VERANSTALTUNGEN

Fourth international Summer Academy 2012

Democratic Cultures, Past and Present: Perspectives from Washington, D.C.

Washington D.C., only for accepted doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars

Ever since the publication of Alexis de Tocqueville's De la Democratie en Amerique (1835/40) scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have addressed American democracy as both a specific manifestation of US-American historical and political developments and as a model for others. In this context, the program of our summer academy addresses both historical and current debates about American democracy and democratic cultures in various discourses across the academic disciplines. The plural used in the title of our event refers not only to semantic changes in a diachronic perspective, but also to the synchronic pluralism of perspectives on democracy in national, subnational, and transnational contexts. Fields of interest include the role of the media and various forms of ‘representation' and ideological critique. Finally, we will discuss the contemporary rhetoric of crisis of democracy in the U.S. against the background of domestic and foreign political and social developments. Along those lines our summer academy seeks to address related issues in American history, politics, (popular) culture, and literature. 

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Organizers: Bavarian America-Academy in cooperation with the Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. Dr. Heike Paul), Augsburg University (Prof. Dr. Philipp Gassert), the German Historical Institute (Dr. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson), Washington D.C., and the American University (Prof. Katharina Vester), Washington D.C.

Vortrag 

Bridging Worlds - Dan Namingha, Indian Artist

Passau, Universität Passau, Amerikanistik, Innstr. 25

Dan Namingha ist wohl einer der bedeutendsten indianische Künstler Nordamerikas. Seine Bilder, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen sind im Bestand zahlreicher wichtiger öffentlicher und privater Sammlungen, darunter das National Museum of American Indian Art der Smithsonian Institution in

Washington, die Kunstmuseen in San Francisco, Palm Desert, Denver, Santa Fe und Dallas, das Harvard University Fogg Art Museum in Boston, die Sammlungen der NASA, der U.S. Bundesbank, des U.S. Innenministeriums und des U.S. State Departments. Sein größtes Gemälde, 3 m x 9 m, schmückt den Internationalen Flughafen von Phoenix, Arizona.  

Veranstalter: Universität Passau, Amerikanistik, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie

Vortrag 

Torquing Back: Jitterbug Memory and National Nostalgia, Interviews with Dancers at the Hollywood Canteen (1942-1945)

München, Amerika-Institut der LMU, Schellingstr. 3/VG, Raum 201

Veranstalter: Amerika-Institut der LMU München, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie

Vortrag 

Jazz & Gender at the Hollywood Canteen

Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bismarckstr. 1

Sherrie Tucker, Associate Professor in American Studies an der University of Kansas, wird diesen Vortrag halten, der in engem Bezug zu ihrem aktuelles Buchprojekt steht.

Veranstalter: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie

Vortrag 

Tea Party & Occupy Wall Street: Origins and Meaning for Election 2012

München, Amerika-Institut der LMU, Schellingstr. 3/VG, Raum 202

Veranstalter: Amerika-Institut der LMU München, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie