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Terra Symposium

Research Colloquium Social Science: – Hans Joas (HU Berlin/University of Chicago) Book presentation of “Universalismus”

Ort: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S13 - Katharina Gerund (University of Zurich):"The Waiting Wives of the Forever Wars: Military Spouses in Post-9/11 US Culture"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

MA Thesis Presentation at the JFKI

Research Colloquium Social Science – Alexandra Scacco (WZB): “Anatomy of a Riot” (book presentation)

Ort: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S12 - Julia Faisst (TU Dortmund): "Disappearing Children: Border Narratives of Underage Migration"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Vortrag von Carl-Ludwig Holtrerich: Edward A. Tenenbaum and the Deutschmark

Ort: Raum 340 John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Andreas Heinemann-Grüder (Univerity of Bonn):"What Determines a War's End? Insights from the War in Ukraine"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Institutsratssitzung (Ersatzsitzung)

„Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung?“*

Research Colloquium: Lecture by E.J.R. Cho: “Beyond Ukraine: Russia's Arctic Strategy for Fracturing the Western Order”

BA Thesis 2025 Cohort

Book Discussion – Robert Gooding-Williams (Yale University): Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstr. 7–9, 14195 Berlin, Room 203

Unsere nächste Graduiertenfeier

4. Juli 2025

Ort: Die Zeremonie um 15 Uhr in der Arnimallee 22, Hörsaal B.001, anschließend Sektempfang in der Lansstr. 7-9, Raum 319

Research Colloquium Social Science – Kathia Serrano-Velarde (Heidelberg): “I just don’t give a shit anymore” – Future Oriented Career Agency and Precarity at the Postdoc Stage

Ort: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S11 - Christa Buschendorf (University of Frankfurt): "Artists and Intellectuals in Times of Repression: A Symposium on 'Art and Morals' at Smith College in 1953"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Aditi Mukund (Global Public Policy Institute/Humboldt Foundation): "Making Feminist Sense (?) of U.S. Foreign Policy"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Christian Anderson: "The Lasting Effects of Education during Reconstruction"

NYU Berlin American Studies Symposium 2025

Cyborg Writing Workshop for Students

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminar Room: 340

Research Colloquium Social Science - Erdem Yörük (Koç University, University of Oxford): The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey | University of Michigan Press

Ort: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

SCRIPTS and the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science Public Lecture

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S10 - Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Frozen Subjectivity: Vulnerability and Aesthetics at the End of the World.”

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Rohan Mukherjee (London School of Economics): "Rising Powers and International Order in the Age of Trump"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Raum 340

Research Colloquium: Text Reading Workshop "Reproductive Justice and the History of Grand Midwifery in the United States around 1850" by Helen Gibson

Max Steinhardt an der Türkisch-Deutschen Universität in Istanbul

Terra Symposium 2025: Queer Latinx Art

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 340

Research Colloquium Social Science – Lino Wehrheim (Universität Regensburg): TBA

Ort: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Zohal Hessami (Ruhr Uni Bochum) am Forschungsseminar für Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S09 - Katja Sarkowsky (University of Augsburg): "Writing Rivers: Water, Relationality, and Political Critique"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Rachel Tausendfreund (DGAP): "The New Right Foreign Policies"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Research Colloquium: Archival Workshop with William McAllister

Research Colloquium Social Science - Christopher Olk (FU Berlin): The political economy of national oil and gas companies in the global ‘energy transition’

Ort: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S08 - Alexis Salas (Terra Professor): “Plant Papi Politics: Queer Latinx Artists Re-grounding Nature"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Peter Trubowitz (London School of Economics): "Trump 2.0: Strategy or Chaos?"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Jessica Gienow-Hecht Speaks at Symposium: Quo vadis, America? part 2

Research Colloquium Social Science – Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow): Revisiting the political effectiveness of scapegoating: evidence from the International Monetary Fund

Ort: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S07 - Werner Sollors (Harvard University): "Approaches to American Literature in Cosmopolitan and Ethnic Contexts"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" -Hilde Eliassen Restad (Oslo Nye University College): "The Foreign Policy of the Right-Wing Counterrevolution"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Workshop "Historical Comparative Perspectives on Insurance", May 29-30, 2025

Ort: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S06 - Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University): "Karl Marx in America"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Catherine Lu (McGill University):"Can the U.S. and Canada Ever Be Friends? Inequality, Solidarity, and Political Friendship""

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Publizieren in Fachzeitschriften

Ort: Graduate School of North American Studies Lansstraße 5, 14195 Berlin

Research Colloquium: Text Reading Workshop "Be the Dictator’s Guest: Nation Brand Advertising in Authoritarian Regimes" presented by Jessica Gienow-Hecht

Research Colloquium Social Science - Ma Ming, Genia Kostka (FU Berlin): Credible Information, Strategic Signal, or Both? Authoritarian-Aligned Narratives and Public Opinion

Ort: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S05 - Sianne Ngai (University of Chicago): "Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Nathalie Tocci (Istituto Affari Internazionali): "Navigating Contradiction: Europe in an Open-Closed World"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Institutsratssitzung *abgesagt*

Ort: Raum 340

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Emily J. Levine: "Autonomy and Reciprocity: Tensions & Reconciliations in American Higher Education History"

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Justin Hart: "Executive Power and the Crisis of Modern American Democracy”

