Amerika Haus NRW Lecture
Amerika Haus NRW e.V. organizes lectures with well-known speakers at universities of North Rhine Westphalia. To the students, this is a variation of their daily routine. Instead of merely listening in a lecture, they are encouraged to ask questions and discuss with their guest.
Köln · Jean Monnet Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels
June 13, 2012
Where the tug war between President and Congress comes from, how this phenomenon develops and what impact it has on the legislative process were the topics of Dr. Jim Thomson’s presentation “A House Divided. Polarization and its Effects”, addressing the polarization of political parties, its causes and impacts. Dr. Jim Thomson holds a Ph.D in physics, was member of the National Security Council as well as of the Department of Defense, and most recently President of the RAND Corporation from 1989 to 2011.
Duisburg · NRW School of Governance
May 14, 2012
On May 14, 2012 students and attendees interested in politics came to the NRW School of Governance to listen to Dr. Fisher’s lecture on “Presidential War Power”.
Dortmund · TU Dortmund
19.04.2012
What impact do those traumatic memories have on the descendants? Being the daughter of a Holocaust survivor herself, the Jewish-American author Elizabeth Rosner is dedicated to find an appropriate way of breaking the silence in order to deal with those traumas intergenerationally. Ms. Rosner read from her book The Speed of Light and answered the students' questions.
Cologne · Universität zu Köln
March 13, 2012
Professor Rabban outlined the impact influence German law had in the 19th Century in the United States. Especially because many of the leading U.S. legal scholars studied in Germany. Therefore the German law played an important role in the development of a transatlantic shift towards the historical analysis of law in the United States.
Dortmund · TU Dortmund
October 20, 2011
George McGovern, former Senator of South Dakota & Democratic candidate for the Presidential Elections 1972 and speaker of the 2011 Otto Wolff-Lecture, visited the TU Dortmund for a discussion with the students.
Duisburg · NRW School of Governance
June 7, 2011
Amerika Haus e.V. NRW presented a discussion with Dr. Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO, and Dr. Andrew Denison about the political unrest in North Africa: What are the consequences of the German abstention in the UN Security Council concerning military operations for the military alliance between European and North American states?
"This Must Be the Place"
May 19, 2010 · Cologne · University of Cologne
As part of the seminar Books and the City by Professor Hanjo Berressem, the American author Anna Winger read from her new book "This must be the Place" and discussed with students afterwards.
May 19, 2010 · Cologne · University of Cologne
As part of the seminar Books and the City by Professor Hanjo Berressem, the American author Anna Winger read from her new book "This must be the Place" and discussed with students afterwards.
April 22, 2010 · Cologne · University of Cologne and 23.04.2010 Wuppertal · University of Wuppertal
Peter Wortsman, translater and author from New York, read from his latest works and talked about his multi-faceted cultural identity.
January 13, 2010· Cologne · University of Cologne
Marcia Pally is an author and professor of Multicultural Studies an der New York University. At the University of Cologne, she read from her new book.
