Upcoming Events
Lecture Series– S13: Sönke Kunkel (FU Berlin): "The Pogues: The Body of an American (1985) -- Migration and Public History in North America"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series: Christopher Ohge (University of London) "Mastodon: 'Blood and Thunder' (2004) - Herman Melville and Computational Literary Studies"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S12: Christian Lammert (FU Berlin): Oliver Anthony: Rich Men North of Richmond (2023) -- Inequality, Trust and Populist Mobilization in the United States
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S11: Simon Voss (FU Berlin) "Bruce Springsteen: 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' (1995) California amidst Homelessness and the Fentanyl Epidemic"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S09: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock) "Beyoncé: 'Formation‘ (2016) - #BLM and Environmental Justice“
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S08: Andrew Moravcsik (American Academy Berlin/Princeton) American Academy Lecture: "More Bark than Bite? The Effect of Extreme-Right Parties on Foreign Policy"
Location: Hörsaal – Anorganik (Fabeckstr. 34-36), 14195 Berlin Coffee & Cake in R340 at John F. Kennedy Institute
Lecture Series -S07: David Grundy (FU Berlin) "The Advanced Workers with the Anti-Imperialist Singers: You Was Marching Need to be Marchin So You Can Dance Some More Later on (1976) - Music and Revolution in the Age of Disco"
Location: ONLINE via Webex
CANCELED! Lecture Series -S06: Barbara Elias (Bowdoin College) "Alice in Chains 'Rooster' (1992): Local Allies and US Strategic Failure in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan"
Location: ONLINE via Webex
Lecture Series -S05: David Eisler (De Gruyter): “ Creedence Clearwater Revival: 'Fortunate Son' (1969) - Conscription and American War Fiction since Vietnam”
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S04: Sebastian Kohl (FU Berlin) "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 'Our House' (1970) - A Historical Sociology of American Housing"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S03: Martin Lüthe (FU Berlin) "Boyz II Men: 'End of the Road' (1992) - Boyband Affectivity and North American Intersectionalities"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S02: Katharina Motyl (University of Mannheim): “‘The Maid of Monterey’ (1848) – U.S. Imperial Feminism from the Mexican-American War to the ‘War on Terror’”
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S01: Welcome, Introductiom and Discussion about “Songs that Shaped our Notions of ‘North America’”
Location: Online lecture: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mf49ec77c523d0fa33db416b7670f6301
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture:Jesse Schwartz (City University of New York) will give a talk on "The Bolshevik Revolution, Racial Socialism, and US Print Culture, 1886-1924"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Gabriele Schwab (University of California, Irvine) will give a talk on "Transspecies Imaginaries"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Katrin Horn (Universität Bayreuth) will give a talk on "Bad Manners, Good Business: Society Columns in the Late Nineteenth Century"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Julia Rosenbaum (Bard College/ Terra Foundation Visiting Professor 2023) will give a talk on "What Means This Carnage?”: Civil War Soldiers’ Bodies and the Army Medical Museum
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Lara Langer Cohen (Swarthmore College) will give a talk on "The Underground Railroad’s Undergrounds"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Nattie Golubov (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) will give a talk on "The Pleasures of Reading Popular Romance Fiction"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Joel Pfister (Wesleyan University) will give a talk on "Partners in Crime: American Movies, Systemic Complicity, and the Big Picture"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Susan Bernofsky (August-Wilhelm-von-Schlegel-Gastprofessorin für Poetik, FU Berlin) will give a talk on "Mine or Yours? Literary Translation as Creative Writing in the U.S.-American Context"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Alexandra Ganser (Universität Wien) will give a talk on "Thinking Astrofuturism with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Richard Peña (Columbia University) will give a talk on "Brave New World: Yiddish Cinema in America"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Winfried Fluck (Freie Universität Berlin) will give a talk on "Critical Theories, Populist Utopias, and Unforeseen Developments: Changing Narratives about the Mass Media in American Studies"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Ruth Mayer (Leibniz Universität Hannover) will give a talk on "The Original Flapper is a Copy: Modernist Periodicals, Serial Circulation and the Modern Girl Multiplied"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Iryna Yakovenko (Borys-Grinchenko-Universität Kyiv) will give a talk on "Chornobyl and the Exclusion Zone as a Lived Experience and a Trope in American Literature: From Nonfiction to Thrillers"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Mahshid Mayar (Universität zu Köln) will give a talk on "The World in Pieces: Home, Empire, and Childhood in the 1890s"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Shirley Thompson (University of Texas at Austin): “Charles Chesnutt, Toni Morrison, and Black Political Economy”
