Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
10: 30 a. m.
Registration and Late Morning Coffee

11: 15 a. m.
Welcome from the organisers of “The Global
Futures of World Regions Conference Series”
Gert Schmidt, Institute of Sociology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

11: 30 a. m. - 12: 45 p. m.
The New America – A Historical Perspective
Jürgen Kocka, Social Science Research Center Berlin

12: 45 - 13: 30 p. m.
Lunch

13: 30 - 14: 30 p. m.
How Global is America?
Wolf Schäfer, The Center for Global History, Stony
Brook University, New York

14: 30 - 15: 30 p. m.
The Imagined Republic: The Legacy of the Past
and the Burden of the Present
Jürgen Gebhardt, Bavarian American Academy,
Munich

15: 30 - 16: 00 p. m.
Coffee Break

16: 00 - 17: 00 p. m.
Special Fortification and Gated Communities: The
American Experience in Global Perspective
Themis Chronopoulos, Department of History, Stony
Brook University, New York

17: 00 - 19: 00 p. m.
Time for Informal Talks

19: 00 p. m.
Dinner and Conference Evening Party at the WZB

Friday, September 23rd, 2005
09: 00 - 09: 30 a. m.
Morning Coffee

09: 30 - 10: 30 a. m.
The Options of a Global Nation
Gert Schmidt, Institute of Sociology, University of
Erlangen- Nuremberg

10: 30 - 11: 00 a. m.
Coffee Break

11: 00 - 12: 00 a. m.
When the Rainbow is not Enough: The Challenge
to Move from Celebration to Realization of
Multiculturalism
Sunita S. Mukhi, Charles B. Wang Center, Stony
Brook University, New York

12: 00 noon - 13: 00 p. m.
Lunch

13: 00 - 14: 00 p. m.
US- trade Policy and Global Governance
Andreas Falke, Foreign Studies, University of
Erlangen- Nuremberg

14: 00 - 15: 00 p. m.
Beyond the Facade of Global Power:
A Dysfunctional America
Wally Katz, Oakdale, Dowling College, New York

15: 00 - 15: 30 p. m.
Coffee Break

15: 30 - 16: 30 p. m.
The USA and a Globally Challenged America
Martin Albrow, Center for the Study of Global
Governance, London School of Economics

16: 30 - 17: 30 p. m.
How Wide is the Atlantic? German Foreign Policy
after the Cold War and Beyond Iraq
Harald Braun, German Federal Chancellery, Berlin

19: 30 p. m.
Dinner

Invited Discussants :
Prof. Dr. Martin Heidenreich, University of Bamberg
PD Dr. Mathias Hildebrandt, University of Erlangen-
Nuremberg
Prof. Dr. Markus Pohlmann, University of Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Angelo Picchierri, Università di Torino
Prof. Dr. Mark Thompson, University of Erlangen-
Nuremberg

Saturday, September 24th, 2005
9: 30 - 11: 30 a. m.
Professional City Tour “Berlin”