The Widening Atlantic:
Market Gap, War Gap, God Gap
The three substantial challenges facing Europe and the United States. A presentation by Professor Detlef Junker, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 11 A.M.
Social Sciences & Business Building (SSB), Room 331
People on both sides of the Atlantic greeted the victory of the West in 1989-90 with euphoric expectations. The triumphal procession of freedom, private ownership and capitalism, of liberty and property, would march beyond Europe’s and America’s borders into other parts of the world. Today, powerful centrifugal forces endanger the cohesion of the West.
This lecture will focus on structural differences between the U.S. and Europe that are shaped by different political systems and values on both sides of the Atlantic. I will present a brief sketch of three major gaps between the Old World and the New World – as I see it: Market Gap, War Gap, God Gap.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Detlef Junker. Historian, Public Intellectual, Transatlantic Institution Builder. Since 2004 Founding Director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. 1999 – 2004 Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History, Heidelberg University. From 1994 – 1999 Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. From 1975 – 1994 Professor of Modern History, Heidelberg University. Publications on U.S. History, especially U.S. Foreign Policy, Transatlantic Relations, German History and Theory of History. 
Publications: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/djunker_en.html 
Join us for a special presentation after the lecture in the German Culture Center. Profesor Junker will discuss the M.A. in American Studies program at the University of Heidelberg. Snacks and light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to gcc@umsl.edu by October 22.
12:30 P.M. German Culture Center
Social Sciences & Business Building (SSB), Suite 427
A PARKING PERMIT is required for ALL visitors to UMSL. To request your FREE permit for this event, visit our website at umsl.edu/isp and click on "Event Registration"  or call 314-516-7299
UMSL International Studies & Programs
Manage your preferences | Opt out using TrueRemove™
Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails.
View this email online.
366 Social Sciences & Business Building One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO | 63121-4400 US
This email was sent to .
To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.
Subscribe to our email list.