Together with Katrin Kinzelbach and Leonard Stöcklein, Heike Paul participates in a roundtable on “Research under Pressure”. The discussion is part of the program for the “Tag der Forschung” (Researchers’ Day), organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. For more information (in German), see here.

As one of the project leaders of the newly established research group "Neoimperialismus als Herausforderung der Gegenwart" (Neoimperalism as the Challenge of the Present), Heike Paul participates in its kick-off event. Following a talk by Jörn Leonhard, Heike Paul takes part in a discussion with Jörn Leonhard and fellow project leaders Martin Schulze Wessel and Carlo Masala. For more information (in German), see here. All Pictures © BAdW / Philipp Gülland

As part of the seminar “Writing America: The United States at 250”, organized by the Centro Studi Americani in Rome, Heike Paul is invited to give two talks and participate in a roundtable discussion. On Tuesday, May 12, Heike Paul gives a talk on “Narratives of American Beginnings: ‘Lost Colonies’ and Historical Imagination.” Her second talk, on Wednesday, May 13, is about “Civil Sentimentalism versus ‘Toxic Empathy’: Affective Politics of Order and Belonging.” Additionally,

Heike Paul is on a current events-panel at this year's Austrian Association of American Studies (AAAS)-conference to address "Academic Freedom under Attack: Transgenerational Perspectives on Contemporary Transatlantic American Studies." For more information, see here .

Heike Paul participates in the interdisciplinary symposium "Planetary Worlds" at Gießen University on March 29, 2025, in honor of Claus...

As part of an event titled "Die Welt ordnet sich neu: USA, Europa und Naher Osten im Fokus" ('The world is reorganizing itself: Focus on...