American Culture in Europe.
Americanization and Anti-Americanism after 1945.

Contributions are solicited for a book with ten essays tracing the impact of American culture on the following European countries: France, East/West Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Netherlands/Benelux, Poland/Central Europe, Scandinavia, Spain, and the Soviet Union/Russia. Each essay would employ an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the reception of American culture, including an emergence of cultural anti-Americanism, in one of these countries. It is suggested that the following topics are addressed in every contribution:

• U.S. government programs (libraries, exchanges, Radio Free Europe, Congress for Cultural Freedom/CIA)
• high brow culture (literature, theater, arts)
• popular culture (jazz/rock/pop, film, TV, youth culture, life style)
• anti-Americanism (initiatives by European governments, language purism, conservative and leftist reactions, regionalism/nationalism)

At an early stage of the project contributors will have the opportunity to discuss the parameters of the book during a week-long workshop planned at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, or a similar facility. Funding for travel to this workshop and for publication subsidies has been secured.

Please address your reply before 1 February 2003, preferably by e-mail, to
Alexander Stephan
Professor of German and Ohio Eminent Scholar
Mershon Center for the Study of International Security
Ohio State University
1501 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201-2602
USA
Tel. 614-247-6068
Fax 614-292-2407
e-mail: stephan.30@osu.edu