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Schedule:  Thursday  ·  Friday  ·  Saturday  ·  Sunday

Thursday, October 17
See Friday
Arrival
Informal Reception, 5 p.m.-open
Friday, October 18
See Thursday
See Saturday
Opening remarks
9:00 a.m., Faculty Club
Michael J. Hogan, Dean, College of Humanities
Richard Herrmann, Director, Mershon Center

SESSION 1: The American Century_____

9:30 a.m., Faculty Club
"The Image of the United States in Germany"
Bowman Miller
Director, Office of Analysis for Europe, U.S. Department of State, Washington
Karsten D. Voigt
Coordinator for German-American Cooperation, Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin

Moderator: Claus Gramckow, President, Hanseatic Institute Discussion
"Awkward Relations: European Perceptions of America - American Perceptions of Europe in the 20th Century"
Volker Berghahn, Columbia University

Moderator: Mary Ellen O'Connell, Ohio State University Discussion
Lunch, 12:30 p.m., Faculty Club

SESSION 2: Politics of Culture_____

2:30 p.m., Mershon Center
"Anti-Americanism and Americanization"
Russell Berman, Stanford University

"Counter-Americanism and West German Reconstruction 1945-1955: The German Lesson Meets the American Way of Life"
Michael Ermarth, Dartmouth College

"Nurnberg and Vietnam. German Images of America in the Light of the Nazi Past"
Bernd Greiner, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung

Moderator: Bernd Fischer, Ohio State University Discussion
Dinner reception, 7:00 p.m. at the Stephan residence