Heidelberg Center for American Studies
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) is an interdisciplinary institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg , Germany. It is intended to provide educational and research contributions as well as a forum for discussion of debates on issues affecting the United States of America . Legally, it has been a "central scientific institution" of the university since 2004 and financially it is a public-private partnership . It is located in the Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais on Hauptstrasse (formerly Scientific Guest House).
It was founded on May 1, 2003 on the initiative of the historian Detlef Junker , who has been the founding director of the institute since then. A professor from each of the six faculties involved in the HCA ( Faculty of Philosophy, Theological and Law, Faculties of Economics and Social Sciences, Chemistry and Earth Sciences and the Faculty of Modern Philology) is sent to a directorate for a period of six years . The board of directors elects the director and his two deputies from among its members.
The long-standing relationships between the city of Heidelberg and the USA are intended to further strengthen interdisciplinary and intercultural cooperation across the Atlantic .
Teaching - the Institute for Higher Education
Since the winter semester of 2004, the University of Heidelberg has offered the one-year course “Master of Arts in American Studies” (postgraduate course) and since 2006 the course “Ph. D. in American Studies ”.
Research Center - Advanced Research
In the long-term research project " varieties democratic order " (Varieties of Democratic Order) are examined temporal and spatial differences in the understanding of democracy. The aim is to compare democracy in the mirror of different state models , different civil societies, dynamic markets and individual interests in the course of industrial modernization and globalization .
In addition, there will be a multi-year conference series " State and Market in a Globalized World: Transatlantic Perspectives " (State and Market in a Globalized World - Transatlantic Perspectives). This is supplemented with the two main research areas "European protest movements" and "Deliberative Democracies".
The Spring Academy - HCA Spring Academy on American History, Politics and Culture has been a growing network for doctoral students since 2004.
The forum
Since the 2002/2003 winter semester, the HCA has been inviting international guest scientists, experts and practitioners from various disciplines to a series of public lectures “Typically American” in Heidelberg. Among the guest speakers were u. a. Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger or Prof. Dr. Norbert Walter , chief economist at Deutsche Bank AG. Since spring 2007, the HCA has been coordinating the American Academy's Baden-Württemberg seminar together with the American Academy in Berlin . The aim of this series of events is to gain more fellows from the American Academy in Berlin for events in Baden-Württemberg. The Fellows of the American Academy is American personalities from science, politics and art.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreword to: Manfred Berg and Philipp Gassert (eds.): Germany and the USA in the international history of the 20th century. Festschrift for Detlev Junker, Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden 2004, p. 15, ISBN 3-515-08454-1