Events
Evelyn Kreutzer (Northwestern University) - De-Throning Beethoven: Re-Mediations of European Classical Music Traditions in American TV of the Cold-War Era
Location: GSNAS Seminar Room
Institute Board Meeting (Curriculum Planning)
Location: Room 203
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Raetzsch (Aarhus University) - Smart City Visions in the United States and Europe: From Vertical to Horizontal Spaces
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Prof. Andy Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh gives a talk on "WWI Anti-German Sentiment and Economic Growth in U.S. Counties"
Location: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Freie Universität Berlin Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Birte Wege (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Anna Deavere Smith's Verbatim Theatre
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Public Lecture on "Slavery's Old and New Materialisms" by Seth Rockman
Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin IGK Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History Georgenstraße 23, 6th Floor, 10117 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
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
Location: 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"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin) - Representing Trans on TV: Between Hypervisibility and Backlash
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Joshua Shannon (University of Maryland, Terra Guest Professor) - The Future is a Rectangle: Modernist University Architecture and the Human Being
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Evangelia Kindinger (HU Berlin) - The Local Color is Mountain Pink: Appalachian Femininity and Popular Culture
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting (alternative date)
Location: Room 203
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Florian Sedlmeier (Universität Hamburg) - W. D. Howells and the Genres of Political Critique
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Dr. Maria Sulimma (Universität Duisburg-Essen) - Killing Eve… and the Planet – One Flight at a Time: Popular Culture and Aviation
Location: 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.
Location: 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"
Location: 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
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Lecture - Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo): "Climate Emergencies: Anthropocene, Race, Literature"
Location: Raum 340 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Graduation Ceremony 2019
Location: Seminaris Campus Hotel
Ringvorlesung: Dr. Thomas Greven (Privatdozent, FU Berlin, JFKI) - Beyond Superheroes: Comics and American Politics
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 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
Location: 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"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Madita Oeming, M.A. (Universität Paderborn) - The Politics of Pathologizing Porn
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
A Reading and Conversation with Joy Castro
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201
History Research Colloquium: Professor Selma Leydesdorff (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk on “Development of oral history from ‘factfinding’ to questions about representation and memory”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 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
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Hearings for the Junior Professorship in Economics with a focus on economic policy and/or economic history of North America
Location: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Comic Figures, Comics Aesthetics, and American Popular Culture
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Panel: Don't Blame the Working Class: Understanding Class Politics and Racism in the Trump Era
A panel with Thomas Greven (JFKI), Sherry Linkon und John Russo (both Georgetown University)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
History Research Colloquium: Ian Giocondo (Utrecht University) will give a talk on "Millennials, Money, and Music on the Radio"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Marius Kleinknecht (Freie Universität Berlin) will give a talk on "Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Sacred Honor: American Foreign Policy with the Barbary States"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Annelot Prins, M.A. (FU Berlin, GSNAS) - "I Learn From Beyoncé": Whiteness, "Wokeness" and the Cultural Work of Black Superstardom
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Prof. Siep Stuurman from Utrecht University NL, will give a talk on "The Soul of Neo-Liberalism: Towards a Historical Genealogy of the 'Economic'", followed by a short comment by Prof Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Location: Fabeckstraße 23-25 ('Holzlaube'), room 2.2051.