Location: The lecture will be held online and is hosted by the DFG Research Network "Model Aesthetics: Between Literary and Economic Knowledge." For participation and the Zoom link, please contact Elisabeth Reichel: elisabeth.reichel@uni-osnabrueck.de
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Scott Zukowski (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) will give a talk on "Freedom’s Journal and the Intermedial Power of Early Black Periodicals"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Poetry Reading and Film Screening "Audre Lorde: the Berlin Years 1984-1992"
Location: JFKI, room 340
Jane Elliott (Kings College London) will give a talk on "Live Models and the Agony of Allocative Choice”
Location: The lecture will be held on Zoom. For more on the event and how to register, please visit the homepage of the research network: https://model-aesthetics.com/events/
Mary Morgan (LSE) will give a talk on "Narrative Practices with Models”
Location: The lecture will be held on Zoom. For more on the event and how to register, please visit the homepage of the research network: https://model-aesthetics.com/events/
Leigh Claire La Berge (City University of New York) "Decommodified Labor: Work and Culture after the Wage"
Location: Online via Webex: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m1ef3109a105de58a69997cc907c47160
CANCELLED: Matthias Erdbeer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster): “Notes on Modelling: A Poetics of Conceptual Representation"
Location: Online via webex: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m5328f7e562eb4581fe1d067a7f6f0532
CANCELLED: Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (Universität Würzburg) will give a talk on “Everybody’s Protest Poem: Articulating Translation in Perspectives / Perspektiven USA”
Location: This lecture will be rescheduled for a date in the winter term.
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Myka Tucker-Abramson (University of Warwick | Humboldt Fellow) will give a talk on “The Road Novel’s Spatial Fix: Towards a Materialist Theory of the Road Novel”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Michael Thomas (Susquehanna University | Humboldt Fellow) will give a talk on “W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetic Problem(s) of Race”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Angela Miller (Washington University in St. Louis) will give a talk on “Unbounded: The Expanded Worlds of the 1940s”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Sanders Isaac Bernstein (University of Southern California | Visiting Researcher) will give a talk on “American (Proto) Fascism, 1914-1933”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m8cd74d269d7a7440ee91ed62f5b262c9
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Klaus Benesch (Universität München) will give a talk on “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: David Getsy (School of the Arts Institute Chicago | Terra Visiting Professor) will give a talk on “Enduring out: Geoffrey Hendricks’s Ring Piece and the Ambivalence of Queer Visibility in 1971”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m4831f1dc2ab5397a4d9dd1c892b418f3
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Merve Emre (University of Oxford | Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin) will give a talk on “Once More, the Return to Philology”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Sabine Sielke (Universität Bonn) will give a talk on “Feminism Reloaded? The Serial Debate on Sexual Harassment and Violence, or: What’s New about #MeToo?”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Robert Reid-Pharr (Harvard University) will give a talk on “Archives and Icons: James Baldwin and the Practice of Celebrity”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Moritz Ingwersen (TU Dresden) will give a talk on “Indigenous Petrofiction: Settler-Colonial Extractivism and the Resurgence of Fossils”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Allison Blakely (Boston University) will give a talk on“Europe as African and African-American Refuge from Racism: Germany’s Record”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin) will give a talk on “Enslavement in British Memorial Culture: Between Nostalgia and Toppled Monuments”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Simon Strick (ZeM Brandenburg) will give a talk on “American Studies Uncanceled"
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Lecture Series: Harald Wenzel (FU Berlin) will talk about "Communicating the Dust Bowl Crisis. Disaster Management, Compassion and the Media"
Location: Online (via the Cisca based Software Webex events). Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ecfe4832ee1ee9f1b6cb75384edf2711b
Lecture Series: Birte Wege (FU Berlin) will talk about "Drawing Fire: War Journalism meets Graphic Narrative in Emmanuel Guibert's The Photographer"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7d5e2c9af27304e3a25d4200a19d7c3e
Lecture Series: Betsy Leimbigler (FU Berlin) will talk about "Power, Inclusion, and the politics of COVID-19: Policy responses”
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e2062da461df5b2bea86478f90bd57324
Lecture Series: David Getsy (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) will talk about "Viral Sites: Scott Burton’s Sculpture, Undetectability, and Public Art in the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee23aba73ffafe15f6ac0402602b633ae
Salvador Santino Regilme (Leiden University) will talk about "From the 9/11 Terror Attacks to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States and Beyond: The Politics of Dehumanization and Human Rights "
Location: Online via the Cisca based Software Webex events. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea61e948cf6077da7d39acbdd71f663b8
