German Studies Association’s Annual Conference
The German Studies Association‘s annual conference brings together over a thousand scholars to engage with research, teaching and public scholarship on German-speaking lands’ diverse histories, cultures, languages, and politics in global contexts. DWIH NY is proud to support this event.
The German Studies Association is the multi- and interdisciplinary association of scholars in German, Austrian, and Swiss history, literature, culture studies, political science, and economics. GSA holds an annual conference and publishes a scholarly journal, the German Studies Review. Members are generally professors and advanced students at universities and colleges in North America, although there are several hundred members in Europe and Asia. Membership is open to anyone. The GSA is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
You can find the program here.
Annual Banquet of the Association
Friday, September 26, 7:30 – 9:30 PM
The DAAD and the German Studies Association are pleased to announce this year’s academic prize awards. Honorees include recipients of the DAAD/GSA Book and Article Prize and the Prize for the Best Essay in German Studies by a Graduate Student. Also recognized are winners of the David Barclay Book Prize and the Radomir Luza Prize. The Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize will also be awarded. Together, these prizes celebrate outstanding scholarship and contributions to the field of German Studies.
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Marina Henke is a researcher and author on military interventions, peacekeeping, nuclear security and European security and defense policy. She currently works as Professor of International Relations at the Hertie School (Berlin, Germany). She is also the director of the Hertie Centre for International Security. Her current research focuses on intervention decision-making, nuclear security, and U.S. and European Grand Strategy. Her academic work has been published in International Security, Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Strategic Studies, International Peacekeeping, Providing for Peacekeeping, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and Conflict Management and Peace Science among others. She is also the author of Constructing Allied Cooperation: Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019). The book was awarded the Lepgold Book Prize for best book in international relations in 2019, the APSA International Collaboration Section "Best Book Award" 2020, and the ISA Diplomatic Studies "Best Book Award" 2021.Dr. Marina Henke, Professor of International Relations at the Hertie School in Berlin (Germany), Director of the Hertie Centre for International Security
Moderated by:
Dr. Jan Lüdert is Head of Programs at the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York. Jan earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He holds Harvard Kennedy’s School Public Leadership Credential; a First-Class Honors MA in International Relations from the Australian National University; and a BA in Public Policy from Hamburg University for Economics and Politics. He previously served as Associate Professor at City University of Seattle where he was the inaugural Director of Curriculum and Instruction. He held positions as Visiting Research Scholar at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at City University of New York's Graduate Center as well as Research Associate with the DFG 'Dynamics of Security' project at Philipps Marburg University. He is an alumnus of Seattle's World Affairs Council Fellows and UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues Scholar programs.Dr. Jan Lüdert, German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York