Interdisziplinäre Lehre: Meeting Global Challenges
Donald Trump Returns to the White House
Exploring Challenges Ahead From Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Registration
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All students can register for one module. You can specify two preferences. Please use the numbers “1” and “2”. If you have not been assigned a place in the project after the end of the assignment and are still interested in participating, please contact sibel.yildirim[@]ipw.rwth-aachen.de directly.
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Academic Responsibility
Professor for Political Science at the RTWH Aachen University, responsible for Political Systems
Contact Person
CHIARA SCHUMANN, B.A.
Schedule
Start
23.04.2025
Time
Wednesday, 6:30-8:00 pm
Place
1220 SB Maschinenwesen
Eilfschornsteinstr. 18
Contents
The 2024 U.S. Elections have received a great deal of attention. The controversial figure, Donald Trump being re-elected to the presidency, along with further controversial political ideas, persons, and more, trigger much discussion and debate. However, these develop-ments also invite a more in-depth and interdisciplinary academic look at the elections, the political system of the U.S, but also further facets and topics occasioned – and numerous challenges posed – by the recent U.S. elections and the new U.S. Presidential Administration: e.g. from foreign policy and international relations, politics of climate change, to digitaliza-tion, media and artificial intelligence, to name a few. This Leonardo lecture series will bring together political science, but also a variety of further disciplinary perspectives.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will learn how the US political system works
- Students will develop a basic understanding of the political, economic and social developments in the USA, including the connection with Donald Trump’s second term in office
- Students will develop a basic understanding of the gobal implications of the US foreign policy shift
Program
23.04.2025
Introduction and State of the Union
Prof. Dr. Jared Sonnicksen
Professor for Political Science at the RTWH Aachen University, responsible for Political Systems
Director of the IPW, Internationalization Officer of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
30.04.2025
Athwart History: Conservatism in a Revolutionary Nation
Prof. Dr. Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
Political Theory & American Studies, University of St. Gallen
07.05.2025
The U.S. in Comparative Perspective of Democratic-Backsliding
Dr. Mahir Tokatlı
Institute for Political Science, RWTH-Aachen
14.05.2025
A Primer on Risk and Risk-Perception in Uncertain Times
Prof. Dr. Katrin Arning
Junior Professor for Risk perception and communication
21.05.2025
An Academic’s and Practitioner’s Perspective from Local Level
Prof. Dr. Marold Wosnitza
Lord Mayor of Zweibrücken
Institute of Educational Science
28.05.2025
Dr. Mayssoun Zein al Din
Academy of International Affairs NRW
Director of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy for International Politics
18.06.2025
Toward a New World (Dis)Order? The New U.S. Foreign Policy and its Impact on International Relations
Prof. Dr. Ralph Rotte, RWTH Aachen
Professor for International Relations; RWTH-Aachen
25.06.2025
Donald Trump and the Politicization of Justice and the Judiciary
Prof. Dr. Pawel Laidler
Institute of American Science and Polish Diaspora | Jagiellonian University Krakow
02.07.2025
Concluding Session & Podium Discussion
possibly Prof. Dr. Stephan Böschen
Holder of the Chair of “Technology and Society” at the Human Technology Center at RWTH Aachen University
Director of the Käte Hamburger International Center „Research Cultures“
Spokesperson of the HumTec, RWTH Aachen University
Rector’s Delegate for the Leonardo Project at the HumTec, RWTH Aachen University
Procedure/Working method
Depending on the course of studies, module and examination, credit points can be achieved through participation. If you would like to take an exam, please make sure beforehand how you can get credit for it in your degree program. Of course, you can also take exams without receiving curricular credit for them. Visit our FAQs for more information.
Certificate
Certificate of Participation (0 CP, not graded)
Protocol with critical analysis (2 CP, not graded)
Term Paper as a learning portfolio (4 CP)
