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 Virtual Roundtable:

“The End of an Era? Donald Trump, Joe Biden,
and the American Presidency”

Günter Bischof (New Orleans), Cornelia Klecker (Innsbruck),
and Heike Paul (Erlangen-Nuremberg)
 

Moderator: Noam Zadoff (Innsbruck)

The 2020 US election ushered in the end of Donald Trump’s presidency. The new administration under President-elect Joe Biden will face a politically torn and socially polarized nation, exhausted by a raging pandemic and the economic crisis it created. Internationally, America is facing a new geopolitical constellation where past allies are being treated as rivals and old rivals have become partners. The aim of this roundtable is to review Trump’s four years in power and to evaluate the events between the election on November 3 and Inauguration Day on January 20, especially in the light of the Capitol Riots of January 6. The discussion will also touch upon the role of the presidency as an institution, its power and limitations.


Prof. Günter Bischof is the Marshall Plan Professor at the University of New Orleans and Director of the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans; Dr. Cornelia Klecker is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. She recently published "Trump as the 'Kardashian of Politics'? Daniel J. Boorstin's 'Pseudo-Events' and the Rise of Donald Trump" in The Journal of American Culture; Prof. Heike Paul is Chair of the department of American Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, she is director of the Bavarian American Academy in Munich and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Dr. Noam Zadoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck. Between 2014-2018 he was Assistant Professor in Israel Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. 


Contact:
Noam Zadoff
E-Mail: Noam.Zadoff@uibk.ac.at


Organizers:
Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck; Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck; Center Austria:
The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies, University of New Orleans.