The Bavarian American Academy

Der BAA-Vorstand, die Mitglieder und die Geschäftsstelle trauern um Prof. Dr. Berndt Ostendorf. Der Amerikanist war Gründungsmitglied der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie (BAA) und von 1981 bis zu seiner Emeritierung Professor für Nordamerikanische Kulturgeschichte am Amerika-Institut der LMU München.

The legal scholar from the University of Augsburg receives the scholarship to conduct research for his comparative dissertation project on corporate human rights responsibilities in Washington D.C.

Im Rahmen ihrer Mitgliederversammlung Anfang Juni 2024 wählten die Mitglieder der Bayerischen Amerika Akademie einen neuen Vorstand. Die BAA-Geschäftsstelle freut sich sehr auf die Zusammenarbeit mit den neuen Vorständen!

The board and the members of the Bavarian American Academy extend their warmest congratulations to the American Studies scholar.

At Duke University, the American Studies scholar from the University of Augsburg will work on his dissertation project, which engages with realist modes of writing in the context of a contemporary confluence of planetary crises.

The American Studies scholar from LMU Munich's Amerika-Institut will get a chance to spend six months at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

The American Studies scholar from LMU Munich's Amerika-Institut was awarded the fellowship for a research stay at Yale University's Gilder-Lehrman-Center der Yale University.

Yıldız Aşar (Universität Bamberg) und Andrew Wildermuth (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) have been awarded the Post-Graduate Research Fellowships at Harvard University 2024. We cordially congratulate the two American Studies scholars!

From April 4-6, 2024, the Bavarian American Academy hosted the 35th Biennial Conference of the European Association at Amerikahaus Munich and online. More than 200 scholars came together to discuss the conference topic "1924-2024: American Immigrant Narrative Revisited."