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Posted on October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 by admin

The 2020 American elections: join us for lectures & discussion

On Monday, October 26, the American Studies program will devote an evening to pondering the imminent American election. All are welcome. We look forward to a lively discussion with students and alumni. Sign up for the Zoom webinar here.

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  • Study Trip to Washington, DC
    In January, nine of our MA students, together with two staff members, travelled to Washington, DC for a week long study trip. Highlights included a private tour of the Supreme Court, a walking tour of Black Broadway, a lecture on baseball history at Georgetown University, and a Miami Heat v Washington Wizards basketball game. The students also […]
  • The 2020 American elections: join us for lectures & discussion
    On Monday, October 26, the American Studies program will devote an evening to pondering the imminent American election. All are welcome. We look forward to a lively discussion with students and alumni. Sign up for the Zoom webinar here. […]
  • Masks, austerity, and national character: on COVID-19 policies in the Netherlands and the US
    On August 28, the UvA American Studies program’s Manon Parry was a guest on the FiveThirtyEight podcast, to discuss governmental responses to COVID-19 in the Netherlands and the United States. The conversation is wide-ranging: from Dutch refrains of an “intelligent lockdown” to American refrains of “individualism,” […]
  • Max Weber on America, capitalism, charisma, and crumbling states
    In 1917, Max Weber said, about the United States, that “it is often possible to see things in their purest form there.” He was talking then about scholarship as a vocation (“Wissenschaft als Beruf“), reflecting on the “Americanization” of German academic life, but it was a broader theme running through his work. […]
  • Statement of the Netherlands American Studies Association
    The murder of George Floyd and the global protests that have followed in its wake have occasioned statements of solidarity from American Studies associations worldwide. The structures of racism and police violence are, after all, longstanding subjects of Americanist academic inquiry. The statement of the Netherlands American Studies Association is […]

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