Robert Reid-Pharr on James Baldwin: Lecture at the American Academy

Communication of Abstracts Chosen for Final Phase – Una Europa Competition on Global Governance Research

Final Candidates Defense 2-Day Seminar in Madrid – Una Europa Competition on Global Governance Research

Terra Symposium 2021

Symposium: Competing American Literary Institutions around 1900

Fully-Fledged Papers Submission Deadline – Una Europa Competition on Global Governance Research

Winners Announcement (Wrap-up seminar) – Una Europa Competition on Global Governance Research

Abstract Submission Deadline – Una Europa Competition on Global Governance Research

Lecture Series: Harald Wenzel (FU Berlin) will talk about "Communicating the Dust Bowl Crisis. Disaster Management, Compassion and the Media"

Ort: Online (via the Cisca based Software Webex events). Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ecfe4832ee1ee9f1b6cb75384edf2711b

Guest Lecture on the Global State of Poverty and Inequality - “Topics in Economic Development”

Ort: Meeting-Link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=mf665f32a2101a3afc6b2bbb23a8d16e8 Meeting-Kennnummer: 121 986 2126 Passwort: wKkeaQa32k3

Lecture Series: Birte Wege (FU Berlin) will talk about "Drawing Fire: War Journalism meets Graphic Narrative in Emmanuel Guibert's The Photographer"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7d5e2c9af27304e3a25d4200a19d7c3e

IR Sitzung

Ort: Webex

BA Seminar: Andréa Greene: “Pregnancy Outcome Disparity Between Black and White Americans”

Presentation by Louis Clerc (University of Turku) on "Dilemmas of the globalized nation. Domestication and rejection of the neo-liberal script in Finland’s public diplomacy and nation branding, 1980-2010s"

Ort: WebEx Online Event

Lecture Series: Betsy Leimbigler (FU Berlin) will talk about "Power, Inclusion, and the politics of COVID-19: Policy responses”

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e2062da461df5b2bea86478f90bd57324

Presentation by Barbara Allen (La Salle University) on "A Worker Oppositionist in Stalin’s Terror: Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1934-37"

Ort: WebEx Online Event

Highlights im Colloquium für Neuere Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte

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"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee23aba73ffafe15f6ac0402602b633ae

RSE Vortrag "Murder Nature: Weather Shocks and Violent Crime in Brazil" von Phoebe W. Ishak (Freie Universität Berlin)

Presentation by Louis A. Pérez (University of North Carolina) on "1898: Crucible of Empire - and Revolution"

Ort: WebEx Online Event

Amerikahaus: "What way forward for America at home and abroad? A Post-Election Analysis" by Lora Anne Viola

Ort: Via youtube livestream. No registration required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAJrnYO-3zI&feature=youtu.be

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 "

Ort: Online via the Cisca based Software Webex events. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea61e948cf6077da7d39acbdd71f663b8

FMI-Ringvorlesung: Michaela Hampf, "The Rise and Fall of America: Umbruch durch Krisenmanagement und soziale Sicherheit im New Deal, 1932-1941"

RSE Vortrag "Was kann der Mietendeckel zur Entspannung des Berliner Wohnungsmarkts leisten?" von Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich (Freie Universität Berlin)

Presentation by Paul A. Kramer (Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN) on "Movements across Borders: Writing Histories of Transnational Activism between the U. S. and the Wider World"

Ort: WebEx Online Event

Lecture Series: Ana-Constantina Frost (FU Berlin) will talk about "Disaster, Diseases and Displacement: Migration Control in the 21st Century"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e35f8032505562f51da26e3476987bb5c

IR Sitzung

Ort: Webex

Briana Edmonds: Being Black in Birthwork

Online Lecture | David Alworth (Harvard): "Book Talk: The Look of the Book"

Ort: The lecture will be held online on the platform Webex.

