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Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Jose Saldívar (Stanford University)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute 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: Sabine Broeck (Universität Bremen)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institut Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield)
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
An Evening with Tom Franklin (University of Mississippi) - Reading and Discussion
Location: JFKI Room 201
Ernst Fraenkel Lecture by Frederick C. Moten (UC Riverside): "The History of Blackness"
Location: JFKI Room 340
"The Emergence of the New" - A Symposium in Honor of Heinz Ickstadt
Location: JFKI room 340
Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo, New York) 'All the slain soldiers':Poetry and the American Civil War’
Location: 201
Dr. James Dorson (JFK Institut) “Emotional Labor in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth”
Location: room 201