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 Virtual Roundtable:

“The First 100 Days of the Biden Administration:
An American Recovery?”

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

Moderator: Noam Zadoff (Innsbruck)

When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were inaugurated on January 20, 2021, they knew they would have to face a great number of (nearly) unprecedented challenges: a raging pandemic with yet no concerted federal response, the related worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, and a sharp rise in white supremacist, anti-democratic, and authoritarian forces among the American populace. On the international stage, the main two challenges are reviving the Iran Nuclear Deal and restoring trust in the relationships with international allies. April 30, 2021, marks the 100th day of this new administration, a benchmark that has often been used to determine the tone and efficacy of a presidency in past decades. The aim of this virtual roundtable is to review the first 100 days of Biden’s presidential term and, among other questions, discuss whether he has managed to live up to his call for unity amidst ongoing Republican opposition, at times amounting to obstructionism.

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 and Deputy Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck; 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.