Workshop: Managing Racial Capital

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

Configurations of the Black Atlantic

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

Ringvorlesung: MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JFKI): “Return on Investment: 20th-Century Arts Funding and the Arts of Literary Payback”

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

An Evening with Beth Ann Fennelly - Reading and Discussion

"The Emergence of the New" - A Symposium in Honor of Heinz Ickstadt

Location: JFKI room 340

"'Go Slow Now': Faulkner and the Turmoil of Civil Rights in America"

New Media Writing: Copying, Appropriating, and Materializing in the 21st Century

Framing Violence. A Multidisciplinary Symposium on Theorizing Frames

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