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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.
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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.
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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.
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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.
October 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We are excited to host an online event💻in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. on the topic of "Eighty Years On: The Legacy of World War II in American Society and Politics"👀.

🕰️ September 4th, 6 p.m.

📍Please pre-register via: maxweberstiftung.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Next Thursday, Noelle Bridgen from Marquette University will discuss the topic of 👀 "Deporting democracy: a repression boomerang between the US and El Salvador".

More info about the talk can be found below:👇

www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/en/veranstal...

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ July 24, 18:15
July 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This afternoon, Ted Beatty from the University of Notre Dame will give a lecture on "Communities of Knowledge: the United States and Latin America in a Global Context" as part of the HCIAS Wednesday Colloquium.

📍 Hörsaal 1, Psychologisches Institut, Hauptstraße 47-51
🕰️ July 16, 4 p.m.
July 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Next Thursday, Yogita Goyal from @uofcalifornia.bsky.social ‬‬will give a lecture on "How to be a Revolutionary: Contemporary Fiction and Anticolonial Afterlives". 👀Check out our website for more info!

Part of the Baden-Württemberg Seminar / GKAT Lecture series.

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰 July 17, 18:15
July 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Book Talk📚

"Dialog mit dem Drachen? Der US-Chinesische Konflikt und Europas Handlungsoptionen"

Am Donnerstag ist Marina Rudyak mit Florian Böller zu dieser Thematik im Gespräch.

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ 10. Juli, 18:15
July 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
On Thursday, Yaatsil Guevara González will talk about "Food as infrastructure: homemaking practices among (transit) migrants across the Americas". 👀

Part of our lecture series "Migration and the Americas"

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ July 3, 18:15
June 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Podiumsdiskussion "Die NATO, die USA und China"

Morgen sprechen der ehemalige Bundesminister des Inneren Thomas de Maizière und Florian Böller im Rahmen einer Podiumsdiskussion über neue Herausforderungen für Europa.👀

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem CATS.

📍Alte Universität, Alte Aula
🕰️ 1. Juli, 18:15
June 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
13th Pennington Award🏆

This year's recipient, Lerone Martin from Stanford University, will hold a lecture on "The Young King: How a Faithless Teenager Became an Iconic Man of Faith"

More info on the Pennington Award👇
www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ June 24th, 18:15
June 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Come check out our Leonard McCombe photography exhibition!👀📷

McCombe's impressive portrayal of the aftermath of war in Europe will be featured at the HCA until July 11th (Mo- Fri, 9 am - 5 pm, admission free).
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
On Thursday, Kyle William Bishop from Southern Utah University will talk about 👀 “The government as the true monster: the collapse of authority and trust in zombie narratives"

Part of the Baden-Württemberg Seminar / GKAT Lecture series.

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ June 5, 18:15
June 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
On Tuesday, we start off with our new lecture series "Geopolitics in the Age of Trump". 👀

Our first lecture by Daniel Béland from‪ @lawmcgill.bsky.social is on the topic of "Beggar Thy Neighbour? The Impact of America First on Canadian Politics and US Alliances".

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ June 3, 18:15
May 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Next Tuesday, Marietta van der Tol from @tcddublin.bsky.social will talk about 👀👇

"The global impact of the far right: a US-Europe comparative perspective"

More about the topic: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/en/veranstal...

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ May 27, 18:15
May 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GKAT Lecture 👉 "Transitionalist Pragmatism: Re-assembling history, materiality, and identity for a better future"

Ihnji Jon from Cardiff University discusses how transitionalist pragmatism can help us reframe the politics of urbanisation 👀.

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ May 22, 18:15
May 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Next Thursday, Jefferson Crowie from Vanderbilt University will talk about "Freedom's dominion: a saga of white resistance to federal power"👀.

Part of the Baden-Württemberg-Seminar (www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/en/events)

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰 May 15th, 18:15
May 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Next GKAT lecture on Thursday👀

Nassim Balestrini from the University of Graz will talk about "Towards a 21st-century commons in climate change drama: a reciprocal perspective on authority and trust".

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ May 8th, 18:15
May 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Exhibition opening🥂

Join us for the opening of our photography exhibition of Leonard McCombe's shots from 1944-46 depicting the end of war in Europe.

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰 May 5, 15:00
April 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Next Thursday, the 🏆Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize 2024 is awarded to Judith Keller, Heidelberg University, with a following lecture about “Home-(un)making: The Entangled Geographies of Trust and Home in the US Real Estate Economy”.

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰 April 24, 18:15
April 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are very proud of our new & improved website. Check it out!👀👇

www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de
February 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Apply now!

Kentner Prize for an outstanding dissertation in American Studies at a German University

Deadline: March 31st 2025

See details here:
www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/forschung/ke...
February 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We are hiring!

Wiss. MitarbeiterIn TVL 13 - Stelle von 2025-2028 im Bereich US-Wirtschaftspolitik

Deadline 15. Februar 2025

Alle Infos hier: adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
February 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
On Thursday, Min Zhou from the UCLA Asia Pacific Center will talk about "The Formation of Ethnic Capital: Network, Economy, and Community Building"👀.

Part of the Baden-Württemberg-Seminar in cooperation with GKAT.

📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰 Feb 6, 18:15
February 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM