Field Trips of the American Studies Department

Manigod – From 12-19 August 2018, a group of History and American Studies students got together in the remote village of Manigod in the French Alps to participate in the interdisciplinary seminar “The American Presidency: History, Literature, Culture” led by Prof. Christine Gerhardt (Amerikanistik) and Prof. Sabine Freitag (Neuere und Neueste Geschichte)...details

London – The British capital city has always drawn American visitors from all walks of life. During this field trip, we not only followed the London footsteps of American luminaries like Benjamin Franklin, but also focused on how the city changed during and after the World Wars, especially through American-British relations...details

Manigod – The following illustrates a typical day of the week-long seminar on the American Civil War, an interdisciplinary joint venture of the departments for American Studies and Modern and Contemporary History at Bamberg University...details

Rome – the Italian capital with its ancient history and many faces was our destination to explore the traces of American life abroad…details

17th International Comic Salon Erlangen –Transferring the adventures of Huckleberry Finn into the 21st century? No problem for the acclaimed graphic artist and author Olivia Vieweg, whom we met on May 28th at the comic book fair in Erlangen...details

Hamburg and Bremerhaven – Following the route of previous generations, participants of a class about transatlantic migration went North to visit the harbors where German emigrants bid farewell to their old home in the 19th century...details

Dublin – the capital of Ireland was the destination of a field trip that was part of a transatlantic seminar on "Irish America"…details

Prague– Prague's Charles University welcomed Bamberg students for the American Studies student symposium on Transatlantic Ties Between the United States of America and Germany...details

Weimar – changing notions of friendship in the US and Germany were the focus of a day trip to the city of Goethe and Schiller...details

Paris – During an excursion to Paris in connection with a seminar on American Modernism in Paris, Bamberg students followed the footsteps of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes and many other American expatriates...details

Schloss Neuschwanstein and Canada – for the participants of the seminar Germans in Canadian Literature and Culture this connection became perfectly clear when they explored two castles of 'mad' king Ludwig II...details

American Civil War Reenactment in Walldürn near Würzburg, visited by students of the seminar Germans in the American Civil War...details

International Romanticism near and in Frankfurt – participants of the class Left in Ruins: German and American Romanticism encountered artificial ruins and the works of various Romantic painters up close...details

Romantic Literature at the Museum – the seminar Left in Ruins: German and American Romanticism explored the E.T.A. Hoffmann House in Bamberg...details

Robin Hood, Wilhelm Tell, Jesse James – students of the seminar The Figur of the Outsider in the US and Germany travelled to the Jagst-valley to see a performance of Goethe's "Götz von Berlichingen" on the hero's proverbial doorsteps...details