Field Trips of the American Studies Department
September 2024
Exile in America: Historical and Literary Perspectives – once again a compact seminar, bringing together American Studies and Modern and Contemporary History, took place at a study center in the French Alps (Haus Giersch, Manigod)...details
July 2024
Stuttgart – The American Studies Team once again organized a one-day museum trip in the summer semester. This time we went to see the special exhibition "American Dreams: A New Life in the USA" at the Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg...details
January 2024
Buttenheim – On January 26, 2024, a group of students from two American Studies classes got together for a trip to the Levi-Strauss-Museum, to explore the story of one man's journey from a Frankonian village to the American Dream...details
August 2019
Manigod - From August 25 to September 1, 2019, a group of graduate and postgraduate students from the fields of History and American Studies embarked on an excursion led by Profs. Christine Gerhardt (American Studies) and Sabine Freitag (Modern and Contemporary History) that perfectly combined a geographical journey to Manigod in the French Alps with an academic exploration of the American “wilderness.”...details
August 2018
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
March 2018
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
August 2017
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
March 2017
Rome – the Italian capital with its ancient history and many faces was our destination to explore the traces of American life abroad…details
May 2016
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
September 2015
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
September 2014
Dublin – the capital of Ireland was the destination of a field trip that was part of a transatlantic seminar on "Irish America"…details
January 2014
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
June 2013
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
February 2013
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
June 2012
American Civil War Reenactment in Walldürn near Würzburg, visited by students of the seminar Germans in the American Civil War...details
January 2012
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
October 2011
Romantic Literature at the Museum – the seminar Left in Ruins: German and American Romanticism explored the E.T.A. Hoffmann House in Bamberg...details
July 2011
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