Embassy Events Calendar
Upcoming or ongoing events with Embassy involvement include:
Teacher training seminar / Black History Month
 The Embassy of the United States of America in cooperation with LISUM
cordially invites you to participate in a Black History Month Teacher Seminar
Venue: U.S. Embassy, entrance Behrenstr. (back entrance)
Date and time: Friday, February 12, 2010; 15:00-18:00
Please try to be there by 14:30 for check-in. Bring a valid ID for identification and possibly leave your cell phone at home.
Registration: Please register via the LISUM webpage. Only participants who have registered can be admitted to the event!
Program (click to expand)
1500: Welcome Remarks Elizabeth Corwin, Cultural Attaché, U.S. Embassy
1515: Sam Fulwood, Center for American Progress, “Popular Culture and Race”
Like its media, the United States exports its popular culture around the globe. So much of that pop culture has been produced and contains racial themes. It’s an old story from Josephine Baker, James Baldwin and Miles Davis to Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey. President Obama understands this better than most modern-era presidents. He links himself with pop culture in a way to make himself and his policies popular with young people around the world. Is this another example of U.S. cultural imperialism or is it the natural evolution of black American's long unrecognized influence in shaping the cultural norms of our society and world?
(Sam Fulwood, 2009)
1600: Discussion
1700: Reception
1800: End of program
Sam Fulwood is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he analyzes the influence of national politics and domestic policies on communities of color across the United States. Prior to joining the Center, Mr. Fulwood was a metro columnist at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. During the 1990s, he was a national correspondent in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times, where he created a national race-relations beat and contributed to the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Los Angeles riots in 1992. He also worked as business editor and state political editor for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as assistant city editor, business reporter, editorial writer, and Johannesburg, South Africa bureau correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, and as a police, business, and sports reporter at The Charlotte Observer. Sam Fulwood is the author of Waking from the Dream: My Life in the Black Middle Class (Anchor, 1996) and Full of It: Strong Words and Fresh Thinking for Cleveland (Gray & Company, 2004). He is a founding contributing writer for The Root.com, an online publication targeted to the African-American online community.
The Legacy of Senator Edward Kennedy Lecture Series
 The U.S. Embassy in cooperation with the Museum THE KENNEDYS presents
Howard Rosen with a lecture on “Social Policy from Kennedy to Obama”
Venue: Museum THE KENNEDYS, Pariser Platz 4a, 10117 Berlin
Date and time: Thursday, February 18, 2010; 19:00
Reservation at IRCBerlin@state.gov by February 15, 2010
Welcome remarks by Mr. Greg Delawie, Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin.
The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Irwin Collier, John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies.
Further Information (pdf)
15. April: Ein Yankee in Europa - Mark Twains europäische Reise von Hamburg nach Florenz
 Gesellschaft für Sinn und Form e.V. / Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
Donnerstag 15. April 20 Uhr
Lesung und Gespräch
Ein Yankee in Europa
Mark Twains europäische Reise von Hamburg nach Florenz
Es liest Otto Mellies
Moderation Holger Teschke
Am 11. April 1878 begibt sich Mark Twain mit seiner Frau und seinen beiden Töchtern in New York an Bord des Dampfers „Holsatia“, um zu einer sechzehnmonatigen Europareise aufzubrechen, die ihn von Hamburg über Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, Luzern, Genf und Mailand bis nach Florenz führt. Nach dem Erfolg von Die Arglosen im Ausland und Durch dick und dünn erscheint dem gefeierten Humoristen die Alte Welt als geeignetes Ziel seiner Reise- und Spottlust. Der im Frühjahr 1880 erschienene Spaziergang durch Europa wurde schnell zu einem der beliebtesten Reisebücher seiner Zeit. Mark Twains ironischer Blick, vor allem auf die Merkwürdigkeiten der deutschen Kultur und Küche, hat bis heute nichts von seiner Schärfe und seinem Humor verloren.
16. April: Mark Twains Reise um die Welt in 365 Tagen
Gesellschaft für Sinn und Form e.V. / Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
Freitag 16. April 20 Uhr
Feature mit Musik
Dem Äquator nach !
Mark Twains Reise um die Welt in 365 Tagen
Von Holger Teschke
Es lesen Christian Grashof, Ruth Reinicke und Holger Teschke
Um nach einem Bankrott die Forderungen seiner Gläubiger bezahlen zu können, muss der sechzigjährige Twain eine Weltreise antreten, von Vancouver über Hawai, Fiji, Australien, Neuseeland, Indien, Ceylon und Mauritius bis nach Südafrika. In London angekommen, verfasst er dort mit Dem Äquator nach! eines der scharfsinnigsten und humorvollsten Reisebücher seiner Zeit. Holger Teschke stellt anlässlich von Twains 100. Todestag nicht nur die Höhepunkte seiner Weltreise, sondern auch Auszüge aus den Briefen, Tagebüchern und Interviews dieser Zeit vor.
Musikalisch begleitet wird diese Reise von englischen Shantys in den berühmten Aufnahmen von A.L. Loyd und Ewan MacColl.
Teacher training seminar: Mark Twain
“I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'”
—Mark Twain
The Embassy of the United States of America in cooperation with LISUM
cordially invites you to participate in a teacher training seminar
Rereading Mark Twain: Traveler - Writer - Social Critic
The year 2010 marks the 175th anniversary of Mark Twain’s birth and the 100th anniversary of his death – a reason to take a closer look at a writer who is still widely read and quoted daily around the world. Twain still resonates with readers because he touched on questions of social relevance which we still ask today: How does society deal with racism and religious hypocrisy, political opportunism and imperialistic drives? How do we see ourselves, and how are we viewed by other nations?
Venue: U.S. Embassy, entrance Behrenstr. (back entrance)
Date and time: Friday, April 23, 2010; 15:00-17:30
Registration: Please register via the LISUM webpage. Only participants who have registered can be admitted to the event.
Program (click to expand)
1500: Welcome remarks by Elizabeth Corwin, Cultural Attaché, U.S. Embassy
1515: Lecture by Holger Kersten, Magdeburg University
1545: Coffee break
1600: Lecture by Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico
1645: Discussion
1730: End of program
Faculty (click to expand)
Dr. Gary Scharnhorst has been teaching American literature at the University of New Mexico since 1987. A Fulbright lecturer in 1978-79, 1985-86, and 1993, he is the author or editor of eighteen books. He co-edits the journal American Literary Realism and edits in alternating years the research annual American Literary Scholarship. Gary Scharnhorst is an expert on Mark Twain. His most recent publications are Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2006) and Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain (University of Alabama Press, 2009).
Dr. Holger Kersten is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Magdeburg University. His areas of research include the representation of German-American relations in literature and popular culture, the use of nonstandard language in literature, the study of American humor, and late-nineteenth-century American literature and culture. His most recent publications are "Tramps and Hobos" (American History through Literature, 1870-1920, eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst, Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006) and "Mark Twain and Continental Europe" (A Companion to Mark Twain, eds. Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005). Dr. Kersten served as is Executive Director of the German Association for American Studies from 2005 to 2008.
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