Another Marshall Plan? Myths and Truths 75 years later

Yet, the connection between prosperity and pluralism is not simple. Democracy doesn’t happen by accident. Nationalism is resurgent even in Europe and the single market, developed to world level, can produce violent identity backlashes. But when it comes to rebuilding Ukraine – and perhaps even post-Putin Russia – the discussion is: Will another Marshall Plan be indispensable as political blueprint and inspiration?
A panel of experts debates.

A cooperation of the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS, the U.S. Embassy Berlin, and the Humboldt Lab.

PARTICIPANTS

David Ellwood is Senior Adjunct Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe. Since 2020 he has been a Fellow at Einaudi Foundation in Turin, Italy. Until November 2012 he was associate professor of contemporary international history at the University of Bologna and president of the International Association for Media and History (1996-2002). His research focuses on American (cultural) power in contemporary European history. Among numerous others his large scale work “America and the Politics of modernization in Europe (2021) was published by Oxford University Press in July 2021 as was “The Shock of America. Europe and the Challenge of the Century” (2016). Ellwood is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to academic journals, policy forums and news outlets.

Professor Dr. Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht is a historian for international and North American history, Chair of the Department of History at the John F. Kennedy for North American History (Freie Universität Berlin), former Heisenberg fellow as well as holder of the Alfred Grosser Chair at Sciences Po (Paris). She hast taught at numerous Universities in Germany, the U.S. and in Japan. Gienow-Hecht’s most recent research and publications focus on humanitarianism and nation branding; specifically on the link between humanitarianism, interventionism, gender and self-representation in U.S. foreign relations. She has worked as a journalist (FAZ, Die Welt, Süddeutsche, Neue Rhein-/Ruhr Zeitung and others), and continues to appear in the media with contributions related to transatlantic relations and North America.

Sergey Lagodinsky is a German Member of the European Parliament in the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance. He chairs the EU-Turkey Delegation and member of the Legal Affairs and Civil Liberties/Home Affairs committees. Until June 2019 he was the Head of European Union and North America Division of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Formerly Sergey Lagodinskyworked as a lawyer for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Program Director and Advisor to the Board for the Berlin Office of the American Jewish Committee. His expertise lies in transatlantic relations, international and constitutional law, as well as law and politics of diversity and integration. In his 2014 book Contexts of Antisemitism, he explores the relationship between anti-Semitism and freedom of expression in Germany and in international law. Lagodinsky is a regular guest and commentator in numerous media.

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- Duration: 60 min
- 14 years and older
- German
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- Humboldt Lab, 1st floor
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