Ernst Fraenkel Distinguished Lecture Series

Mit der von der Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung unterstützten Ernst Fraenkel Distinguished Lecture Series werden regelmäßig amerikanische Sozial- und Geschichtswissenschaftler zu Vorträgen eingeladen, um auf diese Weise in konstantem Dialog mit amerikanischen Entwicklungen der Fachdisziplinen zu bleiben. Zahlreiche Vorträge wurden in unserer Publikationsreihe veröffentlicht. Seit Ende 2009 sind die Vorträge auch online als Videos verfügbar.

2018

Hortense Spillers: "To the Bone - Some Speculations on Touch" (06.06.2018)

2016

Frederick C. Moten: "The History of Blackness" (28.11.2016)

William Buxton: "Re-reading the Toronto School of Communication in an Age of Digital Distraction: Lessons from the Enlightenment 'Leserevolution'" (21.07.2016)

Linda Williams: "Serial, Television, Melodrama" (29.06.2016)

David Bromwich: "The Culture of Sensitivity and the Culture of Freedom" (16.06.2016)

Rita Felski: "Crrritique!" (16.05.2013)

2012

Barbara Sinclair: "The Obama Presidency, Congress and the Development of the Party System" (13.11.2012)

Alan Taylor: "Global Finance after the Crash" (7. Juni 2012)

Richard Slotkin: "Platoon Movie: War Films and the Reconception of American National Myth, 1943-1960" (24. Mai 2012)

Leonard Cassuto: "Barbarians at the Gate: A New History of the American Novel" (23. Mai 2012)

Thomas S. Blanton: "The Secrecy-Security Oxymoron: The Hyper-Growth of Top Security America and the Declining Health of Global Democracy" (4. Januar 2012)

2011

Donald Pease: "The Current State of US-American Studies" (4. November 2011)

Donald Worster: "Facing Limits - Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life" (19. Mai 2011)

Hal Foster: "The Catastrophe of Minimalism" (20. April 2011)

2010

Paul Krugman: "The Failure of Crisis Management" (20. Oktober 2010)

Tyler Cowen: "Does the American Economic Model Have a Future?" (22. Juni 2010)

Melvyn Leffler: "Reassessing the Cold War - Lessons for Today" (27. Mai 2010)

Eugene White: "Bank Supervision in the Unites States: A Historical Perspective on its Role in the Recent Crisis" (20. Mai 2010)

Myra Marx Ferree: "Intersectionality, Inequality, and the Politics of Discourse" (11. Mai 2010)

2009

Jamie Peck: "Obamanomics and the Postwelfare State" (12. November 2009)

Philip Zelikow: "Reflections on the Unification of Germany" (22. Oktober 2009)

Jay Winter: "Trans-National Perspectives" (Juni 2009)

Hal Varian: "The Advertising World Through Google's Goggles" (Juni 2009)

Frances Fox Piven: "Globalization and Labor Power" (Juni 2009)

Nancy Fraser: "Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History" (Mai 2009)

2008

James O. Horton und Lois E. Horton: "Slavery and the Making of America: The Legacy of a Contradiction" (Oktober 2008)

William Cronon: "Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Frontier Change" (Juni 2008)

Sandra Gilbert: "Modern Death, MIllenium Mourning: the Challenge of 21st Century Grief" (Juni 2008)

Kim Moody: "New York: The Neoliberal Transformation of a City" (Februar 2008)

Walter Benn Michaels: "The Trouble with Diversity" (Januar 2008)

2007

Benjamin M. Friedman: "The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" (Juli 2007)

MIchael Dear: "Altered States: US-Mexico Borderlands as a Third Nation (November 2007)

Michael Taussig: "Benjamin's Finger and the Theater of Gesture" (April 2007)

Vivian Sobchack: "Chasing the Maltese Falcon: On the Fabrications of a Movie Prop" (April 2007)

2006

Peter Gowan: "Can America Lead the World in a Positive Direction?" (Dezember 2006)

Andrei S. Markovits: "Unique among American Sports - Unique in the International Arena of Team Sports" (Juni 2006)

Ramon Saldívar: "The US/Mexico Borderlands and the Origins of the Transnational Imaginary" (Juni 2006)

Richard B. Freeman: "Economic and Social Policy in the New Globalization (Januar 2006)

2005

Kaja Silverman: "Divine Wrong: Thoughts for Our Times on Death and War" (November 2005)

Teresa de Lauretis: "9/11, Freud, Djuna Barnes, and the Death Drive" (Juni 2005)

Tom Hayden: "Empire versus Democracy" (Mai 2005)

