Events
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Desh Girod (Georgetown University): "Frozen Assets: Greenland, Canada, and Trump's Foreign Policy"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S04 - Heike Paul (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): "From Lost Colony to Lost Cause: American Beginnings Revisited"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Tips for Navigating the Economic Job Market
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin ROOM 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Nathalie Tocci (Istituto Affari Internazionali): "Navigating Contradiction: Europe in an Open-Closed World"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S05 - Sianne Ngai (University of Chicago): "Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Social Science - Ma Ming, Genia Kostka (FU Berlin): Credible Information, Strategic Signal, or Both? Authoritarian-Aligned Narratives and Public Opinion
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
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""
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S06 - Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University): "Karl Marx in America"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Workshop "Historical Comparative Perspectives on Insurance", May 29-30, 2025
Location: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" -Hilde Eliassen Restad (Oslo Nye University College): "The Foreign Policy of the Right-Wing Counterrevolution"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S07 - Werner Sollors (Harvard University): "Approaches to American Literature in Cosmopolitan and Ethnic Contexts"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Social Science – Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow): Revisiting the political effectiveness of scapegoating: evidence from the International Monetary Fund
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Peter Trubowitz (London School of Economics): "Trump 2.0: Strategy or Chaos?"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S08 - Alexis Salas (Terra Professor): “Plant Papi Politics: Queer Latinx Artists Re-grounding Nature"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Social Science - Christopher Olk (FU Berlin): The political economy of national oil and gas companies in the global ‘energy transition’
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Rachel Tausendfreund (DGAP): "The New Right Foreign Policies"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S09 - Katja Sarkowsky (University of Augsburg): "Writing Rivers: Water, Relationality, and Political Critique"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Social Science – Lino Wehrheim (Universität Regensburg): TBA
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
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"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S10 - Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Frozen Subjectivity: Vulnerability and Aesthetics at the End of the World.”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Social Science - Erdem Yörük (Koç University, University of Oxford): The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey | University of Michigan Press
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S11 - Christa Buschendorf (University of Frankfurt): "Artists and Intellectuals in Times of Repression: A Symposium on 'Art and Morals' at Smith College in 1953"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
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
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Our next graduation ceremony
July 4, 2025
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"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S12 - Julia Faisst (TU Dortmund): "Disappearing Children: Border Narratives of Underage Migration"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Social Science – Alexandra Scacco (WZB): “Anatomy of a Riot” (book presentation)
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S13 - Katharina Gerund (University of Zurich):"The Waiting Wives of the Forever Wars: Military Spouses in Post-9/11 US Culture"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Social Science: – Hans Joas (HU Berlin/University of Chicago) Book presentation of “Universalismus”
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S03 - Birte Christ (University of Tübingen): "Why Helmut Read Hemingway : American Authors and the Post-War (Re-)Construction of a Broad German Reading Public"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Gideon Rose (American Academy/ Council on Foreign Relations):"What's Next for European Strategy?"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S02 - Dustin Breitenwischer (University of Hamburg): "You just take a look at him once in a while": Ralph Ellison’s Frederick Douglass
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 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""
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S01 - Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University): "Algorithms, Gamification, and the Ambiguities of Play in Richard Powers’s Playground"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Project Workshop "The Economics of Overcrowding"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute 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
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Brown Bag Lecture "Canada and the Trump Challenge"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 203 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Social Science: Dorothee Bohle (Vienna University): Gendering Growth Models
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Small Worlds: Literature, Performativity, and Economic Modeling
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Charlotte Bartels (DIW, Universität Leipzig): Inequality and Voting: Evidence from Germany
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: The future of German-American relations: opportunities and challenges under the new US administration
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Katharina Sass (University of Bergen): Admission Impossible - School Choice in European Cities
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lora Anne Viola at the Short Talk "USA-Between Hyteria and Reason" with Georg Diez
Location: Humboldt Lab in the Humboldt Forum Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin, Entrance Passage 1st floor, exhibition „After Nature“ in German language.
Inauguration Watch Party and Discussion
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Geoeconomics and US trade policy
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lecture Series: The Political Economy of Protests and Social Movements
Location: 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
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: The Impact of Social Media on US Politics
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lecture Series: Monstrous Monopolies: Corporations in US Legal and Literary Fictions
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Guest lecture - Michael Kimmage (Catholic University of America): "What Is It with Russia and the United States? Explaining a Recurring Conflict"
Location: 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
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Reproductive Justice and (Racial) Capitalism: Grand Midwives as Political Economic Theorists
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Mike Cowburn (Viadrina University/ Frankfurt Oder): Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries: Faction and Ideology in the Twenty-first Century
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium Social Science: Barbara Fritz (FU Berlin): Global financial Safety Net
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
94th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association
Location: Washington D.C.
