Heidelberg Center for American Studies
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA ) is an interdisciplinary institute of the Ruprecht -Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany. It should provide both educational and research contributions as well as serve as a forum for debate on issues that affect the United States of America. Legally, it is since 2004 a " central scientific institution " the university and financially it is a private - public partnership dar. His seat has it in the Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais on the main road (formerly Scientific guesthouse).
It was founded on 1 May 2003 on the initiative of the historian Detlef Junker, who has since founding director, the Institute conducts. At a management committee is also used by each of the six faculties involved in the HCA ( The Philosophical, Theological, and the Faculty of Law, the Faculties of Economics and Social Sciences, Chemistry and Earth Sciences and the Faculty of Modern Languages ) sent a professor to six years in a Board of Directors. The Board elects the director and his two deputies.
The already long -standing relations between the city of Heidelberg and the U.S. should strengthen an interdisciplinary and intercultural cooperation across the Atlantic even further.
The doctrine - the Institute for Higher Education
Since the winter semester 2004 offers the University of Heidelberg, the one-year study program "Master of Arts in American Studies" at ( postgraduate course ) and since 2006 the program " Ph. D. in American Studies. "
Research - Advanced Research
In the long-term research project "varieties of democratic order" ( Varieties of Democratic Order ) temporal and spatial differences in the understanding of democracy are examined. Here democracy in the levels of various state models, various civil societies, dynamic markets and individual interests in the course of industrial modernization and globalization is to be compared.
There is a perennial conference series "State and Market in a Globalized World: Transatlantic Perspectives" ( state and market in a globalized world - Transatlantic Pe3rspektiven ) give. This is supplemented with the two research areas " European Protest Movements ", " Deliberative Democracies ".
The Spring Academy - HCA Spring Academy on American history, politics and culture of the U.S. is since 2004 a growing network for graduate students.
The Forum
Since the winter semester 2002/2003, the HCA international researchers, experts and practitioners from different disciplines invites you to a public lecture series " Typically American " by Heidelberg. Among the guest speakers were, inter alia, Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger or Prof. Dr. Norbert Walter, Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank AG. Since the spring of 2007, the HCA coordinated jointly with the American Academy in Berlin, the Baden- Württemberg Seminar of the American Academy. The aim of this series of events is, Fellows of the American Academy in Berlin reinforced for Events in Baden -Württemberg to win. The Fellows of the American Academy is American personalities from science, politics and art.