Termine
Simon Voss präsentiert auf der 41st AIEL Conference
Ort: Universität Roma Tre
Workshop mit Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Ort: Zimmer 340
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Nicole Waller (Universität Potsdam). “Posthumanism, Indigenous Studies, and Black Studies on Turtle Island: Conversations and Incommensurabilities”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung "gender, sexuality, power" | Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Poet + Activist):"The Rhythm of Gray Whales Praying": Audre Lorde and the Future of Earth.
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
JFKI and FMI BA Conference
Ever wondered what topics BA students dedicate months of research to? From German history and gender studies to global power structures, our BA Student Conference offers insight into the diversity of undergraduate research. The JFKI & FMI BA Student Conference brings together undergraduate students from the Friedrich Meinecke Institute and the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin to present their current research projects in history, culture, politics, and society. Join us for a day of engaging presentations that showcase how diverse, critical, and innovative BA-level research can be. The conference offers a space for academic exchange, discussion, and the exploration of ideas that connect past and present.
Ort: Lansstraße 7-9, Rm 319
Graduiertenfeier 2026
10. Juli 2026
Ort: Zeremonie: Arnimallee 22, Hörsaal B.001, Sektempfang: JFK-I, Lansstr. 7-9, Raum 319
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Hunter Hargraves (California State University, Fullerton): “Democracy Dies in the Edit: American Tribalism and Late-Stage Reality Television”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Institutsratssitzung
Ort: Lansstr. 7-9, Raum 201
Ringvorlesung "gender, sexuality, power" | Jeannine DeLombard (University of California, Santa Barbara): "Wife, Daughter, Spinster, Litigant: Black Women & Girls in the 1st US Civil Rights Movement"
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Archival Workshop with William McAllister
Ort: Room 319
Simon Voss präsentiert auf der 2nd Berlin PhD Conference in Economics
Ort: Berlin School of Economics
Writing Retreat: Between Empire and Exile -- African American Thought and the German Colonial Imagination
Ort: Oxford Room (Stabi Lab) Unter Den Linden 8 10117 Berlin
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Stefanie Schäfer (Universität Mannheim):“Fact & Fiction, Fashion & Feminism: Towards a Critical Study of the First Lady”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Shane Denson (Stanford University): “Art & Artifice, or: What AI Means for Aesthetics.”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
RVL “gender, sexuality, power”| | Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University + MVBZ, FU Berlin): "Queer Little Splinters Everywhere: Asexual Challenges to Sex Scarcity Research and Queer Theory’s Continued Investment in Obligate Sex
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Julia Zimmermann beim Research Colloquium Social Sciences
Julia Zimmermann (Carlos III Madrid)
Ort: Raum 201 John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Workshop mit Ela Przybyło
Ort: Zimmer 340
Global History Colloquium / FMI Mid-Term Lecture: Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick) on "The Object of History: How Things Can Help Us Write Early Modern History"
Ort: Koserstraße 20 A336
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Maria Sulimma (Universität Freiburg): “Trivial Pursuits: Narrative, Leisure, and the Gentrifying City”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung "gender, sexuality, power" | Nathalie Rennhack (FU Berlin):“I would descend with celebrity to posterity” - Female Authorship and Authority in the Early Republic
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Jennifer Fleissner (University of Chicago): “The Recalcitrant Self: From Collectivity to Interdependence”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Conference "Dilemmas of Interdependence"
Ort: JFKI for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
María Cecilia Schwedhelm Ramirez und Veronica Bayiha ñwa Quillien: "Language Reclamation as Reproductive Justice"
Ort: GEBÄUDEWECHSEL: Veranstaltung an Iltisstraße 1-4, Room K009
Freya Rubel präsentiert bei dem Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop
Ort: Stockholm School of Economics
Simon Voss präsentiert auf der ESPE 2026 Annual Conference
Ort: Espoo und Helsinki
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Christa Dierksheide (University of Virginia) & Nicholas Guyatt (Cambridge University): “Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung "gender, sexuality, power" | Anna Marta Marini (Humboldt Fellow, FU Berlin): "Disposable Lives, Ethnoracialized Bodies and Genderscapes on the U.S.-Mexican Border"
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Dr. Reiko Füting, Composer and Professor, Manhattan School of Music Speaking as part of Kira Alvarez’s seminar “Politics of Sound: The Twentieth-Century Classical Music World in the United States” Seminar
Ort: Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 340
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Mark Rifkin (University at Buffalo):“Indigenous Erotics, Leaky Bodies, and Grounded Relations: Queer Native Placemaking in Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Institutsratssitzung
Ort: Lansstr. 7-9, Raum 201
Ringvorlesung "gender.sexuality, power" | Annelot Prins (Independent Researcher):"Billionaire Aesthetics: Taylor Swift, Labor Extremism, and the Cultural Politics of Work and Power"
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Max Steinhardt präsentiert auf bei dem 5th Gender and Economics Workshop
Ort: Universität Luxemburg
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Simon Strick (Independent Scholar):“On Fascistization, or American Culture as Bad Object”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung "gender, sexuality, power" | Elahe Haschemi Yekani + Anne Potjans (HU Berlin: “What rises up within, between us?”: Race and Intersectionality in Literary Studies
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Günter Leypoldt (Universität Heidelberg):“Literature and Networks: A Socio-Institutional Perspective on Literary History”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
American Academy Lecture | Maaza Mengiste (Wesleyan University, Author + American Academy Berlin Fellow): Author Reading and Discussion
Ort: Henry-Ford-Bau Hörsaal A Garystr. 35/37 14195 Berlin
Sven Hartmann beim Social Sciences Research Colloquium
Sven Hartmann (Uni Trier)
Ort: Raum 201 John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Renae Watchman (McMaster University / Mercator Fellow, Universität Potsdam): “Re-storying Indigenous Identity Claims in Literary and Creative Arts.”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Institutsratssitzung
Ort: Lansstr. 7-9, Raum 201
Ringvorlesung "gender, sexuality, power" | Birte Wege (FU Berlin): Staging Identity in American Theater: Two Case Studies
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Rüdiger Bachmann beim Research Seminar Economics
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft Boltzmannstraße 20, 14195 Berlin Kaminzimmer, Raum 202
Inaugural Ernst Fraenkel Lecture | Brook Thomas (UC Irvine): Birthright Citizenship, Ltd.: The Controversy over Trump’s Executive Order 14610”
Ort: Großer Hörsaal B.001 Arnimallee 22 14105 Berlin
Ringvorlesung "gender, sexuality, power" | Joanna Arnow (Filmmaker + DAAD Berlin Fellow) - Conversation with Madita Oeming
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Taylan Alpkaya beim Social Sciences Research Colloquium
Taylan Alpkaya (Uni Mannheim)
Ort: Raum 201 John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Unterhaltung mit dem Schriftsteller Doug Woodham
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Anna Marta Marini (JFKI Humboldt Fellow): "Ethnoracial Borderscapes, Latinx Assimilationism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments in US Cinema"
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung "gender, sexuality, power" | Film Screening “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed “ (dir. Joanna Arnow)
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur | Florian Sedlmeier (Universität Hamburg):“Free Indirect Positions: Sebastian Barry’s Historical Novels”
Ort: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung "gender, sexuality, power" | Helen Gibson (FU Berlin): "Reproductive Justice as Anti-Fascist Practice"
Ort: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Freya Rubel at the Annual Conference of the Economic History Society
Ort: London School of Economics and Political Science
Environmental Shocks and Marriage Formation: Evidence from the Dust Bowl
Ort: Universidad Carlos III in GETAFE (Calle Madrid nº 135; Edificio (Building) 18, Carmen Martín Gaite) Room 18.1.A.07
Verschoben: End of Term Party 2026
Ort: JFK-I, Lansstr. 7-9, 2nd floor
Ringvorlesung S16: Wrap-Up and Overview
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Institutsratssitzung
Ort: Raum 201
Ringvorlesung S15: Frank Kelleter (FU Berlin): ”Theorizing Loss, Losing Theory: Styles of Coping in the Elegiac Humanities, 2008-2025"
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Ringvorlesung S14: Giacomo Tagiuri (University of Amsterdam): “The Governance of Loss”
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Ringvorlesung S13: Sherry Lee Linkon (Georgetown University): “Black Struggle and Resilience: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Portraits of Deindustrialized Communities”
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Ringvorlesungs S12: Stefanie Müller (FU Berlin): “Climate Change Memoirs”
Ort: Different venue: Henry Ford Bau Hörsaal A Garystr. 35-37
Institutsratssitzung
Ort: Raum 201
Ringvorlesung S11: Tobias Becker (University of Heidelberg): “The Politics of Nostalgia and the Poverty of Theory”
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Ringvorlesung 10: Arlie Russel Hochschildtl (University of California, Berkeley): “Loss, Shame and the Right’s Narrative of Stolen Pride”
Ort: ONLINE via Webex Please not different time and place.
ABGESAGT - Ringvorlesung S09: Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): “Lost Cause-Sentimentalism and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism”
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Institutsratssitzung
Ort: Raum 201
Guest Lecture: Steven Sarson
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 319
Ringvorlesung S08: Martin Lüthe (FU Berlin): “Playing Loss and Losing Play? Digital Games as Affective Agents of Loss”
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Ringvorlesung S07: Christian Lammert (FU Berlin): “Reconfiguring Welfare States: A Dynamic Approach to Loss in North America and Western Europe”
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Workshop: "Disconnect: When Music Excludes and Divides"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Room 319 Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung S06: Rebecca Elliott (London School of Economics): "W(h)ither the Sympathetic State? The Dismantling of the Disaster Safety Net in the United States"
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Ringvorlesung S05: Jacob Hacker (American Academy Fellow): “Inequality, Insecurity, and America’s Democratic Crisis”
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Institutsratssitzung
Ort: Raum 201
Reflecting on 50 Years of Feminist Media Studies: Join a Workshop with Leading Scholars
Ort: JFKI, Room 203 (Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin)
Ringvorlesung S04: Lora Anne Viola (FU Berlin): “The Politics of Loss in US Foreign Policy and the Undoing of Multilateralism”
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Max Steinhardt bei der Wohnungspolitischen Fachkonferenz "Bezahlbar Wohnen!"
Ort: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Haus 1, Berlin
Serial Encounters
A Symposium Celebrating Frank Kelleter’s 60th Birthday
Ringvorlesung S03: Discussion of Andreas Reckwitz’s "Verlust"
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Ringvorlesung S02: Sebastian Kohl (FU Berlin): “Insuring Loss”
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Ringvorlesung S01: Introduction: Research Questions and Projects
Ort: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Institutsratssitzung
Ort: Raum 201
Max Steinhardt beim Economics and Politics of Irregular Migration Workshop des HWWI
Ort: HWWI, Mönkedamm 9, 20457 Hamburg