Tips for Navigating the Economic Job Market

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin RAUM 201

Andreas Ferrara (Pittsburgh University) beim Forschungsseminar für Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S04 - Heike Paul (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): "From Lost Colony to Lost Cause: American Beginnings Revisited"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Desh Girod (Georgetown University): "Frozen Assets: Greenland, Canada, and Trump's Foreign Policy"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Research Colloquium: Text Reading Workshop “Educating Liberalism: The Rockefeller Institute’s Invitation to Turkish Musicians to Set Foot in the United States” presented by Lesar Yurtsever

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S03 - Birte Christ (University of Tübingen): "Why Helmut Read Hemingway : American Authors and the Post-War (Re-)Construction of a Broad German Reading Public"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Gideon Rose (American Academy/ Council on Foreign Relations):"What's Next for European Strategy?"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Simon Voß auf der Fourth Annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Apllied Microeconomics in Crieff

Research Colloquium: Lecture by E.J.R. Cho: "Global Hibakusha: Critical Security Views on Unfinished Nuclear Suffering"

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S02 - Dustin Breitenwischer (University of Hamburg): "You just take a look at him once in a while": Ralph Ellison’s Frederick Douglass

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Jonathan D. Caverley (Masachusetts Institute of Technology /U.S. Naval War College): "Europe Can Manage, but not Avoid, Defense Industrial Dependence""

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Raum 340

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S01 - Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University): "Algorithms, Gamification, and the Ambiguities of Play in Richard Powers’s Playground"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201

Max Steinhardt auf dem internationalen Workshop zum Thema: „Discrimination, Social Inclusion and Development"

Workshop "Immigration and Refugee Inflows: The Impact on Host Country Economies“

Project Workshop "The Economics of Overcrowding"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin

Research Colloquium Social Science: Jayme Gomes (FU Berlin): The Rise and Fall of Theory in Sociology? A Sociology of Theoretical Knowledge

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201

Brown Bag Lecture "Canada and the Trump Challenge"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 203 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin

MA Colloquium Thesis Proposals

Abgesagt: Institutsratssitzung (Ersatzsitzung)

Ort: Raum 340

Research Colloquium Social Science: Dorothee Bohle (Vienna University): Gendering Growth Models

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201

Research Colloquium: Text-Based discussion led by Ethan Ruby on "Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky, Her Letters, and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway" by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel

Ringvorlesung: Small Worlds: Literature, Performativity, and Economic Modeling

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Research Colloquium Social Science: Charlotte Bartels (DIW, Universität Leipzig): Inequality and Voting: Evidence from Germany

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201

Ringvorlesung: The future of German-American relations: opportunities and challenges under the new US administration

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Raum 340

Research Colloquium Social Science: Katharina Sass (University of Bergen): Admission Impossible - School Choice in European Cities

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201

Lora Anne Viola bei Nervöse Demokratie #3 USA - Hysterie und Vernunft

Ort: Nervöse Demokratie #3 USA - Hysterie und Vernunft 20. Januar 2024 | 18:30-20:00 Uhr Humboldt Lab in the Humboldt Forum Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin, Eingang Passage 1. OG, Ausstellung „After Nature“

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Helen Gibson: “Beyond the Force of Necessity: Sacred Reciprocity in the Otherwise Practice of Grand Midwifery around the Time of the Falling Stars (1833)”

Inauguration Watch Party and Discussion

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201

Ringvorlesung: Geoeconomics and US trade policy

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Research Colloquium: Text-Based discussion led by Anne van der Pas on “Not a Shred of Evidence: Settler Colonial Networks of Concealment and the Birtle Indian Residential School” by Tyla Betke

Ringvorlesung: The Political Economy of Protests and Social Movements

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Research Colloquium Social Science: Tim White (AvH Fellow, FU Berlin): When Venture Capitalists Become Landlords: The Rise and Fall of the Co-living Start-up

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201

Carlo Schwarz beim Forschungsseminar in Wirtschaftswissenschaften

VERSCHOBEN: Lora Anne Viola bei “Nervöse Demokratie" mit Georg Diez

Ringvorlesung: The Impact of Social Media on US Politics

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Research Colloquium: Lecture by K. Bailey Thomas: "Returning to the Archive: Reclaiming the Depth of the 20th Century Black Feminist Thought"

Conference: Culture and International History at JFKI Berlin

Upcoming Lecture at the Dahlem Humanities Center: Hegel Lecture with Wendy Brown: "Listening for Political Freedom"

Ringvorlesung: Outsourcing Monetary Empire: international monetary power in the age of offshore finance

"Meet the Archivist" Lecture by Prof. Dr. William McAllister

Ringvorlesung: Monstrous Monopolies: Corporations in US Legal and Literary Fictions

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Raum 340

Upcoming Lecture by The American Academy in Berlin: Lecture by Nell Irvin Painter: "Sorjourner Truth, Self-Published Author of an As-Told-To Autobiography"

Guest lecture - Michael Kimmage (Catholic University of America): "What Is It with Russia and the United States? Explaining a Recurring Conflict"

Ort: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340

Research Colloquium Social Science: Alexander Kentikelenis (Bocconi University): Book presentation: The Making of the Washington Consensus: The US, Global Governance, and the Down of Neoliberal Globalization

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201

Ringvorlesung: Reproductive Justice and (Racial) Capitalism: Grand Midwives as Political Economic Theorists

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mike Cowburn (European University Viadrina): Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries: Faction and Ideology in the Twenty-first Century (tbc)

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340

Research Colloquium Social Science: Barbara Fritz (FU Berlin): Global financial Safety Net

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201