Lecture Series: Ana-Constantina Frost (FU Berlin) will talk about "Disaster, Diseases and Displacement: Migration Control in the 21st Century"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e35f8032505562f51da26e3476987bb5c
Lecture Series: Eva Horn (Universität Wien) will talk about "Pandemic as Political Phantasy"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5f17bf3a56bce525036a9afac64a3565
Lecture Series: Bert Hoffmann (FU Berlin/GIGA Berlin) will talk about "How yellow fever and malaria made America great - and why we know so little about it"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e0be36cd139517be564326ff8103ba85f
Lecture Series. Cameron Seglias (FU Berlin) will talk about "Slavery, Colonial Crisis, and the Biopolitics of Containment in Eighteenth-Century America"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events). Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e2ba9f3bd82c9d19bf0f4c9274c5d50d4
Lecture Series: Daniel Dieckelmann (FU Berlin) will talk about "Recurring Catastrophes: Causes and Consequences of Financial Crises in North America"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events). Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e75bd09e6296efdfa4f47c90d6e948379
Susanne Strätling (FU Berlin): Kulturtechniken der (Corona-)Krise: Distanzierung, Isolierung, Annullierung“
Location: The talk was recorded and is available under the following link: https://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/institut/mediothek/Grundlagenvorlesung/index.html
Lecture Series: Gareth Davies (Oxford University) will talk about "Understanding the Trump Administration’s Response to COVID - Can History Help?"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ef7182af08e84f1c9c8f8d9869a178c16
Lecture Series: Disaster and Disease in North America
Location: Online. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7aaced9fc6339608e0fe39587678686e
Peter Wortsman A Reading from/ *Stimme und Atem. Out of Breath, Out of Mind*/
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201
Re: The State of the Art. On Contemporary Poetry
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Madeleine Thien Reading
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
FU Review Reading
Location: JFKI Literature Department Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Yaa Gaysi Reading
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Sabine Broeck (Universität Bremen)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institut Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Chloé Thomas (Université Paris VIII)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Jose Saldívar (Stanford University)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Andrea Carosso (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Extra Session Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Richard Dyer (King’s College London/St. Andrews University)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 340
Lan Samantha Chang (Author & Director, Iowa Writers' Workshop): Reading & Discussion of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Program
Location: Raum 319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Marc Jancovich (University of East Anglia)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Fraenkel Lecture: Hortense Spillers, "To the Bone: Some Speculations on Touch"
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 Raum 340
Extra Session Research Colloquium Literature/Culture Samuel Zipp (Brown University)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Liam Kennedy (UCD Clinton Institute)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstr. 7-9 room 201
Extra Session Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Rosalind Gill (City, University of London)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Kathleen Loock (FU Berlin / DRS Fellow)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstr. 7-9 room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Lauren Kroiz (UC Berkeley/Terra Visiting Professor)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
"Exemplary Singularity - Fault Lines of the Anecdotal"
Location: Raum 340
ERASMUS Information Day at the JFKI
Location: JFKI, room 203
Erasmus+ Infotag
Location: Seminarzentrum der Freien Universität Berlin, Raum L 113 und L 115, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series: Martyn Bone (Copenhagen University): “The U.S. South, the Caribbean, and the Spirit (Possession) of Capitalism: Zora Neale Hurston, Russell Banks, and Erna Brodber”
Location: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b
Lecture Series: Ulfried Reichardt (University of Mannheim): “’Money ... is more mental than metal’: Representations of Money, Masculinity, and Time in US-American Fiction”
Location: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b
Lecture Series: Eva Boesenberg (Humboldt University of Berlin): “Gold and Genocide – Rethinking Money and Gender in Naturalism through Settler Colonialism”
Location: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b
Sean Bonney (Freie Universität Berlin) "Our Death"
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Martin Lüthe (JFKI, Freie Universität Berlin) “Money Television? Cribs, Bling-Bling, and Pop Music Performance in the MTV Era”
Location: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b
Lecture Series: Markus Kienscherf ( JFKI): “Primitive Accumulation and the Violence of Capital”
Location: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b
Caroline Levander (Rice University) De-Ciphering American Literature: 1945 - 1840 - 2016
Location: Room 340