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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
Richard Peña (Columbia University / Director Emeritus, New York Film Festival) "Faded Glory: African-American Cinema, 1915-1952"
Location: Room 340
Graduation 2018
Location: Henry-Ford-Bau Hörsaal A Garystr. 35 14195 Berlin
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
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Raum 203
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
Shane Denson (Stanford University) & Kathleen Loock (FU Berlin), “Videographic Criticism as Digital Research Practice: The Video Essay in Conversation”
Location: Room 340
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Raum 203
Research in Progress Colloquium GSNAS 2019
Location: GSNAS Seminar room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
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
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Sabine Broeck (Universität Bremen)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institut Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Dr. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale University) will talk about "The Neoconservative Moment in France: Raymond Aron and the United States of America"
Location: Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Room A127
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Chloé Thomas (Université Paris VIII)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Farewell Lecture Prof. Collier - "Reflections on Academic Community, Clubs, and Clans"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstraße 7-9. Room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Jose Saldívar (Stanford University)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Laura Bieger (University of Groningen): “The Public and Its Problems Revisited: Reading Dewey through Habermas”
Location: Course room 2, Villa Graduate School of North American Studies Lansst.r. 5, 14195 Berlin
Khary Polk (Amherst College): “We Don’t Need Another Hero: The Paradox of Black Military Imperialism”
Location: Room 340, John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Andrea Carosso (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Extra Session Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Richard Dyer (King’s College London/St. Andrews University)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 340
Lan Samantha Chang (Author & Director, Iowa Writers' Workshop): Reading & Discussion of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Program
Location: Raum 319
Lecture/Performance "The Americans", Monday June 18, 2pm
The John F. Kennedy Institute cordially invites you to join us for a two-hour lecture and live-music performance of the L.A.-based band „The Americans“. The band will be performing a special lecture on the history of 1920's American Folk Music at the Henry-Ford-Bau (Hörsaal B) at 2pm on Monday, June 18. You can also still get tickets for their show at the Badehaus Berlin on Monday evening. Their 2017 debut album “I’ll be yours” was released by Rough Trade/Loose Music and received great praise. You can find a selection of press clippings at http://loosemusic.com/press/theamericans Feel free to listen to some of their tunes on the band’s You tube channel at https://www.youtube.com/theamericansmusic
Location: Henry-Ford-Bau: Hörsaal B Garystraße 35 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Marc Jancovich (University of East Anglia)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
Fraenkel Lecture: Hortense Spillers, "To the Bone: Some Speculations on Touch"
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 Raum 340
Terra Symposium, "Empathy, Intimacy, and Ethics in American Art"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, room 340
Extra Session Research Colloquium Literature/Culture Samuel Zipp (Brown University)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Liam Kennedy (UCD Clinton Institute)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstr. 7-9 room 201
Rosalind Gill (City, University of London): “Postfeminism, Body Love and Selling Confidence to Women”
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Kathleen Loock (FU Berlin / DRS Fellow)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstr. 7-9 room 201
Institute Board Meeting (Curriculum Planning)
Location: Room 203
Freie Universität Berlin – Indiana University Joint Speaker Series: The Role of Media in the Digital Age
Location: Otto-Suhr-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin Ihnestraße 21 14195 Berlin Room A (ground floor)
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Lauren Kroiz (UC Berkeley/Terra Visiting Professor)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
"Exemplary Singularity - Fault Lines of the Anecdotal"
Location: Raum 340
History Research Colloquium: Christoph Laugs, Universität Trier will explore "Resistance through clothing? Articulations of Métisness in Canada after 1885"
Location: JFKI, Lansstr. 7-9, Seminarraum 340, 14195 Berlin
ERASMUS Information Day at the JFKI
Location: JFKI, room 203
Erasmus+ Infotag
Location: Seminarzentrum der Freien Universität Berlin, Raum L 113 und L 115, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26, 14195 Berlin
Kathleen Loock, "The Rise of the Hollywood Franchise: Industrial Logic, Intertextuality, and Cultural (Re)Production"
Location: JFKI, room 319
Graduation 2017
Location: Henry-Ford-Bau Hörsaal A Garystr. 35 14195 Berlin
Workshop "Law, Culture, and the Humanities"
Location: Room 340
New Evidence on the Origins of the Cold War
Location: Room 319
Conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of GSNAS
Location: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerstraße 22-23, 10117 Berlin
Research Colloquium: Nicola Glaubitz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Location: Room 201
Research Colloquium: Dan Hassler-Forest (Utrecht U)
Location: Room 201
