MAY 24, 2018
11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Registration
1:00 – 2:30 pm: Welcome and Opening
2:30 – 4:00 pm: Session I
The Intercultural Transfer of Knowledge and Concepts about Higher Education: George Ticknor as Cultural Mediator between Schulpforta and Harvard
Prof. Dr. Thomas ADAM, University of Texas Arlington (TX), USA
Translating Prussian Schools: The Cousin Report in France, England, and America
Dr. David KOMLINE, Western Theological Seminary, Holland (MI), USA
"The Past and Present State of Education, in the United States, and in Foreign Countries" – Foreign Education Systems in U.S. Educational Periodicals, 1830–1890
Fanny ISENSEE, HU Berlin
4:30 – 6:00 pm: Keynote Speech
Prof. Dr. Eckhardt FUCHS, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig
(Lecture Hall: JO1)
MAY 25, 2018
9:00 – 10:30 am: Session II
Second Founders in Göttingen: the origins of modern German-American legal education, 1816–1829
Dr. Mark SOMOS, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
But Can the Farm Travel? Agricultural Education and Networks of Agricultural Knowledge between Germany and the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century
Justus HILLEBRAND, University of Maine (ME), USA
Germanic Influences on the School Camping movement in the United States, 1920–1950
Kristen HENGTGEN, Indiana University Bloomington (IN), USA
10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Session III
Die Rezeption hallescher Pädagogik in der Kolonie Georgia
Christine Marie KOCH, Universität Paderborn
"die Schule ist [eins] der nothwendigsten Stüke. Bei den meisten alten ist alles umsonst. Die Schule gibt uns eine Hoffnung beßerer Zeiten" – Hallesche Pastoren und pietistischer Schulunterricht in Pennsylvania 1745–1800
Jan-Hendrik EVERS, Universität Göttingen
Der hallesche Pastor Johann Christoph Kunze (1744–1807) und sein Bemühen um eine in Nordamerika stationierte Predigerausbildung
Markus BERGER, HU Berlin
1:45 – 3:15 pm: Session IV
Deutsche Studierfähigkeitstests 'made in USA'. Zur Zirkulation und Transformation psychometrischen Wissens und Materialien zwischen der BRD und den USA (1960–1980)
Dr. Cristina ALARCÓN, HU Berlin
Die Tragödie der Prognose: deutsch-amerikanische Bildungskrisenerzählungen um 1870 und 1960
Bernhard HEMETSBERGER, Universität Wien, Österreich
The Encyclopedia as "travelling object" – Monroe's "Cyclopedia of Education", its reception of German reference books and its influence on the formation of the academic field of education studies
Daniel TÖPPER, HU Berlin
3:45 – 5:15 pm: Session V
"Transnational Chameleons" – An Alternative History of Teachers, Children and Developments of Professional Teacher Knowledge in European and U.S. Normal Schools
Jil WINANDY, Universität Wien, Österreich
Sun Young LEE, University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI), USA
Internationalisierung der Lehrer_innenbildung. Wissens- und Kulturtransfer durch das Fulbright-Stipendienprogramm für Referendar_innen und junge Lehrer_innen (1952–1974)
Sarah WEDDE, Universität Kassel
MAY 26, 2018
9:00 – 10:30 am: Session VI
Sarmiento und seine Reisen
Prof. Dr. Marcelo CARUSO, HU Berlin
"The State’s first duty": Public Education and the Liberal Conundrum in American Educational Reports from Germany
Prof. Dr. Luana SALVARANI, University of Parma, Italy
Joseph Hudnuts Ideen zur Umgestaltung der Architektenausbildung an der Graduate School of Design der Harvard University
Tim ZUMHOF, WWU Münster
10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Conclusion and Outlook
12:15 – 12:30 pm: Closing remarks