IR Sitzung

Ort: Webex

Lora Anne Viola will join a panel discussion on "The Future of Transatlantic Relattions"

Ort: Live on youtube: https://youtu.be/cPkNTrFVdWk

Lecture Series: Eva Horn (Universität Wien) will talk about "Pandemic as Political Phantasy"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5f17bf3a56bce525036a9afac64a3565

Guest Lecture by Sheila Liming (Champlain College): "What a Library Means to Literary Studies"

Presentation by Jan Hansen (HU Berlin) on "Urban Infrastructure and Everyday Life in Los Angeles, 1860–1940”

Ort: WebEx Online Event

Bewerbungsende: Stud. Hilfskraft Abteilung Wirtschaft

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"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e0be36cd139517be564326ff8103ba85f

Annie Kocher: The Role of the Doula in Queer Reproductive Justice

Lecture Series. Cameron Seglias (FU Berlin) will talk about "Slavery, Colonial Crisis, and the Biopolitics of Containment in Eighteenth-Century America"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events). Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e2ba9f3bd82c9d19bf0f4c9274c5d50d4

RSE Vortrag “Impulse Purchases, Gun Ownership and Homicides: Evidence from a Firearm Demand Shock” von David Schindler (Tilburg University)

Presentation by Elisabeth Piller on "Rewriting the History of the Great War: Humanitarianism as a History of Failure: Herbert Hoover and The Commission for Relief in Poland”

Ort: WebEx Online Event

"Berlin Talks" Panel Discussion on the 2020 U.S. Elections with Prof. Dr. Steinhardt

Berlin Talks by FUBis and FU-BEST withLora Anne Viola and Christian Lammert

Ort: Online via erbex events. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e75f70bce239e73ae08c52282576eff74 Event password: BjUeYrZS976

Vortrag von Daniel Dieckelmann: "Recurring Catastrophes: Causes and Consequences of Financial Crises in North America"

Lecture Series: Daniel Dieckelmann (FU Berlin) will talk about "Recurring Catastrophes: Causes and Consequences of Financial Crises in North America"

Ort: 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“

Ort: 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 "Trump`s Administration’s Response to COVID-19"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ef7182af08e84f1c9c8f8d9869a178c16

Ringvorlesung Guest Speaker: Gareth Davies (University College of London)

Ort: Webex Online Event

IR Sitzung

Ort: Webex

Democracy and Its Limits - Open Online Conference

"Democracy and Its Limits: The United States in Perspective" is the 2020 entry of the annual conference of The Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) also knowns as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA) .    

Ort: Online Conference; please register beforehand.

Lecture Series: Disaster and Disease in North America

Ort: Online. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7aaced9fc6339608e0fe39587678686e

Anmeldefrist für das Forschungsseminar Applied Microeconomics mit Prof. Steinhardt und Prof. Danzer

Orientierungswoche BA / MA Nordamerika Studien WS20/21

Die diesjährige Orientierungswoche / Auftaktveranstaltungen für den BA und den MA in Nordamerikastudien am John F. Kennedy Institut der FU Berlin findet am 26. Oktober statt.            

Expertenforum zur US-Wahl

IR Sitzung

Ort: Webex

Prof. Viola als Redner bei Konferenz »Europa. USA. Geteilte Zukunft?«

Lora Viola wird als Rednerin einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Transatlantic Security and Foreign Policy under Stress" auf der diesjährigen Bad Homburg Conference teilnehmen.

Teach-In for Racial Justice

Hamilton Film: US-Botschaft Livestream am 10.7.20 mit Jessica Gienow-Hecht

IR Sitzung (Ersatzsitzung)

Ort: Raum 203

Abgesagt: Symposium: Is Everyone a Feminist Yet?

Talk by Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University) on "Transatlantic Cultural Relations, Soft Power, and the Role of US Cultural Diplomacy in Europe"

Talk by Jill Edy (University of Oklahoma) on "Public Memory v. The Memory of Publics: Media Fragmentation, News, Practices, and Collective Memory"

Abgesagt: Symposium: Competing American Literary Institutions around 1900

IR Sitzung

Ort: Raum 203

Canceled: 13th International Graduate Conference "Revisiting the Margins: Contemporary Perspectives in North American Studies"

African Atlantic Research Group

Ort: Graduate School for North American Studies Lansstr. 5, 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 2

IR Sitzung

Ort: Raum 203

“Nature” in American Art Since 1970 (Digital Terra Symposium)

Abgesagt: Workshop „Neoliberal Thought and Aesthetic Forms“

–Abgesagt und verschoben aufgrund von COVID-19– Vortrag von Prof. Vittorio Valli zu seinem neuen Buch "The American Economy from Roosevelt to Trump"

Ort: Raum 319, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

IR Sitzung

Ort: Raum 203

ABGESAGT: Master class (5 ECTS) for MA/PhD students on “Film Noir” by Richard Peña

Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Florian Sedlmeier (Universität Hamburg) - W. D. Howells and the Genres of Political Critique