Michael P. Smith: "Mexican Migrant Associations in California Cities and Transnational Urban Politics" (Mai 2005)

Noam Chomsky: "Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine for the Times" (März 2005)

2004

Richard Shusterman: "Pragmatism and East-Asian Thought" (November 2004)

Alan Wolfe: "The Transformation of American Religion" (Oktober 2004)

Lloyd Ambrosius: " Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy: From Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush" (Juli 2004)

David Reynolds: "D-Day and the Origins of the Atlantic Alliance" (Mai 2004)

Joseph E. Stiglitz: "The Roaring Nineties. Der Entzauberte Boom" (Januar 2004)

Donald E. Pease Jr.: "Pip: Figuring the Limits of Ahab's Rhetoric of Persuasion" (Januar 2004)

2003

Ido Oren: "Our Enemies and U.S. America's Rivalries and the Making of Political Science" (November 2003)

Leo Marx: "Recovering the "Ur" - Theory of American Studies" (Juni 2003)

Michael Gilmore: "Word and Deeds: A Reinterpretation of the American Renaissance" (Juni 2003)

Harvey Molotch: " Product Design. Ecological Threat amd Hopes for Reform of the U.S. Consumption System" (Januar 2003)

Karsten D. Voigt: "Der gegenwärtige Stand der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Beziehungen" (Januar 2003)

2002

Randall S. Kroszner: "The American Economy in a Period of Turbulance. Current State and Prospects" (November 2002)

Joshua Meyrowitz: "Post-Privacy America" (Juni 2002)

Joshua Gamson: "Producing 'Freaks': Daytime Talk Shows and Sexual Boundary Marking" (Mai 2002)

2001

Thomas W. Laquer: " The Festive and the Rational: Race and the Resurgence of Capital Punishment in the Unites States" (Dezember 2001)

Lance W. Bennett: "Civic Engagement Crisis? Social Change and the Rise of Global Activism" (November 2001)

Marjorie Perloff: "The Conceptual Poetics of Marchel Duchamp" (November 2001)

Joyce Appleby: "Telling the Truth about History: Recent Historiographical and Cultural Conflicts" (April 2001)

Susan Rubin Suleiman: "Other People's Memories and the Filmmaker's Self: Marcel Ophuls' Hotle Terminus between Europe and America" (Februar 2001)

Peter Novick: "Is the Holocaust an American Memory?" (Februar 2001)

Daniel T. Rogers: "Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age" (Januar 2001)

2000

William Labov: "The Explosion of Regional Diversity in North American English" (Oktober 2000)

Paul Krugman: "Has the New Economy Reached Europe?" (Juli 2000)

1993

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: "Reflections on the Multiethnic Society: The American Case"

1992

Henry M. Nau: "America's Staying Power: Does Europe Need a Partner?"

Rachel McCulloch: "The Impact of Foreign Ownership on U.S. Business"

1991

David O. Sears: "Ethnic Conflict and the Politics of Race in the United States"

James S. Coleman: "Parents' Rights in Choice of School"

Richard N. Rosecrance: "A New Concert of Europe?"

Stephen D. Krasner: "Stability in a New Era of European-American Relations

1990

Peter J. Katzenstein: "Amerika und Europa: Ein neuer Regionalismus in der Weltpolitik?"

Robert D. Putnam: "Domestic Politics and Transatlantic Relations: Two-Level Games in an Era of Change"

Catherine M. Kelleher: "Europe and America 1990 to 2000: The Security Dimension"

Linda K. Kerber: "Paradoxes of Women's Citizenship in the United States"

John Hope Franklin: "What Europeans Should Understand About the History of African Americans"

Rüdiger Dornbusch: "The Decline of the U.S. in World Trade and Finance? Policy Issues in Foreign Trade, Debt, and the Dollar"

1989

Thomas J. Sargent: "Explaining the Reagan Deficits"

Robert E. Baldwin: "Recent U.S. Trade Policy at the Multilateral and Bilateral Levels"

Richard E. Neustadt: "American Presidential Transitions: Constitutional Requirements and Policy Risks"

1988

Nelson W. Polsby: "The American Election of 1988: Outcome, Process and Aftermath"

William Schneider: "The Political Legacy of the Reagan Years"

Benjamin Ginsberg: "How Democratic Institutions Change Over Time: The U.S. Presidency From the New Deal to Ronald Reagan"

Ronald Inglehart: "Changing Religious, Social and Sexual Norms in the United States and Elsewhere: Is the Moral Majority a Rising or Declining Force?"

Peter Steinfels: "The Short Happy Life of Neoconservatism"

1987

Seymour Martin Lipset: "The Social Basis of Neoconservatism"

John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien