The New America

Organizer
Institute of Sociology of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) The Center for Global History, Stony Brook University, New York
Venue
Wissenschaftszentrum BErlin für Sozialforschung
Location
Berlin, Germany
Country
Germany
From - Until
22.09.2005 - 24.09.2005
By
Gmelin, Eva

This conference is the second in the Global Futures of World Regions Conference Series. Like the other conferences, it seeks to assess the globality of a major world region for comparative purposes and to develop an understanding of the regional grounding of contemporary globalizations.

The end of the Cold War has made the United States the foremost global power and the ongoing war in Iraq has put the "new" America on the agenda of much general and professional reasoning. The future development of the US has become an issue of global concern. Is the US going to position herself in the global community as an imperial power or a first among equals? How does the New America appear in political, historical, economic and cultural perspective?

Bringing leading scholars and diplomats with various disciplinary, national, and international backgrounds together, The New America Conference will shed light on the dynamics, contradictions and possibilities of the United States as a critical global power.

Programm

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”

Contact (announcement)

Eva Gmelin, WZB
e-mail: gmelin@wz-berlin.de
Fax. +49 (0) 30 25491-684

http://www.stonybrook.edu/globhiscntr/Events.shtml
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16.09.2005
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