Baden- Württemberg Seminar

The Baden-Württemberg Seminar of The Heidelberg Center for American Studies Each spring and fall, the Heidelberg Center for Baden-Württemberg’s profound interest in the American Studies invites distinguished scholars, United States is reflected in many of its cultural, public policy experts, journalists, writers, and artists political, and economic institutions, its corpo- to its Baden-Württemberg Seminar. The program rations, museums, and libraries. The Heidelberg was initiated in the spring of 2007 as a lecture series Center for American Studies is pleased to present with fellows of the American Academy in Berlin. the fifteenth semester of the Baden-Württemberg In the summer of 2009, the Baden-Württemberg Seminar. We wish to thank our committed network seminar extended its base to include other distin- of partners for their continued support. guished speakers. Participants present their current work, discuss issues of transatlantic interest, or read from their writings at selected institutions through- out the state. The Heidelberg Center for Manfred Mohr American Studies (HCA) Manfred Mohr was born in Pforzheim in 1938. He The Heidelberg Center for American Studies lived in Barcelona from 1962 to 1963, had a studio in (HCA) is a central academic institution of the Paris from 1963 to 1983, and has lived and worked Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Dedi- in New York since 1981. He started out as an action cated to the study of the United States, the HCA painter and jazz musician before turning to a more serves as an institute for higher education, as a systematic, geometric form of expression in the mid- center for interdisciplinary research, and as a fo- 1960s. As Manfred Mohr perceives art as a rational rum for public debate. Building on long-standing construction, the computer became a physical and ties between Heidelberg and the United States, intellectual extension in the creation of his works. the HCA fosters multidisciplinary and inter- Through fracturing the symmetry of a cube or an cultural exchange across the Atlantic and offers n-dimensional hypercube, he creates two-dimensi- excellent research and education opportunities onal signs resulting from the projection of the lines of for international scholars and students. As a the cube. After working for more than three decades private-public partnership, the HCA depends on in black and white, his work started to include color the generosity of corporate benefactors and the in 1999. Mohr has participated in individual and support of people like you. group shows too numerous to mention, among them shows at the MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New Baden- York; ZKM Karlsruhe; Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch; MoCA, Los Angeles 1975; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Württemberg Seminar Heidelberg Center for American Studies Cover image: Manfred Mohr, P-701/B _ enduraChrome/canvas, 1999 Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais Artist’s collection Hauptstraße 120 of The Heidelberg Center Courtesy of the artist Curt und Heidemarie 69117 Heidelberg Engelhorn Palais Special thanks to Andreas Henn, Kunsthandel Galerie Stuttgart Telephone: (06221) 54 37 10 for American Studies Design: Baier Druck, Heidelberg Hauptstraße 120 www.hca.uni-hd.de D-69117 Heidelberg T +49 6221 / 54 37 10 F +49 6221 / 54 37 19 Spring 2014 [email protected] www.hca.uni-hd.de April May June July FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 6:00 p.m. MONDAY, MAY 19, 6:00 p.m. TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 6:15 p.m. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 6:15 p.m. America: What Went Wrong, What Elvis‘s Army: Creating the Atomic The Education of Barack Obama: Strom Thurmond and the Rise of Can Be Done? Soldier in the 1950s Race and Politics in the Age of the Modern American Right Fracture George Packer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker, Brian MacAllister Linn, Professor of History Joseph Crespino, Professor of History, Emory and Axel Springer Fellow, American Academy and Ralph R. Thomas Professor in Liberal Thomas Sugrue, David Boies Professor of University, and Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Berlin Arts, Texas A&M University, and Bosch Pub- History and Sociology, and Director of the of American Studies, Eberhard-Karls-Uni- HCA Commencement Speech 2014 lic Policy Fellow, American Academy in Berlin Penn Social Science and Policy Forum, versität Tübingen In cooperation with the American Academy in In cooperation with the Carl-Schurz-Haus/ University of Pennsylvania Location: HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Berlin Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut e.V., the His- Location: HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg Location: Alte Aula der Universität tory Department, University of Freiburg, and the Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg Heidelberg, Universitätsplatz, Heidelberg American Academy in Berlin Reception to follow Location: FRIAS-Haus, Albertstr. 19, Registration required: Freiburg TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 6:15 p.m. [email protected] TUESDAY, MAY 27, 6:15 p.m. James W.C. Pennington and the Origins of African American His- May Breaking and Entering: An Italian toriography American’s Literary Odyssey THURSDAY, MAY 8, 6:15 p.m. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Distinguished Professor Fred Gardaphé, Distinguished Professor of in the Humanities, John C. Danforth Center A Higher Loyalty: Soviet Collabo- English and Italian American Studies, John D. on Religion and Politics, Washington Univer- rators in the West in Depression Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens sity in St. Louis, and James W.C. Pennington and War College, City University of New York Fellow, Heidelberg University Location: HCA, Curt and Heidemarie In cooperation with the Faculty of Theology, Sylvia Naser, Author (A Beautiful Mind), Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg Heidelberg University John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Location: HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Journalism, Columbia University, and Holtz- Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg brinck Fellow, American Academy in Berlin Reception to follow In cooperation with the American Academy in Berlin Location: HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg.

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