Groitl from @uniregensburg.bsky.social and the ISS Institute for Security and Strategy will talk about "Toward a New Golden Age? American World (Re)Ordering under President Donald Trump". 🕰️ June 2, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium
On Thursday, David McCuan from Sonoma State University will give a talk on "The Mother of All Midterms: The Game-Changing American Elections of 2026" 🕰️ May 28, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium This event is part of our event series "The Future of US Democracy".
Book Launch🥂 Am Dienstag stellt Manfred Berg sein neues Buch "Amerikas Demokratie. Eine kurze Geschichte von der Unabhängigkeit zu Donald Trump" vor. 🕰️ 26. Mai, 18:15 Uhr 📍 HCA, Atrium About the book: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...
On Wednesday, Rieke Havertz, an international correspondent at Die ZEIT, will give a public keynote on "Goodbye, America? Why We Need to Reassess our Relationship with the US without Letting Emotions Get in the Way." 🕰️ May 20, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium This keynote is part of a GKAT conference.
On Tuesday, Julienne Weegles from @uva.nl will give a talk on "When the state becomes the threat: Acting politically amid rising authoritarianism in Central America". 🕰️ May 19, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium More information on the event: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...
Am Dienstag sprechen Florian Böller (HCA) und Steffen Hagemann von der RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau über das Thema "Israel, Palästina und der Nahe Osten nach dem 7. Oktober: Eine transatlantische Perspektive". Veranstaltung der Reihe "Geopolitics in the Age of Trump" 🕰️ 12. Mai, 18:15 📍 HCA, Atrium
Am Donnerstag lädt das HCA gemeinsam mit dem Verein für Socialpolitik zu einer Podiumsdiskussion zu "Freund, Rivale, Partner? Die EU-US Wirtschaftsbeziehung auf dem Prüfstand" in der Alten Aula der Universität Heidelberg ein. 🕰️ 08. Mai, 11:00 - 12:30 Uhr 📍 Alte Universität, Aula, Grabengasse 1
On Thursday, Lukas Rieppel from Brown University will talk about "Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life: Indexicality and the Performance of Scientific Authority"🦖. 🕰️ April 30, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium Info👇 www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal... This event is part of the Baden-Württemberg-Seminar.
On Wednesday, Anne Schuchat discusses "Crisis in Public Health: Navigating Science and Policy in an Era of Misinformation."🩺 In cooperation with the HCA, DAI Heidelberg and the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. 🕰️ April 29, 8:00 p.m. 📍 DAI Heidelberg dai-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...
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Ausstellung "L.A. Streetview – Die Fotografien von Anton Wagner" Vom 24. April bis zum 24. Juli 2026 sind am HCA Fotografien des Kieler Geografen Anton Wagner von systematischen Spaziergängen im Jahr 1932/1933 durch Los Angeles als Prototyp der autogerechten Stadt zu sehen.
Universität Heidelberg@uniheidelberg.bsky.social · 4mo agoAusstellung: L.A. Street View 1932 – Historische Aufnahmen des Kieler Geographen Anton Wagner sind im Heidelberg Center for American Studies zu sehen www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #ausstellung #losangeles #americanstudies
Am Freitag eröffnet🥂 die Kulturgeografin Cosima Werner (@uni-kiel.de) mit einem Vortrag die neue Ausstellung am HCA zu "L.A. Streetview - Die Fotografien von Anton Wagner". Die Ausstellung ist vom 24. April bis 24. Juli 2026 am HCA zu sehen. 🕰️ 24. April, 18:15 Uhr 📍 HCA, Atrium
Rolf-Kentner-Dissertationspreis🏆 Nächsten Donnerstag wird der Rolf-Kentner-Dissertationspreis an Nicole Colaianni verliehen🥳. Im Anschluss spricht Colaianni über ihr Thema "Bad for Business. Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace, 1975-2017.". 🕰️ 23. April, 18:15 Uhr 📍 HCA, Atrium
We are starting off the new summer semester 🥳 with a talk by Daniel Souleles from Copenhagen Business School tomorrow on "Why Trust the Process? Avoiding Democracy in Massachusetts". 🕰️ April 16, 6:15 p.m. 📍 HCA, Atrium
The Spring Academy 2026 #HCASpAc2026 has come to an end! We want to express our gratitude and appreciation to all participants, chairs, and facilitators who have contributed to an insightful conference at the HCA! Watch out for our call for papers in Summer for the 2027 Spring Academy!
Last day at #HCASpAc2026: Rachel Bodily Birch (@georgemasonu.bsky.social) talks about “The Narrative Dissonance of Idealized Womanhood: Forging a Distinct Culture of Print and Power in the American West.”
Joining the panel, Sam Herrmann (@upenn.edu) discusses “Converting Teens through Converted Media: Popular Culture and Evangelical Style in Postwar America.” #HCASpAc2026
Last panel at #HCASpAc2026: Lisa Bognenko (@upcite.bsky.social) on “Germs of Reform: Building a Literary Politics of Sanitation in the Writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.”
Lastly, Anna Shmatenko (@sorbonne-universite.fr) presents “Liminal States between Life and Death in the Literature and Medicine of the Nineteenth-Century United States.” #HCASpAc2026
It’s Three-Panel Day at the Spring Academy. Day 4 #HCASpAc2026: William Ockendon (University of Chicago) on “Mississippi Yearning. The Spectre of Reconstruction and Insurgent Black Constitutionalism in the 1960’s Deep South Countryside.”
Then, Vincent Veerbeek (@helsinki.fi) on “In Tune with the Nation? Marching Bands, Cultural Assimilation, and Native American Influences on Music Education at United States Off-reservation Boarding Schools, 1879-1940.” #HCASpAc2026
Panel 2 today at #HCASpAc2026: Marcelo Fornari (University of Barcelona) kicks off with “Interstitial Selves: Autotheory in Contemporary U.S. Literature.” Amon Pierson (Princeton University) talks about “mathematiX::poetiX--A speculation.”
Last panel today at #HCASpAc2026: Rita Shika Amelordzi (@uni-wuerzburg.de) on “Passports and Precarity: Contested Afropolitanism.” Nicole Koeningsknecht (University of Zürich) presents “Towards (and Away from) Hungry Reading in/through North American Indigenous Literatures.”
Day 3 at #HCASpAc2026 starts off with a workshop by a guest lecturer: Professor Keith Brown (Arizona State University) discusses “American Microhistory and the Ottoman Transatlantic, 1872-1924.”