Ausstellung "L.A. Streetview – Die Fotografien von Anton Wagner"
Vom 24. April bis zum 24. Juli 2026 sind am HCA Fotografien des Kieler Geografen Anton Wagner von systematischen Spaziergängen im Jahr 1932/1933 durch Los Angeles als Prototyp der autogerechten Stadt zu sehen.
Am Freitag eröffnet🥂 die Kulturgeografin Cosima Werner (@uni-kiel.de) mit einem Vortrag die neue Ausstellung am HCA zu "L.A. Streetview - Die Fotografien von Anton Wagner".
Die Ausstellung ist vom 24. April bis 24. Juli 2026 am HCA zu sehen.
🕰️ 24. April, 18:15 Uhr
📍 HCA, Atrium
Rolf-Kentner-Dissertationspreis🏆
Nächsten Donnerstag wird der Rolf-Kentner-Dissertationspreis an Nicole Colaianni verliehen🥳. Im Anschluss spricht Colaianni über ihr Thema "Bad for Business. Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace, 1975-2017.".
🕰️ 23. April, 18:15 Uhr
📍 HCA, Atrium
We are starting off the new summer semester 🥳 with a talk by Daniel Souleles from Copenhagen Business School tomorrow on "Why Trust the Process? Avoiding Democracy in Massachusetts".
🕰️ April 16, 6:15 p.m.
📍 HCA, Atrium
The Spring Academy 2026 #HCASpAc2026 has come to an end!
We want to express our gratitude and appreciation to all participants, chairs, and facilitators who have contributed to an insightful conference at the HCA!
Watch out for our call for papers in Summer for the 2027 Spring Academy!
Last day at #HCASpAc2026:
Rachel Bodily Birch (@georgemasonu.bsky.social) talks about “The Narrative Dissonance of Idealized Womanhood: Forging a Distinct Culture of Print and Power in the American West.”
Joining the panel, Sam Herrmann (@upenn.edu) discusses “Converting Teens through Converted Media: Popular Culture and Evangelical Style in Postwar America.” #HCASpAc2026
Last panel at #HCASpAc2026:
Lisa Bognenko (@upcite.bsky.social) on “Germs of Reform: Building a Literary Politics of Sanitation in the Writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.”
Lastly, Anna Shmatenko (@sorbonne-universite.fr) presents “Liminal States between Life and Death in the Literature and Medicine of the Nineteenth-Century United States.” #HCASpAc2026
It’s Three-Panel Day at the Spring Academy.
Day 4 #HCASpAc2026:
William Ockendon (University of Chicago) on “Mississippi Yearning. The Spectre of Reconstruction and Insurgent Black Constitutionalism in the 1960’s Deep South Countryside.”
Then, Vincent Veerbeek (@helsinki.fi) on “In Tune with the Nation? Marching Bands, Cultural Assimilation, and Native American Influences on Music Education at United States Off-reservation Boarding Schools, 1879-1940.” #HCASpAc2026
Panel 2 today at #HCASpAc2026:
Marcelo Fornari (University of Barcelona) kicks off with “Interstitial Selves: Autotheory in Contemporary U.S. Literature.”
Amon Pierson (Princeton University) talks about “mathematiX::poetiX--A speculation.”
Last panel today at #HCASpAc2026:
Rita Shika Amelordzi (@uni-wuerzburg.de) on “Passports and Precarity: Contested Afropolitanism.”
Nicole Koeningsknecht (University of Zürich) presents “Towards (and Away from) Hungry Reading in/through North American Indigenous Literatures.”
Day 3 at #HCASpAc2026 starts off with a workshop by a guest lecturer:
Professor Keith Brown (Arizona State University) discusses “American Microhistory and the Ottoman Transatlantic, 1872-1924.”
Our first participants’ panel today at #HCASpAc2026:
Hugo Fraslin (@ehess.fr) talks about “Lehman Brothers and America’s Financial and Political Worlds. A Social-Political History of Banking Elites (1918-2018).”