Marvin Menniken, Ph. D. Candidate, Center for Global History Freie Universität Berlin and IMPRS Moral Economies, "The American Legion Crusade Against Subversion in San Diego Higher Education"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Michael Goebel / Christoph Kalter / Uwe Puschner (Freie Universität Berlin) Book Presentation and Discussion (in German)
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room: A 320 14195 Berlin
David K. Thomson (Sacred Heart University), Civil War Finance: The Primacy of the German States
Location: Room 319 The John F. Kennedy Institute Lanstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium: Teresa de Lauretis (FU Berlin)
Location: Room 201
Guest Lecture by Teresa de Lauretis (UC Santa Cruz)
Location: Room 201
Francis Shor (Wayne State University): "Black Lives Matter"
Location: Room 319 The John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7 14195 Berlin
Guest Lecture by Sean Theriault (The University of Texas)
Location: Room 340
Lara Putnam (Pittsburgh): "„The Pracctice of History in a Digital Age: Borderless Search and Place-based Knowledge“
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 320 14195 Berlin
Workshop: "Global Historical Perspectives on Masculinity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century"
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Neubau („Holzlaube“), 0.2051 Fabeckstraße 23–25 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium: Allison Stagg (FU Berlin)
Location: Room 201
Join the John F. Kennedy Institute for Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstraße 7 14195 Berlin
Thomas Franck Lecture
Location: Law Faculty of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Room E34 (Bebelplatz 1, "Kommode")
Research Colloquium: Robert Reid-Pharr (CUNY)
Location: Room 201
DFG-Workshop: "The Contemporary African Diaspora"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, room 201 & 340
Eric A. Posner, "Liberal Internationalism and the Populist Backlash"
Location: Henry Ford Bau, Hörsaal B Freie Universität Berlin
Laura Wollenweber (Freie Universität Berlin) "Zwischen republikanischen Traditionen und Menschenrechtsdiskursen: Kambodschanische Geflüchtete in Frankreich, 1975–1985"
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 320 14195 Berlin
Johannes Zechner (Berlin): "Nations Behind Glass. Exhibiting Identity in German and American History Museums"
Location: Room 319 The John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium: Joel Pfister (Wesleyan U)
Location: Room 201
Björn Blaß, Ph. D. Candidate, Center for Global History Freie Universität Berlin and IMPRS Moral Economies, "Environments of Disposal. Moralities, Practices and Localities of Waste (1880‐1930)"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Sabrina Kirschner (München): "São Paulo, Stockholm & Washington, D.C.: The World Bank and the Discovery of Urban Environmental Problems as a Field of Development Policy"
Location: Room 319 The John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7 14195 Berlin
Albert Wu (American University in Paris) "Quackery and Superstition in Europe and China: Scenes from a Global History, c. 1880–1960"
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 320 14195 Berlin
Workshop: "Making a Case for Internationalism"
Location: Freie Universität Berlin „Rostlaube“ Seminarzentrum, Raum L 115 Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium: Khary O. Polk (Amherst College)
Location: Room 201
Axel Körner (University College London) "America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento"
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 320 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium: David Hadar (FU Berlin)
Location: Room 201
Julana Bredtmann, Ph. D. Candidate, Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, "Entnazifizierungspolitik in Berlin"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium: Katja Kanzler (TU Dresden)
Location: Room 201
Research Colloquium: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (University of Lausanne)
Location: Room 201
International Graduate Conference 2017
Location: Room 340, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Documentary Screening - "13th"
Location: Room 340
First Lecture of the Research Colloquium Culture/Literature
Location: Kennedy Institute, room 201
John Woitkowitz, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Calgary, "The Joint Arctic Weather Stations Program and U.S.-Canadian Defense Cooperation, 1945-50"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series: Martyn Bone (Copenhagen University): “The U.S. South, the Caribbean, and the Spirit (Possession) of Capitalism: Zora Neale Hurston, Russell Banks, and Erna Brodber”
Location: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b
GSNAS Doctoral Lab: Karin Louise Hermes (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), "Kuleana - A Moral Responsibility to Re-examine Hawaiian Histories"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
IR-Sitzung (Erstatztermin)
Location: Raum 203
Guest Lecture by Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
Location: Room 340, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
JFK History Research Colloquium: Nina Mackert, "The Career of the Calorie. On a History of Eating and Measuring in the USA, 1860-1940"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 201 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series: Ulfried Reichardt (University of Mannheim): “’Money ... is more mental than metal’: Representations of Money, Masculinity, and Time in US-American Fiction”
Location: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b
IR-Sitzung
Location: Raum 203
*CANCELLED due to illness* JFK History Research Colloquium: Silvan Niedermeier, "Colonial Snapshots. Photography and the Construction of Imperial Subject Positions in the Philippine American War (1899-1902)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 201 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin