From the s to a restrictive quota system made it much more difficult to immigrate. How to deal with large numbers of refugees is still a very controversial topic in the United States. Designed to motivate, organize, and reduce stress, the presentation helps the students understand how to develop their topic and communicate the significance of their project.
The seminar will be adapted to the needs of the class. We will also consider the presence of her novel in American popular culture with reference to the film and the recent Broadway adaptation. Links und Funktionen www. Sprachumschaltung English. Navigationspfad Startseite Schulkontakt. Schulkontakt Unterrichten Sie ein amerikanistisches Thema und suchen neue Impulse? Haben Sie Interesse an einem Studium der Amerikanistik?
Lerg: "On Account of Sex…. Using transmediality as an approach to analyse the use of symbols in Anglo-American protest culture during the s and s sheds new light on the process of creating ideological alliances and the making of meaning. In the same way In the same way written text created a shared realm of ideas even as they were read and reinterpreted in accordance with different political and social contexts, visual templates, for example in carricature, also featured as points of reference.
Relating these images to performances of protest and objects from a material culture of revolution brings together forms of resistance that have previously been examined separately. Arguably, by using a shared arsenal of sym- bolism protesters identified with an imagined community that in reality was never socially or politically coherent. Doi: Publicity, Prestige, and Propaganda.
Friend of the Photoplay — Visionary — Spy? Das amerikanische College Girl — Ideal und Konstruktion. The article examines how US-American visual media during the so-called Progressive Era constructed a popular image of the female student.
The emphasis lies on early mass publications like society journals and advertisements The emphasis lies on early mass publications like society journals and advertisements. By the turn of the century higher education for women was already quite widespread in the United States — especially compared to most European countries — and it generally met with a much higher level of social acceptance than on the other side of the Atlantic.
This transformation was prompted by social discourses and aesthetic custom alike. The article traces the dominant visual tropes to a distinctly white middle class identity in a commercial cultural marketplace. A college education for men and women emerged as a commodity and a much valued marker of social distinction.
The popular media of the day knew to cater to this ideal. Gender Studies , U. The early decades of the twentieth century proved pivotal for defining academic freedom in America. The challenges of World War I ultimately strengthened the use and understanding of the concept specifically for the U.
During the last third of the nineteenth century, a number of developments in higher learning had converged, bringing academic independence urgently to the forefront.
Growth and professionalization meant a new role for universities in Amer- ican society; big-business philanthropy saw sciences flourish, but it also introduced a new market- orientated organization to college administration.
Gilded Age and Progressive Era debates over individual rights, social responsibilities, and public and political capital caused much controversy on campuses across the country. German academic institutions, long cherished models in U. Hence, even before the United States entered into the conflict, World War I forced the academic commu- nity to define their position between society, government, and professional ethos.
During this process, two very different notions of academic freedom emerged: one favoring individual liberties, the other one prioritizing institutional integrity. These distinctive and potentially adverse interpre- tations continued to function as the basis for legal and public arguments as the twentieth century progressed. Academic Freedom , U. Progressive Era , Transatlantic History , and History of higher education.
This paper is concerned with the question how honorary degrees featured as part of cultural diplomacy in German-American relations during the 20th century. Location: Akademische Wissenskulturen. Des einen Image ist des andren Propaganda. The film portraying the founding of the Free University of Berlin oscillated between the agenda of the American military government on the one hand and the institutional interests of the university on the other - this paper analyses The film portraying the founding of the Free University of Berlin oscillated between the agenda of the American military government on the one hand and the institutional interests of the university on the other - this paper analyses the multifascetted dimension of this double interest.
Publisher: Steiner Verlag Publication Date: Melvin J. Lasky als transatlantischer Publizist. Cold War Politics. Lasky: New York. Cold War and Culture , Transatlantic relations , and Press and media history. Eine politische Wissenschaft. High Hopes of Revolution. A Transatlantic Exchange of Ideas before more. The Consortium of the Revolutionary Era to Wissenschaft und Prestige in den transatlantischen Beziehungen, Thus, this book examines how American research university Thus, this book examines how American research university positioned themselves as academic institutions as well as political mediators and cultural brokers.
The focus in on German-American relations before World War One when, simultaneously, the German state was trying to mobilised academia for international relations. The political moment before World War One recalibrated both the geopolitical set-up and the transnational republic of letters proves crucial in the development of practices and processes that would become established in cultural diplomacy on campus during the 20th century e.
The study analyses the merging of the two milieus academia and diplomacy through the prism of prestige within an "economy of esteem".
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