Archive: Conferences and Events at the Center for United States Studies (Select)
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2012
December 12, 2012, Halle (Saale)
"Why are you so earnest to persuade me?" American Indians,
Religious Contemplation, and British Missionary Fantasies
Guest lecturer: Dr. Laura Stevens (Tulsa University, Oklahoma, USA)
December 12, 2012, Halle (Saale)
High Tides, Rough Seas: The Benefits and Hazards of Early Modern Transatlantic Literary Study
Guest lecturer: Dr. Laura Stevens (Tulsa University, Oklahoma, USA)
June 6, 2012, Halle (Saale)
“The United States and the Indian Wars”
Guest lecturer: Professor Roger L. Nichols (University of Arizona)
April 27–28, 2012, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
"Aspects of American Culture"
Teacher Training Seminar
A cooperation of the Center for United States Studies, Embassy of the United States Berlin, Consulate General of the United States Leipzig, Thüringer Institut für Lehrerfortbildung, Lehrplanentwicklung und Medien (Thillm), and Landesinstitut für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung Sachsen-Anhalt (LISA).
2011
November 24–26, 2011, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
"Their Stories"
American Studies Committee Meeting 2011
American Studies and English Language Teaching Seminar
September 19, 2011, Halle (Saale)
“The American Civil War Revisited”
Teacher training seminar
A cooperation of: Embassy of the United States Berlin, U.S Consulate General Leipzig, Landesinstitut für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung Sachsen-Anhalt (LISA), and the Center for United States Studies
June 20, 2011 Halle (Saale)
“A Construction of the Hip-Hop Aesthetic/Genre: Origins, Development, and Connections”
Guest lecturer: Dr. Lisa Marie Gill (University of Maryland, College Park / Universität Regensburg)
Course number: WT 2011-032-27 LISA
May 26, 2011, Halle (Saale)
“What Happened to Obama-mania? American Politics and Culture after 2008”
Guest lecturer: Prof. Dr. Joseph Kunkel (Minnesota State University, Mankato / Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Course number: WT 2011-032-26 LISA
May 9, 2011, Halle (Saale)
“Teaching African-American (Pop-)Culture”
Guest lecturer: Dr. Joshua C. Davis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) und Lauren Du Graf (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Course number: WT 2011-032-25 LISA
May 6–8, 2011, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Wittenberg Spring Seminar:
“The Obama Administration Past Mid-Point”
American Studies blockseminar for students from the der Humboldt University Berlin and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
A cooperation of the Center for United States Studies and the Embassy of the United States Berlin
 Program (PDF)
April 1–2, 2011, Jena
“After the Election is Before the Election:
An Assessment of the
Obama Administration”
Teacher training seminar
A cooperation of Embassy of the United States Berlin, Consulate General of the United States Leipzig, Thüringer Institut für Lehrerfortbildung, Lehrplanentwicklung und Medien
(Thillm), Landesinstitut für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung Sachsen-Anhalt (LISA), and the Center for United States Studies
2010
December 2–4, 2010, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
American Studies Committee Meeting 2010
American Popular Culture, Literature and the Arts
(Teacher Training Seminar)
November 19–21, 2010, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Wittenberg Fall Seminar:
“Public-Private Partnerships: Cultural Diplomacy in the 21st Century”
Blockseminar
A cooperation of the Center for United States Studies and the Cultural Section of the Embassy of the United States Berlin
November 9, 2010, Halle (Saale)
“American Jews as Champions of African American
Culture”
Guest Lecturer: Professor Stephen Whitfield (Brandeis University)
November 8, 2010, Halle (Saale)
“Women's Rights and Authorship in Early America”
Guest Lecturer: Professor Sandra H. Petrulionis
(Pennsylvania State University, Altoona)
May 7–9, 2010, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
VIII Halle American Studies Seminar
“Reform and Reform Movements in American History and Culture”
April 26, 2010, Halle (Saale)
“Rereading Mark Twain: Traveler—Writer—Social Critic”
Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Gary Scharnhorst (University of New Mexico)
and Prof. Dr. Holger Kersten (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
A cooperation of the Center for United States Studies, the Cultural Section of the Embassy of the
United States Berlin, and the Landesinstitut für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung Sachsen-Anhalt (LISA).
