On 17 May 2018, Thorsten Carstensen, Ph.D., visited the Center for German-American Educational History and gave a lecture on "Learning from John Ford: History, Time, and Geography in the Novels of Peter Handke" in our lecture series "Public History, Popular History or Historical Edutainment - Representations of German and American History in Theatre, Cinema and Television"...
The lecture series explores how popular forms of drama have been—and can be—used as powerful tools for teaching the complicated and entangled histories of Germany and the United States. German and American Educators, historians, and theater professionals will discuss an array of German and American productions that depict and teach histories that include the American Revolution, chattel slavery, the Holocaust, and postwar Germany...
The Society for German-American Studies (SGAS) will hold its 42nd Annual Symposium in Indianapolis, Indiana, 19–21 April 2018. The theme of the program is: "World War I and Its Repercussions for German America: A Centennial Assessment". Professor Dr. Jürgen Overhoff and Nicholas Johnson will take part with the following paper presentations...
Die Arbeitsstelle für Deutsch-Amerikanische Bildungsgeschichte wird im Mai 2018 eine Nachwuchstagung zur deutsch-amerikanischen Bildungsgeschichte durchführen. Diese wird zusammen von Doktoranden der WWU Münster und HU Berlin organisiert.
Vom 27. bis 28. September 2018 findet an der Universität Wien das "12. Forum junger Bildungshistoriker*innen" der Sektion Historische Bildungsforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE) statt! Herzliche Einladung!
