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Prof. Berg's office hours

During the lecture-free period, office hours take place by appointment.

In the 2024 summer term, office hours take place on Tuesdays from 2 to 4 pm.

Students are invited to direct questions to Professor Berg via email (manfred.berg@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de).

 
News

New Publications by and on Prof. Dr. Berg

  • "Historiker Manfred Berg: Biden muss physische Stärke zeigen", in: SWR2 Tagesgespräch, 07.03.2024, Listen To.
  • "Weist der Blick nach USA in die Zukunft Europas? Stehen die USA vor einem neuen Bürgerkrieg? Das Szenario, das sich für die US-Wahlen abzeichnet, lässt Schlimmes befürchten." Mannheimer Morgen, 28.02.2024, S. 4. Read
  • "Amerika den Amerikanern!", in: Die ZEIT  52, 7.12.2023. Read
  • "Trump kann wieder gewinnen", in: RNZ, 03.08.2023. Read
  • "Interview mit Manfred Berg über den abgewendeten Zahlungsausfall in den USA", in: SWR2 Journal am Morgen, 03.06.2023. Listen To
  • "Trump bekommt die Aufmerksamkeit, die er braucht", in: RNZ, 01.04.2023. Read
  • "Panzer und Trucks für Stalin." Waffen- und Rohstofflieferungen der USA tragen entscheidend dazu bei, dass die Sowjetunion den Zweiten Weltkrieg gewinnen kann. ZEITGeschichte Stalingrad. Mythos und Wirklichkeit einer Schlacht - und die bis heute umkämpfte Erinnerung (1/2023), S. 7073.
 
Archive

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Nicole Colaianni

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Contact Details:

Historisches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg
Grabengasse 3-5
D-69117 Heidelberg

Raum: 044A

Tel: +49 (0) 62 21 / 54 - 3361

 

Dissertation Project:

"Obviously Bad for Business" - The Role of the U.S. Private Sector in the Conceptualization of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, 1975-2017"  (submitted) Exposé

 

Profile:

Nicole Colaianni studied English and history with a focus on education in Heidelberg. During her studies she gravitated toward American Studies, an interest that was furthered by the year she spent studying at the University of New Mexico. Her Zulassungsarbeit focused on the framings and conceptualizations of sexual harassment as part of the culture wars in the United States. From October 2020 to September 2023 she was a doctorial candidate at the Curt-Engelhorn-Chair for American History at Heidelberg University and a research associate at the DFG-graduate group “Authority and Trust” at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. She has been a research associate at the Curt-Engelhorn-Chair since October 2023. A detailed CV can be found here.

 

Research Interests:

  • Gender, race and civil rights studies
  • Social movements in US-American history
  • Authority and trust in political institutions in US-American society
  • US intellectual history

 

Publications:

Breaking the Silence - #MeToo and the Reclaiming of the Feminist Framing of Sexual Harassment, in: HCA graduate blog, 15.12.2021, online.

"Love Contracts" und "Non Disclosure Agreements" - Wie U.S. Firmen mit sexueller Belästigung umgehen, in: HCA Podcast "Quo Vadis USA?", 27.04.2022, online.

 

Conferences and Workshops:

Beyond the Dichotomy: Framing Sexual Harrassment, Research Colloquium North American History, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, May 17, 2021.

"Zwischenwahlen in den USA - Eine erste Bilanz," Panel discussion with Nicole Colaianni, Martin Thunert and Welf Werner, at: Heidelberg Center for American Studies, November 9, 2022.

"A New Adversary. Feminist Action Against Employers. Developing a Legal Strategy," presented at: Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Ph.D. Seminar, December 7-9, 2022.

"Who Gets to Decide? Discursive Authority on Sexual Harassment,"  GKAT Conference Practicing Authority and Trust, Universität Heidelberg, May 11-12, 2023.

 

Teaching:

Summer 2023, Proseminar: „The Personal is the Political“ – Die zweite Welle des Feminismus in den USA, 1966-1991.

Winter 2023/24, Proseminar: ""Men are from Mars, women are from Venus:" Geschlechterrollen und -beziehungen in den USA, 1945-heute.

Summer 2024, Übung: Gangsters, Gin, and Government: The Temperance Movement and Prohibition in the USA.

 

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