Ringvorlesung: Dr. Michael Oswald (Universität Passau) - "You are Fake News!" - Labeling the Media from the Bully Pulpit
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Peter Wortsman A Reading from/ *Stimme und Atem. Out of Breath, Out of Mind*/
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201
Thomas Schwartz (Vanderbilt) - From John McCloy to George Bush: America's Foreign Policy Establishment, European Unity, and German Reunification, 1945-1990
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Curd Knüpfer (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Hadda be Playin' on YouTube: Fragmentation & Consolidation in the American Media System
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
History Research Colloquium: Luc Brunet (The Open University (UK)) will give a talk on "Canada’s Second Cold War: Peace Activism, Constructive Internationalism, and Transatlantic Relations, 1978-1987"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Herman Bennett (CUNY Graduate Center): Unsteady Foundations: The Problem of 1619 in Histories of the Black Atlantic
Eröffnungsvortrag für die neuen Doktorand*innen der Graduiertenschule für Nordamerikastudien 2019
Location: Raum 340 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer (FU Berlin, JFKI) - The Role of Women in the Newspaper & Magazine Publishing Field
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Orientation Day 2019 - MA
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin / 9 A.M. in the Caféte; 10 A.M. onwards, in room 340
Orientation Day 2019 - BA
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin / 9 A.M. in the Caféte; 10 A.M. onwards in room 340
Conference in Jena – Weltoffen miteinander arbeiten: Interkulturelle Öffnung neu denken
Location: Uni Jena, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3, HS 6
Summer Party at the JFK-I!
Come and join us for an evening of celebration and fun at this years JFK-I Summer Party on Friday, 12. July , starting at roughly 4pm on the parking lot of the institute!
Re: The State of the Art. On Contemporary Poetry
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Heike Schäfer (Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe)
Location: Room 201
Madeleine Thien Reading
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Distinguished Lecture by Johannes von Moltke on July 4, 2019
Location: Room 340
“Audiovisual Performances of the Liberal Script,” Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Steffen Just, Cooperation with Excellence Cluster SCRIPTS
Steffen Just and Jessica Gienow-Hecht present some ideas on the topic "Audiovisual Performances of the Liberal Script".
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 203
FU Review Reading
Location: JFKI Literature Department Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Conference “1898 Imag(in)ing the Caribbean in the Ae of the Spanish-American War”
Location: John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Room 340, Lansstraße 7-9, Berlin-Dahlem
History Research Colloquium: David Armitage (Harvard University)will talk about "Treaty Consciousness"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 203
Symposium: "Videographic Criticism: Aesthetics and Methods of the Video Essay"
Location: ACUD-Kino Veteranenstraße 21 Berlin
"Poetry Talk" on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, June 19th
Location: Location: Akademie der Künste Clubraum Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin Entrance fee: 6/4 €
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Tim Lanzendörfer (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Location: Room 201
Brenden Rensink (Brigham Young University) will give a talk about "“Transnational Indigenous Histories in the North American Borderlands.”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminar Room: 203
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Yogita Goyal (University of California, Los Angeles)
Location: Room 201
"The Great Broadening“ - Guest lecture by Prof. Sean Theriault (University of Texas, Austin)
Guest lecture by Prof. Sean Theriault (University of Texas, Austin)
Location: Freie Universität Berlin John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Abteilung Politik Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 319
History Research Colloquium: Dagmar Herzog (Visiting Professor GSNAS) will talk about "Deeroticization and Displacement:The # metoo-Movement and its Queer Critics"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
BrownBag Lunch: Is Canada Exceptional? by Prof. Andrew Stark (University of Toronto)
The Political Science Department of the John F. Kennedy Institute cordially invites everyone to a brown bag lunch with Professor Andrew Stark from the University of Toronto titled "Is Canada Exceptional? - Canada in an Age of Right-Wing Populism" .
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Political Science Department Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Booklaunch Event: Contours Of The Illiberal State
Prof. Dr. Chrsitian Lammert and Prof. Boris Vormann will be presenting their newest anthology in the Odradek Bookstore on the 8. May, with an adjacent dicussion and reception afterwards.
