The Winner Took It All: Debating the Outcome of the US-American Presidential Election 2024
Nostalgia and Constructions of National Identities
with PD Dr. Simone Knewith | apl. Prof. Dr. Jasper Trautsch | Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke | North American Studies Program, University of Bonn
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 | 6:00 c.t.-8:00 pm | Rabinstraße 8 | 53111 Bonn | Room 7
Though certainly painful and hard to digest for many voters, commentators, and observers, the outcome of the 2024 US-American presidential election was not an ‘accident’ of history – neither was the decision American citizens made in 2016. This time, though, this vote may not so much result in “chaos,” as some predicted, but set a course that was clearly foreseeable and is rapidly taking shape.
Three weeks after the election we like to debate – with our audience – the outcome of the contest and the impact that “commander-in-chief” Donald Trump and his administration can have on the institution of the USAmerican presidency, on the state of “checks and balances” in the USAmerican political system, on the future politics of the United States, and on the ongoing shifts in the global geopolitical landscape.
This event is part of the lecture series "Current Issues in the North American and Cultural Studies" of the North American Studies Program of the University of Bonn.
