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...

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.

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.”

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).”

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.”

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.”

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

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.”

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!

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.”

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.”

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/...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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/

Join us next Tuesday for a talk by William Hitchcock from the University of Virginia on the topic of "Fascism in the United States: Reflections on the 1930s".👀 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ December 2, 6:15 p.m. This talk is part of the HCA's lecture series "The U.S. and the Holocaust".

On Thursday, Stephanie Wakefield from Florida Atlantic University will talk about "Miami and the Anthopocene: Urban Resilience, Environmental Change, and the Transforming Spaces of Inhabitation?".👀 More information👇 www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal... 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ November 20, 6:15 p.m.

Next Thursday we are talking about debt.💵 Chloe Thurston from North Western University (@polisciatnu.bsky.social) will give a lecture on "Indebted Citizens and the Political Development of American Debt". In cooperation with the American Academy Berlin. 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ November 13, 6:15 p.m.

Heute Abend lädt das Seminar für Klassische Philologie zum Zweiten Heidelberger Antiken-Gespräch ein. Das Thema des Abends dreht sich um Frauen- und Männerbilder des Antiken Griechenlands unter dem Motto "Eine literarische Auseinandersetzung mit Penelope". 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ 6. November, 18:15

At the next GKAT lecture on Tuesday, Antje Kley from the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg will talk about "Literary Authority, Literary Form".👀 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ October 28th, 6:15 p.m.

We are kicking off the new winter semester with a lecture by Dr. Gezim Visoka from Dublin City University on "The fate of contested states in transactional international relations".👀 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ October 23rd, 6:15 p.m. This lecture is part of the Baden-Württemberg Seminar fall programme.

📢Call for Papers📢 The next GKAT Conference on the topic of "Contested Authority, Trust in Transition: Making Sense of the American Landscape“ will take place from May 20-22, 2026. Find out more about the call for papers below👇 www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de/node/349

📢Call for Papers📢 Send in your paper for the next Spring Academy taking place from March 23-27, 2026. Our annual conference welcomes early-stage researchers in American Studies for an exciting cross-disciplinary and intercultural dialogue. More information:👇 www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de/node/351

Nächsten Donnerstag sind Anja Schüler (HCA) und Kerstin Kohlenberg bei einer Veranstaltung am dai Heidelberg im Dialog zum Thema "Die USA am Kipppunkt? Einblicke in eine polarisierte Gesellschaft". 👀 📍 dai Heidelberg 🕰️ 18. September, 20 Uhr Weitere Infos👇 dai-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...

NEW podcast episode📢 In dieser Folge des HCA-Podcasts🎙️ist Takuma Melber vom Heidelberger Centrum für Transkulturelle Studien zu Gast und erinnert im Interview an das Kriegsende im Pazifik und wirft einen Blick auf die Erinnerungskulturen in Japan und den USA. Auch bei Apple Podcasts verfügbar.