Location: Buchhandlung Odradek Gustav-Müller-Straße 1 10829 Berlin
"Aesthetics and Democracy", Symposium in Honor of Winfried Fluck's 75th birthday
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Christoph Ribbat (Universität Paderborn)
Location: Room 201
Michael Herron (Darthmouth College)
Location: Room 201
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Laura Katzman (James Madison University)
Location: Room 201
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
Research in Progress Colloquium GSNAS 2019
Location: GSNAS Seminar room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Robin James (UNC Charlotte) "Poptimism and Popular Music"
Location: Room 201
Antoon de Baets (University of Groningen) "The Persecution of Historians as a Crime against History"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room: 203 (Seminarraum)
Yaa Gaysi Reading
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
History Research Colloqium: John Leary (Wayne State University) will talk about "Border Monsters:fantasies of Insurgency along the U.S. -Mexico Frontier from Pancho Villa to the Present
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 203 (Seminarraum)
History Research Colloquium: Norbert Finzsch (Universität zu Köln) will talk about “We know the lesbian habits of kleitoriazein […] which justify the resection of the clitoris”: Cliteridectomy in the West, 1600 to 1960”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 203 (Seminarraum)
Institute Board Meeting - Cancelled
Location: Raum 203
Shane Denson (Stanford University) & Kathleen Loock (FU Berlin), “Videographic Criticism as Digital Research Practice: The Video Essay in Conversation”
Location: Room 340
JFKI History Research Colloquium: Julius Wilm (University of Copenhagen) "Limits of Settler Colonialism: Free LandPolicy in Antebellum America
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 203
Christmas Party am JFK-I
Like every year the student body of the JFK-I cordially invites everyone accosiated with the institute to join us for the event of the season: The John F. Kennedy Institute Christmas Party !
Location: Caféte des JFK-I
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Raum 203
How Healthy are JFKI Students?
Location: Foyer JFKI
Alt–Right Roundtable #1
Location: Room 203
Adam Hjorthén (University of Stockholm) will talk about "Friendship, Power, and Innocence: Cross-Border Commemoration of Swedish Settlement in America
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Romm 203
Graduation 2018
Location: Henry-Ford-Bau Hörsaal A Garystr. 35 14195 Berlin
Richard Peña (Columbia University / Director Emeritus, New York Film Festival) "Faded Glory: African-American Cinema, 1915-1952"
Location: Room 340
History Research Colloqium: Daniel Manulak (University of Western Ontario) will talk about "A Mission with a Mission: Canada, The Third World, and South African Apartheid, 1984 -1994"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 203
Prof. Gienow-Hecht will talk about "A Feeling I Cannot Put Into Words: Gender, Humanity and the War of 1898 in Cuba”
Location: Wengler Library Humboldt Universität Berlin Law Faculty Building "Altes Palais" Unter den Linden 9 Room E 23
Diane Negra (University College Dublin / GSNAS Visiting Professor) "Celebrity Death: The Posthumous Persona of Amy Winehouse"
Location: Room 340
Institute Board Meeting (Curriculum Planning)
Note: this meeting will exceptionally take place at 1:00 P.M.
Location: Raum 203
Alumni Lunch with Dr. Yulia Kozyrakis
Project Manager, Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg / Alumna GSNAS
Location: JFK-I, room 340
"Remake Studies: New Methods and Approaches" (Workshop)
Location: Room 340
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Raum 203
Prof. Gareth Davies (University of Oxford) will give a talk on "A Government of War with itself: Disaster Politics and the American State"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 203
Guest Lecture by Professor Donald Pease (Dartmouth College): "Surveillance, Spectacle, and (In) Securitization after Trump"
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Guest Lecture by Professor Diane Negra (University College Dublin): "Ivanka Trump and the New Plutocratic (Post)Feminism"
Location: Room 340
JFKI Sommerfest 2018
We would like to welcome all students, lecturers and alumni to our annual summer party ! There will be plenty of cold beer, warm food (vegetarian, too) and music to go around. We will also accept participants for our famous Beer Pong tournament on the spot. Be sure to sign up at the music station before 8:30pm!
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Talk: Professor Gienow-Hecht will explore "Gender, Humanity, and the War of 1898 in Cuba"
Location: Humboldt Universität Berlin, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Friedrichstr. 191-193, 10117 Berlin Room: 5028