About the Event
Excellent scholarship requires opportunities: opportunities to access resources firsthand, to engage in conversations with renowned colleagues from the research field, and to expand one’s horizon. For emerging scholars working on topics related to the United States or transatlantic relations, going abroad is essential, yet often difficult to realize without external funding. Travel grants and fellowships are a crucial means of support to this end. But what exactly are the practical benefits of a fellowship? How do fellowships help emerging scholars to grow professionally and personally? And what career paths may they open up, in and beyond academia?
Three fellowship alumni will come together at Amerikahaus to provide glimpses into their own experiences, speaking about the research they have conducted, the value of going abroad, as well as the impact of the fellowship on their further career. All of them are recipients of the AGBC-Travel Grant, a fellowship awarded by the American German Business Club Munich and the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) that enables emerging scholars to conduct research in the United States.
The event is jointly organized by the AGBC Munich and the BAA. The AGBC Munich provides a well-rounded business networking platform with strong contacts to the Munich area American, German, and international business communities. Together with the BAA, the AGBC has been awarding AGBC Travel Grants to emerging scholars since 2019.
The discussion will be moderated by Constanze Sabathil, President of AGBC Munich, and Volker Depkat, Board Member of the BAA and Professor of American Studies at the University of Regensburg.
Photo: ©Leonhard Simon
About the Speakers
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Milena Rinck graduated with an M.A. in American History, Culture, and Society from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. In her master’s thesis, she analyzed forms of acculturation in the exile lives of German-Jewish writers Mascha Kaléko and Lion Feuchtwanger, the results of which have been published by EXIL VERLAG. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the Amerika-Institut at LMU under the supervision of Professor Klaus Benesch. In her project, Milena Rinck examines the concepts of culture conveyed in Germany's Foreign Cultural Relations and Educational Policy in the United States by contrasting its theoretical objectives developed by the German Foreign Office with the cultural program work implemented by commissioned, independent German cultural institutions in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Simultaneously, she has been working at transatlantic cultural institutions in Germany and the United States, including the Leo Baeck Institute New York I Berlin and Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles and Berlin.
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Anna-Katharina Schaper is a research associate at the EQUA Endowed Chair for Family Business Culture and Ownership at the Technical University of Munich (TUM School of Management). Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, family business, and gender in global contexts. From September 2022 to February 2023, Anna-Katharina Schaper was a visiting scholar at Babson College. Prior to joining TUM, she worked at the Chair of China Business and Economics at the University of Würzburg. She holds a BA in Political Science and Economics from Heidelberg University and a MSc in China Business and Economics from the University of Würzburg.
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Alexandra Schenke is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Amerika-Institut of LMU Munich. In addition to her BA and MA in American studies, she holds degrees in film and acting. She has worked for film and theater productions in the U.S. and Europe as well as for German dubbing studios as translator, dialogue writer, and voice actor. As lecturer, she has overseen public history projects on the transatlantic relationship and co-authored and directed a stage reading on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Her research focuses on multi-platform narratives on American heroism engineered by the Reagan White House in response to crises of national identity and leadership during the Second Cold War.
About the Moderators
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Holding an MA in American History, Culture and Society from LMU Munich, Constanze Sabathil has been passionate about the transatlantic friendship and bringing people together for more than a decade. Her experience living and studying in the United States for two years further shaped her beliefs in the importance of academic and cultural exchange opportunities. She currently serves as first female President of AGBC Munich and works for one of the most prestigious literary agencies in Germany.
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Volker Depkat ist Historiker und Professor für Amerikanistik an der Universität Regensburg. Zu seinen Hauptarbeitsgebieten gehören die Geschichte der USA von den kolonialen Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart in kontinentaler, hemisphärischer und transatlantischer Perspektive, die Geschichte der europäisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, Biographie- und Autobiographieforschung, Visual Culture Studies und Vergleichende Föderalismusforschung. Zur Zeit arbeitet er an einer Geschichte der visuellen Kultur der amerikanischen Präsidentschaft. Seit 2006 ist er Mitglied des Vorstands der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie.
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Location
Amerikahaus München
Karolinenplatz 3, 80333, München
Contact
Managing Director Bavarian American Academy
E-Mail
straub@amerika-akademie.de
Telephone
089 55 25 37-42
Administrative Assistant
Bavarian American Academy
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jfalk@amerika-akademie.de
info@amerika-akademie.de
Telephone
+49 89 552537-41
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