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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The HCA invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from April 5-9, 2027. More general information: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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!

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

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".

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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".

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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...

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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...

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

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.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

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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Veranstaltungen - Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut. Haus der Kultur.

Die öffentliche Gesundheit steht in den USA unter erheblichem politischem Druck: Debatten über wissenschaftliche Autorität, Finanzkürzungen für Forschung und Gesundheitswesen …

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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!

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Joining the panel, Sam Herrmann (@upenn.edu) discusses “Converting Teens through Converted Media: Popular Culture and Evangelical Style in Postwar America.” #HCASpAc2026

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Our first participants’ panel today at #HCASpAc2026: Hugo Fraslin (@ehess.fr) talks about “Lehman Brothers and America’s Financial and Political Worlds. A Social-Political History of Banking Elites (1918-2018).”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Following at #HCASpAc2026, Henry James (University College London) presents “Toward ‘What Works?’: Moynihan, Wilson, and Social Policy in an Age of Collapsing Trust, 1958-2010.” Ming Kit Wong (@ox.ac.uk) discusses “Utopia in the Thought of Judith Shklar and Richard Rorty.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Second day at #HCASpAc2026 with a panel on extraction practices: Philine Schiller (University of Augsburg) presents on “From Craze to Crisis: Eating, Ecology and the Collapse of US Oyster Fisheries.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Joining, Elybeth Sofia Alcantar (@utlonghorns.bsky.social) discusses “Poisoned Ndutu: River Pollution and Body-Mapping the Agua-Cuerpo-Territorio of Indigenous Mixteca Women in Oaxaca.” #HCASpAc2026

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Second Panel today at #HCASpAc2026: Linus Lanfermann-Baumann (@uni-graz.at) talks about “Deadly Connections: U.S. Peace Activism between Anti-Interventionism and Nuclear Disarmament.” Catherine Wood (unileiden.bsky.social) on “Modernization Theory and U.S. Volunteer Service Programs.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Today we are really excited to kick off our 23rd Spring Academy #HCASpAc2026. We will meet in the morning hours for a welcome and a discussion session and will reconvene in the afternoon for our first panel. We are really excited and look forward to this year's conference!

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

First panel at #HCASpAc2026: Katharina Isaak (@uni-muenster.de) starts on “A Media History of the Immigrant Labor Press. Russian-Language Periodicals in the United States, 1917-1941. Róisín Lambert (unileiden.bsky.social) talks on “Worlding the Nation through Newspaper Cartoons, 1865-1924.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Vanessa Sanchis Campos (@uab.cat) finishes off the first panel at #HCASpAc2026 with “Gendered Urban Spaces and Women Writers in The New Yorker: Interrogating the Notion of Smartness in the Short Fiction of Katharine Brush, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Dawn Powel.”

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Call for dissertations📢 The HCA awards the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize for outstanding work in the field of American studies. For the 2027 award, we are still welcoming dissertations in English or German until 15 April, 2026. More information: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...

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Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize - Heidelberg Center for American Studies

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We are wrapping up this semester with a talk by Patrick Griffin from @notredame.bsky.social on "The American Revolution in a Series of Paintings" 👀 . Griffin will explore paintings by the American artists John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, and John Trumbull. 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ Feb 5, 6:15 p.m.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Next Thursday, Emma Long from the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social talks about "Friend or Foe? The US Supreme Court and American Democracy"👀. In this talk, Long will consider the ways in which Americans have thought about and debated the role of the Supreme Court. 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ Jan 29, 6:15 p.m.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Neue Podcast-Folge🎙️ Hört in die neuste Folge des Podcasts "Quo Vadis USA?" zum Thema "Trumps Sicherheitsstrategie 2025 - Europas strategische Bewährungsprobe?" mit Anja Schüler und Jakob Wiedekind rein. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4Hui... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/f...

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Folge 90: Trumps Sicherheitsstrategie 2025 – Europas strategische Bewährungsprobe?

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This Thursday, Emily Conroy-Krutz from Michigan State University will talk about "Around the World with Arthur Brown: Missionary Diplomacy at the Turn of the 20th Century"👀. 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ Jan 22, 6:15 p.m. About the talk: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

On Thursday, Günter Leypoldt presents his new book "Literature’s Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value". In his book, Leypoldt develops a new theory of literary value, allowing for new ways of understanding literature's cultural relevance. 🕰️ HCA, Atrium 📍 Jan 15, 6:15 p.m.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Book launch📚 On Tuesday, Jonas Faust presents his dissertation "Speaking the Unspeakable. Allen Ginsberg's Paradigm of Prophetic Poetry". His dissertations constructs a flexible definition of prophecy from Ginsberg's own perspective. 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ Dec 16, 6:15 p.m.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Movie night tomorrow!🍿 Lucas Armbruster -a recent HCA graduate- will talk about his documentary. Featuring local voices on rural post-coal development, “Those Who Stayed” seeks to counteract the one-sided narrative of decline and plight in southern West Virginia. 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ Dec 12, 6:15 p.m.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Join us today for a talk on "Global Mothers, local care: Maternal Health and Wellbeing across migration contexts"👀 by Dr. Marti Castaner. This talk is part of our lecture series "Migration and the Americas". 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ Dec 11, 6:15 p.m.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Book Talk tomorrow📚🥳 Das MAGA-Movement hat Wurzeln, die weit zurückreichen ins „amerikanische Jahrhundert“. Darum geht es in Bernd Greiners neuem Buch 👉"Weissglut: Die inneren Kriege der USA. Eine Geschichte von 1900 bis heute."👈… Come join the book talk! 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ 9. Dezember, 18:15

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies @hcaheidelberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Go follow us on Instagram (@hca_unihd)!👀 The HCA just launched its new Instagram account. You can find us here: www.instagram.com/hca_unihd/

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