Formal inauguration of the John McCloy Transatlantic Forum. Charles A. Kupchan, advisor of the Obama administration, gave the keynote address
On Friday, November 4, 2022, the John McCloy Transatlantic Forum was officially inaugurated before a full auditorium in the lecture hall of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften. As a platform for dialogue with the public, the forum is closely linked to the interdisciplinary research project »Democratic Vistas. Reflections on the Atlantic World« based at the FKH, which is headed by the political scientist Gunther Hellmann and the American studies scholar Johannes Voelz.
The forum is named after John J. McCloy, who served as U.S. High Commissioner in Frankfurt from 1949 to 1952. In a moving speech, the now 85 year old son of the High Commissioner recalled his father's efforts to build up German civil society in the postwar period. The keynote address was given by the American political scientist and advisor of the Obama administration Charles A. Kupchan. It was entitled »The Liberal Anchor of the World To Come: The Enduring Strengths and Vulnerabilities of the West«.
Booklet
Please read the keynote address by Charles A. Kupchen and the recollections of John J. McCloy II in the booklet of the inaugural event. (download of the booklet)
Video
The video of the inauguration is available on the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften YouTube channel.
Photos (by Stefanie Wetzel)
John J. McCloy II
Guests at the inauguration of the John McCloy Transatlantic Forum (front row, left side: McCloy family, right side: Alexander Hetjes, Lord Mayor of Bad Homburg and Enrico Schleiff, President of Goethe University)
John J. McCloy II
Keynote: Charles Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Johannes Völz (Americanist; Speaker of Democratic Vistas), Charles Kupchan, Gunther Hellmann (Political scientist; Speaker of Democratic Vistas)
Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Director of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften and Enrico Schleiff, President of Goethe-University with Charles Kupchan
Alexander Hetjes, Lord Mayor of Bad Homburg and Iris Koban, Managing Director of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
Michael MacGregor McGehee, Rush McCloy, John McCloy II, Laura McCloy, John McCloy III, Bernd von Maltzan
Media response
3 November 2022, Web magazine of Goethe University
»Besuch nach 70 Jahren: Familie des früheren amerikanischen Hohen Kommissars McCloy an der Goethe-Uni« – (Read report here, in German)
4 November 2022, Web magazine of Goethe University
»Formal inauguration of the John McCloy Transatlantic Forum at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften« – (Read press release here)
4 November 2022, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»John McCloy und die fremde Heimat« – (Read article here, in German)
7 November 2022, Frankfurter Rundschau
»Gemeinsam Demokratie verteidigen« – (Read article here, in German)
14 November 2022, Frankfurter Rundschau
»Mit Eisenhower Eisenbahn gespielt« – (Read article here, in German)
8 December 2022, UniReport 6.2022 of Goethe University
»Vertiefender Diskurs über transatlantische Beziehungen« – (Read article here, in German)