Past conferences and symposia of the GAAS and cooperating institutions

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“REMEMBERING: TRANSNATIONAL MEMORY CULTURES AND AMERICAN STUDIES”

Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies 
Regensburg University | November 9-12, 2022

Organizers: Verena Baier, Markus Diepold, Lena Gotteswinter, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon Matlack, Efthalia Prokopiou, Katharina Röder, and Jiann-Chyng Tu

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“POLITICAL NORMS AND NORMATIVE POLITICS? DEVELOPMENT, STAGNATION, EROSION”

Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies
University of Jena | May 19-21, 2022

Organizers: Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. and the Political Science Department, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

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“LABOR AND CAPITAL IN U.S. HISTORY”

Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies
Online & at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz | February 11-12, 2022

Organizers: Axel Schäfer, Anja-Maria Bassimir, Torsten Kathke

Find the conference website here and the conference program here.

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“LABOR AND CAPITAL IN U.S. HISTORY”

Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies
Online | February 26, 2021

Organizers: Axel Schäfer, Anja-Maria Bassimir, Torsten Kathke

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“REFORM MOVEMENTS IN US-HISTORY”

Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies
Gustav-Stresemann Institute Bad Bevensen | February 14-16, 2020

Organizers: Charlotte A. Lerg (University of Munich/University of Bochum) and Jana Weiß (University of Münster)

Find the conference programm here.

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30th Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies: “Challenges of the Post-Truth Era in American Studies”
December 5-7, 2019, University of Passau

Organizers: Alexandra Hauke, Bettina Huber, and Thomas Stelzl (Passau)

Find the Call for Papers here.  Please visit the homepage for further information.

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International Conference and Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies: “The Corrosion of the Liberal Democratic Order? Transatlantic Perspectives in
Perilous Times”
November 7-8, 2019,  Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Organizers:  Florian Böller; Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University
Markus B. Siewert; Bavarian School for Public Policy / TUM School of Governance

Find the Call for Papers here.  

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Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association of American Studies: “Remembering and Forgetting in American History”
Franken-Akademie Schloß Schney, Lichtenfels, February 8-10, 2019

Organizers: Michael Hochgeschwender (michael.hochgeschwender@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) and Andreas Etges (etges@lmu.de), University of Munich.

Follow the link to the CfP.

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“New Sincerity – Self-Expression in North American Culture – International Conference”
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, January 25-26, 2019

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal (caroline.rosenthal@uni-jena.de)  and Felix Haase (felix.haase@uni-jena.de)

Find the Program here.

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“The Return of the Aesthetic in American Studies – International Conference”
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, November 29 – December 1, 2018

Follow the link for more information about the conference: https://returnoftheaesthetic.de/ 

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“Transformation of Democracy – Mobilisation, Representation and Responsiveness”
Annual Conference of political scientists in the German Association for American Studies,
University of Passau, November 15-17, 2018

Organizers: Michael T. Oswald (Passau), Winand Gellner (Passau), David Sirakov (Kaiserslautern)

Follow the links for the Program and the CfP.

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“Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies” 
Conference at the Amerikahaus Munich, April 26-29, 2018

Organizer: Sascha Pöhlmannpoehlmann@lmu.de.

Please follow these links to the description and the preliminary program.

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“Heroism and the Heroic in U.S. History”
40th Annual Conference of the Historians in the DGFA/GAAS
Akademie für Politische Bildung, February 9-11, 2018

Organization: Michael Butter (Universität Tübingen) and Simon Wendt (Universität Frankfurt)
Please follow these links to the final program and the call for papers.

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“Truth or Post-Truth? Reality, Factivity, and Current Perspectives in Pragmatism and Hermeneutics”
January 12 & 13, 2018
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Organization:
Dustin Breitenwischer (American Studies/GRK 1767, Freiburg) & Tobias Keiling (Philosophy, Würzburg/Freiburg)

Find the program here.

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Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the GAAS 2017:
“Shifting Paradigms in the Age of Trump? Current Perspectives on Doing American Studies”
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, November 9-11

Conference Team: Florian Gabriel, Helen Gibson, Anne Potjans, Simon Rienäcker, and Jiann-Chyng Tu

Please find all information on the PGF 2017 homepage: https://pgf2017.com/

 

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“One Nation Under God? Values and Faith in the Age of Polarization”
Annual Conference of political scientists in the German Association for American Studies
PfalzAkademie Lambrecht, November 10-12, 2017

Organization: Michael Dreyer (Jena), Matthias Enders (Jena) and David Sirakov (Kaiserslautern)

Please find the Call for Papers here.

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Diversity and/in the GAAS
in cooperation with the Bavarian American Academy at the Amerikahaus in Munich, October 20-21, 2017

Please find the Conference Program here: 2017-10 Program Diversity in and the GAAS at the Amerikahaus in Munich

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“The United States and World War I: Perspectives and Legacies”
39th Annual Conference of the Historians in the DGFA/GAAS
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien/German Association for American Studies)
Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), February 10-12, 2017

Please feel free to download the program and conference report.

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“The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry”
University of Bamberg, November 25-26, 2016

Please find the conference report here and further information on the website.

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“Balancing the Scales. The United States in an Age of Inequality”
John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin, and Bundespresseamt, Berlin, November 10-12, 2016

Please find further information on the website and please feel free download the flyer.

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“Production – Genres – Encounters – Negotiations”
University of Passau, October 27-29, 2016

Please find further information on the website.

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Post Graduate Forum (PGF) October 6-8, 2016, University of Hamburg

Mariya Nikolova, Samira Spatzek, Paula von Gleich (Bremen)
Marius Henderson, Jasmin Humburg, Julia Lange (Hamburg)

Further information can be found on the homepage of the PGF

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“Auto/Biographies in American History”
Annual Conference of the Historians in the DGfA

February 5-7, 2016, Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing

organized by Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat (University of Regensburg)

Please feel free to download the program and further information.

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Post Graduate Forum (PGF) November 6 – 8, 2015, University of Bamberg

Judith Rauscher, Theresa Roth, Mareike Spychala, Laura Oehme

Further information can be found on the homepage of the PGF

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“Perilous Passages: The Birth of Risk in Nineteenth-Century American Culture”
International Conference, October 23-24, 2015

organized by Jeanne Cortiel and Karin Hoepker

Please feel free to download the program and further information.

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“Financial Times: Economic Temporalities in US Culture,”
March 2015, Frankfurt

Special issue on Financial Times published in Finance & Society available here.

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“Histories of American Foodways”
Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association of American Studies

February 13-15, 2015, Augustinerkloster, Erfurt

organized by Nina Mackert, MA (Erfurt University) and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat (Erfurt University)

Please feel free to download the program and further information.

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Post Graduate Forum (PGF) October 17-19, 2014, Mainz

Diane Bélisle-Wolf, Melanie Hanslik, Xiuming He, Caroline Heller, Nicole Poppenhagen, Nele Sawallisch  (Mainz)

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“Conservatism in the United States”
November 14 – 15, 2014

Michael Dreyer (Jena), Matthias Enders (Jena), David Sirakov (Kaiserslautern) Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.

Further information can be found on the homepage of the Atlantische Akademie Rheinland Pfalz e.V.

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“The Futures of Black Studies – Historicity, Objectives and Methodologies, Ethics”
Bremen, 24-26 April 2014

organized by Sabine Broeck, Carsten Junker, and Marie Löffler

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“Military, Security, and Use of Force in U.S. History”
Annual Conference of the Historians, German Association of American Studies

Date: February 21-23, 2014
Venue: Akademie für politische Bildung, Tutzing

Please feel free to download the program and further information.

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“The United States in Crisis? Democracy, Politics, Policy, and Political Institutions in an Age of Uncertainty and Risk”
The Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Society for American Studies
PfalzAkademie, Lambrecht, November 8 – 10, 2013

Please find the call for papers and further information on our website.

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“Cultures of Obsolescence in North America: Aesthetics, Materiality, History Culture / America as Network”
University Göttingen, June 27 – 30, 2013

Prof. Dr. Bärbel Tischleder and Dr. des. Emily Petermann

Die Konferenz nimmt Phänomene, Diskurse und Narrative von Obsoleszenz in Nordamerika in den Blick, die aus verschiedenen fachlichen Perspektiven beleuchtet und in ihren kulturellen, historischen, theoretischen, sozioökonomischen und materiellen Dimensionen diskutiert werden.
Die einzelnen Beiträge widmen sich der Frage nach der historischen Bedeutung und kulturellen Dynamik des Veraltens und Obsoleten im Kontext von Literatur, Architektur, Kunst, Photographie und Mediengeschichte.