Half an Hour with Dr. Eric Langenbacher

Half an Hour with… is a new transatlantic discussion series organized by the Association of German-American Centers (AGAC) (German: Verbund Deutsch-Amerikanischer Zentren (VDAZ)).

Once a month, we jointly invite audiences to a 30-minute conversation with experts who provide well-informed and concise insights into the United States and German-American relations. Whether focusing on current political developments, social trends, economic perspectives, or cultural insights, Half an Hour with… brings transatlantic issues directly to your home or office. Take the opportunity to meet engaging speakers, explore different viewpoints, and contribute your own questions to the discussion.

Eric Langenbacher is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Senior Honors Program in the Department of Government, Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on comparative politics. He is also Director of the Society, Culture and Politics Program at the American-German Institute. He studied in Canada before starting graduate work at Georgetown in 1996. He was awarded a Fulbright grant in 1999-2000 and held the Ernst Reuter Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin in 1999-2000, the Hopper Memorial Fellowship at Georgetown in 2000-2001, and was selected School of Foreign Service faculty member of the year by the 2009 graduating class. He has taught at George Washington University, Washington College, and at UNSAM in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He is the author of Comparative Politics: Mapping Institutions, Power, and Legitimacy (2024), co-author of "The German Polity, 12th edition" (2021) and has also published numerous edited volumes including Power and the Past: Collective Memory and International Relations (with Yossi Shain, 2010), Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe (with Ruth Wittlinger and Bill Niven, 2013), and Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy (2024). His research interests center on political culture, collective memory, political institutions, public opinion and U.S., German and European politics, society, and business.

Watch our first installment of Half an Hour with Dr. Eric Langenbacher below: