German - American Educational History

Topics, Trends, Fields of Research

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Overhoff                                                                                

Harvard and Yale, the Collegiate System, Democracy and Education, John Dewey – Wilhelm von Humboldt, the University of Berlin, academic freedom, the unity of teaching and research: German and American philosophies of education and their propagators have shaped the modern and distinctively western understanding of “Bildung” and education to a considerable degree. As the development of educational ideals in Germany and America has been marked by fruitful mutual interaction, the Münster CGAEH lecture series – organized in collaboration with Faculty from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia – seeks to sharpen the notion of an entangled and intertwined German-American educational history. It also aims at identifying new and interesting fields of research. The series of lectures is open to all members of the University of Münster and to the general public.

8.4.2015	Prof. Dr. Jürgen Overhoff (Münster): Introduction
15.4.2015	Dr. Charlotte Lerg (München): The Uses and Abuses of the first German-American ProfessorialExchange: Academic Diplomacy, 1904-1914
22.4.2015	Prof. Dr. Heike Bungert (Münster): German Americans and their efforts to bring “Cultur” to the United States, 1848-1914
29.4.2015	Prof. Dr. Patrick Erben (West Georgia): “To direct my loving countryman’s defect”. Translingual education in  German-speaking Pennsylvania
6.5.2015	Prof. Dr. Hartmut Lehmann (Kiel): The quincentennial commemoration of the Protestant Reformation on both sides of the Atlantic
13.5.2015	Prof. Dr. Frank Trommler (Philadelphia): Negotiating German “Bildung” and “Kultur” in American intellectual life, 1870-1918.
20.5.2015	Prof. Dr. Ewald Terhart (Münster): “Research on Teaching” in the USA and “Didaktik” in (West)-Germany. Influences since 1945
3.6.2015	Prof. Dr. Bethany Wiggin (Philadelphia): Poor Christoph’s Almanac: Popular Education in Colonial German Almanacs
10.6.2015	Anne Overbeck, M.A. (Münster): “Stop teaching your kids Dutch!” (Dis-)Continuities in German-American Life in Indianapolis in the 19th and early 20th century.
17.6.2015	Prof. Dr. Katja Sarkowsky (Münster): Hyphenated Americanism: Horace Kallen, Randolph Bourne, and the Debate about Cultural Pluralism during World War I
24.6.2015	Prof. Dr. Simon Richter (Philadelphia): Goethe goes to Yale: William A. Speck, Alice Raphael, and the Education of America’s (privileged, male) youth, 1913-1928.
1.7.2015	Prof. Dr. Johannes Bellmann (Münster): The Reception of John Dewey in Germany
8.7.2015	Prof. Dr. Leo O’Donovan, SJ (Washington, D.C.): American and German Perspectives on Universal Ethics. Searching for a New World Order.

Mittwochs, 14 - 16 Uhr, c.t., Hörsaal F5 - Fürstenberghaus
Domplatz 22, 48143 Münster