Baden-Württemberg Seminar
of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Current program
Previous programs
Each spring and fall, the Heidelberg Center for American Studies invites distinguished scholars, public policy experts, journalists, writers, and artists to its Baden-Württemberg Seminar. The program was initiated in the spring of 2007 as a lecture series with fellows of the American Academy in Berlin. In the summer of 2009, the Baden-Württemberg seminar extended its base to include other distinguished speakers. Participants present their current work, discuss issues of transatlantic interest or read from their writings at selected institutions throughout the state.
Baden-Württemberg’s profound interest in the United States is reflected in many of its cultural, political, and economic institutions, its corporations, museums, and libraries. A number of them cooperate with the Heidelberg Center for American Studies to make the Baden-Württemberg Seminar possible.
Coordination: Dr. Anja Schüler
Current program (Spring 2012)
MONDAY, April 2, 8:15 P.M.
Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry: Thoughts on the Development of American Architecture
Sarah Canon, Architect, Madison/Wisconsin
In cooperation with the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen (d.a.i.) and the Kammergruppe Tübingen of the Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg
LOCATION: d.a.i., Karlstr. 3, Tübingen
TUESDAY, April 17, 6:15 P.M.
Evangelicals and U.S. Politics in the Twentieth-Century
Lisa McGirr, Professor of History, Harvard University
LOCATION: HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
THURSDAY, April 19, 4:15 P.M.
Rethinking Social Values: The Enduring Significance of John Dewey's Project
Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, and Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
LOCATION: HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
THURSDAY, May 3, 6:15 P.M.
American Leadership in the 20th Century: The Politics of the Personal
William Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, Duke University
LOCATION: HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
THURSDAY, May 10, 6:15 P.M.
A Unique Gift to Truth and Freedom: The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Neil Sheehan, Journalist, The New York Times (Pulitzer Prize 1972), and Author (Pulitzer Prize 1989)
LOCATION: HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
TUESDAY, May 15, 6:15 P.M.
The French Connection: Building a Transatlantic Women’s Network, 1888-1893
Karen Offen, Senior Scholar, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University
LOCATION: HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
THURSDAY, May 24, 6:15 P.M.
Ernestine Rose as International Citizen
Bonnie Anderson, Professor Emerita of History, City University of New York
LOCATION: HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
THURSDAY, June 14, 8:00 P.M.
A Reading from Thomas Mann der Amerikaner
Hans Rudolf Vaget, Helen & Laura Shedd Professor Emeritus of German Studies, Smith College
In cooperation with the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (dla)
LOCATION: dla, Schillerhöhe 8-10, Marbach/Neckar
WEDNESDAY, June 20, 8:00 P.M.
Karen Russell Reads Swamplandia!/Latest Stories
Karen Russell, Author, Bryn Mawr/Pennsylvania, and Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow, American Academy Berlin
In cooperation with the Carl-Schurz-Haus/Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut e.V., the U.S. Embassy Berlin and the American Academy Berlin
LOCATION: ArtJamming, Günterstalstraße 41, Freiburg
Previous programs
- 2011 Fall Seminar
- 2011 Spring Seminar
- 2010 Fall Seminar
- 2010 Spring Seminar
- 2009 Fall Seminar
- 2009 Spring Seminar
- 2008 Fall Seminar
- 2008 Spring Seminar
- 2007 Fall Seminar
- 2007 Spring Seminar