Following at #HCASpAc2026, Henry James (University College London) presents “Toward ‘What Works?’: Moynihan, Wilson, and Social Policy in an Age of Collapsing Trust, 1958-2010.”
Ming Kit Wong (@ox.ac.uk) discusses “Utopia in the Thought of Judith Shklar and Richard Rorty.”
Second day at #HCASpAc2026 with a panel on extraction practices:
Philine Schiller (University of Augsburg) presents on “From Craze to Crisis: Eating, Ecology and the Collapse of US Oyster Fisheries.”
Joining, Elybeth Sofia Alcantar (@utlonghorns.bsky.social) discusses “Poisoned Ndutu: River Pollution and Body-Mapping the Agua-Cuerpo-Territorio of Indigenous Mixteca Women in Oaxaca.” #HCASpAc2026
Second Panel today at #HCASpAc2026:
Linus Lanfermann-Baumann (@uni-graz.at) talks about “Deadly Connections: U.S. Peace Activism between Anti-Interventionism and Nuclear Disarmament.”
Catherine Wood (unileiden.bsky.social) on “Modernization Theory and U.S. Volunteer Service Programs.”
Today we are really excited to kick off our 23rd Spring Academy #HCASpAc2026. We will meet in the morning hours for a welcome and a discussion session and will reconvene in the afternoon for our first panel. We are really excited and look forward to this year's conference!
First panel at #HCASpAc2026:
Katharina Isaak (@uni-muenster.de) starts on “A Media History of the Immigrant Labor Press. Russian-Language Periodicals in the United States, 1917-1941.
Róisín Lambert (unileiden.bsky.social) talks on “Worlding the Nation through Newspaper Cartoons, 1865-1924.”
Vanessa Sanchis Campos (@uab.cat) finishes off the first panel at #HCASpAc2026 with “Gendered Urban Spaces and Women Writers in The New Yorker: Interrogating the Notion of Smartness in the Short Fiction of Katharine Brush, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Dawn Powel.”
Call for dissertations📢
The HCA awards the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize for outstanding work in the field of American studies. For the 2027 award, we are still welcoming dissertations in English or German until 15 April, 2026.
More information: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/...
We are wrapping up this semester with a talk by Patrick Griffin from @notredame.bsky.social on "The American Revolution in a Series of Paintings" 👀 . Griffin will explore paintings by the American artists John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, and John Trumbull.
📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ Feb 5, 6:15 p.m.
Next Thursday, Emma Long from the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social talks about "Friend or Foe? The US Supreme Court and American Democracy"👀.
In this talk, Long will consider the ways in which Americans have thought about and debated the role of the Supreme Court.
📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ Jan 29, 6:15 p.m.
Neue Podcast-Folge🎙️
Hört in die neuste Folge des Podcasts "Quo Vadis USA?" zum Thema "Trumps Sicherheitsstrategie 2025 - Europas strategische Bewährungsprobe?" mit Anja Schüler und Jakob Wiedekind rein.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4Hui...
Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/f...
This Thursday, Emily Conroy-Krutz from Michigan State University will talk about "Around the World with Arthur Brown: Missionary Diplomacy at the Turn of the 20th Century"👀.
📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ Jan 22, 6:15 p.m.
About the talk: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...
On Thursday, Günter Leypoldt presents his new book "Literature’s Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value". In his book, Leypoldt develops a new theory of literary value, allowing for new ways of understanding literature's cultural relevance.
🕰️ HCA, Atrium
📍 Jan 15, 6:15 p.m.
Book launch📚
On Tuesday, Jonas Faust presents his dissertation "Speaking the Unspeakable. Allen Ginsberg's Paradigm of Prophetic Poetry". His dissertations constructs a flexible definition of prophecy from Ginsberg's own perspective.
📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ Dec 16, 6:15 p.m.
Movie night tomorrow!🍿
Lucas Armbruster -a recent HCA graduate- will talk about his documentary. Featuring local voices on rural post-coal development, “Those Who Stayed” seeks to counteract the one-sided narrative of decline and plight in southern West Virginia.
📍 HCA, Atrium
🕰️ Dec 12, 6:15 p.m.