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

Institutsratssitzung (Ersatzsitzung) *abgesagt*

Ort: Raum 203

Prof. Steinhardt hält einen Vortrag am WZB zum Thema "The Impact of Xenophobic Violence on the Integration of Immigrants"

Ort: WZB, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin, Raum B002/003

Aleksandra Peeva präsentiert Paper beim Public Economics Seminar am ZEW

Stellenausschreibung: 2 Positionen Stud. Hilfskraft (Tutor/-in) (40 MoStd.) befristet auf 6 Monate

Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Evangelia Kindinger (HU Berlin) - The Local Color is Mountain Pink: Appalachian Femininity and Popular Culture

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

FU Review Winter Reading 'Current Works'

Ort: JFK Institute, Room 201

Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Joshua Shannon (University of Maryland, Terra Guest Professor) - The Future is a Rectangle: Modernist University Architecture and the Human Being

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

History Research Colloquium: Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (University of Iceland) will give a talk on "The Cultural Existance of Few Barefoot Historians in the Icelandic Peasant Society in the 19th Century: Biography, Egodocuments and Microhistory"

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

Thinking Through Sex - On Screen & on the Page

Madita Oeming in Conversation with US Author Saskia Vogel

Ort: JFKI Caféte (basement) Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin) - Representing Trans on TV: Between Hypervisibility and Backlash

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

History Research Colloquium: Martin Lutz (Humboldt University of Berlin) will give a talk on "Anabaptist Faith and Capitalist Ventures. Mennonites, Amish and Hutterites in the Modern American Economy, 1865-1970"

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

Conference: Global Inequalities - Historical, Economic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Conference: Global Inequalities - Historical, Economic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Sönke Kunkel (FU Berlin, JFKI) - The Picture State and Its Innovators: How U.S. Presidents have Shaped, Remade, and Transformed the Culture of American Democracy since 1945

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Raum 203

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Public Lecture on "Slavery's Old and New Materialisms" by Seth Rockman

Ort: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin IGK Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History Georgenstraße 23, 6th Floor, 10117 Berlin

Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Birte Wege (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Anna Deavere Smith's Verbatim Theatre

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

Vortrag von Prof. Andy Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh: "WWI Anti-German Sentiment and Economic Growth in U.S. Counties"

Ort: Raum 319 John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Freie Universität Berlin Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin

Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Raetzsch (Aarhus University) spricht zu "Smart City Visions in the United States and Europe: From Vertical to Horizontal Spaces

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Hs 1b Hörsaal

Institutsratssitzung (Lehrplanung)

Ort: Raum 203

Evelyn Kreutzer (Northwestern University) - De-Throning Beethoven: Re-Mediations of European Classical Music Traditions in American TV of the Cold-War Era

Ort: GSNAS Seminar Room

Call for Papers Deadline: Global Inequalities - Historical, Economic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Ringvorlesung: Dr. Maria Sulimma (Universität Duisburg-Essen) - Killing Eve… and the Planet – One Flight at a Time: Popular Culture and Aviation

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

Dear Canada, Welcome to the world of European fragmented politics

A guest lecture by the Ambassador to Germany (Canada) and Special Envoy to the European Union, Stéphane Dion, PhD.

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

History Research Colloquium: Olivier Burtin (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) will give a talk on "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in the Modern United States"

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

Ringvorlesung: Maxi Albrecht, M.A. (FU Berlin, GSNAS) - Speculative Survival in the 21st Century - Zombies, Hunger Games, and Neoliberal Intelligence Politics

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

Lecture - Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo): "Climate Emergencies: Anthropocene, Race, Literature"

Ort: Raum 340 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin

Graduation Ceremony 2019

Ort: Seminaris Campus Hotel

Ringvorlesung: Dr. Thomas Greven (Privatdozent, FU Berlin, JFKI) - Beyond Superheroes: Comics and American Politics

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Raum 203

Comparing the Divided America of the Turbulent 1960s to the Divided America Today

A Guest Lecture by Jim Willis , Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Azusa Pacific University

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

Rebekah Ahrendt (Utrecht University) will give a talk on "Ambassadress Orfea, or, Why Condoleeza Rice's Piano Matters"

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

Ringvorlesung: Madita Oeming, M.A. (Universität Paderborn) - The Politics of Pathologizing Porn

Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

A Reading and Conversation with Joy Castro

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

History Research Colloquium: Ed Bryan (University of Cambridge) will give a talk on “Let them come to Berlin”: Critically Examining President John F. Kennedy’s Visit to West Berlin on 26 June 1963 as a Geopolitical Event

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