Jordan Tama (American University): "Prospects for Foreign Policy Bipartisanship after the U.S. Election”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Unintended deportation outcomes: Lessons from US deportations to Latin America
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Bence Kováts (European University Institute, Florence): 'Each Child is a New Outpost': Pronatalism in European Housing Policies in a Long View
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lora Anne Viola at Falling Walls Science Summit
Location: Event Location Falling Walls Science House Karl-Marx-Allee 34 10178 Berlin or online Germany
"The US Elections: A First Appraisal"
Location: John F. Kennedy institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340 (hybrid, online via Webex after registration at: politics@jfki.fu-berlin.de)
Lecture Series: Capital, labor and the US working class: a Marxian view on racial capitalism
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lora Anne Viola at Harris vs. Trump –The Analysis the morning after: What does the outcome of the American presidential election for Germany and Europe?
Location: Landesvertretung NRW Hiroshimastraße 12-16 10785 Berlin Please register here in order to attend the event: https://table.media/events/harris-vs-trump?utm_source=nrw&utm_medium=event&utm_campaign=event_koop_nov_us24_jnz For online participation via Zoom please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9417277674851/WN_w-7TQv02QBOgbG6_mk5akw#/registration
2024 US-Election Panel
Location: JFKI Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 340
Guest Lecture by Peter S. Onuf (University of Virginia): "Declarations of War, Aspirations for Peace"
Location: JFKI R319
Lecture Series: The Grown-up in Infant's Clothing. The U.S. Protectionist Relapse in the Interwar Period
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lora Anne Viola, Julia Simon and Christian Lammert @Trump vs. Harris. Countdown to the US Election
Location: Online via ClickMeeting (technical requirement: https://www.atlantische-akademie.de/technik/
Orientation Week Bachelor & Master in North American Studies 2023/24
This year's orientation week at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies will take place on the following dates: BA program (mono BA and combi BA) : Wednesday - Oct 9 from 10 AM to 4 PM MA program: Thursday - Oct 10 from 10 AM to 4 PM Topics related to the BA and MA program: Friday - Oct 11 from 10 AM to 4 PM Newly enrolled students can just attend the orientation days without prior registration or notification.
North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
Location: Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
ENHR conference: Making Housing systmes work: evidence and solutions
Location: TU Delft
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko (Université Versailles-St Quentin) will give a talk on “Race traitors? Perceptions and Coping Strategies of Black/White interracial couples in the American South and France, 2010-2020”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Cinzia Scarpino (Università degli Studi di Milano) will give a talk on “Introducing American Authors to Italian Readers: Transnational Trajectories and Idiosyncratic Translation Policies (1930- 1974)”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Seth Masket (University of Denver): "Still Trump´s Party: How Local Republican Leaders made up their Minds in the 2024 Presidential Nomination"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
2024 Conference of the DFG Network Research Group Model Aesthetics - Between Literary and Economic Knowledge
Location: John F. Kennedy institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Karin Höpker (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) will give a talk on “Confidence and the ‘Contortions of Money’— Market Fiction & Herman Diaz’s Trust“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo) & Karina Vernon (University of Toronto) will give a talk on “Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Art and Audience“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium S8 - Richard Sigurdson (Visiting Professor, Calgary University): North American Christian Nationalism in a Trans-Atlantic Context
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Guest Lecture: Michaela Keck (Universität Oldenburg) will give a talk on "Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Patients': Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Rizvana Bradley (Terra Visiting Professor/ University of California, Berkeley) will give a talk on “The Corporeal Division of the World: On Anteaesthetics“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Social Science - Laura Seelkopf (Universität München): Gender Discrimination in Taxation
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Kathleen Loock (Leibniz Universität Hannover) will give a talk on “Hollywood Remaking: Memory, Nostalgia, and Generational Identities from Stella Dallas to Ghostbusters“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium S6 - Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics): Central banks and the absorption of international shocks (1890-2021)
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware - God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America
Location: Online via Webex Please register at politics@jfki.fu-berlin.de to receive the link
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Laura Bieger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will give a talk on “The Underground Railroad and the Promise of Infrastructure“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium S5 - Mike Cowburn (Viadrina University Frankfurt/Oder): Mouthpiece or Mobilizers? Right-Wing Media, Republican Elites, and “Critical Race Theory
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319