February 12–14, 2010, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
“Provincializing the United States: Colonialism, Decolonization, and
Post-Colonialism”
33rdAnnual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies
Program (PDF)
2009
December 11–13, 2009, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
John F. Kennedy
American Studies blockseminar for students from the University of
Halle-Wittenberg
December 3–5, 2009, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
American Studies Committee Meeting 2009
American Studies and English Language Teaching Seminar
November 11, 2009, Halle (Saale)
“Native Americans in the 21st Century”
Seminar for secondary school teachers, course no. WT 2009-032-19 LISA
September 23, 2009, Halle (Saale)
“The Plantation South and the Civil War in Contemporary Diaries”
Seminar for secondary school teachers, course no. WT 2009-032-18 LISA
August 19, 2009, Halle (Saale)
“American Jewish History and Culture”
Seminar for secondary school teachers, course no. WT 2009-032-17 LISA
July 10–12, 2009, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
“The Future of Public Diplomacy”
Seminar for students from the der Humboldt University Berlin and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Video and report, photos
Program (PDF)
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May 8–10, 2009, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
VII Halle American Studies Seminar
“Gender and Sexuality in History and Culture”
Blockseminar for students from the University of Halle-Wittenberg
February 20–21, 2009, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
American Studies Seminar
Teacher training seminar, course no. LISA - 08 180 1201
2008
December 5–7, 2008, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
The New Deal
American studies blockseminar for students from the University of
Halle-Wittenberg
October 2–5, 2008
U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2008
“Lincoln's Legacy: Nation Building, Democracy and the Question of
Race and Civil Rights”
August 10–16, 2008
The Wittenberg Summer School
“Vigorous Executive: The President in American Politics and Culture”
A cooperation of the Center for United States Studies, the Cultural Section of the Embassy of the
United States Berlin, and the University of Magdeburg
February 15–16, 2008, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
American Studies Seminar
Teacher training seminar, course no. LISA - 07 180 0401
February 8–10, 2008, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Upon the Hills? Cities and the Anti-Urban Impetus in American History
31st Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies (DGfA)
2007
July 30 – August 4, 2007
The Wittenberg Summer School:
"The American Press and the Challenges of Politics and Technology"
A cooperation of the Center for United States Studies, the Cultural Section of the Embassy of the
United States Berlin, and the University of Magdeburg
student's e-journals
June 25, 2007, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
"Alumni bauen Brücken"
International Visitor Leadership Program
A cooperation of the Consulate General of the United States, Leipzig, and the Center for United States Studies (ZUSAS)
Program (PDF)
May 17–19, 2007, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
VI. Halle American Studies Seminar
"Perspectives on American Identity"
Blockseminar for students from the universities of Halle, Leipzig, Jena
April 12–15, 2007, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
EAAS Board Meeting
European Association for American Studies
2006
November 23–25, 2006
American Studies Committee Meeting 2006
American Studies and English Language Teaching Seminar
Program
October 27–30, 2006
"The American South"
U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy
A cooperation of the Cultural Section of the Embassy of the
United States Berlin, and the Center for United States Studies
Program (PDF)
Poster
October 17–18, 2006
American Studies Seminar
Teacher training seminar
July 31 – August 5, 2006
Wittenberg Summer School:
Religion in American Politics and Culture
A cooperation of the Center for United States Studies, the Cultural Section of the Embassy of the
United States Berlin, and the University of Magdeburg
June 17 – July 15, 2006
Students of the University of South Carolina in German Classrooms
June 28 –29, 2006
"Bold Spirit"
American immigration workshop
April 27, 2006
Japanese Americans During World War II
American studies seminar for secondary school teachers
January 30, 2006
“From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College”
Reading with Professor Ethel Morgan Smith, West Virginia University
2005
December 13, 2005
The 'New' Old South
American studies seminar for secondary school teachers
24.–26. November 2005
American Studies Committee Meeting 2006
American Studies and English Language Teaching Seminar
October 6, 2005
State and Church in the U.S.
American studies seminar for secondary school teachers
March 16–17, 2005
'American Dream'—'American Nightmare' in American Feature Films
American studies seminar for secondary school teachers
February, 11–13, 2005
American Historiography: Approaches, Issues, Controversies
Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies (DGfA)
January 21–22, 2005
Experience America
Teacher training seminar; a cooperation of the Center for United States Studies and the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Berlin
2004
November 25–27, 2004
American Studies Committee Meeting 2006
American Studies and English Language Teaching Seminar
April 25–27, 2004
U.S. History in the Classroom
April 22, 2004
Presidential Election 2004
Panel discussion
 1995–2003 (PDF file)
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