The Spring Academy is an annual, one-week interdisciplinary conference for Ph.D. students at the HCA The conference is targeted at at Ph.D.
The Spring Academy on American History, Culture & Politics is an annual, one-week interdisciplinary conference for Ph.D. candidates from around the world, organized by the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), in Heidelberg, Germany. candidates working in different fields of American studies. Possible topics for discussion are American literature and culture, U.S. history, domestic and for
eign policy, geography, religion, and musicology as well as economic and sociological issues, and aspects of jurisprudence. Race, class, and gender are frequently employed analytical categories. This diversity of disciplines and approaches enables students from different academic backgrounds to become part of a unique international intellectual network of young and aspiring researchers which has been successfully established by the HCA over the past years and is continuously expanded. Every year the HCA invites twenty outstanding Ph.D. students from diverse academic disciplines to Heidelberg to present their dissertation projects in the field of American Studies. The presentations are thematically arranged into ten two-person panels. Participants are requested to prepare a twenty-minute presentation of their research projects. Each presentation is followed by a forty-minute discussion session. The participants of the HCA Spring Academy greatly benefit from the insights generated by this cross-disciplinary and intercultural dialogue. For more information, please visit: http://www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/spring/index_en.html
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